The sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro road car, produced from 2015 to 2023, is an American pony car built on the GM Alpha platform. For the Supercars Championship, the Camaro ZL1 bodywork was adopted under the series' Gen3 regulations, which mandated a closer relationship between road car silhouette and race car body than the previous generation of machinery. The Gen3 Camaro race car uses a structural carbon-fibre and steel chassis, with the Camaro's production exterior design translated into racing-specification bodywork. Like the Mustang on the Ford side, the Camaro replaced the long-running locally developed Holden Commodore lineage when General Motors chose to field a globally recognised performance car nameplate instead.
The Camaro ZL1 debuted in the Supercars Championship in 2023 as the successor to the Holden Commodore ZB, fielded by Holden-aligned teams that had transitioned to the Chevrolet badge. The car's debut season was immediately successful: Erebus Motorsport and their driver Brodie Kostecki won the 2023 Teams' and Drivers' Championship, with Chevrolet also claiming the Manufacturers' Championship.
The 2024 season saw Triple Eight Race Engineering and driver Will Brown take the Teams' and Drivers' Championship, again with Chevrolet winning the Manufacturers' title. Triple Eight Race Engineering and Chevrolet then won the 2025 Teams' and Manufacturers' Championship, establishing the Camaro as the dominant force in the series across its first three years of competition.
The Chevrolet Camaro's Supercars entry parallels its racing presence in other major series globally. In NASCAR, the Camaro ZL1 replaced the Chevrolet SS from the 2018 season and won its debut at the Daytona 500. The Camaro subsequently won the NASCAR Cup Series championship with Chase Elliott in 2020 and Kyle Larson in 2021. The car also appeared at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023 as the Garage 56 concept entry, driven by Jimmie Johnson, Jenson Button, and Mike Rockenfeller, where it drew international attention for its performance and visual contrast to the prototype and GT classes.
In Australia, Holden Special Vehicles had separately imported and converted right-hand-drive versions of the sixth-generation Camaro for road use from 2018, converting the 2SS and ZL1 variants to comply with Australian Design Rules. These HSV-converted Camaros remained road-legal Chevrolet-badged vehicles; around 375 ZL1 units were produced before imports ceased in early 2020 due to limited sales.
The Camaro's arrival in the Supercars Championship represented a strategic shift by General Motors away from an Australia-specific brand identity — through Holden — toward a globally unified performance car nameplate. Three consecutive Manufacturers' Championships in the car's first three seasons confirmed the Camaro as a competitive platform under the Gen3 regulations. The transition from Commodore to Camaro also marked the end of an era in which Australian-developed cars competed in the series; the Gen3 regulations brought both the Camaro and the Ford Mustang into closer visual alignment with their respective global road car counterparts.