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Barry Sheene Medal

Award for best and fairest driver in a V8 Supercars season

Summary

Award for best and fairest driver in a V8 Supercars season

Field	Value
name	Barry Sheene Medal
sport	Touring car racing
competition	Supercars Championship
givenfor	"outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season"
location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
firstwinner	Marcos Ambrose (2003)
mostwins	Craig Lowndes (five)
mostrecent	Chaz Mostert (2024)

The Barry Sheene Medal is an annual award honouring the achievements of a driver in the Supercars Championship, an Australian touring car series. Tony Cochrane, the chairman of the championship's organising body Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO),{{efn|AVESCO's name was changed to V8 Supercars Australia in 2005. instigated the award in 2003. The medal is named after the two-time Grand Prix motorcycle world champion and motor racing television commentator Barry Sheene. It is presented to the driver adjudged to have displayed "outstanding leadership, media interaction, character, personality, fan appeal and sportsmanship throughout the season". A panel of motor racing journalists individually award three drivers scores of three, two and one points after every event of the season. The results are announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney.

Drivers consider it the second-most prestigious award after the drivers' championship, and it is frequently likened to Australian rules football's Brownlow Medal and rugby league's Dally M Medal. The inaugural recipient was the Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose in 2003. He won his first drivers' championship title that year. Ambrose claimed a second championship title the following year and earned a second medal win. 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. Lowndes has the most victories of any competitor, collecting the award five times: in 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2015. Chaz Mostert was named the 2023 recipient, his first victory, and won it for a second time in 2024.

