SUPERCARS has slightly shortened the pair of weekend feature races for the upcoming NTI Townsville 500.<\/p>\n
Further Supplementary Regulations for the July 10-12 event published today have revealed a reduction in the Saturday and Sunday race distances from 70 laps to 68.<\/p>\n
Supercars has confirmed to V8 Sleuth that change has been made with fuel burn in mind, in an effort to avoid drivers needing to conserve rather than go all-out.<\/p>\n
The Sunday races at Taup\u014d and Symmons Plains this year were likewise adjusted; the former reduced by one lap<\/a> and the latter increased by six laps (but with a third compulsory pitstop added).<\/p>\n Fuel consumption rates have increased this season in line with the category\u2019s move to a 100 percent renewable blend.<\/p>\n Fuel consumption parity has also been a talking point, prompting Supercars to introduce monitoring protocols<\/a> ahead of the recent Darwin Triple Crown.<\/p>\n A 26-car main game field will compete in Townsville, bolstered by wildcards for Reuben Goodall<\/a> (Tickford Racing) and Aaron Seton<\/a> (Matt Stone Racing).<\/p>\n The Undercut \u2013 How hot is too hot?<\/p>\n The Undercut is back for another week, downloading a hot weekend in the Top End for Supercars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS has slightly shortened the pair of weekend feature races for the upcoming NTI Townsville 500. Further Supplementary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-773810","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\/773810","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=773810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}