{"id":320889,"date":"2025-12-01T16:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:37:19","slug":"how-the-2025-supercars-points-ended-up-without-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320889\/","title":{"rendered":"How the 2025 Supercars points ended up without finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S the pondering that just won\u2019t go away: how would the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship look had it not been for the advent of finals?<\/p>\n<p>V8 Sleuth has crunched the numbers and come up with the below.<\/p>\n<p>The key takeaways are that under the old system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1545-Broc-Feeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broc Feeney<\/a> would have beaten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a> to the title, with the final two days of the season a dead rubber, and the actual champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a> would have been fourth behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1292-Will-Brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, for the sake of closure regarding an alternate universe where playoffs hadn\u2019t been introduced\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2025 Supercars Drivers\u2019 Championship under the old accumulated points format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S the pondering that just won\u2019t go away: how would the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship look had it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-320889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}