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Who will join the Supercars winners list in 2022?

01 Mar 2022
The 2022 grid features 15 winners, with 10 drivers yet to take victory
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A new-look grid will take to the season-opening Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight this weekend.

The 2022 Repco Supercars Championship grid features 15 race winners, with 10 drivers yet to take the chequered flag first.

It’s up on the 24-car 2021 grid, which featured 14 race winners and 10 non-winners.

The 15 winners combine for 178 race victories, with reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen representing 30 per cent of that haul.

Van Gisbergen won 14 races en route to the 2021 title, and took his career wins tally from 40 to 54.

Van Gisbergen won 14 races last year

Jamie Whincup, who retired at the end of 2021, ended the year with 124 career wins.

Now second on the active drivers list is 2015 series champion Mark Winterbottom, who claimed all 38 of his career wins with Tickford Racing between 2006 and 2016.

Team 18 driver Winterbottom, however, hasn’t won a race since he scored victory at Pukekohe in 2016.

Three other active drivers (Will Davison, Chaz Mostert and James Courtney) have recorded wins in double figures.

Who can join them in 2022?

In 2021, Supercars.com predicted that there would be at least one new winner.

It proved correct, with Andre Heimgartner and Will Brown becoming the 81st an 82nd different drivers to win a championship race.

They were the 21st and 22nd different drivers to have won a race since van Gisbergen first scored victory in 2011.

Supercars.com has predicted more of the same in 2022, as well as a new series champion.

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Dark horses will be integral to the 2022 story, with many drivers yet to hit their peak.

Todd Hazelwood will be the most experienced driver on the 2022 grid yet to win a race; the first race in Sydney will be his 126th start.

Feeney dominated the 2021 Super2 season

The three most inexperienced drivers on the 2022 grid loom most likely to become winners this year; Brodie Kostecki, Thomas Randle and Broc Feeney.

Kostecki scored a last start Bathurst podium, Randle is now armed with a full-time Tickford effort, and Whincup’s replacement Feeney steps into the fastest car on the grid.

Teenager Feeney, who won the 2021 Super2 title, can also become the youngest ever driver to win a Supercars race.

Practice 1 in Sydney will commence on Friday at 3:15pm AEDT. CLICK HERE to view the race schedule.

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Race winners on 2022 grid

54: Shane van Gisbergen (449 starts)38: Mark Winterbottom (559 starts)19: Will Davison (484 starts)16: Chaz Mostert (262 starts)15: James Courtney (494 starts)7: Anton de Pasquale (120 starts)7: David Reynolds (370 starts)5: Cameron Waters (189 starts)4: Nick Percat (254 starts)4: Lee Holdsworth (477 starts)2: Tim Slade (364 starts)1: Scott Pye (280 starts)1: Jack Le Brocq (136 starts)1: Andre Heimgartner (183 starts)1: Will Brown (41 starts)

2022 drivers yet to win

Todd Hazelwood (125 starts)Macauley Jones (112 starts)Chris Pither (102 starts)Garry Jacobson (97 starts)Bryce Fullwood (67 starts)Jack Smith (71 starts)Jake Kostecki (49 starts)Brodie Kostecki (37 starts)Thomas Randle (18 starts)Broc Feeney (2 starts)

The most recent first-time winners (2011 onwards)

82: Will Brown, Sydney 202181: Andre Heimgartner, Tailem Bend 202180: Anton De Pasquale, Darwin 202079: Jack Le Brocq, Sydney 202078: Scott Pye, Albert Park 201877: Luke Youlden, Bathurst 2017 (co-driver)76: Cameron Waters, Sandown 201775: Richie Stanaway, Sandown 2017 (co-driver)74: Alex Premat, Gold Coast 2016 (co-driver)73: Tim Slade, Winton 201672: Jack Perkins, Gold Coast 2015 (co-driver)71: David Reynolds, Gold Coast 201370: Dean Canto, Gold Coast 2013 (co-driver)69: James Moffat, Winton 201368: Chaz Mostert, Ipswich 201367: Scott McLaughlin, Pukekohe 201366: Fabian Coulthard, Tasmania 201365: Mika Salo, Gold Coast 2012 (co-driver)64: Warren Luff, Sandown 2012 (co-driver)63: Richard Lyons, Gold Coast 2011 (co-driver)62: Sebastien Bourdais, Gold Coast 2011 (co-driver)61: Nick Percat, Bathurst 2011 (co-driver)60: Shane van Gisbergen, Hamilton 2011

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