The 2017 Coates Hire Newcastle 500 was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 24 to 26 November 2017. The event was held on the Newcastle Street Circuit in Newcastle East, New South Wales and consisted of two races, 250 kilometres in length. It was the fourteenth and final event in the 2017 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 25 and 26 of the season.
Scott McLaughlin scored pole position for both races and won the first race of the weekend
2017 Supercars Championship
The 2017 Supercars Championship was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for Supercars, which prior to July 2016 had been known as V8 Supercars. It was the nineteenth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-first series in which Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title.
Jamie Whincup won his seventh drivers' championship title.
DJR Team Penske won its first Teams Championship in 2017.
Simona de Silvestro became the first female driver in 19 years to compete in the series full-time.