2017 Super2 Series

The 2017 Super2 Series (known for commercial reasons as the 2017 Dunlop Super2 Series) was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, staged as a support series to the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. It was the eighteenth annual Supercars Development Series.

2017 Super2 Series
Previous: 2016 Next: 2018
Parent series:
Supercars Championship
Todd Hazelwood won the 2017 Dunlop Super2 Series

The series was won by Todd Hazelwood, driving a Holden VF Commodore for Matt Stone Racing.

A few substantial changes were seen for the 2017 season including the new rules of the Super2 program. This saw the opportunity for Dunlop Series teams to field a Wildcard entry in up to two of the four Virgin Australia Supercars Championship events at Winton, Barbagallo Raceway, Hidden Valley and Queensland Raceway. This program was developed to encourage more cars and teams to get involved in the Supercars Championship.[1] The Bathurst round of the Super2 Series became a non-pointscoring round for the first time since 2004, to encourage more cars and teams to submit wildcard entries for the Bathurst 1000.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers competed in the series.

Paul Dumbrell placed second driving a Holden Commodore VF
Jack LeBrocq placed third driving a Nissan Altima
Garry Jacobson placed sixth in the series driving a Ford Falcon FG X
Richie Stanaway in his one-off Super2 appearance at Sydney Motorsport Park
Team Vehicle No. Driver Rounds
Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 1 Garry Jacobson[2] All
5 Josh Kean[2] All
6 Richie Stanaway[3] 5
Dragon Motor Racing
Image Racing[4]		 Holden VF Commodore 4 Jack Perkins[5] All
98 Renee Gracie[6] 1–5
Jordan Boys[7] 6–7
Ford FG Falcon 48 Matt Palmer[8] All
Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 8 Andrew Jones[9] All
14 Macauley Jones[10] All
21 Jack Smith[11] All
Matt Stone Racing Holden VF Commodore 15 Adam Marjoram[12] All
35 Todd Hazelwood[12] All
Ford FG Falcon 57 Brodie Kostecki[12] All
MW Motorsport Ford FG Falcon 16 Bryce Fullwood[8] 1–3
Nissan Altima L33 4–7
26 Shae Davies[13] All
28 Jack Le Brocq[14] All
Matt Chahda Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 18 Matt Chahda[15] All
Eggleston Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 38 Will Brown[16] All
54 Nathan Morcom[17] All
88 Paul Dumbrell[18] All
Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 44 Richard Muscat[19] All
99 Mason Barbera[20] All
Sherriff Electrical/ABC Towing Ford FG Falcon 50 Gerard McLeod[21] 4
Kostecki Brothers Racing Holden VF Commodore 55 Kurt Kostecki[22] All
56 Jake Kostecki[22] 1–6
Paul Morris Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 67 Anton de Pasquale[23] All

Calendar

The 2017 calendar was released on 27 September 2016.[24]

Round Event name Circuit Location Date Race winner Round winner
1 1 Clipsal 500 Adelaide Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 3 March Paul Dumbrell Paul Dumbrell
2 4 March Paul Dumbrell
3 5 March Todd Hazelwood
2 4 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania, Tasmania 7 April Paul Dumbrell Paul Dumbrell
5 8 April Paul Dumbrell
6 Todd Hazelwood
7 9 April Jack Le Brocq
3 8 WD-40 Phillip Island 500 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 21 April Garry Jacobson Anton de Pasquale
9 22 April Jack Le Brocq
10 Jack Le Brocq
11 23 April Anton de Pasquale
4 12 Townsville 400 Townsville Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland 8 July Todd Hazelwood Todd Hazelwood
13 9 July Todd Hazelwood
5 14 Red Rooster Sydney SuperSprint Sydney Motorsport Park Eastern Creek, New South Wales 18 August Paul Dumbrell Anton de Pasquale
15 19 August Paul Dumbrell
16 Anton de Pasquale
17 20 August Richie Stanaway
6 18 Wilson Security Sandown 500 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 16 September Paul Dumbrell Jack Le Brocq
19 17 September Jack Le Brocq
NC Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 7 October Macauley Jones Non-championship round
7 20 Coates Hire Newcastle 500 Newcastle Street Circuit Newcastle, New South Wales 25 November Todd Hazelwood Todd Hazelwood
21 26 November Todd Hazelwood

Points system

Points were awarded in each race as follows.[25]

Round
format		 Position
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th
Four races 75 69 64 60 55 51 48 45 42 39 36 34 33 31 30 28 27 25 24 22 21 19 18 16 15 13 12 10 9 7
Three races 100 92 86 80 74 68 64 60 56 52 48 46 44 42 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10
Two races 150 138 129 120 111 102 96 90 84 78 72 69 66 63 60 57 54 51 48 45 42 39 36 33 30 27 24 21 18 15

