Supercars 2024: All the enduro driver pairings for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000
It’s time for the Supercars season of endurance with the grid set for the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000. We run the rule over all the driver pairings ahead of the two biggest races of the season.
The Supercars endurance season is back.
Co-drivers will return for the Sandown 500 next week, which will serve as a prelude for the biggest race of the year – the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama.
So, how do the co-driver pairings stack-up this year?
There have been plenty of changes on the co-driver front for 2024, with only seven pairings the same as last year of the 26 combinations on the grid.
The Triple Eight pairing of young gun Broc Feeney and his team boss Jamie Whincup is one of the returning combinations for this year’s endurance races and they are the defending Sandown 500 champions.
Only one half of last year’s Bathurst 1000-winning pair remains on the grid – Kiwi Richie Stanaway – after triple Supercars champion’s Shane van Gisbergen’s move to NASCAR in the United States.
See how all the co-drivers line-up as we run a rule over this year’s endurance pairings for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000.
TRIPLE EIGHT
Broc Feeney and Jamie Whincup (Triple Eight)
The Triple Eight young gun will team with his boss for the third year running. The master and apprentice pair will return to the Sandown 500 as defending champions after the seven-time Supercars champion helped Feeney claim his first endurance crown to become the youngest winner of the Sandown 500 in his first start in the event. At Mount Panorama, Feeney and Whincup will be aiming to bounce back from heartbreak last year after their Bathurst 1000 hopes were shattered late in the race by a gear lever issue. Will again be one of the strongest combinations on the grid.
Will Brown and Scott Pye (Triple Eight)
It will be a new pairing for the championship leader in his first season at Triple Eight. Brown, who raced alongside Jack Perkins at Erebus Motorsport last year, will benefit from teaming with a co-driver straight out of full-time racing in Supercars last season. Pye, who raced for Team 18 last year, was snapped up quickly as a co-driver at Triple Eight. He has a strong record in the Bathurst 1000, in particular, finishing runner-up in 2017 and 2018 alongside Warren Luff. Will be one of the favourites heading into the endurance season.
WALKINSHAW ANDRETTI UNITED
Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth
The Bathurst 1000-winning combination will team up for its second consecutive endurance campaign – and third overall – together this year. Mostert and Holdsworth won the Great Race in 2021 and finished fourth at Mount Panorama last year. After finishing on the podium in five of his last six races – including back-to-back wins in Sydney, Mostert is primed for a big endurance campaign as he sits second in the championship standings behind Brown. He will be one of the leading contenders with Holdsworth.
Ryan Wood and Fabian Coulthard
It will be an all-Kiwi pairing for the New Zealand young gun in his first endurance campaign in his rookie Supercars season. Coulthard has been a WAU co-driver for the past two years, finishing second at Mount Panorama with Mostert in 2022 and 14th with Nick Percat last year. Wood has impressed in his maiden Supercars season, earning a contract extension until at least the end of 2027, and will benefit from Coulthard’s experience alongside him for the endurance races.
TICKFORD RACING
Cam Waters and James Moffat
Waters will team with Moffat for the fourth straight year. The pair has finished on the podium at Mount Panorama twice together – runner-up in 2021 and third in 2022. But the duo failed to finish last year’s Bathurst 1000 after Moffat crashed at the Dipper on lap 69. They will be hoping their fortunes can also change at the Sandown 500 after their race was dashed by a flying wheel from another car which took their rear wing off in the opening enduro last year. The top qualifier in the field this year and last-start winner in Tasmania, Waters and Moffat will be among the leading combinations.
Thomas Randle and Tyler Everingham
Randle will have a new driving partner for this year’s endurance races, teaming with Tyler Everingham, who returns for his second straight year as a Tickford co-driver. Randle teamed with Garry Jacobson last year, while Everingham partnered Declan Fraser. Randle finished 12th in the Bathurst 1000 last year and will be aiming to bounce back at Sandown after a drama-filled last start at Symmons Plains in Tasmania when he was hit with a 15-second time penalty for contact with Broc Feeney and finished 18th after starting on pole.
GROVE RACING
Matt Payne and Garth Tander
The young Kiwi and the five-time Bathurst 1000 champion will be one of the endurance combinations to watch. Payne has impressed in his second full-time Supercars season, sitting fifth in the championship standings. Tander, in his second year as a co-driver with Grove Racing, has a proven track record at Mount Panorama with five victories between 2000 and 2022, including two with Shane van Gisbergen.
