Phillip Island 500K
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| Race Information | |
| Venue | Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit |
| Number of times held | 12 |
| First held | 1971 |
| Race Format | |
| Race 1 | |
| Laps | 57 |
| Distance | 250 km |
| Race 2 | |
| Laps | 57 |
| Distance | 250 km |
| Last Event (2017) | |
| Overall Winner | |
 Mark Winterbottom
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Prodrive Racing Australia |
| Race Winners | |
 Fabian Coulthard
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DJR Team Penske |
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Chaz Mostert
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Rod Nash Racing |
The Phillip Island 500 (formally known as the WD-40 Phillip Island 500) is an annual motor racing event, currently held for Supercars at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Phillip Island, Victoria. The race has had three distinct eras; from 1971 to 1977 as an endurance production and later Australian Touring Car Championship race, from 2008 to 2011 as an endurance race as part of V8 Supercars and from 2017 onwards as a Supercars Championship event consisting of two 250 km races.
In its current format, the event is staged over a three-day weekend, from Friday to Sunday. Two forty-minute practice sessions are held on Friday. Both Saturday and Sunday feature a twenty-minute qualifying session which decides the grid for the following 250 km race.
From 1960 to 1962, Phillip Island hosted the Armstrong 500, a 500-mile race which later evolved into the Bathurst 1000.
The 1971 and 1972 races were open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. With the demise of the Group E category at the end of 1972 the event switched to Group C Touring Car regulations. The 500K was a round of the Australian Manufacturers' Championship from 1971 to 1975 and counted towards both the Australian Championship of Makes and the Australian Touring Car Championship in 197s6 and 1977. The event name changed throughout this period according to the sponsorship (or lack thereof) each year.
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