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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 Australia Stephen Grove Australia Tim Slade All
Zagame Motorsport Pro 5b Australia Cameron McConville Australia Tony Bates All
6 Australia Michael Almond 1–2, 4
McElrea Racing Pro 7c New Zealand Jaxon Evans New Zealand Tim Miles All
33d New Zealand Simon Ellingham Australia John Goodacre All
54 Australia James Abela Australia Anthony Gilbertson 1–3
136 4–8
Porsche Centre Melbourne Pro 8e Germany Lars Kern 1–2, 5
Challenge Australia Dean Grant Australia Lee Holdsworth 3
Pro New Zealand Daniel Gaunt 7
Challenge 9f Australia Marc Cini Australia Dean Fiore 1–3, 5–8
Pro 23 Australia Brenton Grove 6, 8
Buik Motorsport Challenge 13 Australia Sam Shahin New Zealand Daniel Gaunt 3–4, 6–8
Pro 26 Australia Michael Almond 6–8
Twigg Motorsport Challenge 18 Australia Max Twigg 7–8
Garth Walden Racing Challenge 21 Australia Rob Woods Australia Duvashen Padayachee 3
Pro 29 Australia Garth Walden 8
DNA Racing Challenge 22g Australia Dean Cook 2, 5–6, 8
131 Australia Graham Williams Australia Nick Foster 2–3, 5–8
Motorsport Leasing Challenge 34 Australia John Morriss 6
Wall Racing Pro 38h Australia David Wall Australia Shane Smollen All
Challenge 156 Australia Shane Smollen 5
STR Truck Radios Challenge 48 Australia Matt Palmer 2
Miles Advisory Partners Challenge 70i New Zealand Tim Miles 4–7
Sonic Motor Racing Services Pro 77j Australia Nick McBride Australia Dylan Thomas All
79 Australia Jordan Love 6–8
777 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Australia Aaron Ireland All
Ashley Seward Motorsport Pro 88k Australia Dylan O'Keeffe Australia Adam Gowans All
888 Australia Alex Davison Australia 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 South Australia Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 3 March New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Germany Lars Kern New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
R2 4 March New Zealand Jaxon Evans Australia David Wall Wall Racing
R3 5 March Australia David Wall New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
2 R1 Victoria (state) Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit Melbourne, Victoria 23 March Australia Nick McBride Australia Cameron McConville Australia Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services Australia Cameron McConville
R2 24 March Australia Nick McBride Australia Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 25 March Australia Alex Davison Australia Cameron McConville Zagame Motorsport
R4 26 March Australia Alex Davison Australia Alex Davison Ashley Seward Motorsport
3 R1 Victoria (state) Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria 27 May New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Australia Aaron Ireland 		Australia Graham Williams
Australia Nick Foster 		Australia Nick McBride
Australia Dylan Thomas 		Sonic Motor Racing Services Australia David Wall
Australia Shane Smollen
R2 28 May Australia Dylan O'Keeffe
Australia Adam Gowans 		New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Australia Aaron Ireland 		Australia Dean Grant
Australia Lee Holdsworth 		Porsche Centre Melbourne
4 R1 Northern Territory Hidden Valley Raceway Darwin, Northern Territory 17 June Australia David Wall Australia Alex Davison New Zealand Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing New Zealand Jaxon Evans
R2 18 June Australia Alex Davison New Zealand Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
R3 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner New Zealand Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
5 R1 Malaysia Sepang International Circuit Sepang, Malaysia 22 July Australia David Wall Australia Alex Davison Australia David Wall Wall Racing Australia David Wall
R2 23 July Australia David Wall Australia David Wall Wall Racing
6 R1 Victoria (state) Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 16 September Australia Nick McBride Australia Alex Davison Australia Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services Australia Nick McBride
R2 Australia Alex Davison Australia Nick McBride Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 17 September Australia Alex Davison Australia Alex Davison Ashley Seward Motorsport
7 R1 New South Wales Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 6 October Australia David Wall New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Australia David Wall Wall Racing New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
R2 7 October Australia Alex Davison New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 8 October New Zealand Andre Heimgartner† New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
8 R1 Queensland Surfers Paradise Street Circuit Surfers Paradise, Queensland 21 October New Zealand Andre Heimgartner New Zealand Jaxon Evans New Zealand Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing New Zealand Jaxon Evans
R2 22 October New Zealand Andre Heimgartner New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Sonic Motor Racing Services
R3 Australia Alex Davison New Zealand Jaxon Evans McElrea Racing
  • † New lap records

Series standings

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Pos. Driver ADE
South Australia 		AGP
Victoria (state) 		PHI
Victoria (state) 		HID
Northern Territory 		SEP
Malaysia 		SAN
Victoria (state) 		BAT
New South Wales 		SUR
Queensland 		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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