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The Ipswich SuperSprint was an annual
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event for
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, held at
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near
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. The event was a regular part of the Supercars Championship—and its previous incarnations, the
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and V8 Supercars Championship—from
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.


Format

The event was staged over a three-day weekend, from Friday to Sunday. Four thirty-minute practice sessions were held, two on Friday and one each on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday featured a three-stage knockout qualifying session which decided the grid positions for the following 120 kilometre sprint race. Sunday featured a repeat of the Saturday qualifying format with a longer 200 km race distance following.


History

Queensland Raceway opened in 1999 and immediately joined the championship calendar, taking over from
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as the home of the series in
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. In 1999 and 2000 the event hosted both a sprint round and the
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endurance event, the first circuit to host multiple rounds in one year since Lakeside held two rounds in
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. In the inaugural sprint event,
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scored his first career round win despite not winning a race during the weekend. He was originally declared the winner of the third race when John Bowe was disqualified for passing under a yellow flag, but Bowe was later reinstated in the results. The sprint event was dropped for 2001 with only the endurance event remaining on the calendar. The 500-kilometre Supercars endurance race returned to Sandown Raceway in 2003 and Queensland Raceway returned to hosting a sprint round of the championship. In the aftermath of the 2004 event, round winner Marcos Ambrose was disqualified due to the discovery of an additional wire in the ECU wiring loom. The points were later reinstated on appeal. Jason Richards had a major accident during the 2005 event, after a touch from Paul Morris sent Richards' car over a kerb and into a series of rollovers.
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dominated the event in 2006 and 2007, winning five of the six races across the two years, before Mark Winterbottom won consecutive events in 2008, at which James Courtney won his first championship race, and 2009.
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won five consecutive races at the event across 2011 and 2012, while
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won his first championship race during the 2013 event. Lowndes went on to win the event again in 2014 and 2016 to leave him with a record seven event wins at the circuit, six sprint rounds and the 2000 Queensland 500. Queensland Raceway was not included on the calendar for the
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, the first year the circuit was not included, as either a sprint or endurance event, since it was opened in 1999. The circuit was later considered for a substitute place on both the 2020 and 2021 calendars due to the disruption caused by the
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, however in both years the plan did not come to fruition.


Winners

;Notes: * – In 1999 and 2000, Queensland Raceway also hosted a second championship round, the
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.


Multiple winners


By driver


By team


By manufacturer

;Notes * – Prodrive Racing Australia was known as Ford Performance Racing from 2003 to 2014, hence their statistics are combined. * – DJR Team Penske was known as Dick Johnson Racing from 1980 to 2014, hence their statistics are combined.


Event names and sponsors

* 1999–2000, 2004: Queensland Raceway * 2003: BigPond 300 * 2005, 2007: Queensland 300 * 2006: BigPond 400 * 2008: City of Ipswich 400 * 2009: Queensland House and Land.com 300 * 2010: City of Ipswich 300 * 2011–12:
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Ipswich 300 * 2013: Coates Hire Ipswich 360 * 2014: Coates Hire Ipswich 400 * 2015: Coates Hire Ipswich Super Sprint * 2016–18: Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint * 2019: Century Batteries Ipswich SuperSprint


See also

*
Queensland 500 The Queensland 500 was a motorsport endurance race held at Queensland Raceway near Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was best known as a V8 Supercars race held from 1999 to 2002. It was also very famous for The Ford AU Falcon taking two of i ...
*
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References

{{reflist Motorsport in Queensland Sport in Ipswich, Queensland