New Zealander Scott McLaughlin has put himself in rare company in the pantheon of Australian touring car racing by taking out the Supercar drivers championship for the third year in a row
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Supercharged: Scott McLaughlin of the Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang celebrates sealing a historic title win after the Supersprint round at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia.Many of the greats - Bob Jane, Allan Moffat, Dick Johnson, Jim Richards, Craig Lowndes and Marcos Ambrose - won two titles in a row but could never quite manage to make it triple titles in successive years. The great Peter Brock won three, but there were intervals between them .
He took advantage of Whincup's pit lane misfortune earlier in the weekend - an error which saw the former multiple champion drop further behind on the points table - to draw clear of his closest pursuer and by the time the final race was run in SA on Sunday afternoon McLaughlin held a lead of 299 points.Getty Images
The classic Bathurst 1000 kilometre race is the one event that all drivers want to win, so McLaughlin is delighted that he can head to Mount Panorama with the championship already under his belt, not having to drive conservatively or simply to accumulate points there to take the title.
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