The 2018 Sandown 500 (known for sponsorship purposes as the 2018 Rabble.club Sandown 500) was a

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, held on the weekend of 14 to 16 September 2018. The event was held at Sandown Raceway in

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and consisted of one race, 500 kilometres in length. It was the twelfth event of sixteen in the

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and hosted Race 24 of the series. It was also the first event of the 2018 Enduro Cup. The race was won by Jamie Whincup and

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Background

The event was the 48th running of the Sandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race for

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. It was the fourteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the sixth time it formed part of the

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. The defending winners of the race were Cameron Waters and Richie 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:

Results

Practice

Qualifying

;Notes *–

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received a 3-place grid penalty for impeding

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during Qualifying.

Qualifying Race 1

Qualifying Race 2

Race

Championship standings after Race 24

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams Championship ;Enduro Cup * Note: Only the top five positions are included for three sets of standings.

References

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, Next_race_in_season = 2018 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 , Previous_year's_race = 2017 Wilson Security Sandown 500 , Next_year's_race = 2019 Sandown 500 Rabble.club Sandown 500 Wilson Security Sandown 500 Pre-Bathurst 500