Australian GT Production Car Championship

Motor racing championship

Australian GT Production Car ChampionshipCategory| Production car racing

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Country| Australia
Inaugural season| 1994
Folded| 2002
Last Drivers' champion| Brett Peters

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.

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

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### Australian Super Production Car Series

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Year  | Winner  | Car  | Class  | Winner  | Car

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1994 | Brad Jones | Lotus Esprit | no classes

### Australian GT Production Car Series

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Year  | Winner  | Car  | Class  | Winner  | Car

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

### Australian GT Production Car Championship

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Year  | Champion  | Car  | Class  | Champion  | Car

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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

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