Matt Payne defends a championship lead for the first time at the Perth Super440, with Triple Eight six races without a podium and Mark Skaife warning its set-up problem contradicts itself.
Six years after its last Supercars start, GRM is back for the 2026 Bathurst 1000 with James Moffat and rookie Nathan Herne in an ex-Triple Eight Camaro. The announcement landed on what would have been Garry Rogers' 81st birthday.
A $6 million Queensland-funded resurfacing will secure Townsville's Reid Park circuit into 2027, arriving just as Supercars faces a wave of venue-contract expiries that could reshape its calendar.
After resisting for months, Erebus Motorsport has joined GM's Team Chevy data alliance, and CEO Barry Ryan wants the struggling squad winning by Bathurst, though drivers Cooper Murray and Jobe Stewart say internal gains matter as much as shared data.
Triple Eight's switch from Chevrolet to Ford has left the sport's benchmark team mired in its longest podium drought since 2006. Technical director Pete Ringwood blames elusive set-up sensitivity, while Craig Lowndes warns Broc Feeney and Will Brown they must rediscover consistency as rivals surge.
Brodie Kostecki controlled Sunday's Townsville finale from the front to end a lean run, while Matt Payne salvaged second to stretch his championship lead and Triple Eight endured another quiet day.
Matt Payne dominated Sunday's Townsville race to claim his 10th Supercars win and stretch his championship lead over Broc Feeney from eight points to 61, while Anton De Pasquale's second in a fuel-saving Chevrolet fed the parity debate and Ryan Wood raged over a costly clash with Kai Allen.
Cam Waters out-dragged pole-sitter Brodie Kostecki and survived a late charge to win the opening race at Townsville, but a third-place finish was enough for Matt Payne to take the Supercars championship lead from Broc Feeney.
Robbie Francevic, the 1986 ATCC champion and the only man to win the title in a Volvo, has died aged 84, prompting tributes from across Australian and New Zealand motorsport.
Aaron Seton has been called up for an early solo Supercars debut at the Townsville 500 after Cameron Crick was ruled out of Matt Stone Racing's wildcard on health grounds.
Erebus Motorsport has joined General Motors' Team Chevy data-sharing alliance at the Darwin Triple Crown, reversing months of insistence that it would race on as the lone Chevrolet holdout.
Anton De Pasquale claimed his first Supercars win since the season opener with a controlled drive in the Darwin Triple Crown finale, but it was Cameron Waters who walked away with the Triple Crown trophy on combined points.
