Brown: 'Really hard' to get wins in tough 2024 season

Current Repco Supercars Championship leader Will Brown has opened up on how the competitiveness of the 2024 season has stepped up considerably in recent events.

The Red Bull Ampol Racing Driver appears on the latest episode of Supercars' Drivers Only podcast, alongside Erebus’ Jack Le Brocq and PremiAir Racing’s James Golding.

Brown has had an extremely consistent start to the 2024 season, claiming 14 podiums in the first 18 races including three wins.

In the past three rounds, Brown has seen his points advantage whittled down by 198 points, with Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert now 81 points behind heading into the enduros.

Brown feels that there have been a lot of similarities in his on track performances this season compared to this stage of the season last year with Erebus.

“Last year we were in a similar position to the one we’re in now,” said the championship leader.

“Last year at this point I’d won five races, but got nine podiums, where this year I’ve won three races and got 14 podiums.

“There was stuff going on with parity, but last year I felt like I had more chance to win more races, where this year the competitiveness, there’s always someone different up there, it’s really hard.”

With the pressure building on the title battle heading into the backend of the season, Brown admitted that he would like to return to the top step sooner rather than later.

However, he also knows that with such fine margins separating the field in 2024, the gains needed to return to the top step will be hard to find.

“I can get a podium, but trying to get that extra bit each weekend to get a win, if you’d told me I’d have three wins by the eighth round I probably would have gone, ‘oh that’s not bad.’

“The podiums sound great, I’m happy with how the podiums have been, but it’s been a tough one to get wins lately, like there’s people every weekend popping up.

“There was Randle on the [Tasmania] weekend, he was really fast, but every weekend there’s different people, yourself [Jack Le Brocq] at Townsville.

“There’s just different people up the front every weekend I find.”

Brown's comments were one of a number of topics talked about by the trio on the latest Drivers Only episode, including Le Brocq sharing memories of former engineer Campbell Little.

The trio also answer some more fan questions, including looking back at the remarkable spectator turnout in Taupō, and also reminiscing on which circuits lost to time they'd want to bring back.