The final time Stadium Tremendous Vans have been on the streets of Adelaide, COVID-19 had but to change into a pandemic. 4 years later, the sequence is about to move 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 underneath the Enhance Cellular Tremendous Vans banner. The vehicles fell off the calendar after Supercars got here underneath new possession, and have been despatched again to america in 2022.
Regardless of their departure, there remained some curiosity 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 finally needed to wait a 12 months earlier than the previous manifested.
“The VAILO Adelaide 500 is one in all my favorite occasions and road circuits on the earth and I’d wish to thank all our supporters in Adelaide and Australia for his or her continued help to see us race down underneath once more,” stated sequence 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 wish to miss.”
Adelaide was the primary monitor 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 anticipating the Stadium Tremendous Vans to return to Australia, and so in 2024 it was our mission to carry them again to their unofficial dwelling 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 are able to’t wait to see the vehicles flying throughout the Adelaide monitor as soon as once more this November.”
SST, in partnership with Enhance Cellular founder Peter Adderton, created the Enhance Cellular Tremendous Vans 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 remaining marketing campaign in 2021, the Australian counterpart joined Supercars at three weekends in Tasmania, Darwin, and Townsville.
“Enhance Cellular has all the time been a giant fan and supporter of Stadium Tremendous Vans over time,” 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 group, we have been in. It suits the Enhance DNA and we’re thrilled to have the Enhance Cellular Stadium Tremendous Vans 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 received over the last SST spherical there in 2020. The 2024 SST season started in April at Lengthy Seaside, the place Max Gordon and Myles Cheek have been victorious.
