{"id":89571,"date":"2025-08-23T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89571\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:33:25","slug":"sydney-september-meeting-for-supercars-teams-on-2026-calendar-and-other-hot-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/89571\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney September meeting for Supercars, teams on 2026 calendar and other hot topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUPERCARS and its teams are set to engage in decisive discussions to resolve the key question regarding the 2026 calendar: 13 or 14 rounds?<\/p>\n

The common belief is that the parties will likely find a happy middle ground to make expanding to 14 rounds possible, but it may involve compromises on both sides.<\/p>\n

That relates to the extra payments which Supercars owner RACE must make to teams for each event beyond the minimum annual dozen.<\/p>\n

The Teams Racing Charter stipulates that a 14-round schedule would necessitate RACE paying $120,000 per licence (i.e. $60,000 per event above 12).<\/p>\n

The numbers have got to stack up for RACE as well as teams, leading to negotiations about where that figure ultimately lands.<\/p>\n

A meeting is being lined up to take place in Sydney in early September hot on the heels of the Bathurst 1000 launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re due to sit down and talk about the calendar and a whole range of things, which we\u2019ll do post the launch coming up on September 1,\u201d Supercars CEO James Warburton told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it makes sense with everyone in town that we\u2019ll get together in that week, depending on everyone\u2019s diaries, and sit down and talk.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst thing\u2019s first, I\u2019d like to present my plan for the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo again, going around to the teams and talking, I put quite a detailed letter to them, and then talking about the things that matter, an opportunity for them to put things on the table and have a constructive conversation about the future. That\u2019s all underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

If 14 rounds eventuates, the new Ruapuna event<\/a> would simply join the existing 13. Otherwise, Queensland Raceway appears at risk given that most other fixtures have contracts covering the mid-term future.<\/p>\n

MORE: Quinn would be \u2018flabbergasted\u2019 if QR misses 2026 slot<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"James Warburton. Pic: Supplied\/Mark Horsburgh<\/p>\n

Expected to form part of that vision is the bold internationalism concept which Warburton floated in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a \u201927 plan but there\u2019s been a lot of work that\u2019s gone on before me and then obviously having lived it for those four years (during his previous 2013-17 tenure), I have got a lot of thoughts about that as well,\u201d Warburton noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key thing for us is actually innovating and moving at speed. Speed has always been a weapon in business and for us it\u2019s something that is going to be important.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly by having Shane (Howard) in his ability to work on more strategic projects versus the day-to-day, same as Mark Pejic, means we can do things like that in a much more progressive and quicker way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS and its teams are set to engage in decisive discussions to resolve the key question regarding the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-89571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89571","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=89571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}