2020 Super2 Series
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The 2020 Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, which was staged as a support series to the 2020 Supercars Championship. It was the twenty-first running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.
Team changes
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2020 championship:
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- Brema Group Racing made its début in the series, acquiring an ex-Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport VF Commodore.[6]
- Anderson Motorsport made their début in the series, acquiring an ex-Walkinshaw Andretti United VF Commodore.[4]
- Eggleston Motorsport scaled back their commitment to the series from three cars to two.[9]
- Triple Eight Race Engineering scaled back its commitment to the series from two cars to one.[5]
- Kostecki Brothers Racing returned to the series after withdrawing from final three rounds in 2019.[12]
- Matt Chahda Motorsport expanded its operations to enter a second car at the Bathurst round.[3]
- Garry Rogers Motorsport withdrew from the series after withdrawing from the Supercars Championship, while Matt Stone Racing withdrew from the series to focus on the Supercars Championship.[18][19]
Driver changes
- Will Brown moved from Eggleston Motorsport to Image Racing. The team is supported by Erebus Motorsport and Brown is expected to be promoted to Erebus' Supercars Championship in 2021.[11]
- Thomas Randle moved from Tickford Racing to MW Motorsport.[13]
- Tyler Everingham moved from MW Motorsport to Anderson Motorsport.[4] He missed the first round due to an incident in the Bathurst 12 Hour.
- Kurt Kostecki returned to Kostecki Brothers Racing after spending a single year with Triple Eight Race Engineering.[12]
- Brodie Kostecki returned to the series with Eggleston Motorsport, after withdrawing from the last four rounds in 2019.[8]
- 2019 Super 3 Series winner Broc Feeney graduated to the series with Tickford Racing.[1]
- Super3 Series drivers Zak Best & Jayden Ojeda Graduated to the series with MW Motorsport.[15]
- Josh Fife graduated to the series with Brad Jones Racing.[7]
- Reigning Australian Formula Ford champion Angelo Mouzouris joined the series with Triple Eight Race Engineering.[5]
- Toyota 86 Series driver Zane Morse joined the series with Brema Group Racing.[6]
- Matt McLean made his series debut at Bathurst with Matt Chahda Motorsport
- Bryce Fullwood Graduated to the Supercars Championship with Walkinshaw Andretti United[20]
- Jack Smith graduated to the Supercars Championship with Brad Jones Racing[21]
- Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard graduated to the Supercars Championship, sharing the Matt Stone Racing Superlite entry.[18]
- Brenton Grove and Adam Marjoram will not drive in the series in 2020.[22][23]
Calendar
The calendar for the 2020 championship was expected to consist of five rounds, but only three were run as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the running of the championship.
| Round | Event name | Circuit | Location | Date |
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| 1 | Adelaide 500 | Adelaide, South Australia | 21–23 February | |
| 2 | Sydney SuperSprint | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | 18–19 July | |
| 3 | Bathurst 1000 | Bathurst, New South Wales | 16–17 October | |
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Calendar changes
- The original calendar removed the Ipswich, Newcastle and Perth rounds with Sydney Motorsport Park and Symmons Plains reinstated, having last being in the series in 2017 and 2018 respectively.[17][24] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a revised calendar resulted in the Symmons Plains and The Bend Motorsport Park rounds being cancelled.[16]
- The Bathurst 250 km race was split into two races of 125 km. The change was made as the mandatory refuelling in pit stops proved to be problematic in 2019.[25]