Albert Park comes to life for Thursday at the Grand Prix™

The Ford and Chevrolet Supercars will take to the famed Albert Park Grand Prix circuit for the MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint at 11:05am for the opening 30-minute Practice session. The second session follows at 1:25pm, before two all-important Qualifying sessions; one at 3:25pm to set the grid for the opening race, and a second at 3:50pm, which sets the grid for Race 2, which will take place on Friday.

The opening Supercars race will line up at 5:45pm, to be held over 19 laps. It will be vital, with Ford ace Cameron Waters looking to extend the points leads after a dominant opening round at Sydney Motorsport Park, and a whole lot of Chevrolet drivers, led by Triple 8’s defending Supercars Champion Will Brown and Broc Feeney, out to close in on the Tickford Mustang driver.

With a new Dunlop control tyre in use for this season, Qualifying will be more important than ever. A year ago Feeney and Waters split the pole positions in the same two sessions, but Anton de Pasquale was close behind, and with his off-season switch to Team 18’s Chevrolet Camaro, he is sure to be looking for a strong start to the weekend.

Watch out too for veteran James Courtney. The 2010 V8 Supercars champion is set to retire at the end of the season and is nearly always strong on fast, sweeping tracks, and he will be out for a big result in his Mustang, which is run by the Melbourne-based Blanchard Racing Team.

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Also, the Supercars support paddock has been moved to the outside of Turn 14, with a fan-friendly format that gives fans the chance to get close to the cars and the stars.

In the Porsche Carrera Cup races 29 cars will face off in the category’s 16th visit to the historic Albert Park circuit. Harri Jones leads the series points after an impressive start to the season and will face a new challenge, in the form of current Carrera Cup Asia and France champion Alessandro Ghiretti, who joins the fray with EMA Motorsport.

As well, 2023 Albert Park winner Jackson Walls returns to the Porsche pack, after graduating to a full-time Super2 Supercars program with Triple 8. Jones and Walls are two of three Porsche pilots who have won at the track before, the other being Max Vidau, so all of them will be looking to become the first two-time Albert Park winner.

In the Pro-Am category Rodney Jane leads the points; what could be more historic than a Jane winning in Melbourne? Practice will start with a 30-minute session at 10:10am, with Qualifying set to start at 12:30pm. 

There will be two all-important systems checks for the international drivers and teams in the opening rounds of the FIA Formula 3™ and Formula 3™. The first session, for Formula 2, comes at 11:50am and the Formula 3s will be on the track at 2:45pm, both sessions set to run for 15 minutes.

There is also to be a look at the 1950s, the era in which Albert Park first hosted the Australian Grand Prix. In the Racing Past presented by Shannons Insurance the Fabulous Fifties cars will be on the track for the first time this weekend at 2:10pm for a 20-minute session.