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Movers and shakers after four rounds: 2021 vs 2020

03 Jun 2021
It has been a 2021 season of flux compared to last year
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A third of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship has been run and won, with four events completed.

The 2020 and 2021 seasons began with 11 races across four completed events.

  • The biggest losses and gains of 2021 so far

There are two key differences in 2021 versus 2020; eventual 2020 champion and 13-time season race winner Scott McLaughlin has left for IndyCar, and points are being awarded for fastest lap-getters in sprint races for the first time.

Current series leader Shane van Gisbergen, who won the opening six races of the season, has made a significant improvement on his 2020 position.

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The Red Bull Ampol Racing driver is a whopping 359 points better off where he was after four events and 11 starts in 2020.

His teammate Jamie Whincup, remarkably, is again second, and is one point off his 2020 point-score. He has, however, won a single race so far this year versus two in 2020.

Chaz Mostert is again third, but has scored 52 more points this season. He has also won a race, having won the Symmons Plains finale in April.

Mostert has scored the most points through fastest laps, having tallied 15 points courtesy of three quick race laps. Whincup's two fastest laps ensured he was only one point down on his 2020 points total.

Van Gisbergen has improved in leaps and bounds

The biggest mover, with regards to positions gained, is Team 18's Scott Pye. After four events in 2020, he was 17th; heading to the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown later this month, he is 11th.

Shell V-Power Racing Team recruit Anton De Pasquale is five positions better off, ahead of Andre Heimgartner (four) and van Gisbergen (three).

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The biggest loser is Fabian Coulthard, who Coulthard shifted to Team Sydney from the Shell V-Power Racing Team in the off-season. The Kiwi has dropped 12 places and is a whopping 348 points worse off.

Kelly Grove Racing recruit David Reynolds is a surprise loser; he was fifth after four events in 2020, and is 13th heading to Darwin.

He has also scored 190 fewer points than his 2020 haul, which came in his final campaign with Erebus Motorsport.

2021 has been tough for Coulthard so far

Disregarding Will Davison, who only completed one full-time event last year following the demise of 23Red Racing, seven drivers have scored more points than last year through four events.

11 drivers have scored fewer points; Tim Slade, Brodie Kostecki, Will Brown, Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard have been left off as they did not complete full campaigns in 2020.

The Repco Supercars Championship field will return to the Northern Territory for the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown across June 18-20. Tickets are available here.

The event will be broadcast live on Foxtel and will be streamed on Kayo, and will be broadcast live and free on Seven.

Movers and shakers (after four events)

Driver

2021 position

2020 position

2021 points

2020 points

van Gisbergen

1st

4th

1112

753

Whincup

2nd

2nd

922

923

Mostert

3rd

3rd

866

814

Davison*

4th

20th

861

231

Waters

5th

6th

848

733

Winterbottom

6th

7th

697

706

De Pasquale

7th

12th

648

583

Heimgartner

8th

11th

646

602

Percat

9th

8th

617

705

B.Kostecki**

10th

N/A

615

N/A

Pye

11th

17th

580

488

Courtney

12th

15th

566

528

Reynolds

13th

5th

546

736

Brown**

14th

N/A

544

N/A

Fullwood

15th

18th

527

460

Le Brocq

16th

13th

516

566

Hazelwood

17th

16th

511

525

Goddard***

18th

N/A

442

N/A

J.Kostecki***

19th

N/A

432

N/A

Slade**

20th

N/A

410

N/A

Coulthard

21st

9th

334

682

Smith

22nd

19th

330

390

Jacobson

23rd

21st

285

363

Jones

24th

20th

282

372

*Davison completed one event in 2020

**Slade, Brown and B.Kostecki weren't full-time in 2020

***J.Kostecki and Goddard shared a car in 2020

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