Winners

Year	Image	Winner	Nationality	Ref.
2003	[[File:Marcos Ambrose.jpg	alt=A man in his early thirties wearing black rectangular sunglasses and racing overalls with sponsors logos. He is smiling at the camera	frameless	100px]]	AUS	url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A110656844/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=017ff9a2	title=Icing on the cake for Ambrose	date=2 December 2003	work=The Courier-Mail	access-date=4 December 2019	url-status=live	publisher=News Corp Australia	page=079	via=Gale OneFile: News	url-access=subscription	archive-date=18 February 2021	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218075703/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA110656844&v=2.1&it=r&sid=GPS&asid=017ff9a2}}
2004	[[File:Ambrose 2012 cropped.jpg	alt=A man in his late thirties is wearing a black baseball cap and a black racing overall suit with sponsors logos.	frameless	100px]]	AUS	url=https://www.crash.net/v8/news/104676/1/stone-brothers-racing-clean-up-at-awards-gala	title=Stone Brothers Racing clean up at awards gala	last=Salisbury	first=Matt	date=10 December 2004	publisher=Crash	url-status=live	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204173122/https://www.crash.net/v8/news/104676/1/stone-brothers-racing-clean-up-at-awards-gala	archive-date=4 December 2019	access-date=4 December 2019}}
2005	[[File:Craig Lowndes 2006 australian grand prix melbourne.jpg	alt=A freckled face man in his early thirties is looking away from the camera and downwards	frameless	100px]]	AUS	url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/motorsport/lowndes-is-voted-top-of-the-pops/2005/11/28/1133026405665.html	title=Lowndes is voted top of the pops	last=Jennings	first=Bob	date=29 November 2005	work=The Sydney Morning Herald	access-date=4 December 2019	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130073818/http://www.smh.com.au/news/motorsport/lowndes-is-voted-top-of-the-pops/2005/11/28/1133026405665.html	archive-date=30 November 2005	publisher=Nine Entertainment}}
2006	[[File:Tomcar Craig Lowndes.jpg	alt=A man in his early thirties is smiling and sitting inside a yellow tomcar and strapped inside by a seatbelt	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2007	[[File:Jamie Whincup 2006 australian grand prix melbourne.jpg	alt=A man in his early twenties looking away from the camera and smiling widely	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2008	[[File:Jamie Whincup.jpg	alt=An young aged man is wearing a yellow baseball cap with sponsors logo and a red and white racing overalls	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2009	[[File:Will Davison.JPG	alt=A man aged 30 at an autograph session. He is wearing a black, white and orange baseball cap, a blue and orange fleece and a watch on his left wrist	frameless	100px]]	AUS	url=https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/davison-ends-2009-with-top-v8-award-20091207-14b4h.html	title=Davison ends 2009 with top V8 award	last=Jackson	first=Ed	date=7 December 2009	access-date=4 December 2019	publisher=Drive.com.au	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204173107/https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/davison-ends-2009-with-top-v8-award-20091207-14b4h.html	archive-date=4 December 2019	url-status=live}}
2010	[[File:2002 James Courtney.jpg	alt=A man in his early twenties standing in a pit lane and smiling at the camera. He is holding a crash helmet in a yellow, dark green and white colour scheme in his right arm.	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2011	[[File:Craig Lowndes.jpg	alt=A man in his early thirties walking in a paddock. He is looking down from the camera and is wearing a grey T-shirt with sponsors logos.	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2012	[[File:Mark Winterbottom Sydney 500 2015.JPG	alt=A man in his mid-30 smiling away from the camera. He is wearing a white fireproof vest with sponsors logos.	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2013	[[File:Craig Lowndes signing autographs during the 2014 V8 Supercars Test Day (1).jpg	alt=A middle-aged man wearing a dark grey baseball with sponsors logos and looking down and away from the camera.	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2014	[[File:Scott McLaughlin 2013 V8 Supercar Test Day.jpg	alt=A teenaged man wearing red racing overalls with sponsors logos is smiling at the camera	frameless	100px]]	NZL
2015	[[File:Lowndes.jpg	alt=A man in his early forties sporting a navy blue baseball cap with sponsors' logos and headphones to hear his team over the radio	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2016	[[File:Scott McLaughlin 2020 Supercars launch.jpg	alt=A man in his mid-twenties wearing a red zip T-shirt with a white colour scheme on the shoulders with sponsors logos and looking away from the camera with a smile	frameless	100px]]	NZL
2017	[[File:David Reynolds 2015.JPG	alt=A man in his late twenties wearing a black and a similarly coloured T-shirt. He is looking slightly to the right of the camera.	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2018	[[File:David Reynolds.JPG	alt=A man in his late twenties is looking down from the camera and signing autographs for others. He is wearing a black fleece with sponsors logos and a green T-shirt	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2019	[[File:Shane van Gisbergen 2016 Rennsport Sydney.jpg	alt=A man sporting a beard in his late twenties is wearing sunglasses and a dark blue baseball cap with a sponsor logo. His right hand is on his left arm.	frameless	100px]]	NZL
2020	[[File:Scott McLaughlin 2020 Supercars launch.jpg	alt=A man in his mid-twenties wearing a red zip T-shirt with a white colour scheme on the shoulders with sponsors logos and looking away from the camera with a smile	frameless	100px]]	NZL	last=Herrero	first=Daniel	date=18 October 2020	title=McLaughlin expresses pride at winning Barry Sheene Medal	url=https://www.speedcafe.com/2020/10/18/mclaughlin-expresses-pride-at-winning-barry-sheene-medal/	url-status=live	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020185858/https://www.speedcafe.com/2020/10/18/mclaughlin-expresses-pride-at-winning-barry-sheene-medal/	archive-date=20 October 2020	access-date=18 October 2020	publisher=Speedcafe}}
2021	[[File:Whincup at the 2020 Sydney Motorsport Park.png	frameless	100px]]	AUS	last=Bullis	first=Charlie	date=4 December 2021	title=Whincup wins third Barry Sheene Medal	url=https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/retiring-whincup-wins-third-barry-sheene-medal/	url-status=live	access-date=11 December 2021	publisher=Supercars Championship	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204074312/https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/retiring-whincup-wins-third-barry-sheene-medal/	archive-date=4 December 2021 }}
2022	[[File:Lee Holdsworth in 2014.JPG	frameless	100px]]	AUS
2023	[[File:Chaz Mostert 2016.jpg	frameless	100px]]	AUS	last=Miles	first=Thomas	title=Mostert lost for words by Barry Sheene medal honour	url=https://autoaction.com.au/2023/11/28/mostert-lost-for-words-to-receive-barry-sheene-medal	work=Auto Action	date=November 28, 2023	access-date=December 1, 2023}}
2024	[[File:Chaz Mostert 2020 Supercars launch.jpg	frameless	100px]]	AUS	last=Gildea	first=Bronte	date=November 20, 2024	title='I'm still lost for words': Chaz Mostert stunned by Barry Sheene Medal win	url=https://www.nine.com.au/sport/motorsport/supercars-news-2024-chaz-mostert-wins-barry-sheene-medal-20241120-p5ks68.html	access-date=October 6, 2025	publisher=Nine's Wide World of Sports}}
2025	[[File:Broc Feeney at the 2025 Adelaide Grand Final Parade - 06.jpg	frameless	100px]]	AUS	last=Bartholomaeus	first=Stefan	date=December 1, 2025	title=Feeney wins key gongs at Supercars Gala Awards	url=https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-2025-adelaide-grand-final-gala-awards-broc-feeney-richards-sheene-winners-full-list/	access-date=December 2, 2025	publisher=SpeedCafe}}

Statistics

Wins	Driver	Years	5	3	2
	2005, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2015
	2014, 2016, 2020
	2007, 2008, 2021
	2003, 2004
	2017, 2018
	2023, 2024

Country	Winners	Drivers	AUS	NZL
17	9
4	2

Notes

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