A COUNCIL vote has put the Newcastle 500’s future in grave doubt, after just four Supercars rounds on the city’s streets.
Even in that short history, Newcastle has played host to some major Supercars moments, starting with the thrilling 2017 title decider that played out between Jamie Whincup and Scott McLaughlin.
Twelve months later, McLaughlin avenged that defeat to beat Shane van Gisbergen to the 2018 championship – that event also marking the last start of Craig Lowndes’ illustrious full-time career.
After one more season finale in 2019, there was a few years off due to COVID-19, before Newcastle’s next milestone: holding the maiden race weekend for Supercars’ new Gen3 machines.
It’s increasingly looking like that will be the end of the road for Newcastle/Supercars, so we’ve decided to commemorate the prospect in classic V8 Sleuth fashion.
That is, we’ve had V8 Sleuth stats guru Shane Rogers crunch the numbers to determine the all-time Newcastle 500 champion, determined by overall points accrued.
The winner might surprise you: David Reynolds.
Reynolds is one of 11 drivers to have contested every Newcastle round, and he’s tasted plenty of success along the way.
In eight races there, Reynolds has four podiums including one win – not to mention two pole positions.
See the full table below…
Total Supercars Championship points accrued in Newcastle:
| Rank | Driver | Points | Rounds |
| 1 | David Reynolds | 912 | 4 |
| 2 | Shane van Gisbergen | 822 | 4 |
| 3 | Chaz Mostert | 750 | 4 |
| 4 | Scott McLaughlin | 747 | 3 |
| 5 | Scott Pye | 720 | 4 |
| 6 | Jamie Whincup | 690 | 3 |
| 7 | Cam Waters | 648 | 4 |
| 8 | Tim Slade | 648 | 4 |
| 9 | Mark Winterbottom | 639 | 4 |
| 10 | James Courtney | 546 | 4 |
| 11 | Will Davison | 516 | 4 |
| 12 | Andre Heimgartner | 510 | 4 |
| 13 | Lee Holdsworth | 468 | 3 |
| 14 | Rick Kelly | 450 | 3 |
| 15 | Nick Percat | 444 | 4 |
| 16 | Fabian Coulthard | 432 | 3 |
| 17 | Todd Hazelwood | 360 | 3 |
| 18 | James Golding | 330 | 3 |
| 19 | Jack Le Brocq | 327 | 3 |
| 20 | Simona De Silvestro | 309 | 3 |
| 21 | Michael Caruso | 282 | 2 |
| 22 | Anton De Pasquale | 279 | 3 |
| 23 | Garth Tander | 270 | 2 |
| 24 | Brodie Kostecki | 231 | 1 |
| 25 | Richie Stanaway | 207 | 2 |
| 26 | Will Brown | 186 | 1 |
| 27 | Macauley Jones | 183 | 2 |
| 28 | Tim Blanchard | 165 | 2 |
| 29 | Todd Kelly | 138 | 1 |
| 30 | Matt Payne | 132 | 1 |
| 31 | Bryce Fullwood | 132 | 1 |
| 32 | Broc Feeney | 111 | 1 |
| 33 | Craig Lowndes | 108 | 2 |
| 34 | Thomas Randle | 105 | 1 |
| 35 | Dale Wood | 96 | 1 |
| 36 | Cameron Hill | 87 | 1 |
| 37 | Jack Smith | 87 | 1 |
| 38 | Garry Jacobson | 84 | 1 |
| 39 | Declan Fraser | 66 | 1 |
| 40 | James Moffat | 66 | 1 |
| 41 | Aaren Russell | 48 | 1 |
| 42 | Taz Douglas | 42 | 1 |
| 43 | Jason Bright | 39 | 1 |
