{"id":790948,"date":"2026-07-10T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:03:12","slug":"supercars-to-review-parity-system-after-triggers-ahead-of-townsville-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790948\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars to review parity system after triggers ahead of Townsville 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/De-Pasquale-Townsville-500.jpg\" alt=\"Supercars to review parity system after latest triggers\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnton De Pasquale and Macauley Jones at the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>The championship returned to a formal parity review structure this season, featuring lap time based triggers.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars\u2019 system crunches in-race lap time data from cars of each manufacturer on a rolling six-race average.<\/p>\n<p>The category is required to launch a review if the calculated disparity is outside the stated 0.1s threshold once equated to a 60-second lap.<\/p>\n<p>Reviews were launched for both the Chevrolet and the Toyota after Taupo, which resulted in changes to the Camaro over the next two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Speedcafe understands it also triggered reviews for both cars following Darwin, again requiring Supercars to dig for any technical discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion the review did not result in any changes.<\/p>\n<p>Chevrolet was happy with its earlier tweaks while Supercars is not willing to budge on the Toyota while its known engine weakness remains unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>The parity threshold number is believed to have been reached in the bulk of individual races so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars is understood to have already begun sharing ideas for altering the formula with the three homologation teams.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier changes to the Camaro were controversial as they came just three rounds after off-season wind tunnel testing set the aerodynamic specifications.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars insists it remains a technical parity formula and is not attempting to apply sporting parity in the style of Balance of Performance.<\/p>\n<p>Any tweaks to the parity review system would only be implemented for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the current system does not allow parity changes once the Enduro Cup has commenced.<\/p>\n<p>The Supercars Championship continues this weekend with the NTI Townsville 500, before Perth and Ipswich close out the Sprint Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton De Pasquale and Macauley Jones at the Townsville 500. Image: InSyde Media The championship returned to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9910,85],"class_list":["post-790948","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790948","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=790948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}