🇦🇺 James Courtney

James Courtney is a professional driver competing in the Supercars Championship, where he has spent nine seasons racing at the national level across all series on record. His Racer Rating of 4,585 places him among professional competitors; drivers at this level typically lead national championship fields and beat semi-professionals consistently, though they do not regularly win at the very top. Courtney has scored a single win across his record, achieved in Formula 3 Macau in 2002, and has accumulated nine podium finishes over 210 starts, with eight of those podiums coming in Supercars between 2019 and 2025. His average finishing position of 12th place reflects a career spent in mid-field competitiveness rather than contention.[1]

Courtney's record in Supercars shows him racing consistently among a field of established professionals, though not as a regular race winner. Against his most frequent rivals he presents a mixed head-to-head: he has outfinished semi-professional Nick Percat slightly across 186 shared races, runs even with Gold-graded Andre Heimgartner, but finishes behind stronger drivers substantially more often than he finishes ahead of them. Cameron Waters (6,177) and Chaz Mostert (5,682, FIA Platinum) both finish ahead of him in roughly four of every five meetings. Courtney has occasionally beaten champions and front-line professionals in isolated races; he finished ahead of Broc Feeney, an FIA Gold driver and 2023 champion, seventeen times across their shared races, though Feeney rated considerably higher overall. More notably, he has once finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica in racing encounters, though these represent single results against elite drivers rather than sustained competitive patterns.[2]

Courtney remained active in the Supercars Championship through 2025, finishing 16th in the standings with one podium across 33 rounds for Snowy River Racing. His career has shifted toward part-time competition; recent headlines note his transition away from full-time racing and involvement in endurance and sportscar competition alongside his continued Supercars appearances.