Every Supercars team's Christmas wishlist for 2025
After a rollercoaster 2024 Repco Supercars Championship, many teams will be hoping to turn the corner in 2025.
While race wins and pole positions will be several teams’ obvious goals, others will be looking at the aspects that cost them dearly in 2024.
Supercars.com breaks down the teams in 2024 championship order, and what they’ll be keen to get right next year.
Triple Eight Race Engineering
First and second in the drivers' championship, a teams' championship and 11 wins from 24 starts. Seems perfect, right? It was for Triple Eight in 2024, so the team will be hoping for much of the same next year. Crucially, Will Brown and Broc Feeney have proven they can race each other, but when the Finals comes around next year, they may need to go into battle against each other with plenty more at stake. Triple Eight will be hoping they don't come together, something they avoided this year.
Tickford Racing
Tickford Racing finished second in the teams' championship, with Cam Waters and Thomas Randle fourth and fifth. It could have been so much better, given Waters was a staggering 388 points behind Will Brown after Round 3. The Ford team will be wishing Waters gets off to a much better start in 2025, and that Randle can go with him and secure a maiden Supercars win.
Walkinshaw Andretti United
Mistakes killed WAU's championship hopes, with Chaz Mostert out of contention after the Gold Coast. Simply, of WAU returns with the speed it had in 2024, and rids itself of mistakes, the team could be hard to stop. Chaz Mostert is in career-best form, and Ryan Wood's best is yet to come. If the team nails the one-percenters, watch out.
Grove Racing
Penrite Racing welcomes Kai Allen in 2025, with the teenager joining Matt Payne. Payne will enter his third season, and is a multi-time winner and pole-sitter. Amid the team's efforts to get Allen up to speed, they must find consistency. Some weekends, Payne was the fastest over one lap, but fell away in the races. Other weekends, he struggled to reach the first three rows, but was quick in the race.
Dick Johnson Racing
There's plenty of changes coming for the Shell V-Power Racing Team in 2025, none more significant than Brodie Kostecki. The team will be hoping its new recruits can gel quickly to help fast-track its return to form, given the Ford squad has one win in 52 starts in the Gen3 era.
Erebus Motorsport
It was a largely torrid title defence for Erebus in 2024, with Brodie Kostecki missing the first two rounds, followed by a string of poor reliability and poor luck. Kostecki has moved on, so the team will be wishing new rookie Cooper Murray can become the next young driver to excel after being given a shot by Erebus. Jack Le Brocq will also be wishing for more consistency and luck, having been knocked out of potential podium-finishing positions in both enduros.
Matt Stone Racing
It was a breakout year for Matt Stone Racing, with Nick Percat winning at the Grand Prix and Symmons Plains. However, it was a case of feast or famine, with Percat suffering a second-half slump, eventually finishing eighth after sitting fourth in the early rounds. Notably, Percat lost plenty of points in the enduros.
PremiAir Racing
James Golding was PremiAir Nulon Racing's leading light in 2024, finishing seventh overall versus Tim Slade's 20th. The team will be wishing recruit Richie Stanaway can be just as competitive as Golding at the very least, so the Gold Coast squad can get ever closer to its next goal of winning a Supercars race.
Team 18
Anton De Pasquale and David Reynolds are back together, the duo impressing as teammates at Erebus Motorsport between 2018 and 2020. Team 18 will be hoping the duo can rekindle their old form as teammates and chase wins, with the Charlie Schwerkolt-owned squad battling for one-lap and race pace all season.
Brad Jones Racing
Poor qualifying masked what could have been a solid year for Brad Jones Racing, which failed to replicate its standout 2023 season. Andre Heimgartner, Bryce Fullwood, Jaxon Evans and Macauley Jones were, on average, 16th, 19th, 22nd and 23rd in qualifying in 2024. You won't trouble victory lane with those numbers, so BJR will need to get their heads together to unpack one-lap speed.
Blanchard Racing Team
It was a tough first season as a two-car squad for the Blanchard Racing Team, which went through plenty of change in 2024. The team will be obviously wishing for more speed and consistency, but continuity of staff will only help too. James Courtney will be wishing of a first win since 2016, while Aaron Love will be hopeful he can banish the demons that undid his rookie campaign.
