Scott McLaughlin (racing driver)

Scott Thomas McLaughlin (born 10 June 1993) is a New Zealand professional racing driver competing in the IndyCar Series. He currently drives the No. 3 Dallara-Chevrolet for Team Penske.[1] He is the Supercars Championship 2018, 2019 and 2020 series champion.

Scott McLaughlin
McLaughlin in 2020
Nationality New Zealander
BornScott Thomas McLaughlin
(1993-06-10) 10 June 1993
Hamilton, New Zealand
Supercars Record
Car number17
Current teamDick Johnson Racing
(Endurance Race Co-Driver)
Series championships3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Races251
Race wins56
Podium finishes105
Pole positions76
2020 Championship position1st (2576 pts)

McLaughlin won his first race in the NZ Touring Car series in early 2011, becoming the youngest ever driver to win a race in the Championship at just 17 years old.[2] Then in 2012 he competed in the New Zealand V8SuperTourers Championship and became the inaugural series champion.

McLaughlin achieved his first Supercars race win during his first full time season with Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2013, at Pukekohe Park Raceway. He is the youngest person to ever win in a Supercar.[3]

Early life

McLaughlin was born in Hamilton,[4] New Zealand but moved to Australia's Gold Coast at 9 years of age and attended Saint Stephen's College throughout his upbringing.[5]

Career

Karting

McLaughlin began driving karts when he was six and racing when he was seven, and represented New Zealand in the Rotax Max Challenge held in Italy,[6][7] but had long aspired to race V8s, and was given a trial in one at Stone Brothers Racing while doing work experience there.[3]

Dunlop Super2 Series

In 2010, McLaughlin confirmed that he would be racing for Stone Brothers Racing in the 2010 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series at just 16 years of age, becoming the youngest ever V8 Supercar driver.[3] He didn't make his debut until the second round of the series, due to him not having the appropriate competition licence.[8]

McLaughlin won his first race in the series at Queensland Raceway in 2011[9] before going on to win the title in 2012.[10]

V8 SuperTourer Series

McLaughlin drove a Holden VE Commodore in the 2012 season of the V8 SuperTourer Series. He won six races for MPC Motorsport on his way to becoming the inaugural series champion.[11]

Supercars Championship

McLaughlin made his debut in the Supercars Championship at the Sandown 500 in 2012, as a co-driver to Jonathon Webb at Tekno Autosports. The pair performed well at both Sandown and Bathurst, finishing in tenth place at Sandown and in sixth place at Bathurst. McLaughlin also drove at the Sydney 500 for Garry Rogers Motorsport after Alexandre Prémat was forced out of the Sunday race due to extreme heat exhaustion the day before.[12] McLaughlin was later signed by Garry Rogers Motorsport as a full-time driver for the 2013 season.[10]

McLaughlin continued with Garry Rogers Motorsport into 2014, under its new identity as Volvo Polestar Racing (later Volvo Cyan Racing). At 1 March 2014, McLaughlin scored a podium finish in Volvo's return to the series at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide. Four race wins at Barbagallo, Sydney Motorsport Park, and 2 wins at Phillip Island. He finished 5th in the standings.

For 2017, McLaughlin moved from Garry Rogers Motorsport to DJR Team Penske to partner Fabian Coulthard. Throughout the year, McLaughlin was dominant in qualifying; acquiring 16 pole positions. Along with a string of strong results, McLaughlin would find himself in the box seat for a maiden championship title. After starting strongly in the final round at Newcastle, a chaotic second race saw McLaughlin pick up three penalties which would eventually contribute toward him narrowly missing out on the title to Jamie Whincup.

In 2018, McLaughlin continued to race with DJR Team Penske. He won seven out of the 34 races, winning in Melbourne, Phillip Island, Barbagallo, Hidden Valley and Ipswich. McLaughlin finished third at Bathurst alongside Alexandre Prémat in which was the Ford Falcon's final appearance at Mount Panorama. On 4 November, at Pukekohe Park Raceway, McLaughlin won race twenty-nine to join compatriot Shane van Gisbergen in winning the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy. In Newcastle, McLaughlin won race thirty (after van Gisbergen was stripped of his victory following a pit lane violation, demoting him to fifth) and finished second in race thirty-one to become the 2018 Virgin Australia Supercars champion.

In 2019, DJR Team Penske debuted the Ford Mustang, which replaced the Falcon. McLaughlin was able to continue his dominance with the team, with 18 wins, which broke the record for most wins in a single year, 15 pole positions, 18 fastest laps, and 22 podiums to his name. He became the first ever driver to claim the Darwin Triple Crown, after winning the first race, claiming pole for the second race and winning the second race. On 13 October 2019. McLaughlin finally won Bathurst for the first time, with Alexandre Prémat as Scott's co-driver. Two weeks after this he had the biggest crash of his career, a 43g impact at the Gold Coast. He then had to drive a new car, due to chassis damage from the crash, for the last two rounds and was still able to successfully defend his championship title, with a round to go at Sandown.

