Profile 01Australian
Craig Lowndes
Three championships established his reputation. Six more Bathurst victories after 2000 made Lowndes a defining figure of the modern endurance race.
3 championships 7 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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Supercars / The people behind the racing
Twenty-five years of rivalry, resilience and remarkable racing. The drivers who helped define modern Australian touring cars.
Our opening collection explores the 2001–2026 era, with earlier career context where it matters. These are selected stories, not a ranking or an official Hall of Fame.
Profile 01Australian
Three championships established his reputation. Six more Bathurst victories after 2000 made Lowndes a defining figure of the modern endurance race.
3 championships 7 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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Seven championships and four Bathurst wins made Whincup the benchmark for sustained success in the modern Supercars era.
7 championships 4 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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Skaife carried the Holden Racing Team’s dominance into the new century, then added another Bathurst chapter as an endurance co-driver.
5 championships 6 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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A Tasmanian returning from European single-seaters became the driver who broke Holden’s championship streak with Stone Brothers Racing.
2 championships 0 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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Four Bathurst victories, a remarkable Pukekohe record and one unforgettable qualifying lap made Murphy much more than a championship statistic.
0 championships 4 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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A championship winner who kept finding new ways to win Bathurst, Tander finished his Supercars career with six Great Race victories.
1 championships 6 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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McLaughlin turned a first championship into three in succession, spanning Ford’s Falcon-to-Mustang transition before moving to IndyCar.
3 championships 1 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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From a wet-weather debut to three championships and three Bathurst wins, van Gisbergen developed into one of the era’s most versatile drivers.
3 championships 3 Bathurst wins Full-career record
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