{"id":843738,"date":"2026-08-04T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843738\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:30:14","slug":"50000-prize-returns-for-supercars-adelaide-grand-final-friday-race-win-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843738\/","title":{"rendered":"$50,000 prize returns for Supercars Adelaide Grand Final Friday race win, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE Friday sprint at the bp Adelaide Grand Final will again be the richest race on the 2026 Supercars calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per last year, a $50,000 bounty will be put up by Mega Rewards for the winner of the 100km contest, to be held on November 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the Grand Final format will again see four drivers battling for the Supercars title, the $50,000 prize gives every driver on the grid something to fight for on Friday,\u201d said Mega Rewards chief operating officer Andrew Potter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adelaide Grand Final event director Shaun Bennetts said: \u201cTo see the prize return in 2026 means fans will be treated to high stakes and high commitment from drivers and teams from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2022-sandown-super2-50-holden-commodore-vf-jack-perkins-model?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ACD18H22VF_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile one out of the four Grand Finalists will win the championship on Sunday every driver on the grid is a chance to take home the $50,000 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see the Supercars field fight it out on the famous streets of Adelaide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supercars interim CEO Barclay Nettlefold added: \u201cThe $50,000 prize gives drivers a reason to attack from the opening race, and on the unforgiving streets of Adelaide, that can only add to the pressure, intensity and spectacle for fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConcepts like this are why the South Australian Government and South Australian Motor Sport Board have made brilliant hosts of the Supercars Grand Final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s event could be the last using the popular Adelaide Parklands layout, with tweaks expected to be made to the Supercars track to accommodate the new-for-2027 MotoGP street race in the South Australian capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Friday sprint at the bp Adelaide Grand Final will again be the richest race on the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-843738","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\/843738","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=843738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}