2019 Adelaide 500

The 2019 Adelaide 500 (known for commercial reasons as the 2019 Superloop Adelaide 500) is a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship held on Thursday 28 February through to Sunday 3 March 2019. The event was held at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide, South Australia, and marked the twenty-first running of the Adelaide 500. It wasl the first event of fifteen in the 2019 Supercars Championship and consisted of two races of 250 kilometres.^[1] The race was supported by the opening round of the 2019 Super2 Series, a championship for older models of Supercars.^[2]

2019 Adelaide 500

Event Information
Round 1 of 15 in the 2019 Supercars Championship
Layout of the Adelaide Street Circuit
Date	1–3 March 2019
Location	Adelaide, South Australia
Venue	Adelaide Street Circuit
Weather	Fine
Results
Race 1 Distance 78 laps 251.736 km Pole position Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske 1:19.8918 Winner Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske 1:48:02.4642
Race 2 Distance 71 laps 228.549 km Pole position Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske 1:19.6626 Winner Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske 1:39:52.5906

The race saw the competitive début of the Ford Mustang GT, which replaced the FG X Falcon.^[3][4] The Adelaide 500 was the first time that a Mustang had competed in a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship since 1990.^[5]

McLaughlin's win in Race One was the first time that the Ford Mustang had won a race in the Australian Touring Car Championship since Allan Moffat won the final round of the 1972 season at Oran Park Raceway 46 years earlier - in that instance won in a Boss 302 Mk.1 edition.

Results

Race 1

Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time / Retired	Grid	Points
1	17	Scott McLaughlin	DJR Team Penske	Ford Mustang GT	78	1:48:02.4642	3	150
2	88	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+12.9651	2	138
3	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+13.9536	5	129
4	23	Will Davison	23Red Racing	Ford Mustang GT	78	+14.9425	7	120
5	55	Chaz Mostert	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	78	+17.5715	12	111
6	12	Fabian Coulthard	DJR Team Penske	Ford Mustang GT	78	+22.2900	1	102
7	8	Nick Percat	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+33.2791	8	96
8	9	David Reynolds	Erebus Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+33.7720	6	90
9	18	Mark Winterbottom	Team 18	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+49.3665	16	84
10	22	James Courtney	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+55.9699	9	78
11	15	Rick Kelly	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	78	+1:03.3401	10	72
12	35	Todd Hazelwood	Matt Stone Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+1:04.3076	20	69
13	7	Andre Heimgartner	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	78	+1:05.8463	13	66
14	34	James Golding	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+1:08.6808	18	63
15	78	Simona de Silvestro	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	78	+1:10.5826	21	60
16	99	Anton de Pasquale	Erebus Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	78	+1:20.1106	23	57
17	14	Tim Slade	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	77	+1 lap	11	54
18	33	Richie Stanaway	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	77	+1 lap	17	51
19	3	Garry Jacobson	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	77	+1 lap	19	48
20	19	Jack Le Brocq	Tekno Autosports	Holden Commodore ZB	77	+1 lap	22	45
21	5	Lee Holdsworth	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	72	+6 laps	14	42
22	6	Cam Waters	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	64	+14 laps	4	39
NC	2	Scott Pye	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Holden Commodore ZB	25	Accident damage	15
DNS	21	Macauley Jones	Tim Blanchard Racing	Holden Commodore ZB		Practice accident
Source:[6][7]

Race 2

Race

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time / Retired	Grid	Points
1	17	Scott McLaughlin	DJR Team Penske	Ford Mustang GT	71	1:39:52.5906	1	150
2	6	Cam Waters	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	71	+2.3854	4	138
3	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+2.9399	2	129
4	14	Tim Slade	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+18.3979	11	120
5	8	Nick Percat	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+18.9551	6	111
6	18	Mark Winterbottom	Team 18	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+24.9389	24	102
7	88	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+25.4198	12	96
8	23	Will Davison	23Red Racing	Ford Mustang GT	71	+27.5699	5	90
9	9	David Reynolds	Erebus Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+31.5020	3	84
10	35	Todd Hazelwood	Matt Stone Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+32.0484	7	78
11	5	Lee Holdsworth	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	71	+32.4748	14	72
12	22	James Courtney	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+37.2973	15	69
13	7	Andre Heimgartner	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	71	+39.5892	17	66
14	99	Anton de Pasquale	Erebus Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+41.2157	8	63
15	55	Chaz Mostert	Tickford Racing	Ford Mustang GT	71	+46.4307	9	60
16	78	Simona de Silvestro	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	71	+47.3152	19	57
17	2	Scott Pye	Walkinshaw Andretti United	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+51.0877	13	54
18	33	Richie Stanaway	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+52.0555	18	51
19	34	James Golding	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Holden Commodore ZB	71	+58.5711	21	48
20	12	Fabian Coulthard	DJR Team Penske	Ford Mustang GT	71	+1:02.8636	10	45
21	19	Jack Le Brocq	Tekno Autosports	Holden Commodore ZB	68	+3 laps	22	42
22	3	Garry Jacobson	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	67	+4 laps	23	39
23	21	Macauley Jones	Tim Blanchard Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	57	+14 laps	20	36
24	15	Rick Kelly	Kelly Racing	Nissan Altima L33	55	+16 laps	16	33
Source:[8][9]

• 
  Cam Waters placed second in Race 2 driving a Ford Mustang GT for Tickford Racing
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  Lee Holdsworth placed eleventh in Race 2 driving a Ford Mustang GT for Tickford Racing
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  Chaz Mostert placed 15th in Race 2 driving a Ford Mustang GT for Tickford Racing
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  Simona de Silvestro placed 16th in Race 2 driving a Nissan Altima L33
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  Fabian Coulthard placed 20th in Race 2 driving a Ford Mustang GT