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Mike Kable Young Gun Award

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]

Mike Kable Young Gun Award
SportTouring car racing
Competition
Awarded forBest performing rookie over the course of the Supercars, Super2 or Super3 season
LocationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
History
First winnerMatthew White (2000)
Most recentCameron McLeod (2023)

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 edit

Mike Kable Young Gun Award winners
Year Image Winner Nationality Series Ref.
2000 Matthew White   Australian Konica V8 Lites Series[a] [10]
2001   Marcos Ambrose   Australian V8 Supercars [11]
2002   Rick Kelly   Australian [13]
2003   Mark Winterbottom   Australian Konica V8 Supercar Series[a] [14]
2004 Warren Luff   Australian V8 Supercars [15]
2005   Grant Denyer   Australian HPDC V8 Supercar Series[a] [16]
2006   James Courtney   Australian V8 Supercars [14]
2007   Dale Wood   Australian Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series[a] [17]
2008   Karl Reindler   Australian [18]
2009   James Moffat   Australian [19]
2010   Tim Blanchard   Australian [9]
2011   Chaz Mostert   Australian [20]
2012   Scott Pye   Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series[a] [21]
2013   Scott McLaughlin   New Zealander V8 Supercars [22]
2014   Todd Hazelwood   Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series[a] [12]
2015 Ashley Walsh   Australian V8 Supercars [23]
2016   Cameron Waters   Australian [24]
2017 Will Brown   Australian Super2 Series[a] [3]
2018 Thomas Randle   Australian [25]
2019   Tyler Everingham   Australian [26]
2020
Not awarded
2021   Matt McLean   Australian Super2 Series[a] [27]
2022   Matthew Payne   New Zealander Super2 Series[a] [28]
2023 — Cameron McLeod   Australian Super3 Series [5]

Statistics edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k 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]

References edit

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    Miles, Thomas (28 November 2023). "McLeod 'humbled' to get special Supercars honour". Auto Action. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
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  13. ^ Krupka, Peter (3 December 2002). "Holden's big night out". The Australian. p. 14. ProQuest 357646953. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via ProQuest.
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  17. ^ Ottley, Stephen (7 December 2007). "Murf wins odd gong". Herald Sun. p. 48. ProQuest 361114126. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via ProQuest.
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  19. ^ Phelps, James (23 January 2011). "Moffat licence to thrill". The Sunday Telegraph. p. 90. ProQuest 846770718. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via ProQuest.
  20. ^ "Chaz Mostert collects Mike Kable Young Gun". Speedcafe. 5 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  21. ^ Walsh, Scott (1 February 2013). "Life of Pye now powered by a V8". The Advertiser. p. 97. ProQuest 1283321723. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via ProQuest.
  22. ^ O'Neil, Rohan (2 July 2014). "Scott's second wind". Townsville Bulletin. p. 46. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via Gale OneFile: News.
  23. ^ Lems, David (10 December 2015). "Ipswich racer's V8 future unclear". The Queensland Times. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  24. ^ Callow, Courtney (14 December 2016). "Season in review: Cameron Waters". Supercars. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  25. ^ Bartholomaeus, Stefan (26 November 2018). "Randle named Mike Kable Young Gun". Supercars. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  26. ^ Shirkie, Daniel (27 November 2019). "Everingham receives top rookie award at 2019 Supercars Gala Night". Daily Liberal. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
    Bartholomaeus, Stefan (25 November 2019). "Everingham wins Mike Kable Young Gun". Supercars. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  27. ^ Chapman, Simon (3 December 2021). "McLean wins Mike Kable Young Gun Award". Speedcafe. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
    Bulls, Charlie (3 December 2021). "McLean joins famed list of Mike Kable Award winners". Supercars. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  28. ^ Pavey, James (5 December 2022). "All the winners from 2022 Gala Awards". Supercars. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.

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