2022 Supercars Championship

Shane van Gisbergen will enter the season as defending Drivers' Champion

Triple Eight Race Engineering will enter the season as defending Teams' Champions

The 2022 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2022 Repco Supercars Championship) is a planned motor racing series for Supercars. It is due to be the twenty-fourth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-sixth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship, the premier title in Australian motorsport.

Shane van Gisbergen and Triple Eight Race Engineering will enter the season as defending Drivers' and Teams' Champions respectively.^[1][2]

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2022 championship. Unless confirmed otherwise, car numbers are presumed to carry over from 2021.

Championship entries							Bathurst 1000 entries
Manufacturer	Model	Team	No.	Driver name	Rounds		Co-driver name
Ford	Mustang GT	Blanchard Racing Team	3	Tim Slade[3]
		Tickford Racing	5	James Courtney[4]
			6	Cameron Waters[5]
			55	Thomas Randle[6]
			56	Jake Kostecki[7]
		Grove Racing	10	Lee Holdsworth[8]
			26	David Reynolds[3]
		Dick Johnson Racing	11	Anton de Pasquale[9]
			17	Will Davison[9]
Holden	Commodore ZB	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	Nick Percat[10]
			25	Chaz Mostert[11]
		Brad Jones Racing	4	Jack Smith[12]
			8	Andre Heimgartner[13]			Dale Wood[14]
			14	Bryce Fullwood[15]
			96	Macauley Jones[16]
		Erebus Motorsport	9	Will Brown[17]
			99	Brodie Kostecki[17]
		Team 18	18	Mark Winterbottom[18]			Michael Caruso[19]
			20	Scott Pye[20]
		Matt Stone Racing	34	Jack Le Brocq[21]
			35	Todd Hazelwood[22]
		Triple Eight Race Engineering	TBA	Broc Feeney[23]
			97	Shane van Gisbergen[24]
		PremiAir Racing[25]	TBA	Chris Pither[26]
			TBA	Garry Jacobson[26]

Team changes

The field will expand from 24 to 25 cars after Supercars management sold a dormant Teams Racing Charter (TRC) to Tickford Racing.^[27] The TRC will be used to run the #56 entry for Jake Kostecki.^[7]

The Grove Group took full ownership of Kelly Grove Racing, re-naming the team to Grove Racing.^[28]

Peter Xiberras, managing director of PremiAir Hire, purchased Team Sydney and renamed it PremiAir Racing.^[25]

Driver changes

Jamie Whincup retired from full-time competition at the end of the 2021 season and replaced Roland Dane as team principal and managing director of Triple Eight Race Engineering.^[29] 2021 Super2 Series champion Broc Feeney graduated to replace Whincup, after competing as a wildcard in the 2021 Bathurst 1000 with Russell Ingall.^[23]

Thomas Randle moved up to the series full time with Tickford Racing, having raced as a wildcard in several events for the team in both 2019 and 2021.^[6]

Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard left Matt Stone Racing, with Kostecki replacing Jack Le Brocq at Tickford Racing. Le Brocq joined Matt Stone Racing in a straight driver swap.^[7][30][21] Todd Hazelwood also returned to the team, having last raced for them in 2019.^[22] Zane Goddard was unable to raise sufficient sponsorship to compete full-time in 2022.^[31]

Bryce Fullwood left Walkinshaw Andretti United to replace Hazelwood at Brad Jones Racing, with Fullwood's seat filled by Nick Percat, who returned to Walkinshaw, a team he last raced for in 2014 under James Rosenberg Racing.^[15][10]

Andre Heimgartner left Grove Racing to replace Nick Percat at Brad Jones Racing. He was replaced by Lee Holdsworth.^{[32][33][13][8]}

Chris Pither returned to the championship, replacing Fabian Coulthard who was dropped from the PremiAir Racing driver line-up.^[26]

List of planned races

Thirteen rounds are due to host a round of the 2022 championship:

Round	Event	Circuit	Location	Dates
1	Newcastle 500	Newcastle Street Circuit	Newcastle, New South Wales	5–6 March
2	Tasmania SuperSprint	Symmons Plains Raceway	Launceston, Tasmania	26–27 March
3	Melbourne 400	Albert Park Circuit	Melbourne, Victoria	8–10 April
4	Perth SuperNight	Wanneroo Raceway	Neerabup, Western Australia	30 April–1 May
5	Winton SuperSprint	Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	21–22 May
6	Darwin Triple Crown	Hidden Valley Raceway	Darwin, Northern Territory	18–19 June
7	Townsville 500	Reid Park Street Circuit	Townsville, Queensland	9–10 July
8	The Bend SuperSprint	The Bend Motorsport Park	Tailem Bend, South Australia	30–31 July
9	Sandown SuperSprint	Sandown Raceway	Springvale, Victoria	20–21 August
10	Auckland SuperSprint	Pukekohe Park Raceway	Pukekohe, Auckland Region	10–11 September
11	Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	9 October
12	Gold Coast 500	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Queensland	29–30 October
13	Sydney Super 600	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	19–20 November
Source

Calendar changes

The Newcastle 500 will return after a two-year absence. The round will replace the Mount Panorama 500 as the season opener.^[34]

Albert Park, Auckland, Gold Coast, Perth and Winton are due to return after absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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