Will Brown chasing second championship in three seasons
Brown won 2024 championship, in first year with Triple Eight
Queenslander won Enduro Cup, enters Gold Coast third in points
Will Brown has done it all before, winning the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship off the back of a supremely consistent season.
Getting the job done in 2026, however, would mark one of the great comebacks in modern Supercars history, and close the loop on what has been a rollercoaster season.
The Queenslander arrives at Surfers Paradise ranked third in the standings, a position many would have thought improbable after he left March's Grand Prix languishing 13th overall, 245 points from the lead.
The revelation of an undersized restrictor brought some sense as to why Brown hadn't had it all his own way. Once sorted, Brown made it clear he wanted to fight on a level playing field to his rivals.
Since then, the scoreboard makes it empirically clear that Brown has rediscovered the consistency that delivered him the crown back in 2024.
Since the start of the Ipswich weekend, no driver has scored more points than Brown, who has tallied 781 of a possible 915 points, or 85% of the maximum points on offer.
In that time, aided by a Ryco Enduro Cup-winning effort with Scott Pye, Brown outscored the likes of Brodie Kostecki (by 100 points), Kai Allen (215), Matt Payne (241), Andre Heimgartner (315) and teammate Broc Feeney (328).
Brown jumped Anton De Pasquale, Cam Waters and Allen across the last three rounds to given himself a ranking of fourth after the regular season, which becomes third for the Gold Coast courtesy of his Enduro Cup bonus points.
Critically, Brown's Finals bid commences at a circuit that — beyond qualifying crashes in 2023, 2024 and 2025 — has favoured his racing style.
"Will Brown arrives on the Gold Coast as the form driver of the finalists," Supercars data analyst Scott Sinclair writes.
"He’s scored more points than anyone over the last six races. He also hasn’t finished worse than fourth since his engine restrictor issue was resolved five races ago, a run of top fours he hasn’t strung together since the start of 2025.
"Add to that the fact he’s overtaken more cars than anyone across the six Gen3 races on the Gold Coast, and everything points to him being right at the front this weekend."
Speaking prior to the Gold Coast, Brown made his intentions clear as the form driver of the championship entering the Finals.
When asked on MotorRacing 360 whether his momentum could carry him all the way through the Finals campaign, Brown declared: "Definitely, as you know momentum is a massive thing in our sport.
"Coming off before Ipswich and the run we'd had, it was a little bit disappointing, but now you're sort of feeling good, you're going in and going, 'We've been consistent, we can do it, and we can run up the front.'
"We obviously won the race at Ipswich, but we've been close since then, and Bathurst was a great showing as well.
"Hopefully we can score a few points down here and get ourselves through to Sandown and battle on from there, but we wanna be in that final four."
Track action on the Gold Coast commences with dual practice sessions and Boost Mobile Qualifying on Friday.
