2001 Australian Touring Car Season
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The 2001 V8 Supercar season was the 42nd year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500. There were 22 touring car race meetings held during 2001; a thirteen-round series for V8 Supercars, the
2001 Shell Championship Series The 2001 Shell Championship Series was an auto racing series for V8 Supercars. The championship, which was the third Shell Championship Series, began on 25 March 2001 at Phillip Island and ended on 2 December at Sandown after 13 rounds. The same ...
(SCS), two of them endurance races; a six-round second tier V8 Supercar series
2001 Konica V8 Supercar Series The 2001 Konica V8 Supercar Series was an Australian motor racing competition for V8 Supercars. It was the second running of the second tier series for V8 Supercars. The series was contested over six rounds held across four different states, co ...
(KVS) along with a non-point scoring race supporting the Bathurst 1000 and V8 Supercar support programme events at the
2001 Australian Grand Prix 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...
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2001 Honda Indy 300 The 2001 Honda Indy 300 was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on 28 October 2001, at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, before 110,187 people. It was the 20th and penultimate round of the ...
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Results and standings


Race calendar

The 2001 Australian touring car season consisted of 22 events.


Konica V8 Supercar Series


Hot Wheels V8 Supercar Showdown

This meeting was a support event of the
2001 Australian Grand Prix 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...
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Shell Championship Series


Konica V8Supercar Challenge Race

This race was a support event of the
2001 V8 Supercar 1000 The 2001 V8 Supercar 1000 was the fifth running of the Australia 1000 race, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It was the 44th race that traces its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 hel ...
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Cabcharge V8Supercar Challenge

This meeting was a support event of the
2001 Honda Indy 300 The 2001 Honda Indy 300 was a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) motor race held on 28 October 2001, at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, before 110,187 people. It was the 20th and penultimate round of the ...
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References

Additional references can be found in linked event/series reports.


External links


Official V8 Supercar site

2001 Racing Results Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:2001 V8 Supercar Season Supercar seasons