Supercars' surprise new stat leaders in 2026

Another series of changes to the Supercars grid have again changed who the benchmarks are in the Repco Supercars Championship.

James Courtney, Will Davison and Nick Percat all stepped away from full-time racing at the end of 2025, taking with them more than 1500 combined race starts.

It comes after 2015 Supercars champion Mark Winterbottom left at the end of 2024, having had more race wins, podiums, pole positions, race starts and round starts than any other driver.

A new veteran has emerged as the elder statesman of the grid, while the new champion takes over at the top of key statistic columns. However, a dominant 2025 for another driver has closed the gap, as broken down below by Supercars.com.

Wins

Chaz Mostert took over the wins column at the start of 2025 with 24 victories. He extended that to 28 at the end of 2025 en route to his first championship.

A 14-win season in 2025 has Broc Feeney second behind Mostert with 26 wins, with Cam Waters (18), Will Brown (12) and Brodie Kostecki (11) the other drivers in double digits.

Anton De Pasquale (9), David Reynolds (8), Matt Payne (7), Jack Le Brocq (2), Andre Heimgartner (2), Cameron Hill (1) and Ryan Wood (1) complete a 12-strong winning group.

Podiums

Mostert also leads the podiums column with 112, after starting the year with 98. Mostert became just the eighth driver to hit a century of podiums last season, behind Jamie Whincup (239), Shane van Gisbergen (177), Craig Lowndes (169), Winterbottom (121), Scott McLaughlin (106), Garth Tander (101) and Peter Brock (100).

Davison (81) and Courtney (66) ended 2025 in second and third, with Waters moving from 55 to 64.

Waters is now second behind Feeney, who jumped from 28 to 48, and Brown from 30 to 45. Behind them are Reynolds (45), De Pasquale (37), and Kostecki (30).

Wood (7), Kai Allen (5) and Hill (3) all claimed their first podiums last season.

Pole positions

Waters started the year level with Davison on 29 poles. The Tickford Racing star kicked off 2025 with a hat-trick of poles, taking his tally to 32, the best of all drivers on the 2026 grid.

Feeney, though, exploded in 2025 with a record-breaking 19 poles, taking him ahead of Mostert. Feeney and Mostert ended 2025 on 27 and 26 poles respectively, ahead of Kostecki and Reynolds (17 each).

Wood claimed his first pole in 2025, and ended the season with three. De Pasquale (16), Brown (8), Heimgartner (3), Payne (3), Randle (3), Le Brocq (2) and James Golding (1) have also registered poles.

Starts

Courtney and Davison entered the 2025 season on 257 rounds each, and ended the year on 270. Only Lowndes (306), Tander (294) and Winterbottom (289) have more.

Reynolds (222 rounds and 490 races) is the only other driver on the 2026 grid with 200-plus rounds and 400-plus races.

Percat (168 rounds and 374 races) also moved on, releasing Mostert (167 rounds and 348 races) as the clear second of the veterans behind Reynolds, despite being aged 33.

Waters (309) and Heimgartner (302) breached 300 races last year, with the former to record his 150th round in Perth. Le Brocq (254 races), De Pasquale (239) and Macauley Jones (232) take the 200-plus group to seven.

Champions

As was the case in 2024 and 2025, there will be three one-time champions on the 2026 grid.

The vacancy created by the retirement of 2010 champion Courtney has been filled by 2025 champion Mostert. Mostert joins 2023 champion Kostecki, and 2024 champion Brown.

Compared to other major motorsport categories, Supercars isn't alone in having a low champion count: Formula 1 only has four champions on its 2026 grid (Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Lando Norris).

IndyCar also has four (Scott Dixon, Alex Palou, Josef Newgarden and Will Power), MotoGP has three (Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin), the NASCAR Cup Series has six (Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney), and the World Rally Championship has two (Sebastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville).

Bathurst winners

Two-time Bathurst winner Davison will return for the enduros. However, he leaves Mostert as the only multiple Bathurst winner on the full-time grid. 2011 winner Percat and 2023 winner Richie Stanaway also depart.

In fact, there are only four former Great Race champions on the 2026 grid: Mostert (2014 and 2021), Reynolds (2017), Kostecki (2024) and Payne (2025).

2026 Repco Supercars Championship stat leaders

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