De Pasquale, Slade record massive year-on-year jumps
Anton De Pasquale and Tim Slade will be among the happier drivers year-on-year after Sydney.
The Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight ended on Sunday with a first-time championship leader and a jumbled points table.
With Shane van Gisbergen encountering a tough Sunday, Race 2 winner Chaz Mostert leads the points for the first time.
It's De Pasquale in second who has made the single biggest position gain year-on-year.
The Shell V-Power Racing Team driver scored podiums on both days in Sydney, and is second overall on 267 points.
In the first round of 2021, in Bathurst last February, De Pasquale recorded a DNF and fourth to sit 18th overall.
All told, De Pasquale is 16 positions and 147 points better off, even though he ended his weekend in the wall after a botched celebration.
An even bigger smile will be reserved for Slade, who is ninth overall on 168 points.
This time last year, Slade was nursing a bruised ego after he crashed out of Race 1 in Bathurst. With the car too damaged for Sunday, he registered no points, and was ranked 24th and last.
Two more big winners emerge from the Erebus garage; Brodie Kostecki is 108 points and seven positions better off, and Will Brown 66 points and 10 positions.
Conversely, it was a rough story for Team 18; Mark Winterbottom and Scott Pye suffered the two biggest negative points changes.
Winterbottom was third overall in 2021; he leaves Sydney 105 points and 10 positions worse off, and with a damaged car following a bizarre post-race incident.
Pye, who was forced out of Race 1 with a power steering drama, is 78 points and 12 positions worse off.
Matt Stone Racing recruit Jack Le Brocq, who slid off in race 2, is 45 points and nine positions worse off versus his 2021 effort with Tickford Racing.
The most consistent drivers after the last three season-opening rounds are Mostert, Cam Waters and Will Davison.
Mostert left the 2020 opener in Adelaide, his first event with Walkinshaw Andretti United, third overall. He was second last year in Bathurst, and leads now.
Waters was fourth in 2020, sixth in 2021 and sixth now; Davison was fifth, fourth and fifth.
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Championship points standings after Round 1
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2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
McLaughlin (288) | van Gisbergen (300) | Mostert (279) |
Whincup (261) | Mostert (267) | De Pasquale (267) |
Mostert (234) | Winterbottom (231) | van Gisbergen (252) |
Waters (231) | W.Davison (225) | B.Kostecki (249) |
W.Davison (231) | Whincup (198) | W.Davison (216) |
Reynolds (210) | Waters (183) | Waters (192) |
Holdsworth (171) | Fullwood (177) | Brown (186) |
Winterbottom (162) | Reynolds (156) | Heimgartner (174) |
Coulthard (162) | Le Brocq (150) | Slade (168) |
R.Kelly (150) | Heimgartner (144) | Feeney (156) |
Heimgartner (150) | B.Kostecki (141) | Percat (138) |
Percat (135) | Pye (138) | Courtney (132) |
van Gisbergen (129) | Hazelwood (129) | Winterbottom (126) |
Hazelwood (129) | Percat (129) | Hazelwood (126) |
Le Brocq (126) | Goddard (126) | Fullwood (117) |
Goddard (108) | J.Kostecki (120) | Reynolds (117) |
Jones (102) | Brown (120) | Randle (108) |
Fullwood (96) | De Pasquale (120) | Le Brocq (105) |
Smith (96) | Coulthard (102) | Smith (105) |
De Pasquale (63) | Smith (96) | Holdsworth (99) |
Pye (60) | Courtney (90) | J.Kostecki (81) |
Courtney (60) | Jones (60) | Pither (81) |
Pither (48) | Jacobson (45) | Jones (81) |
Jacobson (45) | Slade (0) | Pye (60) |
Jacobson (51) |
