2017 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Explained

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

Team	Class	Car#	Driver	Pro-am co-driver	Rounds
Grove Motorsport	Challenge	4	Stephen Grove	Tim Slade	All
Zagame Motorsport	Pro	5	Cameron McConville	Tony Bates	All
		6	Michael Almond		1–2, 4
McElrea Racing	Pro	7	Jaxon Evans	Tim Miles	All
		33	Simon Ellingham	John Goodacre	All
		54	James Abela	Anthony Gilbertson	1–3
		136			4–8
Porsche Centre Melbourne	Pro	8	Lars Kern		1–2, 5
	Challenge		Dean Grant	Lee Holdsworth	3
	Pro		Daniel Gaunt		7
	Challenge	9	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	22	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	38	David Wall	Shane Smollen	All
	Challenge	156	Shane Smollen		5
STR Truck Radios	Challenge	48	Matt Palmer		2
Miles Advisory Partners	Challenge	70	Tim Miles		4–7
Sonic Motor Racing Services	Pro	77	Nick McBride	Dylan Thomas	All
		79	Jordan Love		6–8
		777	Andre Heimgartner	Aaron Ireland	All
Ashley Seward Motorsport	Pro	88	Dylan O'Keeffe	Adam Gowans	All
		888	Alex Davison	Geoff Emery	All

Notes:

• - raced as number 104 at the Sepang Round and number 4 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 105 at the Sepang Round and number 5 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 107 at the Sepang Round and number 7 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 133 at the Sepang Round and number 33 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 108 at the Sepang Round and number 8 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 109 at the Sepang Round and number 9 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 122 at the Sepang Round and number 22 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 138 at the Sepang Round and number 38 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 170 at the Sepang Round and number 70 for all other rounds
• - raced as number 177 at the Sepang Round and number 77 for all other rounds
• - 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 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		Nick McBride		Nick McBride
	R2						Nick McBride
	R3			17 September				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
	R3			8 October		Andre Heimgartner^†	Andre Heimgartner
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

Notes and References

1. http://www.carreracup.com.au/about-carrera-cup-au/porsche-carrera-cup-australia/ Porsche Carrera Cup Australia 1/03/16
2. http://www.speedcafe.com/2016/10/18/carrera-cup-aus-confirms-sepang-2017/