Richie Stanaway and Dale Wood
Stanaway will return to Mount Panorama as the defending Bathurst 1000 champion, but will have a new co-driver with a new team. Stanaway teamed with triple Supercars champion turned NASCAR racer Shane van Gisbergen to win the Great Race last year at Triple Eight. It earned him a return to the grid full-time this season with Grove, but he has lost his seat to young gun Kai Allen for next year, so will no doubt be keen for a strong endurance campaign to impress prospective suitors for what will likely be a co-drive next year. Stanaway is a previous winner of the Sandown 500, alongside Cam Waters in 2017. Wood has plenty of experience with 16 Bathurst 1000s behind him.
DICK JOHNSON RACING
Will Davison and Kai Allen
After sharing a Mustang with his brother Alex for the past three years, two-time Bathurst 1000 champion Davison teams with young gun Allen for the first time this year. Allen paired with Swiss racer Simona de Silvestro in a DJR wildcard at Bathurst last year, finishing 20th.
He is already locked into a full-time drive at Grove Racing next year, but will want to show what he can do alongside one of the most experienced drivers on the grid, who has four podiums, including his two wins, at Mount Panorama.
Anton De Pasquale and Tony D’Alberto
In what will be his last endurance campaign for DJR before his move to Team 18 in 2025, De Pasquale will team with Tony D’Alberto for the fourth straight year. The pair claimed a podium together at Mount Panorama last year, finishing third, and also had a top-10 result at Sandown. Will again be a competitive pairing.
TEAM 18
Mark Winterbottom and Michael Caruso
Winterbottom will team with Caruso for a fourth consecutive year for the 2024 endurance races. The pair will be hoping for a turnaround in form after suffering a DNF last year at Mount Panorama and finishing 15th and 16th in the two years before that. The duo finished just outside the top-10 in the Sandown 500 last year. Winterbottom, 43, will have a point to prove in the enduros after losing his seat at Team 18 for next season to Anton De Pasquale.
David Reynolds and Warren Luff
The 2017 Bathurst 1000 champion will team with one of the most experienced co-drivers in the field for his first endurance campaign at Team 18. Reynolds was fifth at Bathurst with Garth Tander last year, but the pair was forced to retire at Sandown after crashing out following the loss of a rear wheel. Luff has been loaned out to Team 18 from Walkinshaw Andretti United, who he is contracted to. He has a strong record as a co-driver, having claimed six Bathurst 1000 podiums – twice a runner-up with Scott Pye and four thirds.
BRAD JONES RACING
Andre Heimgartner and Declan Fraser
After teaming with Dale Wood the past two years, Heimgartner will have a new driving partner for this year’s endurance season. Fraser joins Brad Jones Racing as a co-driver after one season racing full-time for Tickford Racing last year. Heimgartner will be hoping his fortunes can change at the Bathurst 1000 this year after failing to record a result in four out of his last five starts in the Great Race at Mount Panorama. Sandown was kinder to him last year, finishing fifth.
Bryce Fullwood and Jaylyn Robotham
Fullwood also has a new co-driver this endurance season after teaming with Dean Fiore the past two years. Fullwood has finished inside the top 10 in the Bathurst 1000 the past three years and was seventh in 2023. Former Super2 driver Robotham has raced in the Bathurst 1000 the last two years as a co-driver, finishing 15th alongside Cameron Hill at Matt Stone Racing last year.
Macauley Jones and Jordan Boys
Jones will team with Boys for the third consecutive year for this season’s enduros. The pair finished 13th and 22nd in the past two years at Mount Panorama and 19th last year at Sandown. It will be Boys’ fourth year as a co-driver at Brad Jones Racing.
Jaxon Evans and Dean Fiore
Fiore shifts from Fullwood’s car to partner Evans for his maiden endurance season as a full-time driver in Supercars. Evans has been a co-driver for Brad Jones Racing the past two years alongside Jack Smith, finishing 21st in 2023 after a DNF the year before. Evans will also be hoping for a change in fortunes after his Camaro was badly damaged after contact from fellow rookie Aaron Love forced him into the concrete wall last start in Tasmania.
