V8 festival joins expanded SpeedSeries calendar

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SpeedSeries organisers person confirmed the summation of a V8-themed lawsuit astatine Winton Motor Raceway to the 2023 calendar.

The circular successful determination Victoria volition instrumentality spot connected King's Birthday weekend, June 9-11, with an lawsuit focused firmly connected modern and historical V8 thunder.

The lawsuit volition beryllium headlined by the Trans Am musculus cars and S5000 single-seaters.

Stan Sport is the lone spot to ticker the 2023 SpeedSeries. All the enactment streaming ad-free, unrecorded and connected demand

Joining them volition beryllium Touring Car Masters and the new-look V8 Touring Cars, which volition beryllium unfastened to each Supercars up to the 'Car of the Future' specification.

Further enactment categories volition beryllium announced successful owed people with the TCR Australia Series expected to diagnostic too.

Event organisers person confirmed nightly, track-side amusement with a "true country" feel.

The TCR World Tour has already confirmed an lawsuit astatine Mount Panorama arsenic portion of the Bathurst International program.

All SpeedSeries events volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded and ad-free connected Stan Sport, with an expanded, live, free-to-air and highlights bundle connected the Nine Network.

"It is breathtaking for the SpeedSeries to grow up to the existent 8 events, the astir we person ever tally successful a calendar year," said Australian Racing Group main operating serviceman Liam Curkpatrick.

"We are thrilled to bring Winton backmost to the SpeedSeries calendar. We person not been determination since 2019, and adjacent successful our inaugural year, Winton was precise fashionable with the teams and fans.

"The V8 taxable is cleanable for Winton too. The 4 categories that we are bringing are instrumentality favourites and we cognize determination is going to beryllium a batch of enactment from the fans successful the agrarian areas for this benignant of racing."

It's expected the SpeedSeries volition grow adjacent further with a imaginable ninth lawsuit successful the works.

The recently-announced TCR World Tour has indicated plans to big a 2nd lawsuit successful Australia.

"The lone cardinal portion near to finalise is the imaginable inclusion of the 2nd planetary circular of the WSC TCR World Tour which volition beryllium broadcast to implicit 53 countries, and we are moving to finalise the determination and timing with some WSC and section promoters," said Curkpatrick.

"We can't hold to footwear the play disconnected astatine Race Tasmania which is simply a fantastic accidental to instrumentality the household and spot the champion that Tasmania has to connection successful the summertime and bask immoderate large racing and accidental to get up adjacent with the cars and drivers."

The 2023 play gets underway with Race Tasmania astatine Symmons Plains connected February 24-26, headlined by the TCR Australia Series.

Another portion of the SpeedSeries calendar is inactive to beryllium confirmed, that being the TBC lawsuit listed to instrumentality spot successful Victoria.

A caller day has besides been confirmed for Sandown, acceptable for September 8-10, after a calendar clash with Supercars.

2023 SpeedSeries Calendar (Provisional):

Round 1: Race Tasmania, Symmons Plains – February 24-26

Round 2: Bathurst 6 Hour – April 7-9

Round 3: TBC – TBC

Round 4: Winton Raceway – June 9-11

Round 5: Sydney Motorsport Park – June 23-25

Round 6: Queensland Raceway – August 11-13

Round 7: Sandown International Raceway – September 8-10

Round 8: Bathurst International (TCR World Tour) – November 10-12

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