Will Brown (racing driver)

Brown started his career in karting in 2011 at the age of thirteen. He won numerous championships in his junior years and had an 80% win rate. He moved up the ranks and competed in the inaugural CAMS Jayco Australian Formula 4 Championship in 2015 with team BRM.^[1]

On the back of his karting form, Brown was signed by AGI Sport to race in the inaugural FIA Formula 4 Australia Championship and claimed victory in the first-ever race. Brown was a championship contender for the Formula 4 championship in 2015, winning three of the fifteen races that season. He finished third overall and was crowned Rookie of the Year after his impressive debut.

In 2016, Brown signed with BRM and recorded six race wins and twelve podiums from eighteen races to be crowned Formula 4 Australia Champion. He took the title with one round and one race remaining after a controversial race in Tasmania, where he was involved in a collision with rivals Nick Rowe and Jordan Love.

Brown competed in the 2016 Australian Formula Ford Championship. Despite missing the first three rounds due to a date clash with Formula 4, Brown would go on to secure the runner-up spot in the 2016 championship, with multiple wins and podiums.

Brown also competed in the one-make Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series in 2016, claiming the Series Title in a field of 39 drivers. With championship wins in both the Australian Formula 4 and the Australian Toyota Racing Series in 2016, Brown became one of only five drivers in Australian motorsport history to achieve two national racing titles in one year.

For the 2017 racing season, Brown was picked up by Eggleston Motorsport to replace the outgoing Liam McAdam.^[3][4] He scored a best finish of third at Symmons Plains and was on course to win the final race of the season in Newcastle before blowing a gearbox. He finished ninth in the championship overall.

In 2020, Hyundai Motorsport named Brown in the 2020 Junior Driver Program as one of four drivers who will race Hyundai Motorsport TCR cars in some of the leading championships in the category. Outside of Europe, Will Brown represented the Customer Racing Junior Driver Program. Brown dominated the inaugural Australian TCR season with seven wins in his debut driving TCR cars. He remains with the HMO Customer Racing team to defend his title.^[5]

Brown participated in the 2025 Formula Regional Oceania Championship for Giles Motorsport in the championship's first, second and fifth rounds.^[6] There he won the New Zealand Grand Prix.^[7]

Brown was named as a Supercars Endurance Cup co-driver, partnering Anton de Pasquale with Erebus Motorsport, where he immediately showed his elite driving ability throughout the three-race series. He continued to make solid progress in his Dunlop Super2 Series, landing P6 in the 2018 Driver's Championship with Eggleston Motorsport.

Again partnering with de Pasquale at Erebus Motorsport in the Supercars championship, Brown's talent was on show, finishing second behind Craig Lowndes and ahead of Garth Tander in the Co-driver Race, taking his first podium in the series. Furthermore, Brown also accepted a drive in the inaugural S5000 series, competing alongside former F1 driver Rubens Barrichello.

Brown began 2020 with a multi-year signing with Erebus Motorsport (Penrite Racing), which would see him compete in the Supercars series as a co-driver to David Reynolds in 2020, before becoming a full-time driver for the team from 2021. The Supercars Enduro Cup was reduced to a single race at Bathurst for 2020, where Brown and Reynolds finished fifteenth due to engine issues.

Brown performed strongly in his first full-time Supercars season, achieving his first Supercars podium with second place in Race 22 at Sydney. He went on to score a maiden Armor All Pole Position the next weekend, starting on pole position for Race 23, again at Sydney Motorsport Park, but had to wait until Race 28 to claim his first Supercars race win. A stunning drive saw the Red Bull Australia drivers pressure Brown, but he held his nerve to become the 82nd driver to win an ATCC/Supercars race. He was the first rookie driver to win a Supercars race since 2013, when Scott McLaughlin and Chaz Mostert both took victories in their first full-time season.

Brown had a mixed season in his second full-time Supercars season, only achieving a single podium at the first race at Sandown. He would also fail to start the last race at Pukekohe, after being involved in a major accident with Mark Winterbottom. He would finish fourteenth in the championship.

Brown would improve massively in the first year in Gen3 machinery, compared to the previous year, with four wins and four pole positions. He would finish fifth in the standings.

In August 2023, Brown announced his departure from Erebus to join Triple Eight Race Engineering, replacing the NASCAR bound Shane van Gisbergen.^[8] With Broc Feeney as his team-mate, he would endure his best year in the championship, with five wins across the season and a podium in every event,^[9] a feat not achieved since Dick Johnson in 1984, to secure his first title in the Supercars Championship.

Brown drove in the TCR Australia Touring Car Series for its inaugural season. He was crowned champion with one round remaining.^[10] He also competed in the series for 2022 and 2023. He participated in all rounds for the former, coming second overall, whilst missing the third round in the latter, coming eleventh.^{[citation needed]}

Brown also competed in the 2025 TCR World Tour for the series seventh round at the Zhuzhou International Circuit.^[11]

On 15 May 2024, it was announced that Brown would make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma Raceway, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.^{[12][13][14][15][16]} Brown started 24th and was in the top-twenty at one point in the race before electrical issues relegated him to a 31st place finish, three laps down.

On 27 May 2025, it was announced that Brown would drive the No. 13 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing at the Chicago Street Race on 6 July.^[17] On 7 August, it was announced that Brown would make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Portland, driving the No. 11 Chevrolet for Kaulig Racing.^[18]

Alongside racing, Brown is a used car salesman for his father's business in Toowoomba.^[19][20] He also owns two planes and has a private pilot's licence.^[21]