When was the last Stock Car race in Australia?

It is a question that doesn’t have an answer to everybody’s satisfaction and many answers end up flying around.

The last Stock Car round at Calder Park Thunderdome happened in December 1999 with the last race won by Kim Jane.

The Bob Jane era ended at the Melbourne Grand Prix in March 2000 with a Kim Jane clean sweep.

Time to time you’ll see stories that the V8 Stock Cars series ended at Calder Park in November 2001 (sometimes erroneously written up as 2002) though they did go around at Oran Park, Mallala, and Queensland Raceway in 2002.

Some may say the date is when the V8 Stock Cars ended at Queensland Raceway as the V8 Stock Cars raced as part of the Power Tour package, the Power Tour ended shortly afterwards.

The V8 Stock Cars story may not have ended at Queensland Raceway as it is recorded that ‘V8 Stock Cars’ raced at Winton Raceway later that year, four cars with a fifth car sidelined participated in that event.

As discussed earlier, a couple of series or series attempts helped keep Stock Car racing rolling forward after 2002, each one played a part in the present-day story.

Stock Cars Australia currently has AUSCAR, NASCAR, GTA and OzTrucks on the same track as the Australian Stock Car Championship.

So, if you want to be all technical then racing with just Cup cars appears to have ended at Winton in 2002 but people have raced their cars in many different series after 2002 and into the present day.