Erebus 2024 season review: A dramatic year of two halves
As 2024 winds down, Supercars.com is looking over all 11 teams and their performances in this year's Repco Supercars Championship, continuing with Erebus Motorsport.
Few teams finished 2024 better than Erebus Motorsport, which won two of the last five races of the year, headlined by a stunning Repco Bathurst 1000 triumph.
Victories at Bathurst and Surfers Paradise were the tonic for what was largely a season of turmoil, with reigning champion Kostecki's absence from the first two rounds arguably the biggest story of the year.
When Kostecki returned, the team was plagued by errors and reliability concerns, with a single podium to show for the Melbourne squad's efforts through nine rounds and 19 races.
Then, it all clicked. Kostecki crushed the field at the Mountain with Todd Hazelwood by his side, and backed it up with an equally imperious performance on the Gold Coast. Fellow recruit Jack Le Brocq was also largely luckless, but a pole in Townsville and stunning charges in the enduros proved Erebus made the right call in signing the grid's newest dad.
All told, Erebus ended 2024 how it ended 2023, fighting for wins and putting the heat on its rivals. However, there's no denying the ructions of the first half of the year severely dented the team's confidence, and quickly put paid to its dreams of a title defence.
Erebus Motorsport: 2024 season results and head-to-heads
Drivers' finish: Jack Le Brocq 14th, Brodie Kostecki 17th
Teams' finish: 6th
Best result: 1st (Brodie Kostecki, Bathurst Race 20 and Gold Coast Race 22)
Qualifying head to head: Brodie Kostecki 15, Jack Le Brocq 7, Todd Hazelwood 2
Race head to head: Jack Le Brocq 12, Brodie Kostecki 9, Todd Hazelwood 3
What’s next in 2025?
Kostecki is moving to pastures new, with the 2023 champ signing with Dick Johnson and Ford. In his place arrives Cooper Murray, who has one of the highest talent ceilings of a young driver in recent years.
Murray was happy to throw punches at Supercars' biggest names during his enduro cameo with Triple Eight, and did the same once in the fight in Adelaide amid Le Brocq's absence.
Erebus has been vindicated in recent years in its decision to blood young drivers. This is the team that has produced the last two Supercars drivers' champions, mind you. Signing Murray marks clear intent to do it again.
Le Brocq's performance was underrated, with the 32-year-old running in the top 10 in the championship in the early rounds. There's little doubt both Le Brocq and Murray can fight for podiums if Erebus starts 2025 how it finished 2024.
Critical to such performance, however, is how the team replaces its gun engineers, with George Commins and Tom Moore following Kostecki to DJR. Commins and Moore were key to the team's successes in the Gen3 era, and now, the team will need to start again.
Regardless, Erebus has built a performance-based culture that knows how to extract results. Armed with a clean slate and a young driver determined to ruffle feathers, Erebus could be anything in 2025.
