James Warburton Chief Executive Officer, Supercars
Welcome from Supercars
Welcome to Sandown and this year’s Penrite Oil Sandown 500.
Few circuits mean more to Australian motorsport than this historic Melbourne venue, and it’s fantastic to be back as the penultimate round of the Repco Supercars Championship.
We arrive with real momentum. The Repco Bathurst 1000 delivered record broadcast and digital audiences, underlining the passion that powers our sport. On the Gold Coast, we debuted our new Finals format, setting the tone for a high stakes run home. Here at Sandown, that intensity goes up another notch as the top seven drivers fight for a place in the final four who will battle it out at the bp Adelaide grand final.
Sandown has always produced great drama, whether sprint races or enduro classics, and it will again play a pivotal role in the 2025 title story. Recently, more than 60,000 fans helped celebrate Sandown’s 60th anniversary, proof that this place remains one of our most loved stops and
CEO - Penrite Oil
Welcome from Penrite Oil
On behalf of the Dymond Family and everyone at Penrite Oil, I’m very happy to welcome you to the Repco Supercars Championship, Penrite Oil Sandown 500.
This year is an exciting one for us as we begin celebrating Penrite’s 100 years of Australian-owned and made performance. We kicked off our centenary celebrations with an incredible victory at the Supercars Bathurst 1000 - where Matt Payne and Garth Tander took the win in car #100, and we’re proud to continue those celebrations here at Sandown, a track that has been a big part of our history and racing story.
For almost a century, Penrite has been focused on one mission - to deliver highquality, reliable, and tailored products for our customers all around the world. We’ve built our reputation on trust, performance, and a genuine passion for helping our customers succeed.
We don’t believe in a “one size fits all”
we look forward to its continued role in our future.
A championship of this scale only happens with the support of many. To our incredible volunteers and officials, thank you. Your professionalism and commitment set the standard at every round.
To all of our commercial partners and supporters, we are grateful for your investment and belief in Supercars. A special acknowledgment to Penrite Oil, celebrating 100 years in Australia this year; your long-standing support of Sandown and our sport is part of what makes this event special. To our broadcasters and media partners, thank you for taking the noise, colour and stories of Supercars to fans everywhere.
Finally, to our fans—trackside and tuning in—welcome.
Your passion is the heartbeat of Supercars. Enjoy the racing, soak up the atmosphere, and get ready for a weekend with everything to race for.
approach. Every customer and every challenge is different, and we’re proud to offer personalised support and solutions that fit those needs. Our customer service, sales, and technical teams are always here to help make every partnership a long-term success.
As we look ahead to our 100-year milestone in 2026, our goal is simple - to make sure every customer is completely satisfied. Your feedback helps us improve and grow, and we thank you for being part of our journey.
There’s no better place to celebrate our passion for motorsport than right here at Sandown, a track that has helped shape who we are. Thank you for joining us this weekend - we hope you enjoy the racing and share in the excitement of this special time for Penrite.
Here’s to a great weekend at Sandown, and to the road ahead as we drive toward 100 years of Penrite!
Toby Dymond
ULTRA SHIELDCERAMIC
Welcome from Repco
Welcome to the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship – Repco’s fifth year as the presenting partner of the world’s most competitive and professional class of touring cars.
From the glistening night lights in Sydney, a return to the majestic Taupō, New Zealand, the legendary Repco Bathurst 1000 in October and all the way to a thrilling new finals race on the streets of Adelaide, the 2025 season is set to be one of the most talked about Supercars Championships on record.
It is great to see the return to The Bend and an extra round added in 2025, too. The return of Queensland Raceway is a popular destination in a heartland location for the sport.
And let’s face it, more Supercars racing is better for everyone.
We are really looking forward to Getting you Goin’ this year, and like the years that have gone by, it’ll be hard for fans to miss our involvement with the championship.
You’ll see your favourite Repco Fleet on display and on track, plus a series of new cars that will come to life. Also, the Repco fan zone will be back – bigger and better than ever.
But why does Repco support Supercars? The answer was simple: when we joined
in 2021, and it remains the same today –Repco loves cars, and so do you.
It’s in our bloodline – from the heights of being a part of Sir Jack Brabham’s F1 world title in 1966 – to your local mechanic or the garage that houses your pride and joy.
Cars mean the world to us, and we feel proud and privileged to have our name alongside the best racing series in Australasia.
