The Bend 500, also known as The Bend Enduro, is an annual motor racing event for Supercars, held at The Bend Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia since 2025.
Format The event was run over three days, with five practice sessions over Friday and Saturday. Qualifying was held on Saturday, followed by a Top 10 Shootout. After a final warm-up in Sunday morning, a 500 kilometre race was then held on Sunday afternoon. The event is also part of the relaunched Enduro Cup with the Bathurst 1000 from 2025.
History
The Bend Motorsport Park opened in 2018 and hosted The Bend SuperSprint for two years before being announced as the host of an endurance race as part of the 2020 Supercars Championship, replacing the Sandown 500 as the series' annual 500 kilometre race. In June 2020, the event was removed from the second revision of the 2020 calendar, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, however a double-header sprint event at The Bend was then added to the calendar in a further calendar shuffle in August 2020. The event was again excluded from the 2021 Supercars Championship calendar, and it was not until 2023 that the event was announced to return - albeit not until the 2025 season, with The Bend remaining as a sprint event up to and including 2023.
The inaugural event, held in September 2025, was won by Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood for Dick Johnson Racing. The win was the second consecutive endurance race win for the pair, having won the 2024 Bathurst 1000 driving for Erebus Motorsport.
On 21 January 2026, organizers announced that West Circuit layout would be used for this year's race instead of regularly used International Circuit layout in order to increase overtaking possibilities, viewing of spectators and offer more different strategies.
List of winners Year Event name Layout Driver(s) Team Car Laps Elapsed time2025AirTouch 500 at The BendInternational Circuit Brodie Kostecki Todd HazelwoodDick Johnson RacingFord Mustang GT102 laps 3h 15m 50.1972s2026AirTouch 500 at The BendWest Circuit Chaz Mostert Fabian CoulthardWalkinshaw TWG RacingToyota GR Supra141 laps 3h 36m 02.669s
Multiple winners By driver Wins Driver Years1 Fabian Coulthard 2026 Todd Hazelwood 2025 Brodie Kostecki 2025 Chaz Mostert 2026
By team Wins Team 1 Dick Johnson Racing Walkinshaw TWG Racing
By manufacturer Wins Manufacturer 1 Ford Toyota
See also The Bend SuperSprint List of Australian Touring Car Championship races
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