Phillip Island 500

L&H 500

Venue	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Race Format
Race 1
- Laps	14
- Distance	62 km
Race 2
- Laps	14
- Distance	62 km
Race 3
- Laps	113
- Distance	503 km
Last Race (2011)
Winning Driver	Craig Lowndes / Mark Skaife
Winning Team	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Winning Manufacturer	Holden

The Phillip Island 500K was an endurance motor race held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia. It was contested each year from 1971 to 1977 and from 2008 to 2011.

The first two races were open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. With the demise of the Group E category at the end of 1972 the event switched to Group C Touring Car regulations. The 500K was a round of the Australian Manufacturers' Championship from 1971 to 1975 and counted towards both the Australian Championship of Makes and the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1976 and 1977. The event name changed throughout this period according to the sponsorship (or lack of sponsorship) applying each year.

The race was revived in 2008 as two driver endurance event for V8 Supercars, replacing the Sandown 500 as the lead-in event to the annual Bathurst 1000 race.^[1][2] It remained part of the V8 Supercar Championship Series for four consecutive years. In 2012 the race moved back to Sandown.

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