I’m not one to predict who might win the championship in 2025, but I know that the ingredients are all there for another epic title fight.
The new finals system that comes into effect after the Repco Bathurst 1000 will bring a new set of challenges to drivers and teams. Every race will have a huge bearing on the series’ outcome, and there’s also a chance that a decent dose of luck will help their cause.
As I write this, and we kick off the start of the season, there’s no telling who the final four will be when we head to Adelaide, but we know for sure that anyone who makes that cut will have deserved it – and will be racing hard to become the champion.
On behalf of the entire Repco Crew, I hope everyone enjoys another thrilling Supercars season and I look forward to seeing many of you trackside in 2025.
Wayne Bryant
Chief Executive Officer Automotive Division, GPC Asia Pacific
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FUTURE STARS
If you are looking for brilliant racing, the one-make Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia GR Cup consistently tops the charts.
The Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia GR Cup remains a leading attraction on the Repco Supercars Championship undercard, featuring the best and brightest talent in the motorsport pipeline competing in identical equipment.
At the start of last season, a brand-new model GR86 made its racing debut on the streets of Townsville, continuing the platform’s tradition of ultra-tight racing that the class had become famous for.
Built by longtime Toyota partners Neal Bates Motorsport, the newer generation machine features more power and less weight than its predecessor, and immediately started undercutting lap records when it hit the track.
If history is anything to go by, the stars of the future will be racing in front of you this weekend.
In 2016, Will Brown secured the inaugural Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series title with
seven wins from 14 races, a feat that marked the beginning of his subsequent rise up the motorsport ranks, culminating in his victory in the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.
Similarly, his Red Bull Ampol Racing stablemate, Broc Feeney, shot to prominence with his exploits in the class in 2018, before cleaning up in Super3 and Super2, and eventually replacing Jamie Whincup at Triple Eight Race Engineering.
Cameron Hill twice featured in the top three of the end-of-season pointscore, while it was also a step on the ladder to the Supercars main game taken by the likes of Kai Allen, Aaron Cameron and Ryan Wood.
Looking elsewhere within the Supercars ranks there is ample GR Cup experience, such as in the wildcard runners, including Cameron Crick, Zach Bates, Lochie Dalton and Rylan Gray, while co-drivers including Jayden Ojeda, Declan Fraser, Zak Best, Brad Vaughan, Jobe Stewart and Jarrod Hughes
have all honed their craft in the one-make class.Such is the popularity of the category that in 2023, a second-tier Scholarship Series was introduced to serve as a further stepping stone for young drivers entering the motorsport scene, with competitors utilising first-generation Toyota 86 machinery.
Several of its products have excelled upon arrival in the GR Cup, with graduates including Max Geoghegan, the grandson of five-time Australian Touring Car champion Ian Geoghegan, who has subsequently stepped up into the Dunlop Super2 Series after winning last year’s GR Cup.
In 2025, the Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia GR Cup has featured a stacked calendar in the second half of the year, which concludes this weekend at the Penrite Oil Sandown 500.
So strap in, this is going to be a ride on the wild side! ■
2025 TGRA GR CUP, ROUND 5
WORK HARD, PLAY HARD
V8 Superutes is a class going from strength to strength, with deep fields turning on the thrills in machinery that resonates with the masses.
there’s nothing on earth like the Tyrepower V8 SuperUte Series, which, in 2025, is continuing its ascendency within the Australian motorsport scene, with big grids turning on tight racing.
While the on-track product has continuously evolved, perhaps the strongest suit of the category is the familiarity of the vehicles with the fanbase - the ever-growing dual-cab segment of the marketplace now has true relevancy on the racetrack.
Picture an angry pack featuring the Isuzu D-MAX against the Mazda BT-50, Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux, Mitsubishi Triton and Holden Colorado – it’s a recipe bound to redraw battle lines in the grandstands.
While the category had its genesis in 2018, it truly came of age in 2021 when it ushered in its V8-powered era, with competitor numbers subsequently taking off.
Despite the various vehicles involved in the class, a long list of spec components under the skin of the V8 SuperUtes ensures a level playing field for the different marques.
A control 6.2 litre V8 powerplant is mated to a six-speed transmission, with a range of standardized components in the driveline simplifying life for competitors.
Big Brembo brakes provide stopping power, while low-profile Yokohama tyres and a lowered ride height have added to the sporting credentials of the package.