IndyCar

Speculation around McLaughlin moving to one of Penske's other motorsports programs began in 2019, when Penske team president Tim Cindric and McLaughlin met in Australia to discuss McLaughlin's future in the Penske organization. Cindric originally envisioned moving McLaughlin to Penske's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship program to race alongside Helio Castroneves in Penske's Acura Daytona Prototype International entry and even potentially competing in the World Endurance Championship. McLaughlin however expressed interest in moving to Penske's team in the Indycar Series. He stated his primary motivators were the challenge of racing open wheel race cars, his long time goal of racing in the Indianapolis 500, and competing against his childhood hero and fellow New Zealander Scott Dixon.[13] Cindric was skeptical about moving McLaughlin to Indycar as McLaughlin had not driven an open wheel racecar since he raced in Formula Ford during his early teens. McLaughlin changed Cindric's mind by altering his strength and conditioning regimen along with undertaking private simulator time that to show he had the talent and physical fitness to move from the mechanical grip reliant Supercars to the downforce reliant Dallara DW12, all during the middle of the 2019 Supercars Championship. [14]

In January 2020, he tested a Team Penske IndyCar at Sebring International Raceway.[15] Team Penske driver Will Power hailed McLaughlin as a phenomenal driver after the test.[16] In February 2020 McLaughlin completed his first laps on an oval during Team Penske's test at Texas Motor Speedway, with reigning Indycar Series champion and future teammate Josef Newgarden hailing McLaughlin's ability to quickly adapt to the demands of racing the DW12 on ovals. [17] On 5 February, Penske announced that McLaughlin will race a 4th Team Penske entry at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, McLaughlin was unable to travel to the United States for that race. On 17 September, Team Penske announced that McLaughlin will instead make his IndyCar debut at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on 25 October.[18] The day before the race he posted on his personal Instagram feed that he signed a multi year contract with Penske to compete full time in the series.[19] On January 25, 2021 McLaughlin and Penske announced that PPG Paints would be the primary sponsor for most of his entries in the Indycar series.[20]

Career results

Season Series Position Car Team
2010 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series 12th Ford BF Falcon Stone Brothers Racing
Victorian Formula Ford Championship 12th Van Diemen RF94 - Ford
Australian Mini Challenge 13th Mini Cooper S JCW
2010–11 New Zealand V8s 8th Holden VE Commodore Racing Projects
2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series 4th Ford BF Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
Stone Brothers Racing
2012 V8 SuperTourers Championship 1st Holden VE Commodore MPC Motorsport
Dunlop V8 Supercar Series 1st Ford FG Falcon Stone Brothers Racing
Matt Stone Racing
International V8 Supercars Championship 33rd Holden VE Commodore Tekno Autosports
Garry Rogers Motorsport
2013 V8 SuperTourers Championship 5th Holden VE Commodore Scott McLaughlin Racing
International V8 Supercars Championship 10th Holden VF Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport
2014 International V8 Supercars Championship 5th Volvo S60 Garry Rogers Motorsport
2015 International V8 Supercars Championship 8th Volvo S60 Garry Rogers Motorsport
2016 International V8 Supercars Championship 3rd Volvo S60 Garry Rogers Motorsport
Scandinavian Touring Car Championship 13th Polestar Cyan Racing
2017 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship 2nd Ford FG X Falcon DJR Team Penske
2018 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship 1st Ford FG X Falcon DJR Team Penske
2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship 1st Ford Mustang GT DJR Team Penske
2020 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship 1st Ford Mustang GT DJR Team Penske
IndyCar Series 35th Dallara DW12-Chevrolet Team Penske

Supercars Championship results

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Supercars results
Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Position Points
2012 Tekno Autosports Holden VE Commodore ADE
R1
ADE
R2
SYM
R3
SYM
R4
HAM
R5
HAM
R6
BAR
R7
BAR
R8
BAR
R9
PHI
R10
PHI
R11
HID
R12
HID
R13
TOW
R14
TOW
R15
QLD
R16
QLD
R17
SMP
R18
SMP
R19
SAN
Q

7
SAN
R20

10
BAT
R21

6
SUR
R22
SUR
R23
YMC
R24
YMC
R25
YMC
R26
WIN
R27
WIN
R28
SYD
R29
33rd 422
Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VE Commodore SYD
R30

