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Wins, titles and records: Triple Eight's Red Bull era

10 Aug 2021
Red Bull has featured in some of Triple Eight's best moments
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Red Bull celebrates nine years with Triple Eight Racing

The 2022 Repco Supercars Championship will mark a decade of the partnership between Triple Eight Race Engineering and Red Bull.

On Tuesday, it was confirmed the energy drinks giant will remain with the team after locking in a two-year extension.

Since 2013, team and sponsor have combined for four drivers' titles, five teams' championships and two Bathurst 1000 victories.

Supercars.com looks back at the defining moments of the dominant partnership.

2013: Winning on debut

Red Bull took the reins from Triple Eight's long-time backer Vodafone ahead of the 2013 season, with Craig Lowndes winning at the very first attempt on the streets of Adelaide.

Whincup, who won the 2011 and 2012 titles, scored his fifth crown with Red Bull on the door.

Whincup scored 11 race wins and 13 pole positions in 2013, clinching the championship at the Homebush season finale.

The team also claimed the first PIRTEK Enduro Cup with Lowndes and Warren Luff alongside another teams' championship.

2014: Back-to-back championships

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Whincup won a record sixth title in 2014, winning a whopping 14 races.

Lowndes won three races to help the team win another teams' title, with Whincup combining with Paul Dumbrell to win enduros at Sandown and Surfers Paradise.

The strong endurance campaign helped Whincup and Dumbrell win the PIRTEK Enduro Cup.

2015: First Bathurst win

Lowndes finished the 2015 season second overall, and claimed a sixth Bathurst win and first for Red Bull.

Steven Richards combined with Lowndes to win his fourth Great Race, with Whincup recovering from a poor start to the season to finish fifth overall.

Triple Eight won its third straight teams' championship with Red Bull as primary backer.

2016: Van Gisbergen crowned champion

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Shane van Gisbergen arrived in 2016, and won eight races in his maiden Triple Eight season to claim his first drivers' title.

Van Gisbergen became the first New Zealander since Jim Richards in 1991, two years after he was born, to win an ATCC/Supercars championship.

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Whincup capped a dominant year for the team with second overall as Triple Eight cantered to another teams' championship.

2017: Red Bull Holden Racing Team era

Holden shifted full factory backing to the team in 2017, with the Banyo squad adopting the Red Bull Holden Racing Team moniker.

Whincup claimed an unprecedented seventh drivers' title after a breathtaking season-long battle with Scott McLaughlin.

Van Gisbergen ended up fourth, having swept the season-opener in Adelaide.

2018: Van Gisbergen pushes McLaughlin all the way

McLaughlin won the 2018 title, but only after a thrilling season-long fight with van Gisbergen.

The latter looked to have pipped McLaughlin to the post in Newcastle, only for a post-race penalty to hand the ascendancy to his Ford rival.

Van Gisbergen again swept the Adelaide opener, marking a dominant debut Holden's new Commodore ZB model. Whincup finished third overall.

2019: Special edition Bathurst livery

The 2019 season belonged to McLaughlin, who won a record 18 races, including a maiden Bathurst win.

Van Gisbergen and Garth Tander, along with Whincup and Lowndes, pushed McLaughlin and Alex Premat to the brink on the mountain.

The team finished second and fourth in the race, with both Commodores running a special livery celebrating Holden’s 50th anniversary of factory involvement in motorsport.

The striking red and white scheme drew inspiration from Peter Brock and Colin Bond’s 1971 Sandown 250 and Bathurst 500 Holden Toranas.

2020: Van Gisbergen's maiden Bathurst win

12 months later, van Gisbergen and Tander combined for a thrilling Bathurst win, which was Red Bull's second with the team following the 2015 triumph.

Van Gisbergen held off pole man Cameron Waters, with a spirited Tickford Racing effort falling short in an enthralling day-long battle.

It was Tander's fourth Bathurst win, and first for Triple Eight.

2021: Van Gisbergen brings up 50

The current campaign has seen van Gisbergen rise to another level, with the 2016 champion winning 11 of the season's 19 races.

His win at the Darwin finale saw van Gisbergen match Brock's tally of 48 ATCC/Supercars race wins.

He brought up his 50th career win at the following event in Townsville, and extended his tally to 51 at the subsequent sprint event.

Van Gisbergen holds a 276-point lead over Whincup heading to the next event at Winton in October.

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