Supercars 2019

[Duke]

Getting close to kick-off with Adelaide just 3 weeks away.

2019 Event Schedule
Biggest change is Bathurst being the 1st round & Sandown the last round of the Enduro Cup

2019 Supercars Calendar.JPG

The New Ford Mustang




2019 Ford Liveries






2019 Holden Liveries









2019 Nissan Liveries





2019 Safety Car

[Dr. Pain]

The roof line on the Stang is a little ruined seeing it needed to be lifted for the roll cage. But then again they could boot Tander out and put a height limit in!

[somebloke]

Hopefully another nail biter of a season!

[Jiminee]

The roof line on the Stang is a little ruined seeing it needed to be lifted for the roll cage. But then again they could boot Tander out and put a height limit in!

Well they are half way there with that, I think the Giz is about as tall though (a big reason why the are now team mates)

[w00dsy]

I think they very nearly got Caruso but then jumped at Tander when he became available. Imagine the dicky seat for Caruso in SVG's car.

[Duke]

Confirmation that Garry Jacobson will join Kelly Racing has competed the grid for the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship.

Kelly Racing was the last to confirm its drivers with Andre Heimgartner returning for a second year while Jacobson steps up after six years in the Dunlop Super2 Series.
As previously reported, Richie Stanaway has replaced Garth Tander at Garry Rogers Motorsport in a shock move that was announced last month.
Lee Holdsworth has joined Tickford Racing while Mark Winterbottom has filled Holdsworth’s seat at Team 18.
The only other change sees Macauley Jones move into the #21 vacated by the retiring Tim Blanchard.

Virgin Australia Supercars Championship 2019 teams and drivers

• Num Team Driver Car
  2 Walkinshaw Andretti United Scott Pye Holden Commodore ZB
  22 Walkinshaw Andretti United James Courtney Holden Commodore ZB
  3 Kelly Racing Garry Jacobson Nissan Altima
  7 Kelly Racing Andre Heimgartner Nissan Altima
  15 Kelly Racing Rick Kelly Nissan Altima
  78 Kelly Racing Simona De Silvestro Nissan Altima
  5 Tickford Racing Lee Holdsworth Ford Mustang
  6 Tickford Racing Cameron Waters Ford Mustang
  55 Tickford Racing Chaz Mostert Ford Mustang
  8 Brad Jones Racing Nick Percat Holden Commodore ZB
  14 Brad Jones Racing Tim Slade Holden Commodore ZB
  21 Brad Jones Racing Macauley Jones Holden Commodore ZB
  9 Erebus Motorsport David Reynolds Holden Commodore ZB
  99 Erebus Motorsport Anton De Pasquale Holden Commodore ZB
  12 DJR Team Penske Fabian Coulthard Ford Mustang
  17 DJR Team Penske Scott McLaughlin Ford Mustang
  18 Team 18 Mark Winterbottom Holden Commodore ZB
  19 Tekno Autosports Jack Le Brocq Holden Commodore ZB
  23 23Red Racing Will Davison Ford Mustang
  33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Richie Stanaway Holden Commodore ZB
  34 Garry Rogers Motorsport James Golding Holden Commodore ZB
  35 Matt Stone Racing Todd Hazelwood Holden Commodore ZB
  88 Triple Eight Race Engineering Jamie Whincup Holden Commodore ZB
  97 Triple Eight Race Engineering Shane van Gisbergen Holden Commodore ZB

[Duke]

OP updated with newly released season liveries while below is an Adelaide special for Percat & other test liveries.

Percat Adelaide


Test Liveries

[Duke]

GALLERY: Every car at the Supercars pre-season test

Mustang Sweep top 3 at PI Test...

