2022 vs 2023: Randle biggest mover in first Gen3 season

Brodie Kostecki was the biggest winner with the championship, but several drivers soared up the leaderboard in 2023.

The first season of the Gen3 regulations saw young drivers make their name, with some veterans dropping back due to battles with form and ill-timed DNFs.

The biggest mover year-on-year was Tickford Racing driver Thomas Randle, who gained a whopping 10 positions on his 2022 championship position. Armed with new engineer Chris Stuckey, Randle closed out the season with results of fourth, seventh, third and 10th.

Randle's 2022 season, his first full-time year in Supercars, was riddled with bad luck and accidents. Come 2023, and Randle largely kept out of trouble and scored four solo podiums and a maiden ARMOR ALL Pole Position to finish 13th overall, just 86 points out of the top 10.

Of the seven drivers to improve on their 2022 positions, six are aged 28 or younger, with Will Brown vaulting from 14th to fifth year-on-year.

Brown's results could have been much better, however, given he led the championship at the midway point of the season. A second-half slump, which coincided with Brown's signing with Triple Eight, saw the outgoing Erebus driver tally just the 12th most points in the final five rounds.

Jack Le Brocq, who will replace Brown at Erebus in 2024, also enjoyed the first Gen3 season with a run to 12th overall with Matt Stone Racing, highlighted by a victory in Darwin. Le Brocq was in the same boat as Brown, however, given he ran as high as eighth in the closing rounds.

The new champion, Kostecki, moved six positions from seventh to first, with Brad Jones Racing's run to third in the teams' championship off the back of career-best seasons for Andre Heimgartner and Bryce Fullwood.

Heimgartner finished seventh overall, improving on 10th last season, with Fullwood enjoying a breakout season to power from a previous best of 17th to finish 11th.

The biggest mover in the closing rounds was Team 18-bound veteran David Reynolds, who closed out the year to move from 19th to ninth in the points after four straight podiums, including a win on the Gold Coast.

It was a tougher story for fellow veterans Mark Winterbottom and Tim Slade, who finished 15th and 19th overall. Winterbottom, who won in Darwin, suffered a costly DNF in Bathurst after a late-race fuel miscalculation.

Slade, meanwhile, was stung by a crash on the Gold Coast and a run of low finishes after finishing an impressive ninth at Sandown. Conversely, Slade's final season with Blanchard Racing Team in 2022 netted a championship finish of 11th.

2022 vs 2023 biggest movers in points standings

*James Golding joined midway through 2022 season

^Matt Payne, Cameron Hill and Declan Fraser were 2023 rookies