Perth Super Sprint
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| Race Information | |
| Venue | Barbagallo Raceway |
| Number of times held | 40 |
| First held | 1973 |
| Race Format | |
| Race 1 | |
| Laps | 50 |
| Distance | 120 km |
| Race 2 | |
| Laps | 83 |
| Distance | 200 km |
| Last Event (2017) | |
| Overall Winner | |
 Scott McLaughlin
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DJR Team Penske |
| Race Winners | |
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Scott McLaughlin
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DJR Team Penske |
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Scott McLaughlin
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DJR Team Penske |
The Perth SuperSprint is an annual motor racing event for Supercars, held at Barbagallo Raceway in Wanneroo, Western Australia. The event has been a regular part of the Supercars Championship—and its previous incarnations, the Australian Touring Car Championship, Shell Championship Series and V8 Supercars Championship—since 1973.
The event is staged over a three-day weekend, from Friday to Sunday. Two forty five-minute practice sessions are held on Friday while a further forty five-minute practice session is held on Saturday. Saturday features a fifteen-minute qualifying session which decides the grid positions for the following 120 kilometre race. A single twenty-minute qualifying session is held on Sunday to decide the grid for the following 200 km race.
Barbagallo Raceway first hosted its first round of the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) in 1973, with Allan Moffat taking victory over Peter Brock. It was the first ATCC event ever held in Western Australia and featured the only appearance of a Subaru in the history of the ATCC. The championship did not return to Barbagallo until 1978. The event that year consisted of two heats and the Holden Dealer Team scored a 1-2-3 finish in the overall results, with Brock taking victory over John Harvey and Wayne Negus.
During practice for the 1983 event, Moffat found that his Mazda RX-7 struggled on the rises in the circuit compared to the other cars. To compensate for this, he started the race with the petrol tank only half-filled and made a pit stop during the race. The strategy worked and Moffat took victory, despite almost colliding with Brock when the latter spun in the closing stages. Under Group A regulations, from 1985 to 1992, the event was dominated by Nissan Skylines and Ford Sierras, with Nissan taking three wins and Ford taking four. Mark Skaife took his first ATCC race victory in the 1991 event.
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