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Mike Kable Young Gun Award

Touring car award

Summary

Touring car award

Field	Value
name	Mike Kable Young Gun Award
sport	Touring car racing
competition	{{Plainlist
givenfor	Best performing rookie over the course of the Supercars, Super2 or Super3 season
location	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
firstwinner	Matthew White (2000)
mostrecent	Cameron McLeod (2023)

Supercars Championship
Super2 Series
Super3 Series The Mike Kable Young Gun Award (also called the Mike Kable Rookie of the Year) is an annual motor racing award honouring the achievements of a rookie driver under the age of 30 who competes in either the Supercars Championship, the second-tier Super2 Series or the third-tier Super3 Series. instigated the accolade in June 2000. The award is presented to the rookie driver adjudged to have performed the best over the course of their first season in either championship following a vote by a panel of motorsport experts. The recipient receives a sponsorship grant of A$15,000 to help develop themselves. The winner is announced at the series' end-of-season gala in Sydney.

The inaugural winner was Matthew White in 2000.

Winners

Year	Image	Winner	Nationality	Series	Ref.
2000			AUS	Konica V8 Lites Series	date=15 May 2001	title=2000 V8 Supercar Awards	url=http://www.v8x.com.au/cms/A_30059/article.html	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111071958/http://www.v8x.com.au/cms/A_30059/article.html	archive-date=11 November 2004	access-date=2 August 2020	website=V8X}}
2001	[[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	V8 Supercars	last=Krupka	first=Peter	date=4 December 2001	title=Rookie to challenge for Skaife crown	page=14	work=The Australian	url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/357905795	url-access=subscription	access-date=2 August 2020	id=}}
2002	[[File:Rick Kelly 2020 Supercars launch.jpg	100px	alt=A clean shaven man in his late thirties wearing a green, black and red zip T-shirt with sponsors logos]]		AUS
2003	[[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	Konica V8 Supercar Series	last=Barstow	first=Ollie	date=17 December 2006	title=Courtney named Rookie of the Year	url=https://www.crash.net/v8/news/106024/1/courtney-named-rookie-of-the-year	url-status=live	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116130941/https://www.crash.net/v8/news/106024/1/courtney-named-rookie-of-the-year	archive-date=16 November 2020	access-date=2 August 2020	work=crash.net	publisher=Crash Media Group}}
2004			AUS	V8 Supercars
2005	[[File:Grant Denyer (6872955284).jpg	100px	alt=A clean shaven man in his mid-thirties wearing an unbuttoned shirt looking to the left of the camera]]		AUS	HPDC V8 Supercar Series
2006	[[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	V8 Supercars
2007	[[File:Dale Wood in 2014.JPG	100px	alt=A man in his early thirties wearing black rectangular sunglasses and a black T-shirt]]		AUS	Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series
2008	[[File:Karl Reindler Abu Dhabi.jpg	100px	alt=A man in his mid-twenties wearing a white fireproof vest and has one earphone in his right ear which his right hand is clutch over]]		AUS
2009	[[File:James Moffat.jpg	100px	alt=A man in his late twenties wearing a white T-shirt with a red collar and he has retangular sunglasses on the top of the hair on his head]]		AUS
2010	[[File:Tim Blanchard.JPG	100px	alt=A man in his late twenties wearing a black T-shirt with sponsors logos and a blue and white baseball cap on his head. He is looking to the right and is holding a black pen in his right hand]]		AUS	last1=Com	first1=Speedcafe	date=6 December 2010	title=V8 Awards: Blanchard is Mike Kable Young Gun	url=http://www.speedcafe.com/2010/12/06/v8-awards-tim-blanchard-named-mike-kable-young-gun/	url-status=live	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907064301/http://www.speedcafe.com/2010/12/06/v8-awards-tim-blanchard-named-mike-kable-young-gun/	archive-date=7 September 2011	access-date=2 August 2020	website=Speedcafe}}
2011	[[File:Chaz Mostert 2020 Supercars launch.jpg	100px	alt=A man in his late twenties wearing a baseball cap the opposite way and a blue and white T-shirt. He is holding a black microphone in his right hand and is speaking to the press]]		AUS
