The final time Stadium Tremendous Vehicles had been on the streets of Adelaide, COVID-19 had but to develop into a pandemic. 4 years later, the collection is about to go again to Australia when it joins the Adelaide 500 weekend on 14–17 November.
Supporting the Supercars Championship, SST final raced in Australia in 2021 below the Increase Cell Tremendous Vehicles banner. The vehicles fell off the calendar after Supercars got here below new possession, and had been sent back to the United States in 2022.
Regardless of their departure, there remained some interest in Supercars’ management to carry them again as early as 2023. SST additionally entertained dates that 12 months in Adelaide or Surfers Paradise although they in the end needed to wait a 12 months earlier than the previous manifested.
“The VAILO Adelaide 500 is one among my favorite occasions and avenue circuits on the planet and I’d wish to thank all our supporters in Adelaide and Australia for his or her continued assist to see us race down below once more,” mentioned collection head Robby Gordon. “Our groups and drivers will you’ll want to placed on a present for followers of all ages as soon as once more on the streets of Adelaide, and it’ll be a present you don’t need to miss.”
Adelaide was the primary observe to welcome SST to Australia when it served because the season opener in 2015, holding this mantle over the subsequent two years. Australian races resulted in late 2018 amidst a row with what’s now Motorsport Australia earlier than returning on the 2019 Gold Coast 600 after a year-long absence.
“Followers have been looking forward to the Stadium Tremendous Vehicles to return to Australia, and so in 2024 it was our mission to carry them again to their unofficial residence in Australia: the VAILO Adelaide 500,” added race boss Mark Warren. “We’re dedicated to delivering the perfect and most entertaining motorsport line-up throughout all 4 days of the VAILO Adelaide 500, and we will’t wait to see the vehicles flying throughout the Adelaide observe as soon as once more this November.”
SST, in partnership with Increase Cell founder Peter Adderton, created the Increase Cell Tremendous Vehicles in 2020 as a separate Australian championship, although the inaugural season lasted only one spherical in Adelaide earlier than the pandemic struck. Throughout its second and last marketing campaign in 2021, the Australian counterpart joined Supercars at three weekends in Tasmania, Darwin, and Townsville.
“Increase Cell has all the time been an enormous fan and supporter of Stadium Tremendous Vehicles through the years,” commented Adderton, who has backed the vehicles lengthy earlier than stepping up as title sponsor. “Ever since I first noticed what Robby created and the response of the gang, we had been in. It matches the Increase DNA and we’re thrilled to have the Increase Cell Stadium Tremendous Vehicles again in Australia and on the VAILO Adelaide 500 as soon as once more this November.”
The Adelaide 500 is the ultimate spherical of the 2024 Supercars Championship; Gordon, Matt Brabham, and Shae Davies gained over the past SST spherical there in 2020. The 2024 SST season started in April at Lengthy Seaside, the place Max Gordon and Myles Cheek had been victorious.
