Jamie Whincup Wins Supercars Championship After Dramatic Finish In Newcastle

Red Bull driver Jamie Whincup has remarkably won the Supercars Drivers’ Championship after an astonishing finish to the last race of the season in Newcastle.

DJR Team Penske driver Scott McLaughlin was in the box seat going into the race, needing just to finish 11th to be champion for the first time.

But a collision with Craig Lowndes on the penultimate lap saw him cop a post-match penalty that pushed him down to 18th.

Watch the incident with Lowndes here:

McLaughlin’s hopes had earlier been dented by a 15 second penalty for making contact with Simona de Silvestro, but he managed to claw back the deficit to the point where he was 12th in the last lap.

He managed to squeeze past James Moffatt to get to 11th and briefly looked like winning the championship.

However, he had Craig Lowndes hot on his tail, and when Lowndes tried to pass him, McLaughlin pushed Lowndes’s car into the wall.

The collision broke Lowndes’ front left wheel and forced him out of the race, and McLaughlin was penalised in the most heartbreaking way.

The championship win is Jamie Whincup’s seventh, coming after he won six times in seven seasons between 2008 and 2014 — the only one he didn’t win was 2010.

He now sits two championships ahead of Ian Geoghegan, Dick Johnson and Mark Skaife, who all have five.