race at Phillip Island for the final time this year before defecting to South Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\nLosing MotoGP will free up Victorian government budget, while it also leaves the government-funded Australian Grand Prix Corporation with just one event \u2013 the Albert Park F1 race \u2013 on its books.<\/p>\n
Interim Supercars CEO Barclay Nettlefold explained to Speedcafe that the series is in direct talks with the AGPC about bringing a new Phillip Island event to life.<\/p>\n
That would ideally be a 15th round rather than at the expense of any of the existing 14 events on the schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to look at the expansion of the calendar and what that means to the sport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhillip Island is a track that Supercars loves to race at and we\u2019re certainly considering it, yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a bit in it, in regard to balancing events and we\u2019ve got racing charters and teams to deal with as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve always stated from day one that the ultimate amount of racing for Supercars, in my view, is 15 rounds in a domestic and New Zealand calendar.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just about how we line it up properly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two factors will be critical to the plan, starting with an expected renegotiation of the Teams Racing Charter terms regarding payment for any events over a base level of 12.<\/p>\n
The second factor is government funding, with the AGPC providing the conduit between the series and state officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Victorian government funding originally all went through the AGPC for MotoGP and the AGPC is talking to us about the potential for us to race with them in regard to Phillip Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re not in direct discussion with the government, but we\u2019re certainly working with the AGPC on what it could mean for the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given Phillip Island\u2019s fickle weather patterns, Nettlefold outlined that the back end of the schedule would be the ideal slot \u2013 and that it could even form part of the Finals Series.<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally, I\u2019d love to have it in summer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Phillip Island, if it was part of our final series, would be amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could open up the camping sites, that would be good, and really create a whole festival around it as part of going into Adelaide.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, however, wouldn\u2019t necessarily come at the expense of Sandown, which is currently one of three Finals venues alongside the Gold Coast and Adelaide.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had meetings with [the Melbourne Racing Club on Wednesday, and they\u2019re committed to us and we\u2019re committed to them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence why it\u2019s still a bit fluid in regard to what the calendar will look like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this ambitious attempt to expand the schedule, Nettlefold is hoping to have the calendar squared away by as soon as the end of next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve always been a bit slow in getting our calendar out in the past and our board is conscious of that because there\u2019s a lot of planning that\u2019s got to go into [the events],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s important for us to get it out faster, so we can actually get things on sale faster and people can prepare.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can finalise a calendar into the end of June or into early July for 2027 I think the sport would be better off.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/250635\")
<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillip Island could join the Supercars calendar next season. Image: Ross Gibb\/Speedcafe Archive The Victorian circuit is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,6490,85],"class_list":["post-690250","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-slot3","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690250","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=690250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Supercars](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RGP-2018-WD40-PhillipIsland-500-Sat-a94w1277.jpg\")