The 2018 Super2 Series (known for commercial reasons as the 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series) was an Australian motor racing competition for

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, staged as a support series to the

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. It was the nineteenth running of the

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, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing. The series was won by

Chris Pither Chris Pither (born 3 December 1986) is a New Zealand professional racing driver, currently competing in the Supercars Championship driving the No. 22 Holden ZB Commodore for PremiAir Racing. Pither has won eight national championships inclu ...

, driving in a

Garry Rogers Motorsport Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team. It is owned by retired racing driver Garry Rogers who began the team to further his own racing efforts. Based in Melbourne, originally out of a Nissan dealership owned by Rogers, the te ...

prepared

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Teams and drivers

Holden Commodore VF of Paul Dumbrell (Adelaide, 2018)

Holden Commodore VF of Macauley Jones (Adelaide, 2018)

The following teams and drivers competed in the series.

Team changes

Eggleston Motorsport Eggleston Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team which is currently competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series, Dunlop Super3 Series and the Australian GT Championship. The team's current Super2 drivers are Matt McLean and Jack Sipp, with J ...

expanded to a four-car team after purchasing an extra

built by

Triple Eight Race Engineering Triple Eight Race Engineering, (branded as Red Bull Ampol Racing) is an Australian motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. The team has been the only Brisbane based V8 Supercar team since its formation, originally operating ...

. *

Grove Racing Grove Racing is an Australian motor racing team that's previously competed in various series, including the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship and Super2 Series. The team is making its debut in the Supercars Championship in 2022. They wil ...

made their series début after purchasing an ex-Triple Eight VF Commodore. *

Kostecki Brothers Racing Kostecki Brothers Racing is an Australian motor racing team which is currently competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series. The team enters a Holden VF Commodore for Kurt Kostecki. The team was formed in 2015 to run a car in the Kumho Tyre Series fo ...

expanded their operations to become a three-car team.

Driver changes

Entering/rejoining series

Dean Fiore Dean Fiore (born 1 December 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver. Fiore competed in the 2022 Bathurst 1000 for Brad Jones Racing as a co-driver alongside Bryce Fullwood in the No. 14 Holden Commodore (ZB). Racing career Fiore is o ...

returned to full-time competition with

MW Motorsport MW Motorsport (formerly known as Matthew White Racing) is a motor-racing team that is competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series. The team currently races with Nissan Altimas, with Thomas Maxwell, Angelo Mouzouris, Tyler Everingham and Declan Frase ...

in preparation for the 2018

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. *

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regular Zane Goddard made his Super2 début, replacing Andrew Jones at

Brad Jones Racing Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team owned by Brad Jones based in Albury. The team competes in the Supercars Championship and the Super2 Series. Recently they have also returned to Australian Formula Ford where Brad and Kim be ...

. * Tyler Greenbury, who finished runner-up in the third-tier

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in 2017, was promoted to the Super2 Series in 2018. Greenbury raced for

Matt Stone Racing Matt Stone Racing is an Australian racing team competing in the Supercars Championship with two Holden ZB Commodores. Jack Le Brocq drives the No. 34 car, while Todd Hazelwood drives the No. 35 car. They are also competing in the second-tier Du ...

. *

Brenton Grove Brenton Grove (born 9 April 1997 in Melbourne) is a racing driver from Australia. He currently competes in the 2021 GT World Challenge Australia for Grove Racing. During the 2019 season Brenton and his father Stephen represented Australia in ...

made his series début with

after contesting the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge and Carrera Cup Australia in 2017. *

returned to the series on a full-time basis with

. *

Thomas Randle Thomas Randle (born 7 April 1996) is an Australian racing driver. He currently races in the Supercars Championship for Tickford Racing in the No. 55 Ford Mustang GT. Randle has also won the 2014 Australian Formula Ford Series, 2017 Toyota Racing ...

returned to Australia after two years competing in Europe. Randle replaced

Josh Kean Josh Kean (born 3 July 1993 in Adelaide, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of ...

Tickford Racing Tickford Racing (formerly known as Prodrive Racing Australia and Ford Performance Racing) is an Australian motor racing team which competes in the Supercars Championship. The team currently campaigns three Ford Mustangs, with their current drive ...

