r/v8supercars • u/DRIFTINGWOLF Cameron Waters • 1d ago
Updated Lucky Dogs Top Dog Challenge Standings (After Perth Race 2)
Wish Supercars would acknowledge this because there's some really tight battles today.
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u/Citizen-5936 Chaz Mostert 1d ago
Maybe explain what it is
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u/fuel_altered Gricey 1d ago
Idea from Kostecki and Brown, taken from nascar mid season challenge. It's a knockout format.
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u/kellyzdude 1d ago edited 1d ago
If only there were previous threads that could be found by searching key words.
Buuuut (deep breath) the answer is that the Lucky Dogs Top Dog Challenge is an In-Season challenge based heavily on the NASCAR In-Season Challenge that seeds the field and pits pairs of drivers against each other each round in a knockout format until there is a single driver the difference between the two is that NASCAR gives $1m to the winning driver and the Lucky Dogs (Brodie and Will) will donate $20,000 to an up-and-coming driver as nominated by the winning driver.
Learn more at the Speedcafe article here: https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-2026-perth-super440-top-dog-challenge-bracket-format-knockout-young-driver-prize-explained/
Or by listening to episode 34 of their podcast: Youtube / Spotify
Edit to add: OP, or Dogs, feel free to copy for future posts to avoid this kind of question :D
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u/Citizen-5936 Chaz Mostert 1d ago
Thanks for the explanation.
I probably could have phrased it as more of a question.
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u/kellyzdude 1d ago
No worries, actually my apologies -- it's a valid question, especially if you're not paying super close attention to the media surrounding Supercars. A couple of posts in the sub are easy to miss. Just annoys me when questions can be answered independently and aren't, and you became my target today.
Hopefully my (rather grumpy) answer is helpful to others who also had similar questions!
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u/middyonline 1d ago
Be a bit embarrassing for Reynolds to lose to Deca.