Round 4 2026 – Supercars Championship
Will Brown and the Red Bull Ampol Racing team improved consistently through the Tyrepower Tasmania Super 440 weekend at Symmons Plains, with the #87 Ford Mustang finding more pace with each session.
Race 14 – P9
Will qualified twelfth for Saturday’s opener after a difficult Friday in which the team weren’t quite where they needed to be on setup. From the grid he made strong early progress, rising to ninth by the time the pit stop window opened and holding that position to the flag. A loose wheel in the pit stop earned a fine for the team, but Will managed through the situation without further drama.
Race 15 – P4
With overnight setup changes paying dividends, Will qualified ninth and charged to an impressive fourth-place finish, crossing the line behind race winner Andre Heimgartner, Broc Feeney and Matt Payne. It was the kind of result that showed what the Mustang was capable of when dialled in.
Race 16 – P5
Will carried his improving form into Sunday’s 200km finale, qualifying sixth and backing it up with a sixth-place shootout lap to line up just outside the top five. Off the start he made an aggressive move to run as high as third before a robust on-track battle with Anton De Pasquale on lap eight defined the race for the #87 entry. Side-by-side contact through Turns 6 and 7 ultimately sent Brown wide through the grass, dropping him behind De Pasquale. Despite the setback he pressed on to take a solid fifth at the flag.
“Today specifically, I was happy with that last race. Had a solid qualifying, put that shootout lap together reasonably well, then on that first lap made a big move early to get up to third. Throughout it we had a lot of great racing with Anton and a few of the boys out there, exciting stuff, came home among some others who ran different strategies but good to be up in the points if not on the podium.”
“You know, a solid weekend, a fourth, a fifth, a ninth. That ninth I would’ve liked to be a bit better, but solid points haul with where we are in the Drivers Championship now five rounds done. We need to claw our way back up to hopefully fifth, or hopefully even a little bit better by the time the Finals come around and there is absolutely time to do that with the right car under us.”
The 2026 Supercars Championship resumes at the Darwin Triple Crown on June 19–21