Where is clipsal 500 held

A major regulation change for the championship as a whole in saw each race in the championship regonised individually and 'round results' were no longer officially recognised. Since then V8 Supercars Australia have stepped away from the concept of an overall two-day Adelaide winner.

Although the results of both races count towards the V8 Supercars Championship, the winner of the second race is declared the winner of the "Clipsal Adelaide", regardless of the results of the first race.

The rest of the four days are filled with practice, qualifying, and support races for a number of other racing categories, including Australian GT and Australian Formula Ford.

In the Clipsal was attended by , people, [ 1 ] the largest crowd for a domestic motorsport event in Australia. The initial contract was for a period of five years with an option for a further five years. The event saw Craig Lowndes win the Saturday race, only to be disqualified due to his involvement in an accident and made to start from the back of the grid for race two on the Sunday.

Craig Lowndes passed every car in the field to also win race two and become the first winner of the Adelaide Lowndes' disqualification from race one was later overturned. After the conclusion of the race, Clipsal were announced as the event's major sponsor and it became known as the Clipsal Adelaide. From to the Adelaide was dominated by Holden teams, with three wins to Mark Skaife and one to Jason Bright.

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Upload a photo. The Adelaide also known as the Clipsal for naming sponsor Clipsal Electronics is an annual racing carnival for Touring Cars held on a street circuit in the east end of Adelaide on a shortened form of the former Australian Grand Prix track.

Usually held over four days in early March, the main event is the km V8 Supercar race split over the last two days of the event. The rest of the four days are filled with support races for a number of other racing categories, including production cars and Australian Formula 3. Crowd numbers are very high for a domestic touring car series event, usually in excess of , people over the four days.

It is almost normal for the current event to set a new attendance record over the previous year.