While the series has only been contested six times, it has amassed a significant honour roll.
Inaugural series champion Ryal Harris repeated the feat in 2021, with his extensive list of credits including a trio of titles earned in the old V8 Ute Racing Series.
The Queenslander also had a stint
competing in the Super2 Series.
Kiwi Tom Alexander won the 2019 title driving for the legendary Ross Stone, while Aaron Borg claimed back-to-back series victories in 2022 and ’23.
Meanwhile, the 2024 title went down to the wire on the streets of Adelaide, with Adam Marjoram claiming his maiden series win.
Elsewhere, the V8 SuperUte alumni includes Cameron Crick, who in 2025 is making select solo Supercars championship race starts for Matt Stone Racing as a wildcard.
This year’s schedule concludes this weekend, with rounds having been contested at Sydney Motorsport Park, Symmons Plains Raceway, Carco.com.au Raceway in Perth, the streets of Townsville, the Repco Bathurst 1000 and here at Sandown. ■
TYREPOWER V8 SUPERUTE SERIES,
CLASSIC IRON TO THE FORE
The Touring Car Masters continues to be a crowd favourite at circuits around Australia, with familiar faces pushing big bad V8s to the limits.
The Duggan Family Hotels Touring Car Masters Series is primed to return to the forefront in 2025, with the everpopular class bringing together an eclectic mix of memorable muscle cars.
Rolling out with a six-round national tour hosted entirely on the Supercars calendar, the machinery from the 1970s and ‘80s brings back fond memories from an earlier era of tin-top competition.
Taking centre stage will once again be the battle of blue versus red, with Ford’s finest taking on the best General Motors has to offer, with a field drawn from both home-grown Aussie manufactured muscle cars, and the big brash iron stemming from Detroit’s Pony Car scene.
In the Ford corner, expect entrants from the early generations of Mustang, plus
Falcon’s fastest, extending from early XY GTHO models to more contemporary XDs, which starred in touring car circles at the turn of the 1980s.
Wearing Chevrolet’s Bowtie proudly will be examples such as the Camaro and Monza, while Holden fans will rejoice to the best from the Torana and Commodore nameplates.
A left field addition to the ranks is typically the Tilley family’s Valiant Pacer, which provides a proverbial cat among the pigeons from the Mopar ranks.
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this mix is that the category’s rules are designed to see performance equalised on track, which paves the way for cars from different eras to be competitive on any given weekend.
Since the category’s inception in 2007, it has earned an impressive honour roll, including five-time champion John Bowe, four-time victor Steven Johnson, and two-time winner Jim Richards.
Johnson is once again expected to be in the front running mix this year, alongside the likes of 2022 series winner Ryan Hansford, young gun Joel Heinrich and Adam Garwood, to name a few.
Keep an eye out for additional machinery to join the Touring Car Masters field in 2026, with some exciting new builds in progress.
Weekend formats feature an emphasis on racing action, with a reverse grid Trophy Race kicking off each round, followed by three short, sharp sprints races, culminating in an overall round winner. ■
2025 TOURING CAR MASTERS, ROUND 6
TALENT NURSERY
The Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia remains a breeding ground for future Porsche Carrera Cup drivers, as well as a growing number of Supercars prospects.
Svince 2008, the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia has provided an array of racers with their introduction to the world of one-make Porsche racing
Exhibit A is Ryan Wood, who used his season of Sprint Cup racing in 2022 as a springboard to the big time.
That season, Wood won six of the 15 races he contested, picked up eight pole positions, logged 11 fastest laps, and finished on the podium 14 times.
He subsequently skipped the Carrera Cup path and elected to join Walkinshaw Andretti United in Super2, where his five wins gave him third in the 2023 series pointscore, before jumping into the Repco Supercars Championship last year.
Brad Jones Racing’s Jaxon Evans is another to launch from the Sprint Challenge to the big time.
In 2016, he shot to prominence by
winning nine of 18 races contested, while Cooper Murray claimed second in the 2018 season.
Harri Jones is another driver to make it to Supercars, this year debuting as Anton De Pasquale’s offsider in the enduros, with his career path starting in earnest in the Sprint Challenge.
He has subsequently gone on to win the Australian Carrera Cup twice, and has also spent a season driving abroad in the Porsche Supercup, which serves as the curtain-raiser for F1 events across Europe.
