{"id":46840,"date":"2025-08-06T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46840\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:15:10","slug":"supercars-news-weather-forecast-for-ipswich-super440-at-qr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46840\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Weather forecast for Ipswich Super440 at QR"},"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\/08\/Queensland-Raceway-logo-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Weather curveball forecast for Supercars\u2019 Ipswich return\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQueensland Raceway will host Supercars for the first time since 2019. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The current forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology for the Ipswich area includes a \u201cshower or two\u201d across Friday and Saturday and a \u201cslight chance of a shower\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday practice appears the most likely to be impacted, with up to 4mm predicted for the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars will run two 30-minute practice sessions on Friday ahead of Saturday\u2019s twin qualifying and 120km races. The weekend concludes with qualifying and a 200km finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The championship has not visited Queensland Raceway since 2019, meaning many of the current drivers have not raced in the main game at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Walkinshaw Andretti United\u2019s Ryan Wood, who is hoping to capitalise on the variability that rain could bring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s cool to see QR on the calendar this year, I\u2019ve done a few laps around here in other categories, but this\u2019ll be my first time in a Supercar, I\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like there could be a bit of rain this weekend, I will definitely be doing a rain dance in the hopes of a wet race, that will shake things up a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wood currently sits 10th in the championship, placing him right on the cut-off for the Finals Series that kicks off after the Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need another clean weekend, we aren\u2019t comfortably in the 10 at the moment so we need to maximise where we can to work our way up the standings,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Ipswich Super440 marks the final round of the Sprint Cup, which Broc Feeney is in the box seat to secure.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars teams will prepare for the Endurance Cup with a test at QR on Tuesday, for which the current long-range forecast suggests a \u201cslight chance of a shower\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland Raceway will host Supercars for the first time since 2019. Image: Supplied The current forecast from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,40248,7499,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-46840","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-ryan-wood","15":"tag-slot4","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840","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=46840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}