V8 Supercars - Championships

Championships

Three separate V8 Supercar series exist. The primary series is the "Level One" championship called the 'International V8 Supercars Championship'. A "Level Two" championship, referred generically as the V8 Supercar Development Series, and presently by the commercial identity of Dunlop V8 Supercar Series, was originally intended for privateers who formerly raced in the Level One series but have been left behind by increasing pace of the professional teams, however, some "Level One" teams run secondary teams in the Dunlop series to "blood" new drivers or as a secondary income stream for drivers without a team of their own. The only way to compete in the "main game" is to purchase a licence from an existing team (TEGA are no longer involved in creating new licences for V8 teams).

A third series for older V8 Supercars, the V8 Touring Car National Series, was held for the first time in 2008. Presently known as the Kumho V8 Touring Car Series this series runs on the programme of the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships, V8 Supercar Australia have no involvement in the running of this series and race cars have to be de-registerred from involvement in the Dunlop Series prior to being run in this series.