{"id":296772,"date":"2025-11-20T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:52:15","slug":"decision-made-on-super2s-divisive-gen3-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296772\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision made on Super2\u2019s divisive Gen3 debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT\u2019S official: Gen3 Supercars will not become eligible for the Dunlop Super2 Series until 2028.<\/p>\n

The subject of when the latest-spec Supercars will enter the second tier has proven divisive for months, with a backlash emerging against the initial push for a 2027 transition.<\/p>\n

Triple Eight Race Engineering was at the forefront of campaigning for a sooner switch, with Brad Jones Racing and the Blanchard Racing Team also in support.<\/p>\n

Publicly taking a stance to the contrary were teams including Tickford Racing, Walkinshaw Andretti United, Image Racing and Anderson Motorsport.<\/p>\n

Independent teams, i.e. those who don\u2019t compete in the main game, have claimed a five-year run with Gen2 machinery was necessary to recoup value on investments in order to make numbers stack up.<\/p>\n

The likes of Triple Eight however have argued that bringing Gen3 cars to Super2 would help rising stars make a smoother jump up to the Repco Supercars Championship, given the difference between the technical platforms.<\/p>\n

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Either way, following extensive consideration, the powers that be have ruled in favour of 2028 per V8 Sleuth sources.<\/p>\n

Four Super2 drivers will graduate to full-time Supercars seats next year: Rylan Gray<\/a> (Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing), Jackson Walls<\/a> (Triple Eight), Zach Bates<\/a> (Matt Stone Racing) and Jobe Stewart<\/a> (Erebus Motorsport).<\/p>\n

Gray is in the box seat to win the 2025 title, entering next week\u2019s Adelaide finale with a 147-point buffer to Tickford teammate Lochie Dalton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If Gray does go on to seal the deal, that will make for seven Super2 champions on the Supercars grid, also including Bates (2024), Kai Allen<\/a> (2023), Declan Fraser<\/a> (2022), Broc Feeney<\/a> (2021), Thomas Randle<\/a> (2020) and Cam Waters<\/a> (2015).<\/p>\n

The 2026 Super2 calendar will comprise six rounds: Sydney, Darwin, Perth, Bathurst, Sandown and Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S official: Gen3 Supercars will not become eligible for the Dunlop Super2 Series until 2028. The subject of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296772","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296772","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=296772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}