Supercars’ Ryco Enduro Cup kicks off this weekend, as the Repco Supercars Championship heads to The Bend Motorsport Park September 12-14 for the AirTouch 500.
Several of the sport’s most successful racers return to the drivers’ seat as veteran co-drivers are called upon for the two-driver races at this weekend’s AirTouch 500 and October’s Repco Bathurst 1000.
Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Chaz Mostert will have Kiwi gun Fabian Coulthard back in his corner at this year’s enduros.
The pair drove together in 2022, finishing runners up in that year’s Great Race, with Mostert citing “unfinished business” with Coulthard as the two join forces again in 2025.
A 13-time Supercars race winner “Fabs” has raced as a co-driver for Walkinshaw Andretti United since his retirement from full-time Supercars racing at the end of 2021.
Also rejoining the grid is veteran Jack Perkins, who will once again partner up with James Courtney at Blanchard Racing Team.
Perkins, the son of six-time Bathurst winner Larry Perkins, is long-time friends with Courtney, who plans to hang up the helmet at the end of this season, concluding an illustrious motorsport career.
A decade ago, the Courtney-Perkins pairing scored a popular enduro win on the streets of the Gold Coast in 2015, and are hoping to make some noise in what is likely to be their final races together.
Perkins is also coming off an impressive performance in the NASCAR Xfinity Series two weeks ago, running as high as third in the late stages at Portland International Raceway.
This weekend’s race at The Bend is the first endurance race to be held at the Tailem Bend circuit, which hosts Supercars for the first time since 2023.
This year’s enduros also carry the weight of drivers looking to make the inaugural Supercars Finals, with the 10 finalists locked in after the Repco Bathurst 1000 in October.
The driver pairing who scores the most points across the AirTouch 500 and the Bathurst 1000 will be awarded the Ryco Enduro Cup, with the primary driver who wins the Enduro Cup also earning an automatic berth in the Finals.
Supercars endurance racing kicks off September 12-14 at the AirTouch 500 at The Bend Motorsport Park, featuring a 500-kilometre Supercars race on Sunday, September 14.
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