2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500

2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500

Event Information
Round 10 of 15 in the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship
Date	14–16 September 2012
Location	Melbourne, Victoria
Venue	Sandown International Raceway
Weather	Fine
Results
Race 1 Distance 161 laps 500 km Pole position Shane van Gisbergen Luke Youlden Stone Brothers Racing Winner Craig Lowndes Warren Luff Triple Eight Race Engineering 3:19:14.8927

The 2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500 was a motor race for the Australian sedan-based V8 Supercars. It was the tenth event of the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship. It was held on the weekend of 14–16 September at the Sandown Raceway, in Melbourne, Victoria.^[1]

It was the 42nd event to be held in the history of the Sandown 500 and the first to be held for V8 Supercars since 2007.^[2]

Craig Lowndes won his fifth Sandown 500, while co-driver Warren Luff broke through for his first victory in V8 Supercars, with the duo taking their Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden Commodore to the win over the Ford Performance Racing pair of Mark Winterbottom and Steven Richards.

This was the first endurance race held at the Sandown circuit to have a race average speed above 150 km/h. The 2012 record was finally broken in 2018.