{"id":893812,"date":"2026-09-16T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893812\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:20:13","slug":"supercars-finals-gold-coast-500-track-schedule-2026-session-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893812\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars finals: Gold Coast 500 track schedule 2026 session times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE first meaningful session of the Supercars finals series will come one day earlier this year, in the form of a Friday afternoon qualifying derby around the streets of Surfers Paradise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the major takeaway from the track schedule being released for next month\u2019s Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was in the corresponding session last year that the title race took a major turn, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a> crashing out in dramatic circumstances amid desperate efforts to make the Top 10 Shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday qualifying will be followed by a Saturday one-lap dash to finalise the grid for the opening finals race of the year, before another qualifying, Shootout and 250km race unfolds all on the Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Repco Supercars Championship will be supported by Porsche Carrera Cup, V8 SuperUtes and Aussie Racing Cars at the October 23-25 event.<\/p>\n<p>TRACK SCHEDULE: 2026 BOOST MOBILE GOLD COAST 500 (in AEST)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 23<\/p>\n<p>TimeCategorySession1035-1055V8 SuperUtesPractice1105-1130Carrera CupPractice 11145-1210SupercarsPractice 11245-1305Aussie Racing CarsPractice1315-1335V8 SuperUtesQualifying1350-1415SupercarsPractice 21445-1510Carrera CupPractice 21525-1545Aussie Racing CarsQualifying1605-1635SupercarsQualifying (Race 31)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 24<\/p>\n<p>TimeCategorySession0850-0910V8 SuperUtesRace 10925-0945Aussie Racing CarsRace 11015-1045Carrera CupQualifying1100-1125V8 SuperUtesRace 21155-1215Aussie Racing CarsRace 21235-1310SupercarsTop 10 Shootout (Race 31)1325-1345V8 SuperUtesRace 31355-1420Carrera CupRace 11515-1720SupercarsRace 31 (85 laps)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, October 25<\/p>\n<p>TimeCategorySession0905-0925Aussie Racing CarsRace 30935-1005Carrera CupRace 21040-1100V8 SuperUtesRace 41120-1152SupercarsQualifying (Race 32)1205-1240SupercarsTop 10 Shootout (Race 32)1255-1315Aussie Racing CarsRace 41325-1350Carrera CupRace 31445-1650SupercarsRace 32 (85 laps)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE first meaningful session of the Supercars finals series will come one day earlier this year, in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-893812","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\/893812","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=893812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}