2023 Supercars race weekend formats confirmed

The 2023 Repco Supercars Championship race weekend formats, the first of the Camaro vs Mustang Gen3 era, have been locked in, with 28 races to headline 12 rounds of action.

The 28 races across the 12 events will see competitors complete nearly 5400km of racing.

For the first time since 2018, there will be multiple endurance races featuring drivers and co-drivers, with the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 the curtain-raiser for the Repco Bathurst 1000.

The Penrite Oil Sandown 500 and the Repco Bathurst 1000 will be 161-lap races; 500km at Sandown, and 1000km at Mount Panorama.

The Thrifty Newcastle 500, NTI Townsville 500, Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight, Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 and VALO Adelaide 500 will be two-race rounds.

The other five events (Australian Grand Prix, Perth, Tasmania, Darwin and The Bend) will host at least three races under a SuperSprint format.

The SuperSprint events, bar Albert Park, will be headlined by three 100km-long sprint races.

Four sprint races will be held across the four days of the Albert Park round; one 100km long, one 80km, and two 70km sprints.

The Newcastle, Townsville, Sydney, Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast and Adelaide events will also feature refuelling.

Six events will also feature ARMOR ALL Top Ten Shootouts; Newcastle, Townsville, Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast and Adelaide.

The qualifying system defined Format 1 and Format 2 will also return.

Per Format 1, grid positions will be determined by the final classification of a single qualifying session.

Format 2 is three-part knockout qualifying, where the grid is first whittled down from 25 to 20, then from 20 to 10, with the remaining 10 drivers going for pole.

The Penrite Oil Sandown 500's return also coincides with a traditional qualifying format with a Shootout, which replaces the Race for the Grid.

The grid for the '500' had been set by Saturday sprint races between 2008 and 2019.

Season 2023 will conclude in Adelaide

Both races in Newcastle, Townsville, Gold Coast and Adelaide have a minimum two-stop requirement, as does the first Sydney race.

That Sydney race, a 200km affair, will be the only dusk/night race of the 2023 season.

The Perth, Tasmania, Darwin and The Bend rounds will again feature a compulsory stop for a minimum of two tyres.

The races at the Albert Park round, as they did in 2022, will feature compulsory four-tyre stops.

Supercars will run all sessions over the Saturday and Sunday of events at Symmons Plains, Sydney and The Bend.

Point-scoring is unchanged; single-race winners receive 300 points, 150 points for two-race weekend winners, 100 for sprint rounds, and 75 for the Albert Park races.

The 2023 Repco Supercars Championship will commence at the Thrifty Newcastle 500 from 10-12 March.

The Newcastle event will feature three practice sessions beginning on the Friday of the event, with the first-ever grids for Gen3 races set by one-part qualifying and a Shootout. Both races in Newcastle will be over a 250km distance.

2023 Repco Supercars Championship formats

Key

TTSO: Means the Top Ten Shootout. Refer to Rule D6.3

Format 1: Refer to Rule D6.2.2 and D7.2.1

Format 2: Refer to Rule D6.2.3 and D7.2.2

WU: Means warm up

^ Means a Session run under lights at dusk/ night

2023 Dunlop Series formats

Key

Format 1: Refer to Rule D7.3.1

#: Means 10min for Rookies Only