page_title: 2017 Newcastle 500
section_title: Report
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 Newcastle 500 / Report
caption_attribution_description: English: Dale Wood competing for Erebus Motorsport in the 2017 Newcastle 500
context_page_description: 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.
  The event was the first running of the Newcastle 500, following the discontinuation of the Sydney 500 at the conclusion of the 2016 season.
caption: The event was also Dale Wood's last as a full-time campaigner
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