Looking further abroad, Matt Campbell won the Class B title in 2014, before developing into a fully-fledged factory pilot, which this year took him to the outright Le Mans 24 Hour podium driving for Roger Penske’s Stuttgart-backed Porsche prototype outfit.
The recent series-winning alumni are well worth keeping an eye on as well, with Kiwi
young guns Marco Giltrap and Oscar Targett leading the field home in the last two years, with the duo set for stardom.
While the category has proven to be a talent factory, that’s only telling half the story, with super-competitive racing across multiple classes key to its success.
Now managed by Porsche Cars Australia, the category mixes aspiring young professionals and Pro-Am racers eager to make a point.
While the bulk of the field is racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Type 991 Gen II machines, which served as the primary Carrera Cup weapon of choice from 2018 through 2021, a smattering of older Gen I chassis competes for Class B honours, in a race within a race.
One thing’s for sure: when the Porsches come out to play on the Repco Supercars Championship undercard, non-stop action will be guaranteed. ■
PORSCHE MICHELIN SPRINT CHALLENGE
KELVINSIDEROAD
CORRIGAN ROAD
OFFICIALS OF THE EVENT
NATIONAL SPORTING AUTHORITY
Motorsport Australia
PROMOTER / ORGANISER
Supercars Australia Pty Ltd
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Matt Gegg, Phil Shaw, Kimberly Hughes, Anthony Jenkins
SUPERCARS
OFFICIALS
VCS TEWARDS
Bradley Tubb (Chair), Steve Lisk, Peter Davis
VCS RACE DIRECTOR
James Taylor
VCS DEPUTY RACE DIRECTORS
David Mori, David Stuart
CLERK OF THE COURSE
Anthony Jenkins
SECRETARY OF THE EVENT
Kimberly Hughes
MEDICAL DELEGATE
Dr Carl Le
HEAD OF MOTORSPORT
Tim Edwards
STARTER
James Delzoppo
DRIVING STANDARDS ADVISOR
Craig Baird
TIMING CO-ORDINATOR
Dan Beattie
RECOVERY CO-ORDINATOR
Alistair Walker
SAFETY CAR DRIVER
Jason Routley
SAFETY CAR COMMUNICATOR
Jacqueline Devereaux
MEDIA MANAGER
Paul Glover
SUPPORT EVENT OFFICIALS
SUPPORT CATEGORY STEWARDS
David Vernall (Chair), John Leahy, Geoff Riddle, Scott Long
DEPUTY CLERK OF THE COURSE
Jennifer Campbell
ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURSE
Damien Mitchell, Bryce Crawford, Jeremy Cath
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE MEETING
Carly Wardell
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE MEETING
Keeley Hocking, Erin Sanford
EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
Andrew Jorgensen
CHIEF OF COMMUNICATIONS
Bryce Crawford
COMMUNICATORS
Leigh Evans, Tenesha Roue, Keegan Sutton-Baker
CHIEF TIMEKEEPER - SUPPORTS
Kristy Roberts
COURSE CAR MARSHALS
Rebecca Humphreys, Karen Balcombe, Mark Thompson
SUPPORT SAFETY CAR DRIVER
Nic Scarcella
SUPPORT SAFETY CAR OBSERVER
Jacqueline Devereaux
CHIEF STARTER
Daniel Schauer
ASSISTANT STARTER
Roger Sinclair, Adrian Bond, Saul Forster
CHIEF SCRUTINEER
Jeff Birrell
DEPUTY CHIEF SCRUTINEER
Shannon-Lee Smallpage
CHIEF MARSHAL
Paul Meade
DEPUTY CHIEF MARSHAL
Michael Arnott
CHIEF OF RECOVERY
Brad Moras
CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL
Phillip Craig
DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL
Russell Stork
CHIEF PIT LANE & GRID MARSHAL
Rhys Carelton-Carlos
DEPUTY CHIEF PIT LANE MARSHAL
Jack Kennedy
DEPUTY CHIEF GRID MARHSAL
John Caracoglia
CHIEF PADDOCK
Michael Schauer
CHIEF MARSHALLING
Barry Parker
CHIEF SUPPLY
Rob French
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
Dr Sheridan Frisby
MEDICAL COORDINATOR
Peter Castledine
SENIOR EVENT OFFICIALS
SUPERVISORS
Peter McKinnon, Cindy Morgan, Chris Norman, Glenn Tomlinson
