2020 Super2 Series

The 2020 Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which was staged as a support series to the 2020 Supercars Championship. It was the twenty-first running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.

Entries[]

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2020 championship:

Manufacturer Model Team No. Driver name Class Rounds Ref. Ford FG X Falcon Tickford Racing 5 Broc Feeney R All [1] 17 Matt McLean R 3 [2] 18 Matt Chahda All [3] Holden Commodore VF Anderson Motorsport 7 Tyler Everingham 2 [4] Triple Eight Race Engineering 10 Angelo Mouzouris R All [5] 11 R All [6] Brad Jones Racing 14 Josh Fife R All [7] Eggleston Motorsport 38 Brodie Kostecki 1-2 [8] 54 Jack Perkins 1-2 [9] 49 Jordan Boys All [10] 999 Will Brown All [11] Kostecki Brothers Racing 55 Kurt Kostecki 1 [12] Nissan Altima L33 MW Motorsport 16 Thomas Randle All [13] 31 Jayden Ojeda R All [14] 78 R All [15] Source:[16]

Icon Class R Rookie driver

• R – Eligible for the A$100,000 'rookie class' prize pool.^[17]

Team changes[]

• made its début in the series, acquiring an ex-Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport VF Commodore.^[6]
• Anderson Motorsport made their début in the series, acquiring an ex-Walkinshaw Andretti United VF Commodore.^[4]
• Eggleston Motorsport scaled back their commitment to the series from three cars to two.^[9]
• Triple Eight Race Engineering scaled back its commitment to the series from two cars to one.^[5]
• Kostecki Brothers Racing returned to the series after withdrawing from final three rounds in 2019.^[12]
• Matt Chahda Motorsport expanded its operations to enter a second car at the Bathurst round.^[3]
• Garry Rogers Motorsport withdrew from the series after withdrawing from the Supercars Championship, while Matt Stone Racing withdrew from the series to focus on the Supercars Championship.^[18][19]

Driver changes[]

• Will Brown moved from Eggleston Motorsport to . The team is supported by Erebus Motorsport and Brown is expected to be promoted to Erebus' Supercars Championship in 2021.^[11]
• Thomas Randle moved from Tickford Racing to MW Motorsport.^[13]
• Tyler Everingham moved from MW Motorsport to Anderson Motorsport.^[4] He missed the first round due to an incident in the Bathurst 12 Hour.
• Kurt Kostecki returned to Kostecki Brothers Racing after spending a single year with Triple Eight Race Engineering.^[12]
• Brodie Kostecki returned to the series with Eggleston Motorsport, after withdrawing from the last four rounds in 2019.^[8]
• 2019 Super 3 Series winner Broc Feeney graduated to the series with Tickford Racing.^[1]
• Super3 Series drivers Zak Best & Jayden Ojeda Graduated to the series with MW Motorsport.^[15]
• Josh Fife graduated to the series with Brad Jones Racing.^[7]
• Reigning Australian Formula Ford champion Angelo Mouzouris joined the series with Triple Eight Race Engineering.^[5]
• Toyota 86 Series driver joined the series with .^[6]
• Matt McLean made his series debut at Bathurst with Matt Chahda Motorsport
• Bryce Fullwood Graduated to the Supercars Championship with Walkinshaw Andretti United^[20]
• Jack Smith graduated to the Supercars Championship with Brad Jones Racing^[21]
• Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard graduated to the Supercars Championship, sharing the Matt Stone Racing Superlite entry.^[18]
• Brenton Grove and Adam Marjoram will not drive in the series in 2020.^[22][23]

Calendar[]

The calendar for the 2020 championship was expected to consist of five rounds, but only three were run as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the running of the championship.

Round	Event name	Circuit	Location	Date
1	Adelaide 500	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, South Australia	21–23 February
2	Sydney SuperSprint	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	18–19 July
3	Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	16–17 October
Source:[16]

Calendar changes[]

• The original calendar removed the Ipswich, Newcastle and Perth rounds with Sydney Motorsport Park and Symmons Plains reinstated, having last being in the series in 2017 and 2018 respectively.^[17][24] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a revised calendar resulted in the Symmons Plains and The Bend Motorsport Park rounds being cancelled.^[16]
• The Bathurst 250 km race was split into two races of 125 km. The change was made as the mandatory refuelling in pit stops proved to be problematic in 2019.^[25]

Rule changes[]

Sporting regulations[]

• The series was to have seen an increase in the prize money awarded, with the champion to be given $400,000 as a way to secure funding into the Supercars Championship. A "Rookie" class aimed at drivers under the age of 25 was planned, with the winner to be awarded $100,000 to secure a second year in the series. This was done to help young drivers into the Supercars Championship as part of the Junior Development Program.^[17] As a result the COVID-19 pandemic, both were shelved.^[26]

Results and standings[]

Points system[]

Points were awarded in each race as follows.

Drivers' championship[]

Pos.	Driver	No.	ADE			SYD		BAT		Pen.	Points
1	Thomas Randle	16	2	2	1	2	1	2	1	0	860
2	Will Brown	999	3	3	2	1	4	1	3	0	813
3	Jordan Boys	49	5	6	4	8	9	3	4	0	645
4	Jayden Ojeda	31	9	4	5	3	2	Ret	2	0	615
5	Matt Chahda	18	7	5	6	12	10	5	6	0	566
6		78	8	8	11	11	7	6	5	0	549
7	Broc Feeney	5	10	7	7	4	8	4	DNS	0	510
8	Brodie Kostecki	38	1	1	3	9	3			0	499
9	Angelo Mouzouris	10	12	10	9	6	5	7	DNS	0	463
10	Josh Fife	14	11	9	Ret	10	13	8	7	0	434
11		11	13	Ret	10	13	12	9	8	0	405
12	Jack Perkins	54	6	Ret	Ret	7	6			30	236
13	Kurt Kostecki	55	4	11	8					0	188
14	Tyler Everingham	7				5	11			0	183
15	Matt McLean	17						10	Ret	0	78
Pos.	Driver	No.	ADE			SYD		BAT		Pen.	Points

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