{"id":608231,"date":"2026-04-15T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:13:11","slug":"560km-400-points-why-christchurch-is-huge-in-championship-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608231\/","title":{"rendered":"560km, 400 points: Why Christchurch is huge in championship chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-inter font-normal normal antialiased text-md mb-6 gap-x-1 leading-6 md:text-base md:leading-7 text-dark-grey-2\">Put simply, there will be no bigger weekend in this year&#8217;s championship in terms of the sheer number of points. Since 2008, 300 points have been on offer over the course of a race weekend, regardless of the number of races or the distance covered over said weekend. In 2021, bonus points were introduced for the driver who clocks the fastest lap in each race, which are now handed out in each race of the Repco Sprint Cup, provided said driver finishes inside the top 15. With 80 points available in the three 120km sprints, and 140 up for grabs on Sunday for race wins, plus 20 bonus points available across the course of the weekend, that makes for a grand total of 400 points available this weekend. Not since Bathurst 2001, when 540 points were on offer, have there been more points on the line in a single event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Put simply, there will be no bigger weekend in this year&#8217;s championship in terms of the sheer number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-608231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608231","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=608231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}