Mike Kable Young Gun Award

The Mike Kable Young Gun Award (also called the Mike Kable Rookie of the Year) is an annual motor racing award honouring the achievements of a rookie driver under the age of 30 in either the Supercars Championship or the second-tier Super2 Series.[lower-alpha 1][2][3] Tony Cochrane, the chairman of the championship's organising body Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO),[lower-alpha 2][4] instigated the accolade in 2000.[3][5] It is named after the Australian motoring journalist, motorsport publicist and mentor to young racing driver Mike Kable.[5] 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.[6][7] The recipient receives a sponsorship grant of fifteen thousand Australian dollars to help develop themselves.[3] The winner is announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney.[2]

Mike Kable Young Gun Award
SportTouring car racing
Competition
Given forBest performing rookie over the course of the Supercars or Super2 season
LocationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
History
First winnerMatthew White (2000)
Most recentTyler Everingham (2019)

The inaugural winner was Matthew White in 2000.[8] The following year, the Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose won the award.[9] Ambrose is one of five recipients who have gone on to win either the Supercars Championship or the Bathurst 1000 in their careers; the others being James Courtney, Rick Kelly, Scott McLaughlin and Mark Winterbottom.[10] Australian drivers have won 19 times and New Zealanders once. No one has won more than once; drivers from the second-tier championship have been honoured 13 times and Supercars competitors have won on 7 occasions. The 2019 recipient was the 2018 Kumho Tyre Australian V8 Touring Car Series winner Tyler Everingham,[11] who finished in sixth position in the 2019 Super2 Series for MW Motorsport.[12]

Winners
Mike Kable Young Gun Award winners
Year Image Winner Nationality Series Ref.
2000 Matthew White  Australian Konica V8 Lites Series[lower-alpha 1] [8]
2001 Marcos Ambrose  Australian V8 Supercars [9]
2002 Rick Kelly  Australian [13]
2003 Mark Winterbottom  Australian Konica V8 Supercar Series[lower-alpha 1] [14]
2004 Warren Luff  Australian V8 Supercars [15]
2005 Grant Denyer  Australian HPDC V8 Supercar Series[lower-alpha 1] [16]
2006 James Courtney  Australian V8 Supercars [14]
2007 Dale Wood  Australian Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series[lower-alpha 1] [17]
2008 Karl Reindler  Australian [18]
2009 James Moffat  Australian [19]
2010 Tim Blanchard  Australian [7]
2011 Chaz Mostert  Australian [20]
2012 Scott Pye  Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series[lower-alpha 1] [21]
2013 Scott McLaughlin  New Zealander V8 Supercars [22]
2014 Todd Hazelwood  Australian Dunlop V8 Supercar Series[lower-alpha 1] [10]
2015 Ashley Walsh  Australian V8 Supercars [23]
2016 Cameron Waters  Australian [24]
2017 Will Brown  Australian Super2 Series[lower-alpha 1] [2]
2018 Thomas Randle  Australian [25]
2019 Tyler Everingham  Australian [11]

Statistics

See also

Notes
  1. The second-tier championship has variously been sponsored by Konica, Holden Performance Driving Centre (HPDC), Fujitsu and Dunlop.[1]
  2. AVESCO's name was changed to V8 Supercars Australia in 2005.[4]

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