The 2023 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship was the third season of the S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship. The championship was held under the new unified SpeedSeries banner, promoted and organized jointly by Motorsport Australia and the Australian Racing Group.[1]
Drivers not only competed to win the Australian Drivers' Championship (the MA Gold Star), the last round of the season also doubled as the third edition of the S5000 Tasman Series.[2]
At the first race of this last round, GRM driver Aaron Cameron won the Drivers' Championship. After claiming three victories from three races through the weekend, he also became the Tasman Series Champion.
Teams and drivers
All teams competed with identical Rogers AF01/V8 single-seater racecars, Ligier/Onroak chassis powered by Ford Coyote V8 engines.[3] For the 2023 season, a Pro-Am class was to be introduced, but it received no entries.[4]
| Team | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88Racing | 1 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Joey Mawson[5] |
1–3 |
| 8 | Kobi Williams[6] |
6 | |
| 88 | Aaron Love[7] |
4–5 | |
 Roberto Merhi[6] |
6[lower-alpha 1] | ||
 Kaleb Ngatoa[8] |
6 | ||
| Team BRM | 2 | Mark Rosser[9] |
All |
| 3 | Zane Goddard[10] |
1 | |
| Versa Motorsport | 12 | Matt McLean[11] |
1 |
| 28 | Winston Smith[12] |
2–3 | |
| 37 | Cooper Webster[13] |
1–3, 5–6 | |
| 48 | Blake Purdie[13] |
All | |
| Garry Rogers Motorsport | 18 | Aaron Cameron[14] |
All |
| 29 | Nathan Herne[15] |
6 | |
| 31 | James Golding[16] |
1–3 | |
| 41 | Kody Garland[17] |
4–5 | |
| 49 | Jordan Boys[18] |
All | |
| 96 | Nic Carroll[19] |
All | |
| 98 | Roberto Merhi[20] |
1 | |
| Amadio Motorsport | 22 | Sebastian Amadio[21] |
4, 6 |
| Bargwanna Motorsport | 71 | Ben Bargwanna[22] |
4–6 |
Race calendar
The calendar for the third S5000 season was announced on 7 December 2022. After two years of holding the main S5000 season and the S5000 Tasman series as separate championships over five and two rounds respectively, this changed in 2023. All six rounds now counted towards the main S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship, with the last round also counting towards the S5000 Tasman Series.
The category debuted at Winton Raceway, while rounds at Albert Park and the Hidden Valley Raceway were not part of the calendar.[2] The second round was later confirmed to be held at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, while an originally planned round between the races at Tailem Bend and Adelaide did not come about.[23]
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Race results
Championship standings
Scoring system
At each meeting, a qualifying session and three races were held. Meeting points were awarded to the fastest three qualifiers in qualifying, where the grid for Race 1 was set. For Race 2, the grid was set by the results of Race 1. The grid for the Main Event was defined by the points earned by the drivers across the weekend.[24]
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | Ret |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Race 1 and 2 | 30 | 27 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Main Event | 60 | 50 | 40 | 32 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
Drivers' standings
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Tasman Series standings
| Pos | Driver | ADE |
Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | |||
| 1 | Aaron Cameron |
11 | 1 | 1 | 130 |
| 2 | Jordan Boys |
22 | 2 | 2 | 109 |
| 3 | Ben Bargwanna |
4 | 3 | 3 | 86 |
| 4 | Nic Carroll |
7 | 7 | 6 | 56 |
| 5 | Nathan Herne |
Ret | 6 | 4 | 50 |
| 6 | Blake Purdie |
33 | 4 | Ret | 47 |
| 7 | Cooper Webster |
6 | DSQ | 5 | 44 |
| 8 | Kobi Williams |
10 | 8 | 8 | 44 |
| 9 | Kaleb Ngatoa |
5 | 5 | Ret | 40 |
| 10 | Sebastian Amadio |
8 | Ret | 7 | 36 |
| 11 | Mark Rosser |
9 | Ret | 9 | 30 |
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R3 | Pts |
| ADE | |||||
Notes
- ↑ Merhi was entered into round 6, but withdrew after falling ill ahead of the event.
References
- ↑ arggrant (21 October 2022). "Unified SpeedSeries primed for bumper 2023". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- 1 2 richardrt (7 December 2022). "2023 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship schedule confirmed". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ richardrt (21 April 2021). "Introducing the Rogers AF01/V8". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ richardrt (28 September 2022). "Pro-Am battle to add to S5000 competition in Tasman, Gold Star series". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ richardrt (15 February 2023). "New partnership brings Mawson back in search of title three-peat". S5000. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- 1 2 richardrt (20 November 2023). "Cameron shoots for Gold Star as S5000 field heads to Adelaide". S5000. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (24 July 2023). "Aaron Love to make S5000 debut in Sydney". S5000. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (21 November 2023). "KALEB NGATOA TO THE (S5000) RESCUE". S5000. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (23 February 2023). "Five things to watch: S5000 Australian Drivers Championship". S5000. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (7 February 2023). "Zane Goddard joins Team BRM for S5000 opener". S5000. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
- ↑ O'Brien, Connor (16 February 2023). "Cult hero signs full-season S5000 deal". Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ↑ "Versa Motorsport on Facebook: Winston Smith signs with VERSA Motorsport to race S5000!". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- 1 2 richardrt (31 January 2023). "Versa returns in strength for 2023 Gold Star campaign". S5000. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ↑ arggrant (29 January 2023). "Garry Rogers Motorsport's Aaron Cameron set for full-season S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship campaign". S5000. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (17 November 2023). "Nathan Herne to Make Australian Return at Adelaide 500". S5000. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (17 February 2023). "Golding returns for Tassie Cameo to shake up S5000 opener". S5000. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (1 July 2023). "TCR Star Garland Joins S5000 Field". S5000. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (12 February 2023). "Jordan Boys Commits to Full S5000 title campaign". S5000. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (14 February 2023). "S5000 switch for Super3, Trans-Am Racer Carroll". S5000. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
- ↑ van Leeuwen, Andrew (17 February 2023). "Ex-F1 racer Roberto Merhi secures S5000 return". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ↑ "Sydney Motorsport Park". S5000. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ↑ richardrt (25 July 2023). "HANGCHA FORKLIFTS AND BARGWANNAS JOIN FORCES IN NEW MOTORSPORT PARTNERSHIP". S5000.
- ↑ arggrant (15 January 2023). "Phillip Island joins SpeedSeries calendar". SpeedSeries. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
- ↑ Technical regulation motorsport.org.au
External links
- Official website
- 2020 S5000 Australia Series Sporting and Technical Regulations, motorsport.org.au, as archived at web.archive.org on 6 June 2020
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