Sport | Touring car racing |
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Competition | Supercars Championship |
Awarded for | "outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season" [1] |
Location | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
History | |
First winner | Marcos Ambrose (2003) |
Most wins | Craig Lowndes (five) |
Most recent | Chaz Mostert (2023) |
The Barry Sheene Medal is an annual award honouring the achievements of a driver in the Supercars Championship, [1] [2] an Australian touring car series. [3] Tony Cochrane, the chairman of the championship's organising body Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO), [a] [4] instigated the award in 2003. [5] [6] The medal is named after the two-time Grand Prix motorcycle world champion and motor racing television commentator Barry Sheene. [2] [7] It is presented to the driver adjudged to have displayed "outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season". [1] A panel of motor racing journalists individually award three drivers scores of three, two and one points after every event of the season. [2] [5] The results are announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney. [b] [1] [5]
Drivers consider it the second-most prestigious award after the drivers' championship, [10] and it is frequently likened to Australian rules football's Brownlow Medal and rugby league's Dally M Medal. [10] [11] The inaugural recipient was the Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose in 2003. He won his first drivers' championship title that year. [12] Ambrose claimed a second championship title the following year and earned a second medal win. [13] Since then, four drivers have won the award more than once: Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup, Scott McLaughlin and David Reynolds. Australian drivers have earned the medal seventeen times and New Zealanders four times. [1] Lowndes has the most victories of any competitor, collecting the award five times: in 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2015. [1] Chaz Mostert was named the 2023 recipient, his first victory. [14]
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Sport | Touring car racing |
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Competition | Supercars Championship |
Awarded for | "outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season" [1] |
Location | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
History | |
First winner | Marcos Ambrose (2003) |
Most wins | Craig Lowndes (five) |
Most recent | Chaz Mostert (2023) |
The Barry Sheene Medal is an annual award honouring the achievements of a driver in the Supercars Championship, [1] [2] an Australian touring car series. [3] Tony Cochrane, the chairman of the championship's organising body Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO), [a] [4] instigated the award in 2003. [5] [6] The medal is named after the two-time Grand Prix motorcycle world champion and motor racing television commentator Barry Sheene. [2] [7] It is presented to the driver adjudged to have displayed "outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season". [1] A panel of motor racing journalists individually award three drivers scores of three, two and one points after every event of the season. [2] [5] The results are announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney. [b] [1] [5]
Drivers consider it the second-most prestigious award after the drivers' championship, [10] and it is frequently likened to Australian rules football's Brownlow Medal and rugby league's Dally M Medal. [10] [11] The inaugural recipient was the Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose in 2003. He won his first drivers' championship title that year. [12] Ambrose claimed a second championship title the following year and earned a second medal win. [13] Since then, four drivers have won the award more than once: Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup, Scott McLaughlin and David Reynolds. Australian drivers have earned the medal seventeen times and New Zealanders four times. [1] Lowndes has the most victories of any competitor, collecting the award five times: in 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2015. [1] Chaz Mostert was named the 2023 recipient, his first victory. [14]
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