{"id":929679,"date":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:02:10","slug":"supercars-to-return-to-phillip-island-next-year-helping-to-plug-hole-left-by-motogp-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929679\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars to return to Phillip Island next year, helping to plug hole left by MotoGP loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supercars will return to Phillip Island from next year, helping plug an economic gap left by the loss of the MotoGP to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Victorian Major Events Minister Anthony Carbines today announced a five-year deal to host a Supercars Championship final series round.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time since 2019 that the island has hosted Supercars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phillip Island will host its final MotoGP from October 23 to 25.<\/a><\/p>\n

The track has hosted the event since 1989, but lost it to South Australia<\/a> after the Victorian government rejected a request to move it from Phillip Island to Melbourne’s Albert Park.<\/p>\n

It later lost the Australian round of the FIM Superbike World Championships, which will be held on Phillip Island for the last time in 2027.<\/p>\n

The loss of the two events has created anxiety in the local business community<\/a>, which relies heavily on tourism from the events.<\/p>\n

Local tourism body Destination Phillip Island says racing is worth $80 million to the local economy.<\/p>\n

Phillip Island will host a Festival of Motoring<\/a> in March next year, with Labor and the Coalition both promising to back the event.<\/p>\n

Opposition major events spokesperson David Southwick today said the Coalition would provide $100,000 to fund the event if it wins November’s state election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars will return to Phillip Island from next year, helping plug an economic gap left by the loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[496341,64,63,153652,5745,134245,85,40367,6771],"class_list":["post-929679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anthony-carbines","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-destination","tag-motogp","tag-phillip-island","tag-sports","tag-supercars","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929679","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=929679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}