It was a non-championship event, contested by teams taking part in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship, and was held in support of the 2016 Australian Grand Prix.

Jamie Whincup set a time of 1:56.5634 to take pole position, two one-hundredths of a second faster than Mark Winterbottom.

Jason Bright was spun by Scott Pye at the first corner and his car suffered damage to the front spoiler.

[6] At the end of the first lap, Todd Kelly's car had an engine problem and he stopped at the pit lane exit.

Van Gisbergen went on to take victory, half a second ahead of Whincup, with Mostert, Coulthard and Pye completing the top five.

Todd Kelly's car had another engine problem on the warm-up lap, the third time in total for the weekend, and he did not start the race.

McLaughlin retired from the race on lap 6, running off the track with low oil pressure while in seventh place.

Whincup pulled out a lead while Van Gisbergen and Lowndes battled in the closing stages, going on to win by 6.6 seconds.

[10] Whincup was fined A$3,000 for performing a burnout in celebration of his race victory, mimicking the penalty that Winterbottom had received for the same indiscretion at the 2015 Wilson Security Sandown 500.

[12] Wood was given a five-place grid penalty for Race 4 after he was found guilty of careless driving in the incident with Bright.

Coulthard finished second ahead of Lowndes, while Courtney passed Caruso for fourth place on the final lap.