The 2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500 was a motor racing event for Supercars, held from 15 to 17 September 2017 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria. It consisted of one race, scheduled for 499.744 kilometres in length (161 laps), it was shortened to 388 kilometres in length because of a time limit (4:48 p.m. local time) imposed by Supercars. It was the tenth event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 19 of the season. It was also the first event of the 2017 Enduro Cup.

Background The event was the 47th running of the Sandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race for series production touring cars. It was the thirteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the fifth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Garth Tander and Warren Luff.

The event was promoted as a "retro round", with teams encouraged to use adaptations of Australian touring car liveries from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although some teams extended beyond these parameters when devising a livery, using sponsors and manufacturer heritage.

The following cars carried a retro livery during the event: Vehicle Notes Walkinshaw Racing Holden Racing Team livery used by Peter Brock and the team in the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship. 22 HSV Dealer Team livery used by Garth Tander to win the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series. Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport 3 1990s-era retro livery featuring the original logo of primary sponsor, Plus Fitness, when the business was launched in 1996. 62 1970s-era retro livery featuring the original logo of primary sponsor, Phil Munday's Panel Works, when the business was launched in 1977. Tim Blanchard Racing Neptune Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey to win the 1965 Australian Touring Car Championship. Nissan Motorsport 7 Brock Racing Enterprises livery used by John Morton (No. 15) and Bobby Allison (No. 7) in winning the 1970 and 1971 SCCA C Production National Championship and the 1971 and 1972 Under 2.5 Litres Trans-Am Championship. 15 23 Calsonic Team Impul livery used by Kazuyoshi Hoshino and his team to win the 1990 and 1993 Japanese Touring Car Championship. 78 Nissan test livery used by Tatsu Yokoyama to set seven new international speed records at Yatabe Test Track in 1967. Brad Jones Racing 8 Tridents Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey in the 1967 Australian Touring Car Championship. Shell Racing Team livery used by Norm Beechey to win the 1970 Australian Touring Car Championship. Erebus Motorsport 9 Team Brock livery used by Peter Brock to win the 1976 Sandown 400. 99 GB Galvanizing livery used by Jimmy Ellis in the 1998-99 Australian NASCAR Championship. DJR Team Penske 12 Regular 2017 livery with retro Shell logos to commemorate their 50 year association with Dick Johnson which began in 1967. 17 Team 18 18 Split livery featuring their regular 2017 livery on one side and a retro livery featuring retro logos of their sponsors on the other which include their primary sponsor, Preston Hire, which was known as Preston Erection from 1969 to 2001. Garry Rogers Motorsport 33 Valvoline livery used by Garth Tander and the team in the 1998 Australian Touring Car Championship. 34 Rothmans livery used by Allan Moffat and John Harvey in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship. Tickford Racing 55 Supercheap Auto livery used by John Briggs in the 1999 Shell Championship Series. Triple Eight Race Engineering 88 Holden livery used by the Holden Dealer Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 97 888 Caltex Colin Bond Racing livery used by Colin Bond and his team in the 1989 and 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship.

Results Race

Driver Team Car Laps Time/Retired Points 1 6 Cam Waters Richie Stanaway Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 125 3:31:35.7850 1 300 2 17 Scott McLaughlin Alexandre Prémat DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 125 +0.675 2 276 3 55 Chaz Mostert Steve Owen Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 125 +22.575 5 258 4 33 Garth Tander James Golding Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 125 +27.168 8 240 5 12 Fabian Coulthard Tony D'Alberto DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 125 +27.720 6 222 6 88 Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 125 +36.396 4 204 7 34 James Moffat Richard Muscat Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 125 +37.339 16 192 8 18 Lee Holdsworth Karl Reindler Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 125 +38.776 12 180 9 5 Mark Winterbottom Dean Canto Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 125 +43.940 9 168 10 22 James Courtney Jack Perkins Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 125 +47.230 14 156 11 888 Craig Lowndes Steven Richards Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 125 +57.638 24 144 12 19 Will Davison Jonathon Webb Tekno Autosports Holden VF Commodore 125 +1:09.604 25 138 13 99 Dale Wood Chris Pither Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 124 +1 lap 7 132 14 15 Rick Kelly David Wall Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 124 +1 lap 13 126 15 97 Shane van Gisbergen Matthew Campbell Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 124 +1 lap 21 120 16 7 Todd Kelly Jack Le Brocq Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 124 +1 lap 18 108 17 9 David Reynolds Luke Youlden Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 124 +1 lap 3 102 18 78 Simona de Silvestro David Russell Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 124 +1 lap 22 96 19 56 Jason Bright Garry Jacobson Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 124 +1 lap 23 114 20 23 Michael Caruso Dean Fiore Nissan Motorsport Nissan L33 Altima 123 +2 laps 11 90 21 02 Scott Pye Warren Luff Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 113 +12 laps 15 84 22 8 Nick Percat Macauley Jones Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 109 +16 laps 10 78 Ret 62 Alex Rullo Alex Davison Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 43 Mechanical 20 Ret 3 Aaren Russell Taz Douglas Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 1 Accident 19 DSQ 75 Tim Slade Ashley Walsh Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 125 Driving Time 17 DNS 4 Tim Blanchard Todd Hazelwood Tim Blanchard Racing Holden VF Commodore Source:2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500 Results, www.supercars.com, as archived at web.archive.org

References

External links 2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500, racing.natsoft.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org