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Supergrid: The 2023 Supercars pecking order

Supercars
18 Dec 2023
The fastest to slowest in 2023 Repco Supercars Championship, on average starting position
  • Brodie Kostecki, Cam Waters front row of average 2023 start grid

  • Kostecki was ARMOR ALL Pole Champion in 2023 with six poles

  • Waters finished sixth overall, but was second on average in qualifying

For the first time in his career, Brodie Kostecki was the ARMOR ALL Pole Champion in 2023, scoring six poles in his championship campaign.

It should be no surprise that the Erebus Motorsport driver also recorded the best qualifying average, hitting a 4.4 score. He also qualified on the front two rows for 21 of the 28 races, and on the front row 16 times.

But what of the rest of the 25-driver field?

Supercars.com has created a ‘Supergrid’ to illustrate the 2023 qualifying pecking order.The Supergrid has been created rom the average qualifying figures from the 28 races in 2023.

The champion has the top spot, but behind him, there are a few surprises and movement in the order.

Shane van Gisbergen proved Kostecki's biggest title threat, but teammate Broc Feeney was best of the Red Bull Ampol Camaros.

Tickford Racing star Cam Waters was best of the rest, averaging 7.1 in a season that included three poles. However, DNFs in Darwin and Bathurst saw Waters end up sixth in the points.

One-lap struggles

The two drivers whose qualifying rankings differ the most from their final championship positions were Andre Heimgartner and Anton De Pasquale.

Heimgartner and 2021 ARMOR ALL Pole Champion De Pasquale finished seventh and eighth in the points, but were 12th and 13th on the average qualifying figures list.

Both drivers scored a pole in 2023 — De Pasquale at Albert Park, and Heimgartner in Sydney — but were otherwise inconsistent over one lap.

Mark Winterbottom and Bryce Fullwood were also four spots off their championship positions, Winterbottom 19th and Fullwood 16th on the Supergrid.

The flip-side

Waters, Jack Le Brocq and Thomas Randle significantly placed higher on the Supergrid than they finished in the championship.

All three drivers enjoyed solid seasons, but their points positions were undone by a number of issues in races.

Notably, Waters scored no points in the 300-point Repco Bathurst 1000, but qualified third for the Great Race. Tickford Racing teammate Randle, meanwhile, suffered a mechanical drama at Sandown.

Then, there’s Le Brocq, who scored Matt Stone Racing’s first pole and win on the same day in Darwin, before a run of outs late in the year consigned him to 12th overall.

2023 Supergrid (1st to 25th on average qualifying position)

Supergrid

Driver

Av. qual.

Ch'ship pos

1st

Kostecki

4.4

1st

2nd

Waters

7.1

6th

3rd

Feeney

7.8

3rd

4th

Brown

8.2

5th

5th

van Gisbergen

8.5

2nd

6th

Le Brocq

10.1

12th

7th

Mostert

10.1

4th

8th

Randle

10.3

13th

9th

Davison

10.6

10th

10th

Reynolds

10.8

9th

11th

Payne

10.9

14th

12th

Heimgartner

11.4

7th

13th

De Pasquale

12.7

8th

14th

Golding

13.0

15th

15th

Fullwood

14.3

11th

16th

Slade

14.7

19th

17th

Courtney

15.0

17th

18th

Pye

15.1

18th

19th

Winterbottom

15.2

15th

20th

Percat

16.8

20th

21st

Hazelwood

16.8

21st

22nd

Hill

17.3

23rd

23rd

Jones

20.3

22nd

24th

Fraser

20.9

24th

25th

Smith

22.6

25th

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