William Brown (born 5 June 1998) is an Australian professional racing driver. He competes in the Repco Supercars Championship with Triple Eight Race Engineering, driving the No. 888 Ford Mustang S650. He has previously competed in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Brown won the 2024 Supercars Championship driving for Triple Eight Race Engineering.
With championship wins in both the Formula 4 Australian Championship and the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 Series in 2016, Brown became one of only five drivers in Australian motorsport history to achieve two national racing titles in one year. In 2017, he received the Mike Kable Young Gun Award and was awarded The Peter Brock Medal by the Confederation of Australian Motorsport (CAMS) for his outstanding year in racing.
Junior racing career Karting (2011–2014) Brown started his career in karting in 2011 at the age of thirteen. He won numerous championships in his junior years and had an 80% win rate. He moved up the ranks and competed in the inaugural CAMS Jayco Australian Formula 4 Championship in 2015 with team BRM.
Formula 4 (2015–2016)
On the back of his karting form, Brown was signed by AGI Sport to race in the inaugural FIA Formula 4 Australia Championship and claimed victory in the first-ever race. Brown was a championship contender for the Formula 4 championship in 2015, winning three of the fifteen races that season. He finished third overall and was crowned Rookie of the Year after his impressive debut.
In 2016, Brown signed with BRM and recorded six race wins and twelve podiums from eighteen races to be crowned Formula 4 Australia Champion. He took the title with one round and one race remaining after a controversial race in Tasmania, where he was involved in a collision with rivals Nick Rowe and Jordan Love.
Formula Ford (2016)
Brown competed in the 2016 Australian Formula Ford Championship. Despite missing the first three rounds due to a date clash with Formula 4, Brown would go on to secure the runner-up spot in the 2016 championship, with multiple wins and podiums.
Toyota 86 Racing Series (2016)
Brown also competed in the one-make Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series in 2016, claiming the Series Title in a field of 39 drivers. With championship wins in both the Australian Formula 4 and the Australian Toyota Racing Series in 2016, Brown became one of only five drivers in Australian motorsport history to achieve two national racing titles in one year.
Super2 Series (2017–2020) For the 2017 racing season, Brown was picked up by Eggleston Motorsport to replace the outgoing Liam McAdam. He scored a best finish of third at Symmons Plains and was on course to win the final race of the season in Newcastle before blowing a gearbox. He finished ninth in the championship overall.
2020 Junior Driver Program In 2020, Hyundai Motorsport named Brown in the 2020 Junior Driver Program as one of four drivers who would race Hyundai Motorsport TCR cars in some of the leading championships in the category. Outside of Europe, Brown represented the Customer Racing Junior Driver Program. Brown dominated the inaugural Australian TCR season with seven wins in his debut driving TCR cars. He remained with the HMO Customer Racing team to defend his title.
Formula Regional (2025) Brown participated in the 2025 Formula Regional Oceania Championship for Giles Motorsport in the championship's first, second and fifth rounds. There he won the New Zealand Grand Prix.
Supercars Championship career Erebus Motorsport (2018–2023)
2018 Brown was named as a Supercars Endurance Cup co-driver, partnering Anton de Pasquale with Erebus Motorsport, where he immediately showed his elite driving ability throughout the three-race series. He continued to make solid progress in his Dunlop Super2 Series, landing sixth in the 2018 Driver's Championship with Eggleston Motorsport.
2019 Again partnering with de Pasquale at Erebus Motorsport in the Supercars championship, Brown's talent was on show, finishing second behind Craig Lowndes and ahead of Garth Tander in the Co-driver Race, taking his first podium in the series. Furthermore, Brown also accepted a drive in the inaugural S5000 series, competing alongside former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello.
2020 Brown began 2020 with a multi-year signing with Erebus Motorsport (Penrite Racing), which would see him compete in the Supercars series as a co-driver to David Reynolds in 2020, before becoming a full-time driver for the team from 2021. The Supercars Enduro Cup was reduced to a single race at Bathurst for 2020, where Brown and Reynolds finished fifteenth due to engine issues.
2021 Brown performed strongly in his first full-time Supercars season, achieving his first Supercars podium with second place in Race 22 at Sydney. He went on to score a maiden Armor All Pole Position the next weekend, starting on pole position for Race 23, again at Sydney Motorsport Park, but had to wait until Race 28 to claim his first Supercars race win. A stunning drive saw the Red Bull Australia drivers pressure Brown, but he held his nerve to become the 82nd driver to win an ATCC/Supercars race. He was the first rookie driver to win a Supercars race since 2013, when Scott McLaughlin and Chaz Mostert both took victories in their first full-time season.
2022 Brown had a mixed season in his second full-time Supercars season, only achieving a single podium at the first race at Sandown. He would also fail to start the last race at Pukekohe, after being involved in a major accident with Mark Winterbottom. He would finish fourteenth in the championship.
2023 Brown would improve massively in the first year in Gen3 machinery, compared to the previous year, with four wins and four pole positions. He would finish fifth in the standings.
Triple Eight Race Engineering (2024–present)
2024 In August 2023, Brown announced his departure from Erebus to join Triple Eight Race Engineering, replacing the NASCAR bound Shane van Gisbergen. With Broc Feeney as his team-mate, he would endure his best year in the championship, with five wins across the season and a podium in every event, a feat not achieved since Dick Johnson in 1984, to secure his first title in the Supercars Championship.
Other racing TCR Series (2019–2025) Brown drove in the TCR Australia Touring Car Series for its inaugural season. He was crowned champion with one round remaining. He also competed in the series for 2022 and 2023. He participated in all rounds for the former, coming second overall, whilst missing the third round in the latter, coming eleventh.
