This weekend the 2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship gets underway with just three Kiwi drivers starting in this year’s series. The Clipsal 500 around the streets of Adelaide sees the return of two 250-kilometre races, held on Saturday and Sunday. It’s a race that features a number of firsts. Simona De Silvestro in car #78 (Nissan) becomes first full-time female driver in the Supercars era. Sixteen-year-old Alex Rullo becomes the youngest driver to race in the 58-year history of the VASC (Australian Touring Car Championship), and for the first time two Top 10 Shootouts will determine the ARMOR ALL Pole Position for both races.
2016 Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen is staying with the Red Bull Holden Racing Team while Scott McLaughlin moves from Garry Rogers Motorsport to join fellow Kiwi Fabian Coulthard at DJR Team Penske. Nine brand new Supercars make their debut (Red Bull Holden, Garry Rogers Motorsport, Prodrive, Erebus, Nissan and DJR Team Penske) and drivers will race for the first time on the new Dunlop soft and super-soft tyres.
2017 Entry List
# Team Driver Car
2 Mobil 1 HSV Racing Scott Pye Holden
3 LD Motorsport Taz Douglas Holden
5 The Bottle-O Racing Team Mark Winterbottom Ford
6 Monster Energy Racing Cameron Waters Ford
7 carsales Racing Todd Kelly Nissan
8 Team Clipsal Nick Percat Holden
9 Erebus Penrite Racing David Reynolds Holden
12 Shell V-Power Racing Team Fabian Coulthard Ford
14 Freightliner Racing Tim Slade Holden
15 Sengled Racing Rick Kelly Nissan
17 Shell V-Power Racing Team Scott McLaughlin Ford
18 Preston Hire Racing Lee Holdsworth Holden
19 TEKNO Woodstock Racing Will Davison Holden
21 Team CoolDrive Tim Blanchard Holden
22 Mobil 1 HSV Racing James Courtney Holden
23 Nissan Motorsport Michael Caruso Nissan
33 Wilson Security Racing GRM Garth Tander Holden
34 Wilson Security Racing GRM James Moffat Holden
55 Supercheap Auto Racing Chaz Mostert Ford
56 MEGA Racing Jason Bright Ford
62 LD Motorsport Alex Rullo Holden
78 Team Harvey Norman Simona De Silvestro Nissan
88 Red Bull Holden Racing Australia Jamie Whincup Holden
97 Red Bull Holden Racing Australia Shane van Gisbergen Holden
99 Erebus GB Galvanizing Racing Dale Wood Holden
888 TeamVortex Craig Lowndes Holden
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