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Under the new plan, the Gold Coast's premier motorsport event will become the biggest endurance race held by V8 Supercars after Bathurst.

They will switch their race schedule from a 200km race on Saturday and Sunday, to instead hold four races in two days -- two 150km races on both days.

"We've never done 600km of racing in two days and never done four races in a weekend before, so this will be a first," said Mr Cochrane told the Gold Coast Bulletin and goldcoast.com.au exclusively on Friday.

"What we've done is worked with the Queensland Government to have a real genuine plan B in place."

Mr Cochrane alerted all the V8 Supercar teams that they would need to be prepared to race 600km instead of the 400km previously planned.

It would require them to completely change their car set-up -- some of the Victorian teams would most likely do that once they arrived on the Gold Coast.

Mr Cochrane said taking off 50km from each of the races would not compromise the strategic racing expected because refuelling and pit-stops would still come into play.

Each race would be for championship points and a 20-minute qualifying shoot out on Sunday for the day's two races would also be added to the schedule.