2018 Supercars Championship
The 2018 Supercars Championship was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for Supercars. It was the twentieth running of the Supercars Championship and the twenty-second series in which Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title. Teams and drivers competed in thirty-one races at sixteen venues across Australia and New Zealand for the championship titles. Scott McLaughlin won his maiden title at the final race in Newcastle, while Red Bull Holden Racing Team won the Teams Championship at Pukekohe.
Scott McLaughlin (pictured in 2013) won his first Supercars Championship.
Triple Eight Race Engineering won the teams' championship with one event to go.
23Red Racing was a new name in the championship for 2018, fielding a Ford Falcon FG X for Will Davison
The Sydney Motorsport Park event featured a single race held at night.
Scott Thomas McLaughlin is a New Zealand racing driver. He currently competes in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 3 Dallara-Chevrolet for Team Penske. He previously raced in the Supercars Championship, in which he won the drivers' title in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
McLaughlin in 2020
McLaughlin scored his first race win at Queensland Raceway in 2011, driving a Ford BF Falcon prepared by Stone Brothers Racing.
McLaughlin at the 2013 V8 Supercars test day
McLaughlin racing at the 2014 Sydney Motorsport Park 400
