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| Round 12 of 16 in the2018 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 14–16 September 2018 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Melbourne,Victoria | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Sandown Raceway | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Friday: Showers Saturday: Showers Sunday: Clearing | |||||||||||||
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The2018 Sandown 500 (known for sponsorship purposes as the2018 Rabble.club Sandown 500) was amotor racing event forSupercars, held on the weekend of 14 to 16 September 2018. The event was held atSandown Raceway inMelbourne,Victoria,Australia and consisted of one race, 500 kilometres in length. It was the twelfth event of sixteen in the2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 24 of the series. It was also the first event of the2018 Enduro Cup.
The race was won byJamie Whincup andPaul Dumbrell driving aHolden Commodore ZB.[1]
The event was the 48th running of theSandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race forseries production touring cars. It was the fourteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the sixth time it formed part of theEnduro Cup. The defending winners of the race wereCam Waters andRichie Stanaway.
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.
The following cars carried a retro livery during the event:
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| Practice 1 | Friday | 1 |  Paul Dumbrell | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:07.8467 |
| Practice 2 | Friday | 1 | Jamie Whincup | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:07.9688 |
| Practice 3 | Friday | 99 | Will Brown | Erebus Motorsport | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:08.6230 |
| Practice 4 | Saturday | 15 | Rick Kelly | Nissan Motorsport | Nissan Altima L33 | 1:14.3447 |
| Warm-Up | Sunday | 1 | Jamie WhincupPaul Dumbrell | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:08.4080 |
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| Previous race: 2018 The Bend SuperSprint | 2018 Supercars Championship | Next race: 2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 |
| Previous year: 2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500 | Sandown 500 | Next year: 2019 Sandown 500 |