Series standings
Pos. [26] Driver [26] No. Car ADE
 SYM
 PHI
 TOW
 SMP
 SAN
 NEW
 Pen. Points [26]
1 Todd Hazelwood 35 Holden VF Commodore 2 2 1 2 2 1 3 5 5 7 4 1 1 7 9 2 8 3 7 1 1 0 1808
2 Paul Dumbrell 88 Holden VF Commodore 1 1 2 1 1 4 2 6 2 4 3 2 15 1 1 4 5 1 3 8 13 0 1713
3 Jack Le Brocq 28 Nissan Altima L33 3 3 3 4 3 2 1 2 1 1 19 5 13 4 6 6 Ret 2 1 4 Ret 35 1481
4 Anton de Pasquale 67 Ford FG X Falcon Ret 13 9 6 8 20 10 4 4 2 1 6 2 2 2 1 4 4 16 Ret 5 0 1322
5 Shae Davies 26 Nissan Altima L33 5 Ret 12 5 4 3 14 3 3 3 2 9 7 9 7 18 Ret 8 17 3 11 15 1216
6 Garry Jacobson 1 Ford FG X Falcon 11 7 7 10 17 7 5 1 Ret 8 5 4 Ret 5 3 5 3 18 20 2 17 0 1166
7 Macauley Jones 14 Holden VF Commodore 4 4 4 12 Ret DNS DNS 9 8 10 9 7 12 6 5 8 2 9 19 17 2 0 1154
8 Kurt Kostecki 55 Holden VF Commodore 17 10 Ret 9 7 9 15 Ret 11 9 7 11 4 10 14 10 16 7 4 15 6 0 1083
9 Will Brown 38 Holden VF Commodore 10 6 6 3 5 8 20 7 6 6 6 10 Ret 12 13 9 6 5 11 6 Ret 0 1078
10 Richard Muscat 44 Holden VF Commodore 6 Ret Ret 20 10 6 12 8 7 5 8 3 17 11 8 7 20 6 Ret 11 4 0 1038
11 Bryce Fullwood 16 Ford FG Falcon
Nissan Altima L33		 8 12 8 17 Ret DNS DNS 18 10 21 15 15 3 13 10 13 7 21 2 5 3 35 1035
12 Andrew Jones 8 Holden VF Commodore 7 5 5 11 14 10 6 17 14 13 12 Ret Ret 8 15 12 12 10 12 10 9 0 946
13 Nathan Morcom 54 Holden VF Commodore 16 11 13 13 9 11 7 11 12 14 16 16 Ret 17 22 15 18 20 9 9 8 0 876
14 Jack Perkins 4 Holden VF Commodore 9 8 17 7 6 5 4 Ret 17 Ret 13 8 5 DNS DNS DNS DNS Ret 5 Ret 18 0 789
15 Brodie Kostecki 57 Ford FG Falcon DNS 16 Ret 16 13 13 8 19 15 12 11 14 Ret 16 11 19 14 16 13 7 7 0 781
16 Matt Chahda 18 Holden VF Commodore 12 17 15 18 12 18 18 20 18 19 17 17 11 21 Ret DNS 15 11 15 12 14 35 735
17 Mason Barbera 99 Holden VF Commodore 13 9 11 Ret Ret 15 13 14 16 18 18 21 8 Ret 18 16 10 17 10 Ret 15 35 706
18 Adam Marjoram 15 Holden VF Commodore 18 Ret DNS Ret 11 16 11 Ret 19 16 14 12 6 20 20 17 11 12 21 13 Ret 0 675
19 Josh Kean 5 Ford FG X Falcon 20 18 Ret 8 Ret 12 19 10 21 15 10 Ret Ret 14 19 Ret 9 15 6 14 Ret 0 623
20 Matt Palmer 48 Ford FG Falcon 19 19 18 19 15 17 17 15 Ret 22 21 22 10 Ret 21 20 19 Ret 14 18 16 0 607
21 Jack Smith 21 Holden VF Commodore 15 Ret 16 15 Ret DNS DNS 12 13 17 22 19 14 15 12 14 13 19 18 Ret 12 0 605
22 Jake Kostecki 56 Holden VF Commodore Ret 14 10 14 Ret 14 9 13 9 11 23 13 Ret 18 16 11 21 14 Ret 0 564
23 Renee Gracie 98 Holden VF Commodore 14 15 14 Ret 16 19 16 16 20 20 20 18 9 19 17 21 17 0 534
24 Jordan Boys 98 Holden VF Commodore 13 8 16 7 0 309
25 Richie Stanaway 6 Ford FG X Falcon 3 4 3 1 0 263
26 Gerard McLeod 50 Ford FG Falcon 20 16 0 102
Pos. Driver No. Car ADE
 SYM
 PHI
 TOW
 SMP
 SAN
 NEW
 Pen. Points

See also

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