EREBUS MOTORSPORT
Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood
Hazelwood subbed for Kostecki when he was absent from the grid for the opening two rounds of the season and now he will team with him for what will be the defending Supercars champion’s last endurance campaign for Erebus Motorsport. Kostecki, who will join Dick Johnson Racing from next year, has finished in the top four in the Bathurst 1000 the past three years, including runner-up last year, alongside co-driver David Russell and was also second at the Sandown 500 in 2023. With Hazelwood fresh out of full-time Supercars racing last year, the combination will be one to watch.
Jack Le Brocq and Jayden Ojeda
Le Brocq and Ojeda will join forces for the second consecutive year for the endurance races. The pair teamed up for Matt Stone Racing last year, finishing ninth in the Bathurst 1000 and 16th at Sandown. Le Brocq’s best result at Mount Panorama was fourth in 2016.
PREMIAIR RACING
James Golding and David Russell
After three years teaming up with Brodie Kostecki at Erebus Motorsport, Russell made the move to PremiAir Racing for the 2024 enduros. Russell has strong form as a co-driver, finishing in the top-five the past three years at Bathurst with Kostecki. Golding was 10th at Mount Panorama and 15th at Sandown alongside co-driver Dylan O’Keeffe.
Tim Slade and Cameron McLeod
Slade will have a new co-driver this year, teaming up with Super2 young gun Cameron McLeod. The 39-year-old finished 13th in the Bathurst 1000 last year and ninth at Sandown alongside Jonathon Webb. His best result at Mount Panorama was fifth in 2020.
MATT STONE RACING
Nick Percat and Dylan O’Keeffe
In his first season at Matt Stone Racing, Percat will have a new co-driver for the enduros. Percat raced with Fabian Coulthard at WAU last year, finishing 14th at Bathurst and 23rd at Sandown. Percat has finished on the podium three times at Mount Panorama, including his victory alongside Garth Tander in 2011 in his rookie campaign. O’Keeffe has partnered James Golding the past two years. Percat has enjoyed an upswing in form since joining MSR this year and sits sixth in the driver standings.
Cameron Hill and Cameron Crick
Hill will also have a new co-driver for this year’s endurance season, teaming up with Super2 driver Cameron Crick. Hill drove with Jaylyn Robotham last year, finishing 15th at Mount Panorama and retiring at Sandown.
BLANCHARD RACING TEAM
James Courtney and Jack Perkins
Supercars veteran Courtney will reunite with his former co-driver Perkins this year. The pair previously joined forces for four years running between 2016 and 2019 when Courtney was at the former Holden Racing Team/Walkinshaw squad. Courtney has had four podiums at the Bathurst 1000, but is yet to stand on the top step. He finished sixth with Zak Best last year. Perkins partnered Will Brown at Erebus Motorsport the past three years with the pair finishing eighth at Mount Panorama last year and fourth in the Sandown 500.
Aaron Love and Aaron Cameron
The two Aarons will join forces for Love’s first endurance campaign as a full-time driver in Supercars. Love teamed with Jake Kostecki in a Blanchard Racing Team wildcard last year, finishing 19th at Bathurst and 24th at Sandown. It is the first co-driver call-up for Super2 driver Cameron.
WILDCARDS
Craig Lowndes and Cooper Murray (Triple Eight) *
Lowndes spearheads a Triple Eight wildcard for a third consecutive endurance campaign, this year teaming with young gun Cooper Murray. The seven-time Bathurst 1000 champion raced alongside Declan Fraser and Zane Goddard the past two years. Lowndes and Goddard were 10th at Sandown last year, but their Bathurst 1000 hopes ended early in the race after being struck by a gear lever issue. The enduros will be the perfect springboard for Murray ahead of his full-time Supercars debut next season after being named as Brodie Kostecki’s replacement at Erebus Motorsport.
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Matt Chahda and Brad Vaughan (Matt Chahda Motorsport) *
Chahda will race in a wildcard for the second time this year after finishing 18th at Mount Panorama alongside Jaylyn Robotham in 2022. A second-year Super2 driver, Vaughan is making his Supercars debut and is one of seven Super2 young guns in the enduro field.
*Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 wildcard
Originally published as Supercars 2024: All the enduro driver pairings for the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000
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