• Results: Pre-season test
  Pos Num Team/Sponsor Driver(s) Car Fastest lap Split Laps
  1 6 Monster Energy Racing Cameron Waters Ford Mustang GT 1:30.7265 76
  2 12 Shell V-Power Racing Team Fabian Coulthard Ford Mustang GT 1:30.7383 0:00.0118 87
  3 55 Supercheap Auto Racing C.Mostert/J.Moffat Ford Mustang GT 1:30.9390 0:00.2125 77
  4 9 Erebus Penrite Racing D.Reynolds/L.Youlden Holden Commodore ZB 1:30.9532 0:00.2267 47
  5 23 Milwaukee Racing Will Davison Ford Mustang GT 1:31.0066 0:00.2801 63
  6 2 Mobil 1 MEGA Racing S.Pye/W.Luff Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.0293 0:00.3028 68
  7 99 Erebus Penrite Racing Anton De Pasquale Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.0334 0:00.3069 49
  8 17 Shell V-Power Racing Team Scott McLaughlin Ford Mustang GT 1:31.0656 0:00.3391 61
  9 22 Mobil 1 MEGA Racing J.Courtney/J.Perkins Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.1813 0:00.4548 71
  10 5 The Bottle-O Racing Team Lee Holdsworth Ford Mustang GT 1:31.1930 0:00.4665 57
  11 8 National Pharmacies Nick Percat Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.3366 0:00.6101 90
  12 34 Mobil 1 Boost Mobile Racing James Golding Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.3758 0:00.6493 73
  13 15 Castrol Racing R.Kelly/T.Kelly Nissan Altima 1:31.3841 0:00.6576 80
  14 97 Red Bull Holden Racing Team Shane van Gisbergen Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.3872 0:00.6607 89
  15 7 Kelly Racing Andre Heimgartner Nissan Altima 1:31.4287 0:00.7022 86
  16 18 IRWIN Racing M.Winterbottom/S.Richards Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.4303 0:00.7038 67
  17 14 Freightliner Racing Tim Slade Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.5183 0:00.7918 105
  18 35 Matt Stone Racing Todd Hazelwood Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.7429 0:01.0164 52
  19 88 Red Bull Holden Racing Team Jamie Whincup Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.8148 0:01.0883 77
  20 19 Truck ASSIST Jack Le Brocq Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.8513 0:01.1248 42
  21 33 Mobil 1 Boost Mobile Racing Richie Stanaway Holden Commodore ZB 1:31.9211 0:01.1946 81
  22 78 Team Harvey Norman Simona De Silvestro Nissan Altima 1:32.0390 0:01.3125 71
  23 3 RABBLE.club G.Jacobson/R.Kelly Nissan Altima 1:32.0659 0:01.3394 73
  24 21 Team CoolDrive Macauley Jones Holden Commodore ZB 1:32.2312 0:01.5047 92

[Jiminee]

Bit off on the team name for GRM there!

[somebloke]

Note that Erebus had to pack up early due to the car being too loud.... apparently nothing has changed on the car for three years.

[Jiminee]

Get the feeling someone might be telling porkies there.

[DarrenM]

Other teams were also told they were too loud and were able to make changes on the day. Could be the track noise limits have changed, or they changed their detection system. Lakeside got shut down a few months ago due to noise limit breaches, so other tracks might be taking less chances.

https://www.supercars.com/news/champion ... ise-issue/

Erebus was among a number of teams found to be exceeding Phillip Island's 95dB noise limit during the morning’s running.

While others elected to tweak their cars to reduce noise, Erebus CEO Barry Ryan said Erebus opted against making any changes.

"We ticked all the boxes we wanted to tick, or the majority of them," Ryan said of his team’s test.

"We got told mid-morning that the cars were too loud, and we don't have a solution to fix them.

"We sort of pushed through as long as we could until they said, basically, we couldn't go on with it, so we're going home."

[Duke]

New regulations are set to be introduced into the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship in an attempt to clarify ambiguities in pit stop procedures from last season.

During last year’s ITM Auckland SuperSprint television cameras caught the rear wheels on Shane van Gisbergen’s car turning while it was receiving service.
After an overnight deliberation officials deemed it was not a breach as the wheel had not completed a full rotation, leaving van Gisbergen as winner of the race.

Then, at the season-ending Coates Hire Newcastle 500 the factory Holden squad was investigated for a different issue, also involving van Gisbergen, which saw the Kiwi penalised.
In that instance it surrounded the refueling hose, which was connected to the car when it was dropped to the ground.

To address the latter, a clause has been inserted into the sport’s Operations Manual, specifically covering instances where the fuel nozzle is connected as the car is lowered.
Article 26.6.3.2(b) reads: “If a Car is lowered to the ground prior to the fuel deliver hose of the Refuelling Tower being decoupled the Car must be raised immediately until the Refuelling has been completed and the fuel deliver hose of the Refuelling Tower decoupled.”

