IT’S the pondering that just won’t go away: how would the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship look had it not been for the advent of finals?

V8 Sleuth has crunched the numbers and come up with the below.

The key takeaways are that under the old system, Broc Feeney would have beaten Matt Payne to the title, with the final two days of the season a dead rubber, and the actual champion Chaz Mostert would have been fourth behind Will Brown.

That said, all competitors knew the score going into the season and one must tip their hat to Walkinshaw Andretti United for executing its finals-centric approach.

Nevertheless, for the sake of closure regarding an alternate universe where playoffs hadn’t been introduced…

2025 Supercars Drivers’ Championship under the old accumulated points format