On the eve of its crown jewel event, the Repco Supercars Championship has unveiled the future of the sport, with 2025 event formats, expanded racing programs, and a Finals series to determine the 2025 Supercars champion in a thrilling knockout-style system.
Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Chaz Mostert and seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup joined Supercars CEO Shane Howard and Supercars General Manager of Motorsport Tim Edwards to announce the seismic changes coming to the sport next year.
The 2025 calendar will include 13 rounds – with the addition of Queensland Raceway and The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia – 34 races, and nearly 6,700 kilometres of racing across Australia and New Zealand.
The championship will be split into three segments: the Sprint Cup across the first eight rounds of the season, followed by two endurance races at The Bend and Bathurst making up the Enduro Cup, and a Finals series where the 10 top drivers will duke it out over the final three events to be crowned Supercars champion.
Following the 2025 Repco Bathurst 1000, the top 10 drivers, including the winners of the Sprint and Enduro Cups, will be eligible to win the 2025 championship.
While the entire 24-car field will still compete in all races, those 10 drivers will have their points reset at the head of the field heading into the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500.
Coming out of the Gold Coast weekend, three drivers will be eliminated, with seven moving on to the second Finals round at historic Sandown Raceway.
A further three drivers will be eliminated following the Penrite Oil Sandown 500, leaving four drivers to contest the season finale in Adelaide.
The highest point scorer at the end of the weekend will be crowned the 2025 Repco Supercars Champion.
Throughout the Finals, points will reset between each round, ensuring that every race is critical for the title contenders.
“It is a big shake up,” Howard said.
“We haven’t changed our points system for almost 20 years, so to do that and why?
“Well, every global sport evolves and we’re no different. With our new Gen3 cars, we’ve taken the evolution to the track, but we’re also evolving it for our fans.
“The consultation process with our fans and key stakeholders this is what they want to see, why wouldn’t you want to see less practice, more events, more racing and for the first time in the sport’s history have a finale process no different to the NRL or AFL achieve.
“The excitement of that finals series will serve everyone very well.”
Repco Supercars Championship contender Chaz Mostert is excited to welcome the finals series for 2025.
“The first word that comes to mind is wow!” Mostert said.
“It’s going to create an absolute pressure cooker for all 24 drivers isn the championship.
“There’s not one race you can let your guard down. In the championship at the moment you can have a good 85-90% and a couple of bad races here and still become champion where there’s no hiding.
“There’s more races and you’re fighting all the way until you get to the enduros, you’re fighting through the enduros to get to the finals and in all ball sports in this country you follow your team, riding that high through the entire series into the finals hoping your team is going to be there at the end.”
On-track action from Mount Panorama begins on October 10, with the Great Race to take place on October 13 from 11:30 a.m. AEDT.
Live coverage of the Repco Bathurst 1000 can be found on Foxtel and the Seven Network, with live streaming available on Kayo and 7plus.