{"id":795403,"date":"2026-07-12T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:38:14","slug":"supercars-finals-watch-drivers-championship-points-townsville-500-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795403\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars finals watch, drivers&#8217; championship points, Townsville 500, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACK Le Brocq and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1192-James-Golding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Golding<\/a> are increasingly looking destined to fight it out for the last provisional berth in the Supercars Finals Series.<\/p>\n<p>Le Brocq was rock-solid all weekend in Townsville while Lap 1 skirmishes both yesterday and today have cost Golding dearly.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are now the only two within 100 points either side of the cut line.<\/p>\n<p>Two rounds are to come in the Sprint Cup, followed by two enduros, and then it\u2019s finals time. That means a maximum of 1230 points remain in play before the \u2018regular season\u2019 ends. <\/p>\n<p>There is also the possibility that only the top nine pointscorers go through to the playoffs, should the Enduro Cup winner come from outside the top 10 in the post-Bathurst standings.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Supercars Championship drivers\u2019 standings (after Round 7)<\/p>\n<p>*Only lists drivers with three-plus solo round starts in 2026<br \/>**Margin for drivers 1-10 is relative to 11th; margin for drivers 11-24 is relative to 10th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACK Le Brocq and James Golding are increasingly looking destined to fight it out for the last provisional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-795403","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\/795403","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=795403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}