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.

2017 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia
Previous: 2016 Next: 2018

Teams and drivers
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

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 Poisiton 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
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
  1. Porsche Carrera Cup Australia 1/03/16
  2. speedcafe.com 1/03/2017
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