Supercars will return to Tailem Bend in 2025

The Bend Motorsport Park will join the short list of circuits to host a Supercars enduro event next year.

Supercars will return to Tailem Bend in 2025
Supercars racing will be back at Tailem Bend in 2025. Photo: Supercars.

Tailem Bend will once again get a Supercars race in 2025.

Series organisers confirmed on Friday that the Bend Motorsport Park would host an event next September 12-14.

In a departure from previous years, the race will take a 500-kilometre endurance format instead of being two shorter sprint races.

That will elevate the Bend to rare status among Australian racetracks, as only five others have ever hosted a Supercars endurance round: Queensland Raceway, Sandown Raceway, Phillip Island, the Gold Coast street circuit and, of course, Bathurst’s Mount Panorama.

Supercars CEO Shane Howard said he was thrilled about the Bend making its enduro debut.

The series’ organisers have had an on-again, off-again relationship with the Bend Motorsport Park since its completion in 2018.

The venue hosted a race every year between then and 2023, but not without a few dramas.

It was provisionally left off the Supercars calendar twice: once in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the series to be paused and restarted; and again two years later, when one race venue was listed as “TBD”.

But it wound up hosting events both times, thanks to more COVID-related shenanigans and the rescheduling of a planned pedal prix race in 2022.

Tailem Bend was omitted from last year's calendar as well, but series organisers promised at the time that it would return in 2025.

The 2025 Supercars season will begin in Sydney in February and end in Adelaide in November.

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