With the silly season almost over in the off season of motorsport, we are nearly ready for our very first round of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship.
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The Supercars will hit the Adelaide street circuit for the Clipsal 500 from March 2-5.
As the teams start to roll out their new liveries and sponsors for the 2017 season, it's safe to say that we probably have the best presented field yet.
Top of the list
Lets take this chance to catch up with who were the movers in the off season.
Scott Pye has taken the #2 seat replacing Garth Tander at the Mobil HSV Racing outfit ( formerly known as the Holden Racing Team ).
Simona De Silvestro will be driving the #78 Nissan Altima with the Nissan gang with the support of Harvey Norman.
Simona will be the first female to join the series full time in the new era.
Nick Percat joins Albury based Brad Jones Racing in the #8 Holden Commodore.
Nick comes from a struggling Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport and is expected to have a big year with the popular BJR team.
Scott McLaughlin will be a new fresh face at Penske DJR, driving a Ford Falcon FGX for the first time under the famous #17.
Penske DJR is a team who is only getting better and better every year.
Expect Scott to take a number of outright victories this year with his fellow Kiwi team mate Fabian Coulthard.
Tim Blanchard will line up in the #21 Cooldrive Holden Commodore.
He replaces the Super Black Racing team that was ran out of Prodrive in 2016.
Garth Tander is back at his roots, joining the team who he first started in the Supercars Championship.
Garry Rogers Motorsport.
He will be driving the #33 Wilson Security Holden Commodore.
GRM will be much of an unknown for the first few rounds as they have had to go away from running the Volvo's back to running Holden's in which they have done for years.
Jason Bright also joins a team who he had success with many years ago, Prodrive Racing, formerly known as Ford Performance Racing, Jason will behind the wheel of the #56 MEGA Ford Falcon FGX.
Expect a few surprise results for JB this year.
Last but not least is the driver of the LDM #62 Holden Commodore Alex Rullo.
Rullo will be the youngest ever driver to start a Supercars race at the age of 16.
LDM are still yet to announce the driver of their second car after Matt Chahda was denied a Super License.
An announcement is expected to be made soon.
Event
More information on the Clipsal 500, Adelaide a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the streets of the east end of Adelaide
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