{"id":149382,"date":"2025-09-17T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149382\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:00:10","slug":"supercars-news-finals-series-contenders-to-carry-orange-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149382\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Finals Series contenders to carry orange numbers"},"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\/INS23125-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Identifier for Supercars Finals contenders revealed\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBroc Feeney celebrates victory in the third race of the Ipswich Super440 at Queensland Raceway. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n<p>Supercars has used the colour in recent years to mark out the current championship leader but will switch it up for its post-season.<\/p>\n<p>That means 10 drivers will carry orange numbers on the Gold Coast, seven at Sandown and four in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Those no longer in championship contention will continue to run the regular yellow numbers on their front and rear windscreens and side windows.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars\u2019 move to distinguish its Finals drivers is similar to the windscreen banner used by NASCAR during its Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian category has also moved to name each of its finals rounds, with the Gold Coast now dubbed an \u2018Elimination Final\u2019, Sandown a \u2018Semi-Final\u2019 and Adelaide the \u2018Grand Final\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers already locked into the Gold Coast round of the Finals are Broc Feeney, Matt Payne, Will Brown, Cam Waters, Chaz Mostert and Brodie Kostecki.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-who-is-in-finals-after-the-bend-500-enduro-cup-standings-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who has qualified for Supercars finals after The Bend<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney celebrates victory in the third race of the Ipswich Super440 at Queensland Raceway. Image: InSyde Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,12357,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-149382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-slot1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149382","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=149382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}