2013 V8 Supercars Season by the Numbers
It’s been an extraordinary year.
The future arrived with the new generation V8 Supercars hitting the track.
Thirty-six Championship races have been run and won. A number of different winners, one-two finishes and breakthrough drives, but one thing remains the same – there can only be one Champion.
Even that has an astonishing number attached to it – Jamie Whincup becomes just the fourth racer to reach the milestone five Championship wins and will set out next year to obliterate records and go for the all-time record.
Teams and engineers have been crunching data all season and now it’s our turn.
Thirty-six races have played out over 14 events run across three countries. Ten permanent circuits, four street tracks. One new addition in Austin, one return with Pukekohe added back on to the calendar.
Speaking of Pukekohe, it was a history-making event with Scott McLaughlin breaking through for his first win and breaking the record of youngest ever driver to win a V8 Supercars race at 19 years of age.
He wasn’t the first of the year – Fabian Coulthard had done it the event prior at Tasmania – and he wasn’t the last with James Moffat, Chaz Mostert and David Reynolds also writing their names on the winners list.
They were five of a whopping 13 main game winners, in a field of six former Champions and five rookies. And it wasn’t just the record for winners, with Whincup recording the most ARMOR ALL Pole Positions in a season, 14.
All the action has been brought directly to you over the year, with 315 TV crew and 239 broadcast hours.
The number of Facebook followers grows by the minute, now over 350,000 fans, with 50,000 keeping up to date on Twitter.
And the numbers you haven’t heard before – 42 million pages have been read on v8supercars.com.au, with 3.8 million individuals having visited the site during the year.
Close to 1600 news articles have been produced, with 1.4 million videos viewed. Break that down, and it’s 5.8 million minutes of videos viewed, straight from this website.
You were keen to see the world’s first Mercedes-Benz unveiled, the results of the first test session of the year, the future of Shane van Gisbergen after he reappeared in the sport and how to follow the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.
Close behind in the reader stakes was the announcement of Volvo joining the sport, Steven Johnson’s decision to step down from his family team, the future of V8 Supercars in terms of rules and potential car options down the track, as well as livery and team unveils.
The good news is, it’s only going to get better from here.
During the off-season, v8supercars.com.au will continue to keep you updated with news as it happens, the drivers’ thoughts on 2013 and what’s ahead.
Driver changes, team shake-ups – even co-driver announcements are coming through already.
Remember, it's just 56 days until the pre-season test. What will the 2014 grid look like? Stay tuned!