17
2013 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore ADE
R1

6
ADE
R2

9
SYM
R3

8
SYM
R4

8
SYM
R5

8
PUK
R6

1
PUK
R7

24
PUK
R8

Ret
PUK
R9

DNS
BAR
R10

12
BAR
R11

14
BAR
R12

13
COA
R13

28
COA
R14

7
COA
R15

11
COA
R16

27
HID
R17

11
HID
R18

27
HID
R19

8
TOW
R20

14
TOW
R21

9
QLD
R22

2
QLD
R23

1
QLD
R24

20
WIN
R25

19
WIN
R26

9
WIN
R27

14
SAN
Q

9
SAN
R28

8
BAT
R29

8
SUR
R30

22
SUR
R31

23
PHI
R32

19
PHI
R33

19
PHI
R34

11
SYD
R35

Ret
SYD
R36

12
10th 1934
2014 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 ADE
R1

7
ADE
R2

2
ADE
R3

Ret
SYM
R4

5
SYM
R5

4
SYM
R6

6
WIN
R7

Ret
WIN
R8

25
WIN
R9

16
PUK
R10

8
PUK
R11

6
PUK
R12

3
PUK
R13

2
BAR
R14

1
BAR
R15

4
BAR
R16

17
HID
R17

4
HID
R18

5
HID
R19

8
TOW
R20

6
TOW
R21

14
TOW
R22

9
QLD
R23

3
QLD
R24

19
QLD
R25

19
SMP
R26

Ret
SMP
R27

Ret
SMP
R28

1
SAN
Q

4
SAN
R29

8
BAT
R30

17
SUR
R31

7
SUR
R32

2
PHI
R33

1
PHI
R34

6
PHI
R35

1
SYD
R36

4
SYD
R37

3
SYD
R38

8
5th 2509
2015 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 ADE
R1

DNS
ADE
R2

9
ADE
R3

18
SYM
R4

Ret
SYM
R5

9
SYM
R6

7
BAR
R7

11
BAR
R8

Ret
BAR
R9

18
WIN
R10

25
WIN
R11

9
WIN
R12

9
HID
R13

Ret
HID
R14

9
HID
R15

11
TOW
R16

4
TOW
R17

Ret
QLD
R18

2
QLD
R19

9
QLD
R20

13
SMP
R21

8
SMP
R22

4
SMP
R23

5
SAN
Q

16
SAN
R24

14
BAT
R25

5
SUR
R26

21
SUR
R27

6
PUK
R28

9
PUK
R29

3
PUK
R30

6
PHI
R31

3
PHI
R32

2
PHI
R33

2
SYD
R34

8
SYD
R35

5
SYD
R36

19
8th 2205
2016 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 ADE
R1

4
ADE
R2

4
ADE
R3

12
SYM
R4

26
SYM
R5

4
PHI
R6

1
PHI
R7

1
BAR
R8

11
BAR
R9

2
WIN
R10

2
WIN
R11

11
HID
R12

10
HID
R13

7
TOW
R14

24
TOW
R15

5
QLD
R16

15
QLD
R17

6
SMP
R18

5
SMP
R19

6
SAN
Q

3
SAN
R20

4
BAT
R21

15
SUR
R22

2
SUR
R23

3
PUK
R24

3
PUK
R25

7
PUK
R26

7
PUK
R27

3
SYD
R28

4
SYD
R29

5
3rd 2806
2017 DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon ADE
R1

17
ADE
R2

2
SYM
R3

14
SYM
R4

2
PHI
R5

10
PHI
R6

14
BAR
R7

1
BAR
R8

1
WIN
R9

1
WIN
R10

5
HID
R11

2
HID
R12

1
TOW
R13

1
TOW
R14

2
QLD
R15

1
QLD
R16

2
SMP
R17

21
SMP
R18

4
SAN
Q

2
SAN
R19

2
BAT
R20

Ret
SUR
R21

12
SUR
R22

1
PUK
R23

3
PUK
R24

2
NEW
R25

1
NEW
R26

18
2nd 3021
2018 DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon ADE
R1

3
ADE
R2

10
MEL
R3

1
MEL
R4

2
MEL
R5

15
MEL
R6

7
SYM
R7

9
SYM
R8

2
PHI
R9

1
PHI
R10

1
BAR
R11

1
BAR
R12

1
WIN
R13

5
WIN
R14

3
HID
R15

1
HID
R16

2
TOW
R17

3
TOW
R18

3
QLD
R19

1
QLD
R20

2
SMP
R21

3
BEN
R22

6
BEN
R23

10
SAN
QR

3
SAN
R24

4
BAT
R25

3
SUR
R26

5
SUR
R27

C
PUK
R28

2
PUK
R29

1
NEW
R30

1
NEW
R31

2
1st 3944
2019 DJR Team Penske Ford Mustang GT ADE
R1

1
ADE
R2

1
MEL
R3

1
MEL
R4

1
MEL
R5

DNS
MEL
R6

1
SYM
R7

1
SYM
R8

4
PHI
R9

1
PHI
R10

2
BAR
R11

2
BAR
R12

1
WIN
R13

1
WIN
R14

1
HID
R15

1
HID
R16

1
TOW
R17

1
TOW
R18

11
QLD
R19

4
QLD
R20

1
BEN
R21

1
BEN
R22

1
PUK
R23

4
PUK
R24

1
BAT
R25

1
SUR
R26

3
SUR
R27

DNS
SAN
QR

5
SAN
R28

9
NEW
R29

2
NEW
R30

4
1st 3872
2020 DJR Team Penske Ford Mustang GT ADE
R1

2
ADE
R2

1
MEL
R3

C
MEL
R4

C
MEL
R5

C
MEL
R6

C
SMP1
R7

1
SMP1
