Scott McLaughlin (racing driver)

Scott Earle McLaughlin (born 10 June, 1993) is a New Zealand professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 17 Ford FG X Falcon for DJR Team Penske.
McLaughlin won his first race in the NZ Touring Car series in early 2011, becoming the youngest ever driver to win a race in the Championship at just 17 years old. Then in 2012 he competed in the New Zealand V8SuperTourers Championship and became the inaugural series champion.
McLaughlin achieved his first Supercars race win during his first full time season with Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2013, at Pukekohe Park Raceway. He is the youngest person to ever race, and win in a Supercar.

McLaughlin began racing karts when he was eight, and represented New Zealand in the Rotax Max Challenge held in Italy, but had long aspired to race V8s, and was given a trial in one at Stone Brothers Racing while doing work experience there.

In 2010, McLaughlin confirmed that he would be racing for Stone Brothers Racing in the 2010 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series at just 16 years of age, becoming the youngest ever V8 Supercar driver. He didn't make his debut until the second round of the series, however, due to not having the appropriate competition licence.

McLaughlin won his first race in the series at Queensland Raceway in 2011 before going on to win the title in 2012.

McLaughlin drove a Holden VE Commodore in the 2012 season of the V8 SuperTourer Series. He won six races for MPC Motorsport on his way to becoming the inaugural series champion.

McLaughlin made his debut in the Supercars Championship at the Sandown 500 in 2012, as a co-driver to Jonathon Webb at Tekno Autosports. The pair performed well at both Sandown and Bathurst, finishing in tenth place at Sandown and in sixth place at Bathurst. McLaughlin also drove at the Sydney 500 for Garry Rogers Motorsport after Alexandre Prémat was forced out of the Sunday race due to extreme heat exhaustion the day before. McLaughlin was later signed by Garry Rogers Motorsport as a full-time driver for the 2013 season.

McLaughlin continued with GRM in 2014 under its new identity as Volvo Polestar Racing (later Volvo Cyan Racing). He will move to DJR Team Penske in 2017 alongside Fabian Coulthard, taking over from Scott Pye.

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  McLaughlin placed 4th in the 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series driving a Ford BF Falcon (pictured above at Queensland Raceway) & a Ford FG Falcon).

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  McLaughlin placed 10th in the 2013 V8 Supercars Championship driving a Holden VF Commodore (pictured above at the Adelaide Parklands Circuit).

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  McLaughlin placed fifth in the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship driving a Volvo S60 (pictured at the 2014 Coates Hire Ipswich 400).

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  McLaughlin preparing for the third race of the 2015 Sydney Motorsport Park Super Sprint.

Bathurst 1000 results

* Events highlighted in green denote designated co-driver role

Complete V8 SuperTourer results