Australian GT Production Car Championship

The Australian GT Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title, organised by Procar Australia Pty Ltd, for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars.

Australian GT Production Car Championship

Category	Production car racing
Country	Australia
Inaugural season	1994
Folded	2002
Last Drivers' champion	Brett Peters

PROCAR had first promoted a national series for production based cars in 1994. This “Australian Super Production Car Series” accommodated numerous models (including high performance GT type cars) which were not eligible for the official Australian Production Car Championship, which at the time had tightened regulations in the interests of cost-control and was limited to vehicles with an engine capacity of less than 2.5 litres. The PROCAR series was renamed the “Australian GT Production Car Series” for 1995. For 1996 the series was given full CAMS national title status to become the Australian GT Production Car Championship while the Australian Production Car Championship itself was discontinued after the 1995 title.

In 2000 the “GT “cars were moved to a new Australian Nations Cup Championship with the remaining vehicles left to contest the Australian GT Production Car Championship. 2001 saw the Australian GT Production Car Championship contested in two parts with the higher performance “GT Performance” cars and the lesser “GT Production” cars running in separate races but still competing for an overall Australian GT Production Car Championship as well as separate class awards. In 2003 the “GT Performance” class cars competed for the first time for an official Australian GT Performance Car Championship whilst the former “GT Production” class cars would contest the newly re-instituted Australian Production Car Championship.

Since then the term GT Production was revived in 2008 as a sub-class of the Australian GT Championship, where it is broadly used to describe GT cars with origins closer to production cars than Grand Tourers.

Champions

Australian Super Production Car Series

Year	Winner	Car	Class	Winner	Car
1994	Brad Jones	Lotus Esprit	no classes

Australian GT Production Car Series

Year	Winner	Car	Class	Winner	Car
1995	Jim Richards	Porsche 968CS & Porsche 911 RSCS	B	Chris Sexton	Ford Falcon XR6
			C	Milton Leslight	Peugeot 405

Australian GT Production Car Championship

Year	Champion	Car	Class	Champion	Car
1996	Cameron McConville	Porsche 911 RSCS	A	Cameron McConville	Porsche 911 RSCS
			B	John Bourke	Subaru Impreza WRX
			C	Chris Sexton	Ford EL Falcon XR6
			D	Chris Kousparis	Mazda 626
			E	Andrej Pavicevic	Suzuki Swift GTi
1997	Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche 911 RSCS	A	Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche 911 RSCS
			B	Andrej Pavicevic	Subaru Impreza WRX
			C	Chris Sexton	Ford EL Falcon XR6
			D	Beric Lynton	BMW 323i
			E	Trevor Haines	Ford Laser TX3
1998	Domenic Beninca	Porsche 911 RSCS	A	Domenic Beninca	Porsche 911 RSCS
			B	Chris Kousparis	Subaru Impreza WRX
			C	David Ratcliffe	Toyota Camry
			D	Ric Shaw	Toyota MR2
			E	Nigel Stones	Suzuki Swift GTi
1999	Jim Richards	Porsche 911 RSCS	A	Jim Richards	Porsche 911 RSCS
			B	Geoff Full	Subaru Impreza WRX
			C	Peter Phelan	Holden VT Commodore SS
			D	Phil Kirkham	Mazda 626
			E	Kosi Kalaitzidis	Proton M21
			S	Ric Shaw	Toyota MR2
2000	Mark King	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V	A	Mark King	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V
			B	David Wood	Honda Integra Type R
			C	James Philip	Ford AU Falcon XR8
			D	Daryl Coon	Ford AU Falcon XR6
			E	Kosi Kalaitzidis	Proton M21 Proton Satria GTi
2001	Brett Peters	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	A	Brett Peters	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
			B	Nathan Pilkington	Mitsubishi FTO
			C	Scott Loadsman	Holden VT Commodore SS
			D	Daryl Coon	Ford AU Falcon XR6
			E	Luke Youlden	Holden Astra SRi
2002	Brett Peters	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	A	Brett Peters	Subaru Impreza WRX STi
			B	Colin Osborne	Toyota Celica VVTL-i
			C	Scott Loadsman	Holden VX Commodore SS
			D	Daryl Coon	Ford AU Falcon XR6
			E	Martin Doxey	Holden Astra SRi

References

• CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1996 through 2003 & 2006
• www.camsmanual.com.au
• www.procar.com.au