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2010 Australian Drivers' Championship

Motor racing competition


Motor racing competition

The 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the championship winner receiving the 2010 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2010 championship was the 54th Australian Drivers' Championship and the sixth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed in accordance with FIA Formula 3 regulations. The season began on 7 March 2010 at the Wakefield Park and finished on 24 October at Sandown Raceway after seven rounds across four different states with three races at each round.

Heading into the final round of the series, British Team BRM driver Ben Barker led the championship over New Zealand teammate Mitch Evans. Barker pulled ahead after taking five of the six wins available at Mallala and Morgan Park and following it up with another win at the Eastern Creek round. Evans was eight points behind Barker, despite missing the Symmons Plains round due to a Formula Abarth test at Misano. Australian driver Tom Tweedie remained in the championship hunt, despite competing in the older 2004 specification Dallara-Renault compared to the 2007 model Team BRM Dallara-Mercedes cars of Barker and Evans.

A pair of fourth places for Barker at Sandown saw the two Team BRM drivers tied on points, however the bonus point scored by Barker for the fastest lap in the final race giving him a one-point championship margin over Evans. Barker was also helped by the annulment of the second race after a serious incident involving Graeme Holmes and John Boothman. Tweedie finished third in the championship standings, 12 points behind Barker. Two other drivers claimed race wins; Andrew Waite who substituted for Evans at Symmons Plains and Tim Macrow who won both Sandown races in his only appearance of the season.

Barker also won the East Coast Challenge, which was contested over the final three rounds of the series. He scored 101 points ahead of Evans (94), Tweedie (80), Chris Gilmour (66), Zhang Shan Qi (38) and Tim Macrow (33).

Tom Tweedie won the National Class title having outscored his rivals at each of the seven rounds.

Classes

Each vehicle competing in the Championship was nominated into one of the following classes:

  • Australian Formula 3 Championship – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the FIA Formula 3 regulations that applied between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2007
  • National Class – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the FIA Formula 3 regulations that applied between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2004

There was an additional 'Invitation Class' in the regulations – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the appropriate regulations that applied in the year of manufacture, however no such vehicle took part during 2010 leaving the class redundant.

Points System

Points system was revised for 2010 although the changes are minor.

PositionRaces 1 & 2Race 3
1st2nd3rd
1298
201512

Drivers of cars from all three classes were eligible to score points towards the Australian Drivers' Championship. National Class and Invitation Class drivers were also eligible to score points towards their respective class awards.

Teams and drivers

The Dallara F307 Mercedes-Benz of Mitch Evans at Mallala Motor Sport Park for Round 4 of the 2010 Australian Drivers Championship
The No 3 Dallara F307 of Zhang Shan Qi and the No 8 Dallara F304 of Josh Burdon at the Mallala Motor Sport Park round of the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship. Entries sourced in part from:

TeamClassChassisEngineNoDriver
Astuti MotorsportGold StarDallara F307Mugen-Honda2Australia Mat Sofi
Sodemo-Renault11Australia Kristian Lindbom
Australia Nicholas Foster
Team BRMGold StarDallara F307HWA-Mercedes-Benz3China Zhang Shan Qi
4New Zealand Mitch Evans
New Zealand Andrew Waite
5UK Ben Barker
R-Tek MotorsportNationalDallara F304Spiess-Opel7Australia John Magro
Australia Tom Drewer
New Zealand Martin Short
Australia Bryce Moore
8Australia Josh Burdon
AUS Joshua Hunt
AUS Nathan Morcom
Dallara F30135Australia Jesse Wakeman
JLB Global TimbersNationalDallara F301Novamotor-Fiat12Australia John Boothman
Cosmetic Medicine CentreNationalDallara F304Spiess-Opel14Australia Roman Krumins
Gilmour RacingGold StarDallara F307HWA-Mercedes-Benz17Australia Chris Gilmour
Team TomNationalDallara F304Sodemo-Renault19Australia Tom Tweedie
GKH PowdercoatingNationalDallara F304Spiess-Opel21Australia Graeme Holmes
PHR ScuderiaNationalDallara F304Sodemo-Renault25Australia Tim Macrow
Vic's TimberNationalDallara F304Spiess-Opel42Australia Ben Gersekowski
National SurgicalNationalDallara F301Spiess-Opel51Australia James Mann
TanderSportGold StarDallara F307HWA-Mercedes-Benz52New Zealand Ben Crighton

Race calendar

The championship was contested over a seven-round series with a round scheduled for Winton Motor Raceway being cancelled as a cost saving initiative.

The final three rounds of the series at Morgan Park, Eastern Creek and Sandown were packaged into a 'series within a series', labelled the East Coast Shootout.

