2017 Super2 Series

Todd Hazelwood won the 2017 Dunlop 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.

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
Manufacturer Model Team No. Driver Rounds
Ford Falcon FG X Prodrive Racing Australia 1 Australia Garry Jacobson[2] All
5 Australia Josh Kean[2] All
6 New Zealand Richie Stanaway[3] 5
Paul Morris Motorsport 67 Australia Anton de Pasquale[4] All
Falcon FG MW Motorsport 16 Australia Bryce Fullwood[5] 1–3
Dragon Motor Racing 48 Australia Matt Palmer[5] All
Sherriff Electrical/ABC Towing 50 Australia Gerard McLeod[6] 4
Matt Stone Racing 57 Australia Brodie Kostecki[7] All
Holden Commodore VF Dragon Motor Racing
Image Racing[8] 		4 Australia Jack Perkins[9] All
98 Australia Renee Gracie[10] 1–5
Australia Jordan Boys[11] 6–7
Brad Jones Racing 8 Australia Andrew Jones[12] All
14 Australia Macauley Jones[13] All
21 Australia Jack Smith[14] All
Matt Stone Racing 15 Australia Adam Marjoram[7] All
35 Australia Todd Hazelwood[7] All
Matt Chahda Motorsport 18 Australia Matt Chahda[15] All
Eggleston Motorsport 38 Australia Will Brown[16] All
54 Australia Nathan Morcom[17] All
88 Australia Paul Dumbrell[18] All
Garry Rogers Motorsport 44 Australia Richard Muscat[19] All
99 Australia Mason Barbera[20] All
Kostecki Brothers Racing 55 Australia Kurt Kostecki[21] All
56 Australia Jake Kostecki[21] 1–6
Nissan Altima L33 MW Motorsport 16 Australia Bryce Fullwood[5] 4–7
26 Australia Shae Davies[22] All
28 Australia Jack Le Brocq[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 South Australia Clipsal 500 Adelaide Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 3 March Australia Paul Dumbrell Australia Paul Dumbrell
2 4 March Australia Paul Dumbrell
3 5 March Australia Todd Hazelwood
2 4 Tasmania Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania 7 April Australia Paul Dumbrell Australia Paul Dumbrell
5 8 April Australia Paul Dumbrell
6 Australia Todd Hazelwood
7 9 April Australia Jack Le Brocq
3 8 Victoria (state) WD-40 Phillip Island 500 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 21 April Australia Garry Jacobson Australia Anton de Pasquale
9 22 April Australia Jack Le Brocq
10 Australia Jack Le Brocq
11 23 April Australia Anton de Pasquale
4 12 Queensland Townsville 400 Townsville Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland 8 July Australia Todd Hazelwood Australia Todd Hazelwood
13 9 July Australia Todd Hazelwood
5 14 New South Wales Red Rooster Sydney SuperSprint Sydney Motorsport Park Eastern Creek, New South Wales 18 August Australia Paul Dumbrell Australia Anton de Pasquale
15 19 August Australia Paul Dumbrell
16 Australia Anton de Pasquale
17 20 August New Zealand Richie Stanaway
6 18 Victoria (state) Wilson Security Sandown 500 Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 16 September Australia Paul Dumbrell Australia Jack Le Brocq
19 17 September Australia Jack Le Brocq
