How to watch the NTI Townsville 500

The Repco Supercars Championship is back live and free on Seven this weekend for the NTI Townsville 500.

Seven’s coverage will be hosted by Jack Perkins live from Townsville, which will include Race 15 on Saturday and Race 16 on Sunday.

The live and free broadcast will kick off at 1.00pm AEST on Saturday on Channel 7 and 7plus in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, and on 7mate and 7plus in Perth. Adelaide viewers will need to switch to 7mate at 2.30pm local time.

On Sunday, Seven’s coverage will begin at 12.00pm AEST on Channel 7 and 7plus in Sydney and Brisbane, and on 7mate and 7plus in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Perth viewers will need to switch to Channel 7 at 12.00pm local time.

Once again, fans will not miss a second of the Supercars race action with Seven’s coverage to continue uninterrupted during commercial breaks via cutting-edge picture-in-picture (PiP) technology.

Perkins will host and provide expert comments from pit lane, with Brad Hodge to bring fans all the colour and atmosphere from the Reid Park Street circuit.

The Seven team will be joined by Supercars champions Mark Skaife and Garth Tander along with Chad Neylon, plus fan favourites Charli Robinson and Mark Larkham in pit lane.

Every session of the Reid Park event will be broadcast live on Foxtel (Fox Sports 506) and streamed on Kayo.

Friday’s broadcast will commence at 9:45am AEST on Foxtel with the first practice session beginning at 10:50am AEST.

Saturday’s coverage will begin on Fox Sports channel 506 at 8:50am AEST with the first of two ARMOR ALL Qualifying sessions of the weekend beginning at 11:15am AEST.

The ARMOR ALL Top Ten Shootout for Race 15 begins at 1:05pm AEST.

For on-track session times, click here.

Foxtel’s coverage on Sunday will start at 8:00am AEST with ARMOR ALL Qualifying for Race 16 commencing at 10:10am AEST, with the final ARMOR ALL Top Ten Shootout beginning at 12:05pm AEST.

On both race days this weekend, viewers in all capital cities will be able to watch full race replays on 7plus on demand.

Saturday’s highlights will also be shown on Channel 7 and 7mate from 11.00pm AEST. They will be shown in Perth on Channel 7 at 12.00am local time.

Sunday’s highlights will screen on Channel 7 at 12.50am Monday local time in all capital cities.

Three two-hour encores of both days’ highlights will also run in all capitals next week on 7mate, starting at 3.30pm local time on Monday, 12.00am on Tuesday and 10.00am on Friday.

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