Brown also competed in the 2025 TCR World Tour for the series seventh round at the Zhuzhou International Circuit.
NASCAR (2024–2025)
On 15 May 2024, it was announced that Brown would make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma Raceway, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. Brown started 24th and was in the top-twenty at one point in the race before electrical issues relegated him to a 31st place finish, three laps down.
On 27 May 2025, it was announced that Brown would drive the No. 13 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing at the Chicago Street Race on 6 July. On 7 August, it was announced that Brown would make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Portland, driving the No. 11 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing.
Personal life Alongside racing, Brown is a used car salesman for his father's business in Toowoomba. He also owns two planes and has a private pilot's licence.
Career results Karting career summary Season Series Position 2012 Queensland Closed Karting Titles - KT100J 1st CIK Stars of Karting - KT100J 1st 2013 Australian National Sprint Kart Championship - Junior National Light 5th 2014 Australian National Sprint Kart Championship - Junior National Light 2nd Australian Junior Clubman Kart Championship 3rd
Career summary Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position 2015 Australian Formula 4 Championship AGI Sport 21 1 1 1 7 216 3rd Australian Formula Ford Series Race Academy 6 0 0 1 3 78 9th Victorian Formula Ford Championship 9 0 0 0 3 181 4th 2016 Australian Formula 4 Championship Team BRM 17 6 4 4 13 316 1st Australian Formula Ford Series BF Racing 15 9 2 5 12 255 2nd Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series Will Brown Motorsport 14 7 1 4 10 1278 1st Mazda Road to Indy Shootout Lucas Oil School of Racing 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 6th 2017 Super2 Series Eggleston Motorsport 21 0 0 0 1 1078 9th Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series Neale Motorsport 3 0 0 1 1 158 17th Australian Production Car Series 7 1 0 1 1 80 17th 2018 Super2 Series Eggleston Motorsport 15 0 0 0 2 1068 6th Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 3 0 0 0 0 204 49th Australian Production Car Series Griffith Corporation 4 0 0 0 0 8 52nd 2019 Super2 Series Eggleston Motorsport 14 1 0 1 2 960 12th Australian S5000 Exhibition 6 0 0 0 1 N/A N/A TCR Australia Touring Car Series HMO Customer Racing 21 7 1 9 15 743 1st Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 5 0 0 0 1 338 41st 2020 Super2 Series Image Racing 7 2 2 0 6 813 2nd Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 1 0 0 0 0 120 40th 2021 Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 30 1 1 2 3 1838 8th 2022 Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 33 0 0 1 1 1714 14th TCR Australia Touring Car Series MPC - Audi Liqui Moly Racing Team 20 2 0 3 6 702 2nd Intercontinental GT Challenge Nineteen Corporation Racing Team 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC 2023 Supercars Championship Erebus Motorsport 28 4 4 1 9 2264 5th TCR Australia Touring Car Series MPC - Audi Liqui Moly Racing Team 14 4 2 6 7 442 11th TCR World Tour 5 2 0 0 3 95 10th 2024 Supercars Championship Triple Eight Race Engineering 24 5 2 6 19 3060 1st NASCAR Cup Series Richard Childress Racing 1 0 0 0 0 6 42nd GT World Challenge Australia - Pro-Am Melbourne Performance Centre 10 3 2 2 5 143 2nd 2025 Formula Regional Oceania Championship Giles Motorsport 9 1 0 1 3 158 10th Tasman Series 6 0 0 1 2 109 2nd Supercars Championship Triple Eight Race Engineering 33 2 1 4 12 5244 2nd NASCAR Cup Series Kaulig Racing 1 0 0 0 0 1 43rd NASCAR Xfinity Series 1 0 0 0 0 2 73rdTCR World TourHMO Customer Racing300006212th Race of Champions – Nations CupRoC96 - - - - 2nd 2026 Supercars Championship Triple Eight Race Engineering 19 0 1 0 2 1057* 7th* * Season still in progress.
Complete Australian Formula 4 Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 DC Points 2015 AGI Sport TOW1 TOW2 TOW3 QLD1 QLD2 QLD3 SMP1 SMP2 SMP3 SAN1 SAN2 SAN3 SUR1 SUR2 SUR3 PHI1 PHI2 PHI3 SYD1 SYD2 SYD3 3rd 216 2016 Team BRM SYM1 SYM2 SYM3 PHI1 PHI2 PHI3 SMP1 SMP2 SMP3 QLD1 QLD2 QLD3 SAN1 SAN2 SAN3 SUR1 SUR2 SUR31st 316
Complete Super2 Series results (key) (Round results only), (2020 Race results only) Super2 Series results Year Team No. Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Position Points 2017 Eggleston Motorsport 38 Holden VF Commodore ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 SYMR7 PHIR8 PHIR9 PHIR10 PHIR11 TOWR12 TOWR13 SMPR14 SMPR15 SMPR16 SMPR17 SANR18 SANR19 NEWR20 NEWR21 9th 1078 2018 ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 BARR7 BARR8 BARR9 TOWR10 TOWR11 SANR12 SANR13 BATR14 NEWR15 NEWR16 6th 1068 2019 ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 BARR4 BARR5 TOWR6 TOWR7 QLDR8 QLDR9 BATR10 SANR11 SANR12 NEWR13 NEWR14 12th 960 2020 Image Racing 999 Holden VF Commodore ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYDR4 SYDR5 BATR6 BATR7 2nd 813
Supercars Championship results