. *

Alex Rullo Alexander Rullo (born 15 June 2000) is an Australian racing car driver. He currently drives in the TCR Australia Series for Kelly Racing. He is also co-driving with Simona de Silvestro in the No. 78 Nissan Altima in the Pirtek Enduro Cup. ...

returned to the series with

after entering in the

series in 2017. * Reigning

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champion

Dominic Storey Dominic Storey (born 15 October 1989) is a racing driver from New Zealand. He currently drives the No. 63 Holden VF Commodore for Eggleston Motorsport in the Dunlop Super2 Series. Career Formula BMW After a karting career in his native New Ze ...

made his Super2 début with

Changing teams

Shae Davies Shae Davies (born 8 March 1990) is an Australian professional racing driver. A Super2 Series veteran, Davies briefly drove for Erebus Motorsport during the 2016 V8 Supercars season. He currently competes in the S5000 Australian Drivers' Champ ...

moved from

Paul Morris Motorsport Paul Morris Motorsport, also known as its business name of Nemo Racing, is an Australian motor racing team that competed in V8 Supercars between 2000 and 2012. The team also won the 1997 AMP Bathurst 1000 and four Australian Super Touring Cha ...

where he replaced Anton de Pasquale. *

Bryce Fullwood Bryce Fullwood (born 11 May 1998 in Darwin, Australia) is an Australian racing driver currently racing in the Repco Supercars Championship with Brad Jones Racing in the No. 14 Holden ZB Commodore. In 2019, Fullwood won the Dunlop Super2 Seri ...

moved from

. * 2016 series champion

Garry Jacobson Garry Jacobson (born 28 February 1992 in Shepparton, Australia) is an Australian motor racing driver. He previously competed in the Supercars Championship, driving the No. 76 Holden ZB Commodore for PremiAir Racing. Jacobson won the 2016 Superc ...

moved from Tickford Racing to MW Motorsport. *

Brodie Kostecki Brodie "Bush" Kostecki (born 1 November 1997) is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently competes in the Repco Supercars Championship, driving the No. 99 Holden ZB Commodore for Erebus Motorsport. He is the cousin of racing dri ...

left

to join his cousins Kurt and

Jake Kostecki Jake Kostecki (born 24 January 2000) is a former Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Repco Supercars Championship. Biography Junior Series Kostecki began his career in karts at the age of 8, in the 2008 Western Australia ...

at Kostecki Brothers Racing. * Adam Marjoram moved from

to Image Racing, replacing Jack Perkins.

Leaving series

Anton de Pasquale Anton De Pasquale (born 14 September 1995) is an Australian motor racing driver. He currently drives the No. 11 Ford Mustang (sixth generation), Ford Mustang GT for Dick Johnson Racing in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship ...

Todd Hazelwood Todd Matthew Hazelwood (born 25 September 1995) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the #3 CoolDrive Racing Ford Mustang for Melbourne-based team, Blanchard Racing Team ...

and

Jack Le Brocq Jack Le Brocq (born 7 July 1992) is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently competes in the Repco Supercars Championship, and drives the No. 34 Holden Commodore ZB for Matt Stone Racing. So far, Le Brocq's career highlights incl ...

left the series as they graduated to the

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with

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and

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respectively. * Andrew Jones,

and Matthew Palmer left the championship. *

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left the series to prepare for the

Mid-season changes

* Tyler Greenbury left the series after three rounds, citing sponsorship issues. He was replaced with Jaie Robson for Barbagallo.

Calendar

The 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series comprised seven rounds:

Calendar changes

* The

Bathurst 1000 The Bathurst 1000 (formally known as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recen ...

support race returned to being a points-paying series round again after the 2017 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 failed to draw wildcard entries and the accompanying Super2 non-series round saw a downturn in participation from previous years. * The category returned to Barbagallo Raceway for a series round. The round had been removed from the 2017 Super2 Series schedule to allow teams the opportunity to run wildcard entries in the Supercars Championship event, but no entries were received. * The series no longer hosted four-race format rounds.

Rule changes

Sporting regulations

The "wildcard" programme introduced in

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to allows teams from the

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to compete in the Supercars Championship continued in 2018. Entries were open for the Winton, Hidden Valley,

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and

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rounds, while the Barbagallo round was discontinued.

Technical regulations

The Super2 Series no longer allowed "Project Blueprint" cars after fifteen years of use in

and Super2 series. They were replaced by the "New Generation" cars first introduced to Supercars racing in

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, bringing the Super2 Series in line with the technical regulations of its parent series. The Project Blueprint cars were eligible to compete in the

, the third tier of the sport.

Results and standings

Season summary

Points system

Points were awarded in each race as follows.

Series standings

References

External links

*
2018 Operations Manual, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org

2018 Dunlop Super2 Series Points, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org
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Super2 Series The Dunlop Super2 Series (formerly known as Dunlop Series, Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series, HPDC V8 Supercars Series, Konica Minolta V8 Supercars Series and Konica V8 Supercars/Lites Series) is an Australian touring car racing competition, specifical ...