Super2 Series




Australian touring car racing competition















































Super2 Series
Dunlop Super2 Series Logo.svg
Category Touring car racing
Country Australia
Inaugural season 2000
Drivers 28
Teams 12
Constructors 3
Tyre suppliers Dunlop
Drivers' champion
New Zealand Chris Pither
Teams' champion Garry Rogers Motorsport
Official website www.supercars.com

Motorsport current event.svgCurrent season

The Dunlop Super2 Series (formerly known as Dunlop Series) is an Australian touring car racing competition, specifically the second tier series for Supercars competitors. Competing vehicles are older than those utilised in the Supercars Championship series and are usually run by smaller teams with lower budgets. Approximately half the teams are for 'gentleman racers', while some team owners will put a young emerging driver into the car and team they own. The series runs half the number of events that the Supercars Championship runs.




Contents






  • 1 Events


  • 2 Champions


  • 3 Records


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Events


The series was first held in 2000 as the 2000 Konica V8 Lites Series and this inaugural contest was won by Dean Canto. Towards the end of the season Stone Brothers Racing entered a car for David Besnard as preparation for the long distance races, in the main V8 Supercar series, the Queensland 500 and the Bathurst 1000, which unlike the other races require two drivers for each competing vehicle. Since then main series teams have used the series to help get their endurance co-drivers up-to-speed, or have employed drivers competing for other Fujitsu Series teams. While originally Fujitsu Series teams were allowed to enter main series events, this has since been discontinued as all main series events are limited to those teams carrying valid franchise slots for the main series, although in limited circumstances Fujitsu series teams have been able to lease entries from main series teams.


The 2007 champion, Tony D'Alberto, drove for the Tony D'Alberto Racing team, and like many of his predecessors, graduated to the V8 Supercar series in 2008, again with the family team.


For the 2009 series onward there will be no stand alone Fujitsu Series events, instead the whole series will be a support series for the top tier V8 Supercar Championship Series.


This series carries the colloquial title of 'Development Series' which was the name given to the series by V8 Supercar Australia between the 2004 and 2005 seasons. The colloquial title is referred to in many conversations, even though there has never been a Development Series race because a naming rights sponsor was found before the start of the 2005 season.




Champions




The Holden VZ Commodore of Marcus Zukanovic at the Adelaide Parklands Circuit for the opening round of the 2010 Dunlop Super2 Series.




The Ford BF Falcon of John McIntyre at the Adelaide Parklands Circuit for the opening round of the 2010 Dunlop Super2 Series.















































































































































Season
Series Name
Series Winner
Car
Team
2000

Konica V8 Lites Series

Australia Dean Canto

Ford EL Falcon
Dean Canto Racing
2001

Konica V8 Supercar Series

New Zealand Simon Wills

Holden VT Commodore

Team Dynamik
2002

Konica V8 Supercar Series

Australia Paul Dumbrell

Holden VX Commodore
Independent Race Cars Australia
2003

Konica V8 Supercar Series

Australia Mark Winterbottom

Ford AU Falcon

Stone Brothers Racing
2004

Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series

Australia Andrew Jones

Ford AU Falcon

Brad Jones Racing
2005

HPDC V8 Supercar Series

Australia Dean Canto

Ford BA Falcon

Dick Johnson Racing
2006

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Adam Macrow

Ford BA Falcon
Howard Racing
2007

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Tony D'Alberto

Holden VZ Commodore

Tony D'Alberto Racing
2008

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Steve Owen

Holden VZ Commodore
Scott Loadsman Racing
2009

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Jonathon Webb

Ford BF Falcon

MW Motorsport
2010

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Steve Owen

Holden VE Commodore

Greg Murphy Racing
2011

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

Australia Andrew Thompson

Holden VE Commodore

Triple Eight Race Engineering
2012

Dunlop V8 Supercar Series

New Zealand Scott McLaughlin

Ford FG Falcon

Stone Brothers Racing
Matt Stone Racing
2013

Dunlop V8 Supercar Series

Australia Dale Wood

Ford FG Falcon

MW Motorsport
2014

Dunlop V8 Supercar Series

Australia Paul Dumbrell

Holden VE Commodore

Eggleston Motorsport
2015

V8 Supercars Dunlop Series

Australia Cameron Waters

Ford FG Falcon

Prodrive Racing Australia
2016

Supercars Dunlop Series

Australia Garry Jacobson

Ford FG X Falcon

Prodrive Racing Australia
2017

Dunlop Super2 Series

Australia Todd Hazelwood

Holden VF Commodore

Matt Stone Racing
2018

Dunlop Super2 Series

New Zealand Chris Pither

Holden VF Commodore

Garry Rogers Motorsport



Records









































































































Driver championships

Driver starts

Driver round wins

Driver race wins

Team round wins
Pos.
Driver
Titles
Pos.
Driver
Starts
Pos.
Driver
Wins
Pos.
Driver
Wins
Pos.
Team
Wins
1

Dean Canto
2
1

Aaron McGill
68
1

Steve Owen
10
1

Dean Canto
21
1

Tickford Racing
13

Steve Owen
2
2

Geoff Emery
55
2

Dean Canto
9

Paul Dumbrell
21

MW Motorsport
13

Paul Dumbrell
2
3

Marcus Zukanovic
53
3

Andrew Thompson
8
3

Steve Owen
20

Eggleston Motorsport
13
4
12 drivers with single championships
4

Mark Howard
39

Paul Dumbrell
8
4

Andrew Thompson
16
4

Howard Racing
11

Drew Russell
39
5

Adam Macrow
7
5

Owen Kelly
13
5

Dick Johnson Racing
9

Note: bold text indicates active drivers and teams.


References





External links


  • Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series website








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