2017 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia

The 2017 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia was an Australian motor racing series for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991) cars.[1] It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) as a National Series with Porsche Cars Australia Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager. It was the 13th Carrera Cup to be contested in Australia in which the series was won by David Wall.

Teams and drivers

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Team Class Car# Driver Pro-am co-driver Rounds
Grove Motorsport Challenge 4a   Stephen Grove   Tim Slade All
Zagame Motorsport Pro 5b   Cameron McConville   Tony Bates All
6   Michael Almond 1–2, 4
McElrea Racing Pro 7c   Jaxon Evans   Tim Miles All
33d   Simon Ellingham   John Goodacre All
54   James Abela   Anthony Gilbertson 1–3
136 4–8
Porsche Centre Melbourne Pro 8e   Lars Kern 1–2, 5
Challenge   Dean Grant   Lee Holdsworth 3
Pro   Daniel Gaunt 7
Challenge 9f   Marc Cini   Dean Fiore 1–3, 5–8
Pro 23   Brenton Grove 6, 8
Buik Motorsport Challenge 13   Sam Shahin   Daniel Gaunt 3–4, 6–8
Pro 26   Michael Almond 6–8
Twigg Motorsport Challenge 18   Max Twigg 7–8
Garth Walden Racing Challenge 21   Rob Woods   Duvashen Padayachee 3
Pro 29   Garth Walden 8
DNA Racing Challenge 22g   Dean Cook 2, 5–6, 8
131   Graham Williams   Nick Foster 2–3, 5–8
Motorsport Leasing Challenge 34   John Morriss 6
Wall Racing Pro 38h   David Wall   Shane Smollen All
Challenge 156   Shane Smollen 5
STR Truck Radios Challenge 48   Matt Palmer 2
Miles Advisory Partners Challenge 70i   Tim Miles 4–7
Sonic Motor Racing Services Pro 77j   Nick McBride   Dylan Thomas All
79   Jordan Love 6–8
777   Andre Heimgartner   Aaron Ireland All
Ashley Seward Motorsport Pro 88k   Dylan O'Keeffe   Adam Gowans All
888   Alex Davison   Geoff Emery All
Notes
  • ^a — raced as number 104 at the Sepang Round and number 4 for all other rounds
  • ^b — raced as number 105 at the Sepang Round and number 5 for all other rounds
  • ^c — raced as number 107 at the Sepang Round and number 7 for all other rounds
  • ^d — raced as number 133 at the Sepang Round and number 33 for all other rounds
  • ^e — raced as number 108 at the Sepang Round and number 8 for all other rounds
  • ^f — raced as number 109 at the Sepang Round and number 9 for all other rounds
  • ^g — raced as number 122 at the Sepang Round and number 22 for all other rounds
  • ^h — raced as number 138 at the Sepang Round and number 38 for all other rounds
  • ^i — raced as number 170 at the Sepang Round and number 70 for all other rounds
  • ^j — raced as number 177 at the Sepang Round and number 77 for all other rounds
  • ^k — raced as number 188 at the Sepang Round and number 88 for all other rounds

Race calendar

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The series was contested over eight rounds with a joined round with Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia.[2]

Round Circuit City / state Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Round winner
1 R1   Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 3 March   Andre Heimgartner   Lars Kern   Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services   Andre Heimgartner
R2 4 March   Jaxon Evans   David Wall Wall Racing
R3 5 March   David Wall   Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
2 R1   Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit Melbourne, Victoria 23 March   Nick McBride   Cameron McConville   Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services   Cameron McConville
R2 24 March   Nick McBride   Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 25 March   Alex Davison   Cameron McConville Zagame Motorsport
R4 26 March   Alex Davison   Alex Davison Ashley Seward Motorsport
3 R1   Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 27 May   Andre Heimgartner
  Aaron Ireland
  Graham Williams
  Nick Foster
  Nick McBride
  Dylan Thomas
Sonic Motor Racing Services   David Wall
  Shane Smollen
R2 28 May   Dylan O'Keeffe
  Adam Gowans
  Andre Heimgartner
  Aaron Ireland
  Dean Grant
  Lee Holdsworth
Porsche Centre Melbourne
4 R1   Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 17 June   David Wall   Alex Davison   Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing   Jaxon Evans
R2 18 June   Alex Davison   Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
R3   Andre Heimgartner   Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
5 R1   Sepang International Circuit Sepang, Malaysia 22 July   David Wall   Alex Davison   David Wall Wall Racing   David Wall
R2 23 July   David Wall   David Wall Wall Racing
6 R1   Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 16 September   Nick McBride   Alex Davison   Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services   Nick McBride
R2   Alex Davison   Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 17 September   Alex Davison   Alex Davison Ashley Seward Motorsport
7 R1   Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 6 October   David Wall   Andre Heimgartner   David Wall Wall Racing   Andre Heimgartner
R2 7 October   Alex Davison   Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 8 October   Andre Heimgartner   Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
8 R1   Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 21 October   Andre Heimgartner   Jaxon Evans   Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing   Jaxon Evans
R2 22 October   Andre Heimgartner   Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3   Alex Davison   Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
  • New lap records

