The 2022 Supercars Championship (known for commercial reasons as the 2022 Repco Supercars Championship) is a planned motor racing series for Supercars. It is due to be the twenty-sixth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-sixth series in which Supercars have contested the Australian Touring Car Championship, the premier title in Australian motorsport.

The 2022 season is expected to see the introduction of Gen3, a revision to the regulations of the cars, to be designed to cut costs by making more components controlled and a redesigned chassis made to be favourited to coupes.^[1]

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2022 championship.

Manufacturer	Model	Entrant	No.	Driver name	Ref.		Co-Driver name	Ref.
Chevrolet	Camaro ZL1	Triple Eight Race Engineering	TBA	TBA	[2]		TBA
TBA	TBA	Brad Jones Racing	8	Nick Percat	[3]		TBA
		Kelly Grove Racing	7	Andre Heimgartner	[4]		TBA
			26	David Reynolds	[4]		TBA
		Team 18	18	Mark Winterbottom	[5]		Michael Caruso	[6]

List of planned races

The following venue that will host a round in 2022

Round	Event	Circuit	Location	Ref.
1	Newcastle 500	Newcastle Street Circuit	Newcastle, New South Wales	[7]

The following venues are under contract to host a round of the 2022 championship:

Event	Circuit	Location	Ref.
Darwin Triple Crown	Hidden Valley Raceway	Darwin, Northern Territory	[8]
Gold Coast 600	Surfers Paradise Street Circuit	Surfers Paradise, Queensland	[9]
Sandown	Sandown Raceway	Springvale, Victoria	[10]
Sydney SuperNight	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	[11]
Tasmania	Symmons Plains Raceway	Launceston, Tasmania	[12]
Townsville	Reid Park Street Circuit	Townsville, Queensland	[9]

Calendar changes

The Newcastle 500 will return after a two-year absence. The round will replace the Mount Panorama 500 as the season opener.^[7]

Rule changes

Gen3

The Gen3 project is expected to make its debut, replacing Car of the Future and Gen2 that debuted in 2013 and 2017 respectively. It is designed to lower costs of a standard Supercar.^[13]

Gen3 is expected to introduce more controlled components into the cars to address the rising costs of maintaining a car. The pedal kit, brake kit and wheels will become control components, with tenders needing the rims, which will remain at 18” x 11” to be 'finger friendly' for pit crew during a pit stop. The roll cage will be lowered by 100mm to be suited to coupes, after the controversary surrounding the Ford Mustang and the stretched roof which in consequence saw Walkinshaw Andretti United shelving the Chevrolet Camaro project, which Supercars are planning to manufacturer into kit forms for teams that don't have the budget to build one themselves.^{[14][15][16][17]}

The engines on Gen3 are expected to be overhauled, with pushrod engines expected to be replaced with fuel injected, DOHC V8 engines, to modernise and significantly reduce costs of building and maintaining an engine.^[18]

References