Brodie Kostecki won three of four races at Melbourne SuperSprint
Russell Ingall won four races in 1998, Mark Winterbottom in 2015
Scott McLaughlin won three races in 2019, missed out on four-peat
New championship leader Brodie Kostecki heads to New Zealand on the back of one of the most dominant rounds in recent Supercars history.
The Shell V-Power Racing Team star won three of four races at the Melbourne SuperSprint, and finished second in the other race.
Broc Feeney denied Kostecki in the third race of the weekend by 0.14s. With Kostecki winning the finale, the 2023 champion fell just short of a rare four-peat.
The Grand Prix is the only four-race round on the calendar, and has been since it was elevated to championship status in 2018.
Before Kostecki’s run, just once had a driver claimed three wins in the Grand Prix's points era.
Even then, that driver — Scott McLaughlin in 2019 — was a non-starter in one of the races after a bizarre warm-up lap clash with Cam Waters, preventing what could have been the first AGP four-peat.
Between 1996 and 2017, just twice did a driver go four from four — Russell Ingall in 1998, and Mark Winterbottom in 2015. Ingall won seven straight between 1997 and 1998, in what was a remarkable run for Perkins Engineering.
In his championship year in 2015, Winterbottom claimed pole and all four wins.
The AGP format changed between three and four races over the years in the non-championship era, and just two other drivers won three races on a weekend: Garth Tander, Fabian Coulthard, and Shane van Gisbergen.
Tander went three from three in 2008, while Coulthard (2013) and van Gisbergen (2014, 2016) went three from four. A broken anti-roll bar prevented an SVG sweep in 2014, while Jamie Whincup denied him two years later.
Come 2026, and Kostecki went closest of all in the championship era to go four from four, scoring 299 of a possible 320 points from the weekend. It was Kostecki's first multiple-podium weekend since his title season in 2023, and second three-peat after sweeping The Bend round in the same year.
With Feeney crashing out of the finale, it propelled Kostecki into the championship lead heading to Taupō.
The 2026 Repco Supercars Championship resumes across the Tasman, with the ITM NZ Doubleheader kicking off in Taupō on April 10-12. Tickets are on sale now.
Three or more wins on Grand Prix weekend
Four race format only, includes championship and non-championship
Year | Driver | Results |
|---|---|---|
1998 | Ingall | 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st |
2013 | Coulthard | 1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd |
2014 | van Gisbergen | 1st, 1st, 1st, 14th |
2015 | Winterbottom | 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st |
2016 | van Gisbergen | 1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st |
2019^ | McLaughlin | 1st, 1st, DNS, 1st |
2026^ | Kostecki | 1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st |
^denotes championship round