Series standings

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Pos. Driver ADE
 
AGP
 
PHI
 
HID
 
SEP
 
SAN
 
BAT
 
SUR
 
Pts.
Pro
1 David Wall 2 1 2 6 5 5 5 2 4 2 3 3 1 1 4 6 6 1 2 3 3 5 5 1145
2 Andre Heimgartner 1 3 1 2 2 7 3 6 3 8 6 4 4 8 2 3 2 3 1 1 2 1 3 1125
3 Alex Davison 4 Ret 7 5 4 2 1 14 2 3 2 2 2 5 3 2 1 2 3 2 10 3 2 1055
4 Nick McBride 8 7 4 1 1 3 4 1 Ret 7 8 8 9 4 1 1 3 5 6 4 8 7 7 901
5 Jaxon Evans 3 6 5 10 DNS 6 6 8 6 1 1 1 5 7 DNS 5 4 4 Ret 6 1 2 1 879.5
6 Dylan O'Keeffe 7 5 3 4 6 4 7 3 Ret 4 4 7 3 2 9 8 5 6 7 9 4 6 4 855
7 Cameron McConville 6 2 9 3 3 1 2 15 8 6 7 5 7 9 5 7 7 7 4 5 6 10 10 789
8 James Abela 5 4 8 8 9 10 10 7 Ret 5 5 6 10 Ret 8 13 8 11 9 8 Ret 9 6 527.5
9 Michael Almond Ret Ret 6 7 7 8 8 9 10 9 12 12 10 9 Ret 8 Ret 11 5 4 8 465
10 Simon Ellingham DNS 10 12 12 11 Ret 12 13 11 12 11 11 16 15 12 14 12 14 13 13 15 13 13 344
11 Lars Kern Ret Ret DNS 9 8 9 9 6 3 191.5
12 Jordan Love 6 Ret 14 9 5 10 11 8 9 187
13 Brenton Grove 7 4 10 9 12 12 146
14 Daniel Gaunt 10 8 7 75
15 Garth Walden 7 11 11 65
Challenge
1 Stephen Grove 9 8 10 11 10 11 11 5 7 13 12 Ret 11 10 15 10 9 Ret 12 Ret 12 Ret DNS 1061
2 Marc Cini 10 9 11 Ret 12 12 13 9 12 15 14 16 16 13 13 11 Ret 18 15 15 904.5
3 Sam Shahin 4 9 11 10 9 17 12 15 DNS 14 15 16 16 16 681
4 Graham Williams 15 15 15 16 11 10 17 16 18 18 17 15 15 16 17 17 17 668.5
5 Tim Miles 10 Ret 10 12 11 11 11 11 12 10 12 634
6 Dean Cook 14 14 13 15 14 13 12 15 16 14 14 14 580
7 Dean Grant 10 1 153
8 Matt Palmer 13 13 14 14 144
9 Shane Smollen 16 12 136
10 Rob Woods 12 5 129
11 Max Twigg Ret Ret 14 13 Ret DNS 108
guest drivers ineligible to score points
John Morriss 14 17 Ret 0

References

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  1. ^ Porsche Carrera Cup Australia 1/03/16
  2. ^ [1] speedcafe.com 1/03/2017
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