SYDNEY, Australia — Reigning Supercars champion Will Brown is the latest Australian driver set to “take on the world” at the 2025 Race Of Champions to be held March 7-8 at Accor Stadium.
Brown, who is part of Red Bull Ampol Racing, will join his team owner and seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup as one of the Australian drivers getting the opportunity to compete in identical machinery against some of the biggest names in global motorsport at the unique ROC event which will be held in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time.
Rally ace and former Extreme E champion Molly Taylor has also been announced as part of Team Australia and the final member of the “local” teams will be announced in the lead up to the big event when final pairings will also be confirmed.
Brown clinched his maiden Supercars Championship in Adelaide last month after becoming the first driver since Dick Johnson in 1984 to claim a podium finish in every event of the season.
The Race Of Champions comes two weeks after the 2025 Supercars opener at Sydney Motorsport Park (Feb 21-23) and one week before the opening round of the F1 World Championship in Melbourne (March 13-16) — creating a massive month of motorsport in Australia.
In Sydney, Brown and his Team Australia teammates will be going head to head with no less than four-time Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel; current F-1 ace Valtteri Bottas; nine-time FIA World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb; 11-time X-Games Gold medalist Travis Pastrana; seven-time FIA World Rallycross Champion Johan Kristoffersson; former FIA F2 champion and F-1 driver Mick Schumacher and two-time European Rally Champion Hayden Paddon.
To date Brown’s Supercars career has included 124 races for nine wins, 31 podiums and six pole positions.
Brown again proved his versatility earlier this year when he travelled to the U.S. and competed in a NASCAR Cup Series event at Sonoma Raceway in California where he qualified 24th.
The Race Of Champions will run over two nights on a purpose built 1km asphalt race track, including a 43m crossover bridge, taking center stage at Accor Stadium, Sydney’s Olympic Stadium.
