BETR DARWIN TRIPLE CROWN EVENT PREVIEW

The Repco Supercars Championship heads north for the Betr Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway, the fifth round of the 2023 season.

The championship battle is shaping up between Erebus Motorsport and Triple Eight Race Engineering, with the Chevrolet Camaro having the edge on the Ford Mustang with 11 wins from 12 races between the two leading Chevrolet teams.

Erebus Motorsport’s Brodie Kostecki leads the championship by 87 points from teammate Will Brown, with Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert holding on in third place from Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney.

The Betr Darwin Triple Crown features three 100km races with a compulsory stop for a minimum of two tyres, with the three-part knockout qualifying format setting the grid for the opening race on Saturday followed by two single sessions for Sunday’s two races.

The event will be run exclusively on Dunlop’s super soft, the same as the previous round at Symmons Plains Raceway in Tasmania.

Hidden Valley Raceway first hosted the Australian Touring Car Championship/Supercars in 1998, featuring a 1.1kmlong front straight with a tight and technical set of corners across the rest of the lap.

The Betr Darwin Triple Crown is Supercars’ Indigenous round, with each entry featuring a special Indigenousthemed livery for the event.