{"id":431740,"date":"2026-01-23T07:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431740\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:47:14","slug":"motorsport-news-calder-finale-date-changed-to-avoid-sandown-500-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431740\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news: Calder finale date changed to avoid Sandown 500 clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Calder-Super-Series-Rd06-_GRC9871-Coloson-1.jpg\" alt=\"Calder finale date changed to avoid Sandown 500 clash\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTA2 Muscle Cars at Calder Park. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n<p>The Calder event moves back a week to November 13-15, effectively swapping dates with Supercars\u2019 original Sandown fixture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-2026-calendar-sandown-500-date-change-clash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supercars was forced to shift its Semi-Final<\/a> due to a shuffle of horse race meetings at the multi-purpose Sandown facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne Racing Club, which runs both venues, has allocated more events to Sandown while its sister Caulfield track undergoes returfing.<\/p>\n<p>AASA competition director Marcos Ambrose said the Super Series date shift is about making sure fans can attend both events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur primary objective when setting our AASA National calendars for 2026 was to avoid date clashes with other major national motorsport series,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our AASA competitors, teams and cars and equipment compete on these other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupercars moving their Sandown date created a clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the support of Calder Park Raceway and with thanks to Rowan Harman and his crew we have been able to shift our event to the following weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually works out perfectly for us, we feel the November 13\u201315 date will be well supported by our teams and competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sandown 500 date shift earlier this week resulted in the<a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-sandown-500-date-change-historic-sandown-aasa-calder-ta2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> cancellation of the Historic Sandown event<\/a>, which was scheduled for the November 7-8 weekend taken by Supercars.<\/p>\n<p>The Calder Super Series event will feature the final round of the TA2 Muscle Car Series, run to a new and yet-to-be-revealed format.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the card are Australian Formula Ford, Innovation Race Cars, APC Endurance Championship, Legend Cars Australia, Formula RX8 and Stock Cars Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285249\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/285249.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TA2 Muscle Cars at Calder Park. Image: Supplied The Calder event moves back a week to November 13-15,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431741,"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-431740","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\/431740","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=431740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}