Motorsport Network wins big at Supercars Awards

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For the second year running, Motorsport Network's Australian editor Andrew van Leeuwen led the way in the journalism category.

He took out the Best Supercars News story for his breaking report on the vaccination controversy that rocked the category last year.

David Reynolds ended up benched for two rounds when a vaccination exemption was found to be invalid, news that was initially broken by van Leeuwen via Motorsport.com.

Van Leeuwen was also named Journalist of the Year for a second consecutive season.

Additionally, the Castrol Motorsport News podcast he hosts with fellow journalist Stefan Bartholomaeus won a hotly contested Best Radio Show/Podcast category.

"The Supercars media industry is very competitive and there are some fantastic journalists in the paddock so this is a real honour," said van Leeuwen.

"I'm particularly proud to have now won two Journalist of the Year awards across what have been incredibly challenging seasons due to the pandemic and border closures and so on.

"Hopefully things will be a bit more normal this year and us journos can spend less time writing stories about postponements and more time covering races and breaking non-COVID related news."

Photographer Mark Horsburgh, who covers Supercars for Motorsport Network, won Best On Track Photo, tied for Best Feature Photo and was second in the Photographer of the Year category.

Former Motorsport Network Supercars photographer Dirk Klynsmith was inducted into the Hall of Fame along with Holden PR legend Tim 'Plastic' Pemberton.