Five bold predictions for the 2025 Supercars season

With new formats, new tyres, new drivers and a new Finals Series, the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship presents plenty of unknowns.

With more rounds and races, three different segments of the season and a growing competitive order, 2025 could be one of the most unpredictable seasons ever.

There's so much on offer, with 34 individual wins, Sprint Cup and Enduro Cup glory, and overall championship honours after a blockbuster run home in the Finals.

How will it shake out? Supercars.com makes five big predictions for the upcoming season.

There will be three first time winners

There will be 14 race winners on the 2025 grid, and 12 of them have already won a race in the Gen3 era. That leaves 10 drivers searching for their first win, and there are some drivers long overdue for a trip to victory lane. Thomas Randle, James Golding and Ryan Wood impressed in 2024, while gun rookies Kai Allen and Cooper Murray will go from strength to strength. With 34 races and revolutionary formats, with different tyre compounds used for races on the same weekend, don't be surprised if new names can break through.

Kostecki/Hazelwood will go back-to-back at Bathurst

Only Mark Skaife (2001-02), Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup (2006-08) and Shane van Gisbergen (2022-23) have gone back-to-back at Mount Panorama this century, and we're tipped Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood will do it in 2025. Kostecki and Hazelwood dominated the 2024 race, and arrive in 2025 with Dick Johnson Racing. The same combination, the same engineer, an Erebus Motorsport-built chassis and a renewed DJR? It'll be hard to stop.

A Sprint Cup top four finisher won't make final four

The Finals will shake up the pecking order, and will take place at three vastly different circuits. The top 10 will e set after Bathurst, and from there, it's anyone's guess who wins. From first down to 10th, drivers will get bonus points, but finishing top four in the first eight rounds doesn't guarantee anything.

A rookie will make the Finals

Kai Allen and Cooper Murray are lightning fast, and have more than earned the right to score main game drives in 2025. The duo were the standouts in Super2 across 2023 and 2024, combining to win eight races. Murray was sensational in his wildcard starts with Triple Eight last year, while Allen will get up to speed as Penrite Racing continues to improve.

There will be 10 or more race winners

As mentioned, the new-for-2025 formats could open the floodgates for new names and teams to claim wins. There were 10 winners in 2023, and eight in 2024, 12 of them racing in 2025. The 2025 season bodes to be one of the most competitive yet. Could it even match or better the record of 13 different winners, shared by the 2000 and 2013 seasons?