Seven points apart: How ultra-tight start to 2025 stacks up

Supercars

24 Mar

Will Brown is seven points ahead of Cam Waters, which is the closest margin through two rounds in the 300-point era

3 mins by James Pavey

Sydney

Melbourne

Will Brown

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Will Brown leads Cam Waters by seven points after Round 2
Seven-point margin the closest between top two in 300-point era
Brown overturned 60-point deficit to Waters in Melbourne

The 2025 Repco Supercars Championship may only be two rounds old, but a rollercoaster start to the year has to an incredibly close fight for top honours.

Through two rounds, we have seen four winners from six races, three different teams in victory lane, seven different drivers stand on the podium, a points lead change and the second closest race finish ever.

The new-for-2025 Finals system means finishing first in the Repco Sprint Cup, the first eight rounds of the season, is of extra importance given the top driver gets bonus points.

There are six rounds and 18 races left, but as it stands, reigning Supercars champion Will Brown is the man to beat, having left Melbourne atop the standings.

Through it all, Brown is just seven points ahead of Ford rival Cam Waters, which is the closest margin between first and second through two rounds since the 300-point system was introduced in 2008.

In fact, it's the only instance of the top two being split by a single-digit margin, with the 15-point gap between Will Davison and Craig Lowndes in 2015 the next closest. For the record, eventual 2016 champion Shane van Gisbergen was 70 points down in seventh.

There's every possibility Waters would have snatched the lead straight back in the Albert Park finale, which was ultimately abandoned due to heavy rain. Waters was set to start fifth, and Brown 21st.

Regardless, Brown has the orange numbers and leads the Repco Sprint Cup standings. Crucially, the Sprint Cup winner receives 25 bonus points for the first round of the Finals on the Gold Coast.

Waters opened up a 60-point lead over after winning all three Sydney races from pole, and also scooped 15 additional points for setting the fastest lap.

However, poor qualifying performance for Waters in Melbourne helped Brown gnaw away at the margin, eventually taking the lead with victory in Race 6.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver continued his ruthless consistency, extending his streak of consecutive rounds with a podium to 14, putting him third all-time.

Will the championship picture change again at In New Zealand? Find out on April 11-13, with tickets on sale now.

Margin between top two after two rounds (300-point round scoring system)

	Leader	Second	Margin
2025*	Brown	Waters	7
2016	Davison	Lowndes	15
2024	Brown	Feeney	17
2012	Davison	Whincup	18
2015	Whincup	Courtney	19
2017	van Gisbergen	Coulthard	20
2019	McLaughlin	Whincup	31
2023	Kostecki	Mostert	32
2020	McLaughlin	Whincup	39
2018	van Gisbergen	Reynolds	49
2010	Whincup	Winterbottom	57
2013	Whincup	Davison	63
2022	van Gisbergen	De Pasquale	67
2014	Lowndes	Whincup	70
2009	Whincup	Holdsworth	102
2008	Whincup	R Kelly	108
2011	Whincup	Winterbottom	144
2021	van Gisbergen	Whincup	150