{"id":773976,"date":"2026-07-02T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773976\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:31:13","slug":"supercars-trims-townsville-race-lengths-after-fuel-economy-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773976\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars trims Townsville race lengths after fuel economy study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The two feature races will now be contested over 68 laps each to ensure all cars can make it through the distance on two fuel stops.<\/p>\n

Townsville\u2019s Friday sprint remains at 35 laps.<\/p>\n

The changes have been made following the latest analysis of fuel consumption numbers from the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Supercars has made a series of tweaks in the lead-up to events this year based on fuel calculations.<\/p>\n

It reduced the Sunday race at Taupo by a single lap back in April.<\/p>\n

The following month it elected to add six laps and a third compulsory pit stop to the Symmons Plains feature race.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Although intended to add to strategic variability, that format proved polarising as the sheer volume of pit stops dominated the action.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fuel consumption has increased this year due to the adoption of a revised blend, made up of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent bio-gasoline.<\/p>\n

The remaining Sunday Sprint Cup races at Perth and Ipswich are both thought likely to need tweaking too.<\/p>\n

Supercars has meanwhile also been working to ensure fuel economy parity between the brands.<\/p>\n

Triple Eight team boss Jamie Whincup said at Symmons Plains the three-stop rule had been added due to the Chevrolet being too thirsty.<\/p>\n

The category has run new fuel flow meters across each of the marques at the last two events, as well as mandating a new reporting system from Darwin.<\/p>\n

Teams must weigh their fuel churns before and after pit stops and report the numbers to Supercars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action from the 2025 Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media The two feature races will now be contested over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9910,85,346106],"class_list":["post-773976","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-slot2","tag-sports","tag-townsville-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773976","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=773976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}