Super2 talking points in 2025: A revamped calendar

Ahead of the 25th anniversary season of the Dunlop Super2 Series, Supercars.com takes a look at some of the key talking points ahead of the 2025, continuing with a new-look calendar.

The 2025 Dunlop Super2 Series calendar has a heavily altered look to last year's calendar, with half of the events being replaced by different venues this year, creating plenty of questions for teams, drivers, and fans alike.

The development series remains at the Repco Supercars Championship season opener in 2025, though this year the opening round shifts across the Blue Mountains from Bathurst to Sydney Motorsport Park.

The Eastern Creek venue has had an on and off history with the development series, last hosting a Super2 and Super3 round as the 2022 season opener.

Jaylyn Robotham and Zak Best were race winners for Image Racing and Tickford respectively, with Best claiming the round honours to open his campaign.

Brad Vaughan and Kai Allen were the Super3 winners that weekend, with then-16-year-old Allen claiming round honours in his first weekend at the wheel of a Supercar.

From Sydney the Super2 Series heads south to Tasmania, where the category last competed all the way back in 2018 on a weekend where experience came to the fore.

Paul Dumbrell claimed two of the three wins for Eggleston, whilst Chris Pither claimed the other race win and the round victory on his way to claiming the 2018 Super2 crown for Garry Rogers Motorsport.

Townsville keeps it's popular spot as the halfway point of the season, before the pre-Bathurst round shifts north to Queensland Raceway to form a two round swing through the Sunshine State.

It's a highly-anticipated return to the Ipswich circuit, which has seen several improvements made to spectator facilities under the ownership of Tony Quinn, with both tiers of Supercars returning for the first time this decade.

In the 2019 development series round, current full-time Supercars drivers Thomas Randle and Bryce Fullwood split the race wins for Tickford and MW Motorsport respectively, with Fullwood claiming round honours on his way to the 2019 title.

The timing of the Ipswich round also comes forward a month compared to the corresponding round at Sandown last year, giving teams a two-month gap before the traditional Repco Bathurst 1000 support races.

The two-month break after Ipswich gives teams one final chance to prepare for a potential title assault in the last two rounds of the season, which remain in Bathurst and Adelaide respectively.

The three new additions to the 2025 Super2 schedule could throw up some interesting results given the class of 2025's inexperience at these circuits in Supercars machinery.

Of the 25 drivers expected to contest the opening round in Sydney, Matt Chahda is the only driver to have competed in Super2 at all of the new venues, however he is not expected to contest the full season this year.

Tickford's Nash Morris is the only other driver with Super2 experience in Sydney, having contested the 2022 round in an FGX Falcon, whilst Brad Vaughan - who has moved from Tickford to Brad Jones Racing in 2025 - contested that year's Super3 round.

The new-look calendar for the 2025 Super2 Series could throw some big curveballs into the title battle, and makes the story of the 25th anniversary season all the more difficult to predict.

Tickets for the season-opening round in Sydney, on February 21-23, are on sale now.

2024 vs 2025 Super2 Series calendars