{"id":146878,"date":"2025-09-16T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146878\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:37:09","slug":"attendance-revealed-for-the-bend-500-supercars-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146878\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance revealed for The Bend 500 Supercars event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Supercars-TheBend500-Sunday-073-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Attendance revealed for The Bend 500 Supercars enduro\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe start of The Bend 500 at The Bend Motorsport Park. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p>That figure marks an increase on Supercars\u2019 last visit in 2023 of 41,000 when the championship last ran a sprint round at the Tailem Bend circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Bend said camping as well as park and view both sold out across the September 12-14 event.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars headlined the event alongside the FIA Kumho TCR World Tour, Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia, Battery World Aussie Racing Cars, Trico Trans Am, and Gulf Western Oil Touring Car Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Trackside attractions included live music, karting, stunt shows, autograph sessions, and speedway action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bend has quickly established itself as one of Australia\u2019s premier motorsport venues, and this weekend\u2019s AirTouch 500 takes it to the next level with a world-first program,\u201d the Hon. Zoe Bettison MP, South Australian minister for tourism said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHosting international categories alongside Australia\u2019s Supercars reinforces our State\u2019s reputation for staging globally significant events while driving real tourism and economic benefits into our regions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bend Motorsport (commercially Shell V-Power Motorsport Park) announced a three-year deal on the eve of this year\u2019s Supercars endurance event.<\/p>\n<p>The Bend Supercars attendance (2018-2025):<\/p>\n<p>2018: 41,250<\/p>\n<p>2019: 35,100<\/p>\n<p>2020: N\/A<\/p>\n<p>2021: 31,000<\/p>\n<p>2022: 37,636<\/p>\n<p>2023: 41,237<\/p>\n<p>2024: Not held<\/p>\n<p>2025: 47,034<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of The Bend 500 at The Bend Motorsport Park. Image: InSyde Media That figure marks an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,7499,85,42797],"class_list":{"0":"post-146878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-slot4","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-bend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}