NC New South Wales Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 7 October Australia Macauley Jones Non-championship round
7 20 New South Wales Coates Hire Newcastle 500 Newcastle Street Circuit Newcastle, New South Wales 25 November Australia Todd Hazelwood Australia Todd Hazelwood
21 26 November Australia 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. ADE
South Australia 		SYM
Tasmania 		PHI
Victoria (state) 		TOW
Queensland 		SMP
New South Wales 		SAN
Victoria (state) 		NEW
New South Wales 		Pen. Points[26]
1 Australia Todd Hazelwood 35 2 2 1 2 2 1 3 5 5 7 4 1 1 7 9 2 8 3 7 1 1 0 1808
2 Australia Paul Dumbrell 88 1 1 2 1 1 4 2 6 2 4 3 2 15 1 1 4 5 1 3 8 13 0 1713
3 Australia Jack Le Brocq 28 3 3 3 4 3 2 1 2 1 1 19 5 13 4 6 6 Ret 2 1 4 Ret 35 1481
4 Australia Anton de Pasquale 67 Ret 13 9 6 8 20 10 4 4 2 1 6 2 2 2 1 4 4 16 Ret 5 0 1322
5 Australia Shae Davies 26 5 Ret 12 5 4 3 14 3 3 3 2 9 7 9 7 18 Ret 8 17 3 11 15 1216
6 Australia Garry Jacobson 1 11 7 7 10 17 7 5 1 Ret 8 5 4 Ret 5 3 5 3 18 20 2 17 0 1166
7 Australia Macauley Jones 14 4 4 4 12 Ret DNS DNS 9 8 10 9 7 12 6 5 8 2 9 19 17 2 0 1154
8 Australia Kurt Kostecki 55 17 10 Ret 9 7 9 15 Ret 11 9 7 11 4 10 14 10 16 7 4 15 6 0 1083
9 Australia Will Brown 38 10 6 6 3 5 8 20 7 6 6 6 10 Ret 12 13 9 6 5 11 6 Ret 0 1078
10 Australia Richard Muscat 44 6 Ret Ret 20 10 6 12 8 7 5 8 3 17 11 8 7 20 6 Ret 11 4 0 1038
11 Australia Bryce Fullwood 16 8 12 8 17 Ret DNS DNS 18 10 21 15 15 3 13 10 13 7 21 2 5 3 35 1035
12 Australia Andrew Jones 8 7 5 5 11 14 10 6 17 14 13 12 Ret Ret 8 15 12 12 10 12 10 9 0 946
13 Australia Nathan Morcom 54 16 11 13 13 9 11 7 11 12 14 16 16 Ret 17 22 15 18 20 9 9 8 0 876
14 Australia Jack Perkins 4 9 8 17 7 6 5 4 Ret 17 Ret 13 8 5 DNS DNS DNS DNS Ret 5 Ret 18 0 789
15 Australia Brodie Kostecki 57 DNS 16 Ret 16 13 13 8 19 15 12 11 14 Ret 16 11 19 14 16 13 7 7 0 781
16 Australia Matt Chahda 18 12 17 15 18 12 18 18 20 18 19 17 17 11 21 Ret DNS 15 11 15 12 14 35 735
17 Australia Mason Barbera 99 13 9 11 Ret Ret 15 13 14 16 18 18 21 8 Ret 18 16 10 17 10 Ret 15 35 706
18 Australia Adam Marjoram 15 18 Ret DNS Ret 11 16 11 Ret 19 16 14 12 6 20 20 17 11 12 21 13 Ret 0 675
19 Australia Josh Kean 5 20 18 Ret 8 Ret 12 19 10 21 15 10 Ret Ret 14 19 Ret 9 15 6 14 Ret 0 623
20 Australia Matt Palmer 48 19 19 18 19 15 17 17 15 Ret 22 21 22 10 Ret 21 20 19 Ret 14 18 16 0 607
21 Australia Jack Smith 21 15 Ret 16 15 Ret DNS DNS 12 13 17 22 19 14 15 12 14 13 19 18 Ret 12 0 605
22 Australia Jake Kostecki 56 Ret 14 10 14 Ret 14 9 13 9 11 23 13 Ret 18 16 11 21 14 Ret 0 564
23 Australia Renee Gracie 98 14 15 14 Ret 16 19 16 16 20 20 20 18 9 19 17 21 17 0 534
24 Australia Jordan Boys 98 13 8 16 7 0 309
25 New Zealand Richie Stanaway 6 3 4 3 1 0 263
26 Australia Gerard McLeod 50 20 16 0 102
Pos. Driver No. ADE
South Australia 		SYM
Tasmania 		PHI
Victoria (state) 		TOW
Queensland 		SMP
New South Wales 		SAN
Victoria (state) 		NEW
New South Wales 		Pen. Points

See also

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