V8 Supercars 2025 calendar announced, including Bathurst 1000 date
10/03/2024 03:00 PM
An expanded 2025 calendar for the Supercars Championship sees more races in the last season before Toyota – and a new television broadcast deal – come into play.
The V8 Supercars 2025 calendar has been released ahead of next weekend’s Bathurst 1000 in the last season before Toyota joins the field – and its current television deal expires.
The 2025 Supercars season will see a 13-round schedule – one more than the 12 races held in 2024 – starting in Sydney in February and ending at the Adelaide finale in November.
It will see a return to Queensland Raceway for the first time in six years. and the first Supercars endurance race at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia.
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“Adding the 13th event is a reflection of our ongoing commitment to growing the sport and providing more opportunities for fans to engage with Supercars in different locations,” Barclay Nettlefold, Chairman of Supercars owner RACE, said in a media statement.
The Bend will host its first V8 Supercars endurance race – where sprint races have been held previously – as the lead-in endurance race ahead of October’s Bathurst 1000, previously a slot held by the Sandown 500.
While the Sandown 500 won’t take place in September as before, the Victorian racetrack will still host an event – this time in November as it did previously in 2019 – as the penultimate round.
Supercars said in a statement race formats, support categories and television broadcast details will be announced in the lead-up to next week’s Bathurst 1000.
Next season may also be the last time a Supercars race is held at the Wanneroo circuit in Western Australia – where the category first raced in 1973 – after the state government declared support for a street race at Perth’s Burswood Park from 2026.
Toyota will enter the sport – also in 2026 – with four Toyota GR Supra Supercars confirmed, including a switch by Ford team Walkinshaw Andretti United to the Japanese brand.
The fall from 13 to 12 races in 2023 – while Formula One held 24 race weekends – was seen by some drivers as not enough and was met with calls for more Supercars events.
The number of Supercars races is tied up with the television broadcasting rights, with the expiry of the current five-year deal with Seven/Fox Sports at the end of 2025 presenting a potential opportunity for more racing.
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In 2024, a return to New Zealand was welcomed – given the country has produced the championship winner in six of the last 10 years in Shane van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin – restoring the calendar to 13 rounds.
Some of the category’s biggest names, including van Gisbergen, Chaz Mostert, Cam Waters and Brodie Kostecki, competed in other categories when not racing Supercars to further sharpen their driving.
Van Gisbergen has taken up a full-time NASCAR drive in the United States where he has had strong results, while McLaughlin finished third in this year’s IndyCar Series after moving to North America in late 2020.
The next Supercars race is the Bathurst 1000 on 10-13 October 2024.
2025 V8 Supercars calendar
- Sydney – 21-23 February
- Melbourne (Formula One Australian Grand Prix) – 13-16 March
- Taupō (New Zealand) – 11-13 April
- Tasmania – 9-11 May
- Perth – 6-8 June
- Darwin Triple Crown – 20-22 June
- Townsville – 11-13 July
- Ipswich – 8-10 August
- The Bend – 12-14 September
- Repco Bathurst 1000 – 9-12 October
- Gold Coast – 24-26 October
- Sandown – 14-16 November
- Adelaide – 27-30 November
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