What was behind Mostert's 2024 transformation

Chaz Mostert was a key player in the story of the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship, with the Walkinshaw Andretti United driver delivering one of his best seasons yet.

Mostert challenged Triple Eight Race Engineering drivers Will Brown and Broc Feeney, with Brown and Mostert separated by 81 points heading to the enduros.

While it didn't play out the way Mostert and WAU wanted, the two-time Bathurst winner had clearly made a jump in 2024, thanks to three wins, 11 podiums and two pole positions.

At face value, Mostert's first wins since 2022 and first pole since 2021 were proof the 32-year-old had found form, and while championships are won by points, it was qualifying where Mostert made the biggest jump.

Mostert ended the season with a 6.6 qualifying average, lending itself to a 6.2 race average. It marked his best qualifying performance over a season since 2017, when he ended the year with a 5.2 average.

His best remains 3.8 from 2015, although that year was cut short with five rounds remaining due to injuries sustained in an horrific Bathurst qualifying crash.

Mostert only missed the top 10 in qualifying on four occasions in 2024, three of them coming on the Super Soft tyre in Darwin (22nd and 20th) and Tasmania (11th). The other, 22nd in Adelaide, was due to failing to set a representative lap before crashes ended the session.

Most importantly, Mostert claimed pole positions in Melbourne and Perth, ending a pole drought that stretched back to the 2021 Bathurst 1000.

In contrast, Mostert's qualifying average in 2023 was 10.1, and he missed the top 10 on 10 occasions. In 2022, he missed the 10 seven times, six times in 2021, and seven times in 2020.

Mostert will commence his 2025 Repco Supercars Championship campaign at the opening round in Sydney on February 21-23. Tickets are on sale now.

Chaz Mostert: Qualifying and race averages since first full season