Mike Kable Young Gun Award

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Mike Kable Young Gun Award
Sport Touring car racing
Competition
Awarded forBest performing rookie over the course of the Supercars, Super2 or Super3 season
Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
History
First winner Matthew White (2000)
Most recent Cameron McLeod (2023)

The Mike Kable Young Gun Award (also called the Mike Kable Rookie of the Year) [1] is an annual motor racing award honouring the achievements of a rookie driver under the age of 30 who competes in either the Supercars Championship, the second-tier Super2 Series or the third-tier Super3 Series. [a] [3] [4] [5] Tony Cochrane, the chairman of the championship's organising body Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO), [b] [6] instigated the accolade in June 2000. [4] [7] It is named after Mike Kable, an Australian motoring journalist, motorsport publicist, and mentor to young racing drivers. [7] The award is presented to the rookie driver adjudged to have performed the best over the course of their first season in either championship following a vote by a panel of motorsport experts. [8] [9] The recipient receives a sponsorship grant of A$15,000 to help develop themselves. [4] The winner is announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney. [3]

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The inaugural winner was Matthew White in 2000. [10] The following year, the Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose won the award. [11] Ambrose, James Courtney, Rick Kelly, Scott McLaughlin and Mark Winterbottom are the five recipients who have gone on to win either the Supercars Championship and/or the Bathurst 1000 in their careers. [12] Australian drivers have won 21 times and New Zealanders twice. No one has won more than once; drivers from the second-tier championship have been honoured 14 times and Supercars competitors have won on 7 occasions. The 2023 recipient was Cameron McLeod, who finished in third place in the Super3 Series drivers' standings. [5]

Winners

Mike Kable Young Gun Award winners
YearImageWinnerNationalitySeriesRef.
2000 Matthew White Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Konica V8 Lites Series [a] [10]
2001 Marcos Ambrose.jpg Marcos Ambrose Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian V8 Supercars [11]
2002 Rick Kelly 2020 Supercars launch.jpg Rick Kelly Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [13]
2003 Mark Winterbottom Sydney 500 2015.JPG Mark Winterbottom Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Konica V8 Supercar Series [a] [14]
2004 Warren Luff Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian V8 Supercars [15]
2005 Grant Denyer (6872955284).jpg Grant Denyer Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian HPDC V8 Supercar Series [a] [16]
2006 2002 James Courtney.jpg James Courtney Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian V8 Supercars [14]
2007 Dale Wood in 2014.JPG Dale Wood Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series [a] [17]
2008 Karl Reindler Abu Dhabi.jpg Karl Reindler Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [18]
2009 James Moffat.jpg James Moffat Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [19]
2010 Tim Blanchard.JPG Tim Blanchard Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [9]
2011 Chaz Mostert 2020 Supercars launch.jpg Chaz Mostert Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [20]
2012 Scott Pye.JPG Scott Pye Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series [a] [21]
2013 Scott McLaughlin 2013 V8 Supercar Test Day.jpg Scott McLaughlin Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealander V8 Supercars [22]
2014 Todd Hazelwood, getting prepped for practise 2 at Newcastle.jpg Todd Hazelwood Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series [a] [12]
2015 Ashley Walsh Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian V8 Supercars [23]
2016 Cameron Waters 2016.jpg Cameron Waters Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [24]
2017 Will Brown Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Super2 Series [a] [3]
2018 Thomas Randle Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [25]
2019 Tyler Everingham.jpg Tyler Everingham Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian [26]
2020
2021 Mcleantownsville.jpg Matt McLean Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Super2 Series [a] [27]
2022 Matthew Payne on the podium at the 2021 NZGP.jpg Matthew Payne Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealander Super2 Series [a] [28]
2023 — Cameron McLeod Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Super3 Series [5]
2024 — Aaron Cameron Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australian Super2 Series [29]

Statistics

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The second-tier championship has variously been sponsored by Konica, Holden Performance Driving Centre (HPDC), Fujitsu and Dunlop. [2]
  2. ↑ AVESCO's name was changed to V8 Supercars Australia in 2005. [6]

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