Chaz Mostert's Supercars career, from Formula Ford champion to 2025 title winner

Chaz Mostert's Supercars career has taken him from Formula Ford titles to the 2025 championship. Bathurst 1000 wins in 2014 and 2021 sit along the way, and his Supercars years began in Ford machinery before moving to Holden in 2020. He now drives a Toyota for Walkinshaw TWG Racing.

Where did Mostert's racing begin?

Mostert grew up in Browns Plains, near Brisbane, and went karting at seven in Ipswich and on the Gold Coast. He stepped up to Formula Ford in 2008 and placed eleventh that year, followed by fourth in 2009. His 2010 championship was built on a record count of race wins in a single season.

That title opened the door to the touring car categories, where his first drives came the same year. A single Bathurst weekend with Miles Racing put him in a Ford BF Falcon in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, and he finished sixth and fourth in the two races.

A Formula Ford champion whose career was rebuilt after a broken leg, a change of team and two Bathurst 1000 wins.

How did he break into V8 Supercars?

Mostert spent 2011 and 2012 in Ford Performance Racing's Development Series, where he took a pole on debut at Sandown and swept the Adelaide 500 in 2012. He reached V8 Supercars in 2013 with Dick Johnson Racing, and his first win came at Queensland Raceway in July.

The 2011 season began with Miles Racing, where he drove especially well in wet weather. Ford Performance Racing then signed him for the last two rounds, Sandown and Homebush, in its first Development Series FG Falcon. He scored a pole at Sandown, took three podiums in those two rounds, and ended the year with the Mike Kable Young Gun Award.

The 2012 Development Series field was among the strongest the category had produced. Mostert finished third in the title race, behind Scott McLaughlin, Scott Pye and Nick Percat. That December he also took an honorary lieutenant's commission in the Australian navy.

In 2013 he returned to the Adelaide round and won it again, this time for MW Motorsport. He was then called up to V8 Supercars before the second round, which closed the Development Series chapter. His Supercars debut came at the Perth 360 at Barbagallo, taking over the seat Jonny Reid had vacated at Dick Johnson Racing.

Ford Performance Racing provided extra technical help to the team and kept Mostert on a long-term arrangement. His first victory arrived in July 2013 at the Ipswich 360, held at Queensland Raceway, only his fifth event in the series. He finished 17th overall despite missing the opening rounds, and a heavy crash in Friday practice at Bathurst that year needed an overnight rebuild.

What did the Ford Performance Racing years bring?

In 2014 Mostert moved into Ford Performance Racing's Pepsi Max car, taking over from Will Davison. He won the Barbagallo round that year, then co-drove with Paul Morris to victory in the Bathurst 1000 after overtaking Jamie Whincup on the final lap.

The Bathurst win came from the back of the grid. He and Morris had been excluded from qualifying, so they started last, the lowest starting position from which a Bathurst 1000 has been won. Mostert finished the 2014 championship seventh.

2015 was his best shot at the title. Ford Performance Racing had become Prodrive Racing Australia and was running the new FG X Falcon, with Mostert and Mark Winterbottom as the front-runners. He took wins at Winton, Hidden Valley and Queensland Raceway, two more at Sydney Motorsport Park, and entered Bathurst 198 points behind Winterbottom.

A heavy qualifying accident at Forrest's Elbow in Bathurst broke a leg and a wrist, ending his season. The wrecked car is now displayed at the National Motor Racing Museum, close to the circuit, as a reminder of how close that year came to ending his career.

How did Rod Nash Racing and Tickford shape his mid-career?

From 2016 to 2017 Mostert drove for Rod Nash Racing, a Prodrive satellite backed by Supercheap Auto. He ended 2016 seventh, one place behind Winterbottom, and broke a long win drought in 2017 with three wins, one at the Gold Coast 600.

The Adelaide 500 gave him pole for the Sunday race in his first event back after the crash, a result he rated just behind his Bathurst victory. He took four more poles that season without a win, and the 2017 wins came at Phillip Island's 500 Saturday race, then at Queensland Raceway and at the Gold Coast 600.

The Gold Coast win, with co-driver Steve Owen, gave the team and Ford their first Enduro Cup. Prodrive reshuffled again in 2018, and the operation became Tickford Racing. That season was a hard one, and Mostert won only once, at the Gold Coast 600.

The following year Tickford ran the Ford Mustang GT. Mostert claimed one victory, at Albert Park, and several podiums. A write-off in the Top 10 Shootout at the Gold Coast meant he sat out that race.

Why did Mostert leave Tickford for Walkinshaw Andretti United?

After seven years at Tickford, Mostert announced he was leaving the team, and he switched brands as well as teams. The Holden programme at Walkinshaw Andretti United became his base from 2020. The move gave him a new manufacturer as well as a new environment.

In June 2021 he signed a long-term extension to the end of 2023 with Walkinshaw Andretti United. He won the Darwin Triple Crown later that same week, a sign that the new arrangement was working.

On 7 November 2021, starting from 26th on the grid, he drove through a downpour at the Sydney SuperNight and finished on the podium in third. On 4 December 2021 he went round Bathurst in 2:03.3736 during the Top 10 Shootout, in a Holden ZB Commodore, a new lap record.

How did the 2025 Supercars title come together?

Mostert was crowned the 2025 Supercars Champion in late November 2025. He also took the new Finals Series, which was staged for the first time that year, and both honours went to Walkinshaw Andretti United, the team he had joined in 2020.

The title sits at the end of a long climb. The 2021 extension, the Darwin Triple Crown and the lap record had already shown what he could do with the team, so the 2025 result looks more like a continuation than a sudden peak.

Did Mostert race outside Supercars?

He did, and not only in Australia. Mostert took two GT3 class wins in the Asian Le Mans Series in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, and he drove BMW cars in GT3 and GTE events in Asia, Australia and the United States. Those results sit alongside a Supercars record that was never confined to one category.

His sportscar work started early. In 2011 he took third in class at the Bathurst 12 Hour, co-driving an HSV VXR Turbo with Ashley Walsh and Gerard McLeod. He and Nathan Morcom later won the first Bathurst 6 Hour, in 2016, in a BMW 335i E92 entered in the Series Production class.

In 2017 he raced a customer BMW M6 GT3, run by MARC Cars Australia, in the Bathurst 12 Hour. He qualified second and led the early laps before technical trouble ended the run.

Factory-supported Schnitzer Motorsport work followed in 2018 and 2019. He took the Allan Simonsen Pole Position Trophy at Bathurst in 2018, then ran strongly until a clash with cars a lap down at the start of Conrod Straight ended his race.

Overseas, he finished fifth at Macau's Guia Circuit in the 2017 FIA GT World Cup. He also drove a Rahal Letterman Lanigan BMW M8 GTE at Petit Le Mans during 2018, and at Daytona during 2019.

Career summary at a glance