2012	[[File:Scott Pye.JPG	100px	alt=A man in his early twenties looking to someone outside the camera. He is wearing a black T-shirt with sponsors logos and his holding both his hands together/]]		AUS	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series
2013	[[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	V8 Supercars
2014	[[File:Todd Hazelwood, getting prepped for practise 2 at Newcastle.jpg	100px	alt=A man in his early twenties wearing a white fireproof balaclava around most of his head and dark red, blue and white racing overalls. He is putting on his helmet and HANS device.]]		AUS	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series	last=Walsh	first=Scott	date=17 December 2014	title=South Australian Todd Hazelwood wins V8 Supercars Mike Kable Young Gun Award	work=The Advertiser	url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/south-australian-todd-hazelwood-wins-v8-supercars-mike-kable-young-gun-award/news-story/8ed4180bf5b0d3a346f8929e4a3f7909	url-status=live	access-date=2 August 2020	archive-date=18 November 2020	archive-url=https://archive.today/20201118185123/https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/motor-sport/v8-supercars/south-australian-todd-hazelwood-wins-v8-supercars-mike-kable-young-gun-award/news-story/8ed4180bf5b0d3a346f8929e4a3f7909}}
2015			AUS	V8 Supercars
2016	[[File:Cameron Waters 2016.jpg	100px	alt=A man in his early twenties wearing a black baseball on the opposite way and T-shirt with sponsors logos.]]		AUS
2017			AUS	Super2 Series	last=Bartholomaeus	first=Stefan	date=27 November 2017	title=Brown awarded Mike Kable Young Gun	url=https://www.supercars.com/news/super2/brown-awarded-mike-kable-young-gun/	url-status=live	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142254/http://www.supercars.com/news/super2/brown-awarded-mike-kable-young-gun/	archive-date=12 June 2018	access-date=2 August 2020	publisher=Supercars}}
2018			AUS
2019	[[File:Tyler Everingham.jpg	100px	alt=A teenaged man wearing a mustard hoodie standing next to a red and white racing car numbered 7 to the right of the picture]]		AUS	last=Shirkie	first=Daniel	date=27 November 2019	title=Everingham receives top rookie award at 2019 Supercars Gala Night	work=Daily Liberal	url=https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/6511431/young-gun-everinghams-debut-super-2-series-effort-recognised-at-awards-night/	url-status=live	access-date=2 August 2020	archive-date=16 November 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116130920/https://www.dailyliberal.com.au/story/6511431/young-gun-everinghams-debut-super-2-series-effort-recognised-at-awards-night/}}
2020
2021	[[File:Mcleantownsville.jpg	100px	alt=A male in his mid-20s in racing overalls sporting long hair with a yellow sponsored baseball cap on his head celebrating with a bottle of champagne in his right hand]]		AUS	Super2 Series	last=Chapman	first=Simon	title=McLean wins Mike Kable Young Gun Award	work=Speedcafe	url=https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/12/03/mclean-wins-mike-kable-young-gun-award/	publisher=Speedcafe	date=3 December 2021	access-date=11 December 2021	archive-date=11 December 2021	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211074637/https://www.speedcafe.com/2021/12/03/mclean-wins-mike-kable-young-gun-award/	url-status=live}}

2022	[[File:Matthew Payne on the podium at the 2021 NZGP.jpg	100px]]		NZL	Super2 Series	last=Pavey	first=James	date=5 December 2022	title=All the winners from 2022 Gala Awards	url=https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/all-the-winners-from-2022-supercars-gala-awards/	access-date=5 December 2022	publisher=Supercars	archive-date=5 December 2022	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205112912/https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/all-the-winners-from-2022-supercars-gala-awards/	url-status=live}}
2023	—		AUS	Super3 Series
2024	[[File:Aaron Cameron at the 2025 Adelaide Grand Final Parade.jpg	100px]]		AUS	Super2 Series

Statistics

Country	Winners	AUS	NZL
23
2

Series	Winners	Super2 Series	V8 Supercars	Super3 Series
15
7
1

Notes

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