Supercars round 1 at Sydney Motorsports Park portends an awesome season

Supercars resolutely remains my overall favorite racing series on Earth. Despite Ford and Chevrolet changing homologation teams and a whole new Toyota Supra making its racing debut, every single outfit looked ready to fight. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Triple Eight hit the ground running as the new Ford HT — or that Broc Feeney won them two of the three races — but what is surprising is that their new customer, Blanchard Racing Team, leapt from last in 2025 to the front of the field. James Golding poled it for the first race, and they would have won 1-2 if Feeney and Triple Eight hadn’t beat them out of the pits.

For Chevrolet’s part, some saw tapping Team 18 as the new HT as a big risk, even though Anton De Pasquale was consistently in the mix last year. Well, he won race 2, so that seems like it’s working out fine.

The Toyota debut wasn’t perfect — they had one engine go pop — but by the last race, all five Supras had finished in the top 10. Not a bad start.

There were some track surface problems that sort of screwed over the support categories, and several main game drivers got severely overheated in the last race, but nevertheless, Supercars reports record attendance, and it was a great all-around event.