Champ's number: Who has the most Supercars wins with the #1?

Supercars

22 Mar

Will Brown became the latest driver to win a championship race with the champion's number

3 mins by James Pavey

Will Brown

Brodie Kostecki

Red Bull Ampol Racing

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Will Brown became latest driver to win with champion's #1
Jamie Whincup won a record 70 races with the champion's number
Mark Skaife second with 30, Craig Lowndes third with 19

Will Brown became the latest driver to win a championship race with the champion's number, courtesy of his Race 6 victory at the Australian Grand Prix.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver pounced on teammate Broc Feeney to win the Saturday race at Albert Park, marking his 11th Supercars victory and first with the #1.

Brown won five races with Erebus Motorsport and its #9 between 2021 and 2023, before carrying the #87 to five wins en route to the 2024 championship.

The #1 is the most successful racing number in the history of the Australian Touring Car Championship/Supercars Championship, with Brown adding to its dominant status.

From the 1126 races held in ATCC/Supercars history, car #1 has now won 191 of them, or 16.96%.

The legendary lan 'Pete' Geoghegan was the first driver to win an ATCC race with the #1, at Mount Panorama in 1966. Geoghegan won six races with the #1, including the single-race championship races in 1966, at Lakeside in 1967 and Warwick Farm in 1968.

The likes of Norm Beechey, Colin Bond, Allan Moffat, Jim Richards, Mark Skaife, John Bowe, Glenn Seton and Craig Lowndes won with the #1 in the 1990s.

Come the new millennium, and one name made the #1 his own: Jamie Whincup, who ran the #1 to a staggering 70 race wins.

It makes sense, really; Whincup won a record seven championships, and ran the #1 each time in the subsequent season. In fact, Whincup won 10 or more races in a season with the #1; 14 wins in 2014, 12 wins in 2012, and 11 in 2009 and 2013.

Skaife is second with 30 wins, ahead of Lowndes (19), Marcos Ambrose (16) and Allan Moffat (9).

Drivers have shared the #1 to endurance race wins, most recently with Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood at the Great Race last October. Skaife and Lowndes won the Queensland 500 together in 2000, while Tander and Skaife combined to win the 2008 Phillip Island 500.

Before Kostecki picked it up last year, the #1 went missing amid a run of dominance by Scott McLaughlin and Shane van Gisbergen, who opted to keep their respective #17 and #97. Five-time champion Dick Johnson, meanwhile, also kept the #17 after his championship wins in the 1980s.

The 2025 Repco Supercars Championship will resume in New Zealand at the ITM Taupō Super 440 on April 11-13. Tickets for the event are on sale now.

Most ATCC/Supercars race wins with the #1

Correct to 2025 MSS Security Melbourne SuperSprint