Gold Coast set for triumphant 2022 return

Racing will return to Surfers Paradise in 2022 with the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.

The popular street circuit, which was initially slated to end the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship, is the penultimate round on the 13-round draft calendar.

Racing will return to Queensland in July with the NTI Townsville 500, before the Gold Coast returns to its traditional post-Bathurst October slot.

Surfers Paradise, which made its championship debut in 2002, first hosted the category in 1994.

The Gold Coast circuit last hosted the championship in 2019.

Queensland’s Tourism and Sport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe welcomed the return of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.

"I know Queensland motorsport fans are ecstatic about bringing the nation’s best street circuit back to the Gold Coast in 2022," Hinchliffe said.

"The Repco Supercar championship is terrific news for tourism operators on the Gold Coast, as well as the North, with the popular NTI Townsville 500 locked in for early July.

"We’re encouraging motor racing spectators and teams coming to the Gold Coast and Townsville to add extra time to their travel itinerary and explore the many first-class visitor experiences in Southeast and Northern Queensland."

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate added: "It will be music to the ears of every Aussie motor race fan to know that the streets of the Gold Coast will light up to the sounds of Supercars in October 2022.

"I know the drivers rate the street circuit as the toughest in the calendar given the millimetres between success and a wipe out on our tight concrete canyon circuit. I can't wait."

The 2022 Repco Supercars Championship will be the first under Supercars' new ownership group Racing Australia Consolidated Enterprises Ltd (RACE).

The Repco Bathurst 1000 will conclude the 2021 season, with the 161-lap race to commence at 12:15pm AEDT on Sunday.

Supercars will return to the track on Sunday for the Warm Up at 9:10am AEDT.

Every session of the event will be broadcast live on Foxtel (Fox Sports 503) and streamed on Kayo.

The Seven Network will provide live free to air coverage of the event.