The championship movers and shakers after Sandown

The first race of the enduro season has seen changes aplenty up and down the order in both the drivers and teams championships in the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.

Behind Will Brown and Scott Pye's victory at the Penrite Oil Sandown 500, there were stories aplenty as all 26 entries got their first taste of endurance racing for the season.

With 300 points up for grabs at both Sandown and Bathurst, the enduros always had the potential to shake up the running order in the standings.

After Sandown, that is already evident, with some big gains being made in both championships, and also some big losses.

Supercars.com takes a look at some of the biggest movements in the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship standings across both drivers and teams.

MOVER: James Golding (9th to 6th)

A maiden podium finish for both PremiAir Racing and James Golding was a just reward for what has been the best season to date for both team and driver. The podium finish was also a major boost to Golding in the points standings, becoming the biggest winner in the points standings out of the Sandown 500. Golding entered the weekend ninth in the standings, 112 points behind Nick Percat in the battle for sixth in the championship. Dramas for the Matt Stone Racing driver and Will Davison, and a quiet run for Thomas Randle saw Golding leap into sixth place, now 74 points ahead of Percat in the standings. Golding is 145 points away from breaking into the championship top five, where Grove Racing’s Matt Payne currently sits. With a test day up their sleeve, previous form at Bathurst, and a top-level co-driver in David Russell, perhaps a top five championship finish isn’t totally off the cards for Golding in 2024.

MOVER: David Reynolds (16th to 13th)

Following a strong performance at the season-opening Bathurst 500, it has been a quiet season for David Reynolds at Team 18, with teammate Mark Winterbottom scoring two podiums to Reynolds’ zero. However, when it was confirmed that Warren Luff would once again be loaned out from Walkinshaw Andretti United to the #20 Camaro for the 2024 enduros, the Reynolds/Luff combination shaped as a fast and experienced lineup. A solid run from 17th to eighth, after an awkward collision under Safety Car, has seen Reynolds also gain three spots in the championship to now sit 13th. The 2017 Bathurst winner is now only 78 points outside the top 10 in the championship, with future teammate Anton De Pasquale currently 10th in the standings. Reynolds has also jumped ahead of Winterbottom once again in the points, in what will be the 2015 champion’s final season at Team 18.

MOVER: PremiAir Racing (9th to 7th)

On a day headlined by a maiden podium finish for the ambitious team, PremiAir Racing were the big winners in the Live Pit Lane shuffle for the Repco Bathurst 1000. James Golding and David Russell took all the attention for their breakthrough result, however Tim Slade and Cameron McLeod in the sister car finished just outside the top 10 despite an at times troublesome day. McLeod, making his debut in the Supercars Championship, tagged Jordan Boys into a spin and received a drive-through penalty for his efforts, however Slade was able to bring the car home in 12th for a strong haul of points for the Gold Coast team. A disastrous day for Erebus and a quiet day for Team 18 has seen PremiAir leapfrog both of them into seventh in the teams points, and will see them jump up two garage allotments in the Bathurst pit lane.

SHAKER: Richie Stanaway (14th to 18th)

When rain struck Sandown on Saturday morning, a lot of people looked for Richie Stanaway to appear at the top of timesheets, which he duly delivered on in the morning's practice sessions. His seventh starting position was his best qualifying performance since qualifying in ninth for Race 5 back at the Australian Grand Prix. Having been ordered to move aside for teammate Matt Payne in the early stages, Stanaway was comfortably on track to record his first top 10 finish since Race 12 in Darwin until disaster struck on lap 23. Heading down the back straight, Stanaway had a catastrophic engine failure, which would eventually be linked back to a crankshaft problem that also caused failures for several other Ford teams at the ride day on Monday. Having been 14th after a trying season to Sandown, Stanaway had the biggest drop of anyone in the field, now sitting 18th in points. The mechanical retirement came at an awkward time for Stanaway, who is on the driver market for next year with his future uncertain.

SHAKER: Will Davison (7th to 9th)

A tough weekend for Will Davison was made even tougher on Sunday. The #17 Mustang struggled for outright pace all weekend, with Davison and highly rated co-driver Kai Allen only featuring in the top 10 during the wet practice sessions on Saturday morning. The second session ended with Davison nosed into the tyres having attempted a dry tyre run on a semi-wet track. Davison could only muster 15th on the grid, whilst teammate Anton De Pasquale squeaked into the Top Ten Shootout. Davison continued to struggle in the race, before Allen got caught up in a clumsy incident with Dylan O'Keeffe, having been limping back to the pits on a punctured right rear tyre. The Dick Johnson Racing crew performed a minor miracle to get the car back out and classified in 24th, but the 42-year-old has dropped two positions in the championship from seventh to ninth, ahead of De Pasquale.

SHAKER: Erebus Motorsport (7th to 10th)

Erebus Motorsport had arguably the strongest weekend of their title defence at Sandown, however they left all but empty handed, and have paid the price in the teams championship. Both of the Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood and Jack Le Brocq/Jayden Ojeda Camaros featured right at the pointy end across the race, however neither car made it to the end in a strong position. The #1 Camaro had a wild day, with Kostecki showing glimpses of his aggressive best early, before Hazelwood got away with a right front puncture at the high-speed turn six. The reigning champion was back on the recovery trail before he lost power down the back straight late in the race, failing to finish for the third time this season. Meanwhile, Le Brocq and Ojeda had stormed through from 19th on the grid to be running a genuine fourth in the dying laps before a bump with Matt Payne sent Le Brocq into the wall, and into a 20th place finish. As a result, Erebus have dived from seventh all the way back to 10th in the teams standings, losing places to PremiAir, Team 18, and Brad Jones Racing's first combination of Andre Heimgartner and Bryce Fullwood. Erebus will now be the second last team in pit lane, as Brad Jones Racing have all four entries grouped together in pit lane.