R8

3
SMP1
R9

1
SMP2
R10

1
SMP2
R11

3
SMP2
R12

14
HID1
R13

20
HID1
R14

1
HID1
R15

2
HID2
R16

1
HID2
R17

1
HID2
R18

1
TOW1
R19

7
TOW1
R20

6
TOW1
R21

1
TOW2
R22

1
TOW2
R23

2
TOW2
R24

3
BEN1
R25

14
BEN1
R26

3
BEN1
R27

1
BEN2
R28

1
BEN2
R29

1
BEN2
R30

2
BAT
R31

5
1st 2576

Bathurst 1000 results

Year Team Car Co-Driver Position Laps
2012 Tekno Autosports Holden Commodore VE Jonathon Webb 6th 161
2013 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden Commodore VF Jack Perkins 8th 161
2014 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 Mk.2 Alexandre Prémat 17th 150
2015 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 Mk.2 Alexandre Prémat 5th 161
2016 Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo S60 Mk.2 David Wall 15th 159
2017 DJR Team Penske Ford Falcon FG X Alexandre Prémat DNF 74
2018 DJR Team Penske Ford Falcon FG X Alexandre Prémat 3rd 161
2019 DJR Team Penske Ford Mustang Mk.6 Alexandre Prémat 1st 161
2020 DJR Team Penske Ford Mustang Mk.6 Tim Slade 5th 161

V8 SuperTourer results

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Final Pos Points
2012 MPC Motorsport Holden VE Commodore HAM
R1

10
HAM
R2

15
HAM
R3

3
RUA
R4

Ret
RUA
R5

7
RUA
R6

15
MAN
R7
MAN
R8
MAN
R9
HAM
R10

1
HAM
R11

1
HAM
R12

1
TAU
R13

2
TAU
R14

1
PUK
R15

1
PUK
R16

2
PUK
R17

2
RUA
R18

1
RUA
R19

15
1st 3474
2013 Scott McLaughlin Racing Holden VE Commodore HAM
R1

Ret
HAM
R2

Ret
HAM
R3

Ret
RUA
R4

17
RUA
R5

7
RUA
R6

Ret
PUK
R7

3
PUK
R8

4
PUK
R9

3
TAU
R10

2
TAU
R11

9
TAU
R12

Ret
HAM
R13

4
HAM
R14

2
HAM
R15

Ret
HAM
R16

Ret
HAM
R17

3
HAM
R18

6
PUK
R19

5
PUK
R20

2
PUK
R21

1
5th 2744

Scandinavian Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 DC Points
2016 Polestar Cyan Racing Volvo S60 SKÖ
1

2
SKÖ
2

Ret
MAN
1
MAN
2
AND
1
AND
2
FAL
1
FAL
2
KAR
1
KAR
2
SOL
1
SOL
2
KNU
1
KNU
2
13th 36

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

IndyCar Series

(key)

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points
2020 Team Penske Dallara DW12 Chevrolet TXS
IMS
ROA
ROA
IOW
IOW
INDY GTW
GTW
MDO MDO IMS IMS STP
22
35th 8

* Season still in progress.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Andrew Thompson
Winner of the Dunlop V8 Supercar Series
2012
Succeeded by
Dale Wood
Preceded by
none
Winner of the V8 SuperTourers Championship
2012
Succeeded by
Greg Murphy
Preceded by
Jamie Whincup
Winner of the Supercars Championship
2018, 2019 & 2020
Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by
Shane van Gisbergen
Winner of the Adelaide 500
2019 & 2020
Succeeded by
incumbent
Preceded by
Craig Lowndes
Steven Richards
Winner of the Bathurst 1000
2019
(with Alexandre Prémat)
Succeeded by
Shane van Gisbergen
Garth Tander
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Scott Pye
Mike Kable Young Gun Award
2013
Succeeded by
Todd Hazelwood
Preceded by
Craig Lowndes
Barry Sheene Medal
2014
Succeeded by
Craig Lowndes
Preceded by
Craig Lowndes
Barry Sheene Medal
2016
Succeeded by
David Reynolds
Preceded by
Shane van Gisbergen
Barry Sheene Medal
2020
Succeeded by
incumbent

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