Supercars: Matt Payne told fox sports news he is eager to repeat what happened last year as he looks to finish the Supercars season on a high.
This weekend’s Adelaide 500 is the end of the Supercars as we know it — if you believe the doomsayers.
The 2025 schedule will feature 13 rounds thanks to Ipswich’s reintroduction in the eight-round Sprint Cup season.The Sandown 500 will remain on the calendar as the middle event of a three-round ‘finals’ series, albeit now running to a regular two-race format. Both have poor rounds behind dominant winner Broc Feeney in Darwin, but Mostert and Waters split the last three rounds of the sprint season between then 2-3 to earn themselves a place in the top 10.The intrigue of the Enduro Cup now becomes twofold. The top three drivers have a big enough points buffer to ensure a spot in the finals. Cam Waters and Matt Payne are also just about safe. For them this part of the season is all about winning, in particular the Bathurst 1000.
He already has automatic entry to the finals by winning the Sprint Cup, meaning the same advantage for winning the Enduro Cup goes unused. Brown therefore starts the finals with a handy but hardly insurmountable 80-point lead. The total spread is 179 points. Sunday changes all that, however, with a first-lap crash ending De Pasquale’s race and title hopes on the spot. Percat and Davison are also caught up in the carnage, the former picking up damage and the latter being held up. Neither can score heavily, and both are eliminated. Golding sneaks into the seven.The points are reset, this time without the Sprint Cup and Enduro Cup bonuses. Brown takes just a 30-point advantage into the penultimate round.
Under the format, however, a slow start is forgiven if the driver-team combination can come good late. That will change the rhythm of the season, with early results simply less important.Based on this single experiment, it’s also hard to argue that the finals system completely randomises the outcome in the way critics have probably feared.
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