Supercars’ Head of Motorsport, Adrian Burgess, believes the amendments are common sense to close off the incidents witness last year.
“Clearly, you have to learn from the incidents of every year,” Burgess told Speedcafe.com.
“The two very public incidents at the end of the year, we’ve looked at those rules, and we’ve tried to tidy them up, but you can’t just focus on those two.
“Every event, every incident during the year is worthy of being looked at, and if we can improve it, then we improve it.”
“I think the (changes) are a good step forwards for creating a safer environment for the mechanics and the drivers and all the people in pit lane, but equally trying to protect the show,” he added.
“We don’t end up with a battle in the courtroom like we ended up in last year.”

Though the Operations Manual includes only minor changes to the wording surround wheel rotation during pit stops, Supercars has confirmed a line locker will be allowed to essentially lock the wheel in place while the car is in the air. It’s understood the change was agreed upon at a meeting of the Supercars Commission last week but has yet to find its way into the published regulations.

[Jiminee]

All very sensible, I like having Burgess (and Campbell Little?) on the other side of the fence, can only be a positive.

[somebloke]

He’s so experienced Burgess. Surely can bring in some common sense into it.

[Duke]

OP updated with GRM Holden & Heimgartner Nissan livery reveals.

Don't forget Adelaide is this weekend!!!

[Jiminee]

First 500 that I have not attended - I have only missed two days total in the first 20 events.
But with the race at the Bend in August I can do something different at this time of year and go to the Phillip Island historics next weekend instead.
Still, feels really weird, like I am cheating or something.

[somebloke]

I didn’t go today but am going the next three. Just wish it wasn’t torture like hot though!!

Definitely looking forward to seeing the series again however.

I caught the last 10 minutes of the practice session tonight on tv. Just me or did the Mustang look really odd out there?

Like a larger shaped Aussie Racing Car alongside full sized sedans. I appreciate the wide/low Mustang body does not fit the common chassis requirements of the category.

Not sure if it’s cause it looks shit or I’m just adjusting to change....

[StanDaam]

Like a larger shaped Aussie Racing Car alongside full sized sedans.

Exactly what I was thinking watching Practice 1... Hope I get used to it too.

[w00dsy]

It's very oddly shaped to fit the existing dimensions. The roof is higher and rounder, the bonnet is shorter and slopes downward from the windscreen. The road going car has a long flat bonnet that slopes only when it gets closer to the front edge. Also the cabin seems too far forward. It's an odd looking car. It's like a Mr Potato Head of 3 cars combined.

[KNAPPO]

First 500 that I have not attended - I have only missed two days total in the first 20 events.
Still, feels really weird, like I am cheating or something.

I know what you mean. I stopped going a few years back and the feeling of not being there was weird, but I dont miss it one bit anymore.
Add the crazy heat and I know where ide rather be.

Last few years Ive even struggled to watch it on TV.

[KNAPPO]

Scotty Mc being a cheeky boy.

[Duke]

I agree with you guys about the shape of the Mustang, it's not quite right due to the current control chassis regs but I still like what they have done.
Hence the reason the Camaro looks to be on the back burner until the next gen car: WAU Camaro project waiting on Supercars chassis change

[Jiminee]

First 500 that I have not attended - I have only missed two days total in the first 20 events.
Still, feels really weird, like I am cheating or something.

I know what you mean. I stopped going a few years back and the feeling of not being there was weird, but I dont miss it one bit anymore.
Add the crazy heat and I know where ide rather be.

Last few years Ive even struggled to watch it on TV.

I still love the series, watched every round last year, just the logistics of getting to the 500 is tougher now.
My dream was to hit the 500, the Historics then the GP in consecutive weekends but that one will have to wait for a few years now. Plus having the show return to SA at the Bend in August makes it easier to skip the 500 - and if it all sounds like I'm madly trying to convince myself of this you are spot on - especially as I know there is a seat there waiting for me if I wanted.

[somebloke]

I agree with you guys about the shape of the Mustang, it's not quite right due to the current control chassis regs but I still like what they have done.
Hence the reason the Camaro looks to be on the back burner until the next gen car: WAU Camaro project waiting on Supercars chassis change

They’re blunt about not wanting to ‘bastardise’ the Camaro like they have the Mustang.

I wish it could look better but for the sake and future of the series I’m thankful that Ford have continued their support.