[4] Grove Junior Team joined the championship fielding a single Nissan Altima L33 for Matthew Payne.
[26] Brad Jones Racing returns to the championship after a year's absence fielding a Holden Commodore VF for Elly Morrow.
Eggleston Motorsport scaled there operation up to three cars, running two Holden VE Commodores for Steven Page and Kai Allen and a Ford FG Falcon for David Murphy.
Triple Eight Race Engineering fielded a new driver lineup with Cameron Hill who graduated from Porsche Carrera Cup Australia to replace Broc Feeney graduated to the Supercars Championship to replace Jamie Whincup.
Matthew Payne, who graduated from Porsche Carrera Cup Australia, joined Grove Racing on a full time basis.