2015 International V8 Supercars Championship
The 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship was an FIA-sanctioned international auto racing series for V8 Supercars. It was the seventeenth running of the V8 Supercar Championship Series and the nineteenth series in which V8 Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title.
Mark Winterbottom won his first drivers' championship.
Triple Eight Race Engineering won its sixth consecutive teams' championship.
Ford teams updated to the new FG X Falcon.
Marcos Ambrose was scheduled to return to the series full-time, but stepped down after the first event. He returned as a co-driver in the endurance races.
Mark James "Frosty" Winterbottom is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently competes in the Repco Supercars Championship, driving the No. 18 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Team 18. His career highlights include winning the 2013 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, twice winning the Sandown 500 and receiving the Mike Kable Young Gun Award in 2003. Winterbottom has also won his maiden championship title in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship, making it the first title for Ford in five years. He also voices himself in the Australian version of the hit 2011 film, Cars 2.
Winterbottom in 2020
The Spectrum 09 in which Winterbottom placed 2nd in the 2002 Australian Formula Ford Championship.
Mark Winterbottom at the 2007 Desert 400 in Bahrain.
Winterbottom at Eastern Creek Raceway in 2008