| Flag: | Victoria |
| 2018 Rabble.club Sandown 500 | |
| Round No: | 12 |
| Season No: | 16 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Series: | SC |
| Track Map: | Sandown (Australia) track map.svg |
| Date: | 14–16 September |
| Location: | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Circuit: | Sandown Raceway |
| Weather: | Friday: Showers Saturday: Showers Sunday: Clearing |
| Race1 Laps: | 161 |
| Race1 Dist: | 505.254 |
| Pole1: |  Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell |
| Pole1 Team: | Triple Eight Race Engineering |
| Pole1 Time: | 1:07.8389 |
| Winner1: | Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell |
| Winner1 Team: | Triple Eight Race Engineering |
| Winner1 Time: | 3:17:28.6203 |
The 2018 Sandown 500 (known for sponsorship purposes as the 2018 Rabble.club Sandown 500) was a motor racing event for Supercars, held on the weekend of 14 to 16 September 2018. The event was held at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and consisted of one race, 500 kilometres in length. It was the twelfth event of sixteen in the 2018 Supercars Championship and hosted Race 24 of the series. It was also the first event of the 2018 Enduro Cup.
The race was won by Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell driving a Holden Commodore ZB.[1]
The event was the 48th running of the Sandown 500, which was first held in 1964 as a six-hour race for series production touring cars. It was the fourteenth time the race had been held as part of the Supercars Championship and the sixth time it formed part of the Enduro Cup. The defending winners of the race were Cam Waters and Richie Stanaway.
The event was promoted as a "retro round", with teams encouraged to use adaptations of Australian touring car liveries from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although some teams extended beyond these parameters when devising a livery.
The following cars carried a retro livery during the event:
| Day | Fastest lap | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time | |||
| Practice 1 | Friday | 1 | Paul Dumbrell | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:07.8467 | |
| Practice 2 | Friday | 1 | Jamie Whincup | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:07.9688 | |
| Practice 3 | Friday | 99 | Will Brown | Erebus Motorsport | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:08.6230 | |
| Practice 4 | Saturday | 15 | Rick Kelly | Nissan Motorsport | Nissan Altima L33 | 1:14.3447 | |
| Warm-Up | Sunday | 1 | Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:08.4080 | |
| Sources:[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] | |||||||
| Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1:07.8389 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 55 | 1:08.1206 | +0.2817 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | 25 | 1:08.1223 | +0.2834 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 9 | 1:08.2097 | +0.3708 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | 2 | 1:08.3580 | +0.5191 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | 7 | 1:08.3610 | +0.5221 | 9 | ||||
| 7 | 99 | 1:08.3668 | +0.5279 | 6 | ||||
| 8 | 8 | 1:08.3996 | +0.5607 | 7 | ||||
| 9 | 34 | 1:08.3998 | +0.5609 | 8 | ||||
| 10 | 97 | 1:08.4181 | +0.5792 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | 6 | 1:08.4195 | +0.5806 | 11 | ||||
| 12 | 12 | 1:08.4516 | +0.6127 | 12 | ||||
| 13 | 888 | 1:08.4601 | +0.6212 | 13 | ||||
| 14 | 17 | 1:08.4731 | +0.6342 | 14 | ||||
| 15 | 5 | 1:08.4802 | +0.6413 | 15 | ||||
| 16 | 15 | 1:08.5391 | +0.7002 | 16 | ||||
| 17 | 14 | 1:08.6103 | +0.7714 | 17 | ||||
| 18 | 23 | 1:08.6421 | +0.8032 | 18 | ||||
| 19 | 33 | 1:08.6457 | +0.8068 | 19 | ||||
| 20 | 230 | 1:08.6907 | +0.8518 | 20 | ||||
| 21 | 18 | 1:08.7279 | +0.8890 | 21 | ||||
| 22 | 19 | 1:08.7972 | +0.9583 | 22 | ||||
| 23 | 21 | 1:08.9461 | +1.1072 | 23 | ||||
| 24 | 78 | 1:08.9753 | +1.1364 | 24 | ||||
| 25 | 35 | 1:09.0383 | +1.1994 | 25 | ||||
| 26 | 56 | 1:09.2527 | +1.4138 | 26 | ||||
| Source:[8] | ||||||||
| Driver | Gap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Shane van Gisbergen | 3054 | |||
| 2 | Scott McLaughlin | 2999 | -55 | ||
| 3 | Jamie Whincup | 2716 | -338 | ||
| 4 | Craig Lowndes | 2487 | -567 | ||
| 5 | 2435 | -619 |
| Team | Gap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triple Eight Race Engineering (1, 97) | 5769 | |||
| 2 | DJR Team Penske | 5113 | -656 | ||
| 1 | 3 | Tickford Racing (5, 55) | 3688 | -2081 | |
| 1 | 4 | Erebus Motorsport | 3685 | -2084 | |
| 2 | 5 | Brad Jones Racing | 3621 | -2148 |
| Drivers | Gap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 | ||||
| 2 | 276 | -24 | |||
| 3 | 258 | -42 | |||
| 4 | 240 | -60 | |||
| 5 | 222 | -78 |
