{"id":428844,"date":"2026-05-15T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:13:20","slug":"supercars-extends-race-distance-of-tasmania-super440-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428844\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars extends race distance of Tasmania Super440 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Supercars-SymmonsPlains-Sunday-191.jpg\" alt=\"Supercars extends Tasmania Super440 finale\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSupercars action at Symmons Plains. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>Supercars has extended the Sunday race duration from 78 laps to 84 laps, while adding a third compulsory pit stop.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday races of the Super440 rounds are intended to be 200km.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Symmons Plains finale was trimmed to 78 laps (188km) last year amid concerns the race would become a fuel economy run.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.41km Symmons Plains layout features two long straights that result in a higher percentage of the lap being spent at full throttle than any other circuit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Supercars website, a revision to the fuel blend this year has resulted in higher consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Following analysis of fuel numbers, Supercars today ratified an extension of the Sunday race by six laps and the addition of a third compulsory stop.<\/p>\n<p>The two Saturday races are scheduled to be 50 laps each, hitting their intended 120km kilometre targets.<\/p>\n<p>Supercars\u2019 fuel is made from renewable materials composed of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent bio-gasoline from waste material.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasmania Super440 will take place on May 22-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/250635\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/a\/250635\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supercars action at Symmons Plains. Image: InSyde Media Supercars has extended the Sunday race duration from 78 laps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,9335,213],"class_list":["post-428844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}