RoundRaceCircuitDatePole positionFastest lapWinning driverWinning team1123245637894101112513141561617187192021
New South Wales Wakefield Park6 MarchMitch EvansBen CrightonMitch EvansTeam BRM
7 MarchBen CrightonMitch EvansTeam BRM
Mitch EvansMitch EvansTeam BRM
Tasmania Symmons Plains Raceway10 AprilBen BarkerKristian LindbomTom TweedieTeam Tom
11 AprilKristian LindbomAndrew WaiteTeam BRM
Tom TweedieTom TweedieTeam Tom
Victoria Phillip Island1 MayMitch EvansBen BarkerMitch EvansTeam BRM
2 MayBen BarkerMitch EvansTeam BRM
Mitch EvansMitch EvansTeam BRM
South Australia Mallala Motor Sport Park29 MayMitch EvansBen BarkerBen BarkerTeam BRM
30 MayBen BarkerBen BarkerTeam BRM
Ben BarkerBen BarkerTeam BRM
Queensland Morgan Park Raceway14 AugustMitch EvansBen BarkerBen BarkerTeam BRM
15 AugustMitch EvansTom TweedieTeam Tom
Mitch EvansBen BarkerTeam BRM
New South Wales Eastern Creek Raceway11 SeptemberMitch EvansBen BarkerMitch EvansTeam BRM
12 SeptemberBen BarkerMitch EvansTeam BRM
Ben BarkerBen BarkerTeam BRM
Victoria Sandown Raceway23 OctoberTim MacrowMitch EvansTim MacrowPHR Scuderia
24 OctoberRed flag: Race cancelled
Ben BarkerTim MacrowPHR Scuderia

Drivers Championship

PosDriverWAK
1WAK
2WAK
3SYM
1SYM
2SYM
3PHI
1PHI
2PHI
3MAL
1MAL
2MAL
3MOR
1MOR
2MOR
3EAS
1EAS
2EAS
3SAN
1SAN
2SAN
3Pts**GOLD STAR**1234567891012131415161819202122-**National Class**123456781011121415**East Coast Shootout**123456789111213141516
UK Ben Barker444**4**52*3**2*Ret*1**1**1**1*21*2**2**1*4*4***220**
NZ Mitch Evans**1**1*1***1**1*1***3**22**5***3**2***1**13*2*2**219**
AUS Tom Tweedie33312*1*25224321433253**208**
CHN Zhang Shan Qi666Ret7787646445565Ret79**97**
AUS Chris Gilmour44434354435**90**
NZ Ben Crighton*2**2*2633**60**
AUS John Magro5555441097**50**
AUS Josh Burdon66565666**46**
AUS Kristian Lindbom*3**3*6565**43**
AUS Tim Macrow**1**1**33**
NZ Andrew Waite213**33**
NZL Martin Short535**22**
AUS Ben GersekowskiRetDNS778887**21**
AUS Roman Krumins10987791111101010**19**
AUS Mat Sofi476**17**
AUS Joshua Hunt666**16**
AUS Nathan Morcom865**16**
AUS Tom Drewer787**11**
AUS Jesse Wakeman788**10**
AUS James Mann888**9**
AUS Graeme Holmes9DNSRetRet1299DNS**6**
AUS Bryce MooreRet8**3**
AUS Nicholas Foster910Ret**3**
AUS John Boothman11Ret**0**
AUS Tom Tweedie***3****3**3****1****2**1****2****5**2****2****4**3****2****1**4****3****3**2*5**3****310**
AUS John Magro5555441097**92**
AUS Roman Krumins10987791111101010**80**
AUS Josh Burdon66565666**76**
AUS Ben GersekowskiRetDNS778887**56**
NZL Martin Short535**36**
AUS Tim Macrow***1***1**34**
AUS Joshua Hunt666**33**
AUS Tom Drewer787**33**
AUS Nathan Morcom865**39**
AUS Graeme Holmes9DNSRetRet1299DNS**27**
AUS Jesse Wakeman788**24**
AUS James Mann888**24**
AUS Bryce MooreRet8**8**
AUS John Boothman11Ret**4**
UK Ben Barker*1*21*2**2**1*4*4***101**
NZ Mitch Evans**5***3**2***1**13*2*2**94**
AUS Tom Tweedie21433253**80**
AUS Chris Gilmour34354435**66**
CHN Zhang Shan Qi45565Ret79**33**
AUS Tim Macrow**1**1**33**
AUS Ben GersekowskiRetDNS778887**21**
AUS Mat Sofi476**17**
AUS Nathan Morcom865**16**
AUS Joshua Hunt666**16**
AUS Roman Krumins1111101010**13**
AUS Josh Burdon66**11**
AUS James Mann888**9**
AUS John Magro1097**7**
AUS Graeme HolmesRet1299DNS**4**
AUS Bryce MooreRet8**3**
AUS Nicholas Foster910Ret**3**

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References

References

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