{"id":894536,"date":"2026-09-16T21:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894536\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:34:23","slug":"supercars-to-race-at-formula-1-australian-grand-prix-2027-on-april-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894536\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars to race at Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2027 on April 1-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE first component of next year\u2019s Repco Supercars Championship calendar to have dates locked in is the support category presence at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/supercars-secures-albert-park-future\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new deal announced back in March<\/a>, Supercars is contracted to race at Albert Park through 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melbourne will shift to a slightly later slot next season, officially confirmed for April 1-4 \u2013 picking up an F1 sprint race for that weekend too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other notable dates to consider is that of the Supercars-run 2027 Meguiar\u2019s Bathurst 12 Hour on February 12-14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-bathurst-12-hour-winner-32-bmw-m4-farfus-s-van-der-linde-k-van-der-linde-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\/09\/spark-32-race-winner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason being is that in both 2024 and \u201826, Supercars has opened its own season in New South Wales the weekend after the 12 Hour. NSW might host one more Round 1 before the Perth Street Circuit comes online for 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the other end of the equation, all Adelaide communications have pointed to it having MotoGP and Supercars both in November 2027, with the two-wheel element happening first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this comes while Supercars continues to face uncertainty regarding the size of its calendar going forward, which hinges on financial negotiations between it and its teams.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Brabham-Stand_SUNDAY-Getty-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265255\"  \/>Albert Park has consistently drawn huge F1 crowds. Pic: Supplied\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE first component of next year\u2019s Repco Supercars Championship calendar to have dates locked in is the support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-894536","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\/894536","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=894536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}