2012 Australian Drivers' Championship

2012 Australian Drivers' Championship

Drivers' Champion: James Winslow

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The 2012 Formula 3 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the winner awarded the 2012 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2012 championship was the 56th Australian Drivers' Championship and the eighth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed in accordance with FIA Formula 3 regulations. The 2012 Australian Formula 3 Championship title was also awarded to the series winner. ^[1] The championship began on 1 March 2012 at the Adelaide Street Circuit and ended on 23 September at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit after seven rounds across six different states with three races at each round.

The championship was secured by British driver James Winslow after the penultimate round held at Queensland Raceway. It was Winslow's second championship victory after having won previously in 2008. Winslow, driving for R-Tek Motorsport, won 13 of the 21 races, including five of the seven feature races, over the course of the season, a new record for the Australian Drivers' Championship, eclipsing the 12 wins Rick Kelly took in 2001. Defending champion Chris Gilmour ended the series in second place having won two races. Winslow's teammate Steel Giuliania finished third in the championship with just over half of the points Winslow collected. Jordan Skinner of Team BRM and Hayden Cooper of BF Racing each collected a their debut race victories. The other races wins were collected by John Magro whose partial season campaign with Team BRM ended with winning the Hidden Valley round. Tim Macrow made a brief return to the series he won in 2007, contesting a single round with Astuti Motorsport, winning at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Cooper won the National Class, for cars built between 1999 and 2004, over fellow Queensland and BF Racing teammate Ben Gersekowski. Lochie Marshall finished third.

Race calendar

The Dallara F307 Mercedes-Benz of John Magro, who placed sixth in the championship

The championship was contested over a seven-round series, ^[2] with two Sprint Races and a Feature Race at each round. ^[3]

Round	Circuit	Date	Winner
1	Adelaide Street Circuit	1–4 March	James Winslow
2	Symmons Plains Raceway	30 March – 1 April	James Winslow
3	Mount Panorama Circuit	6–8 April	James Winslow
4	Hidden Valley Raceway	15–17 June	John Magro
5	Eastern Creek Raceway	13–15 July	Tim Macrow
6	Queensland Raceway	3–5 August	James Winslow
7	Phillip Island	21–23 September	Chris Gilmour

Teams and drivers

The Dallara F307 Mugen Honda of Matt Sofi, who placed eleventh in the championship

The following teams and drivers contested the 2012 Australian Drivers' Championship. Entries sourced in part from: ^[4]

Team	Class	Chassis	Engine	No.	Driver
Gilmour Racing	Gold Star	Dallara F307	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	1	Chris Gilmour
Astuti Motorsport	Gold Star	Dallara F307	Mugen-Honda	2	Mat Sofi
			Sodemo-Renault	11	Chris Vlok
					Tim Macrow
					Nathan Morcom
Team BRM	Gold Star	Dallara F307	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	3	John Magro
				4	Jordan Skinner
				5	Nick Foster
R-Tek Motorsport	Gold Star	Dallara F307	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	6	James Winslow
				7	Steel Giuliana
	National	Dallara F304	Spiess-Opel	8	Chris Slusarski
					Mike Wayne
					Jon Collins
				9	Adrian Cottrell
					Adam Gill
					Jon Collins
Marshall Motorsport	National	Dallara F304	Sodemo-Renault	22	Lockie Marshall
Mills Motorsport	Gold Star	Mygale M07	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	32	Jon Mills
BF Racing	National	Dallara F304	Spiess-Opel	42	Ben Gersekowski
				93	Hayden Cooper
Harvest Motorsport	Gold Star	Mygale M10	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	46	Roman Krumins
Snake Racing	National	Dallara F304	Sodemo-Renault	66	Nathan Gotch
G-Force Motorsport	Gold Star	Mygale M07	HWA-Mercedes-Benz	77	Cam Waters
					Jake Fouracre

Classes

Competing cars were nominated into one of three classes: ^[5]

• Australian Formula 3 Championship – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the FIA Formula 3 regulations that applied in the year of manufacture between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2011. ^[5]
• National Class – for automobiles constructed in accordance with the FIA Formula 3 regulations that applied in the year of manufacture between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2004. ^[5]
• Invitation Class. ^[5]

There were no competitors in the Invitation Class in the 2012 championship.

Points system

Championship points were awarded as follows:

• One point to the driver placed in the highest grid position for the first race at each round. ^[5]
• 12–9–8–7–6–5–4–3–2–1 for the first ten finishing position in each Sprint Race. ^[5]
• 20–15–12–10–8–6–4–3–2–1 for the first ten finishing position in each Feature Race. ^[5]
• One point to the driver setting the fastest lap time in each race. ^[5]

Points towards the National Class award were allocated on the same basis as used for the outright championship. ^[5]

Results

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver ADE 1 ADE 2 ADE 3 SYM 1 SYM 2 SYM 3 BAT 1 BAT 2 BAT 3 HID 1 HID 2 HID 3 EAS 1 EAS 2 EAS 3 QLD 1 QLD 2 QLD 3 PHI 1 PHI 2 PHI 3 Pts GOLD STAR 1 James Winslow 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 5 1 2 2 1 1 1 8 3 1 276 2 Chris Gilmour 3 3 3 4 3 2 4 2 2 1 5 2 3 4 4 6 3 2 1 4 2 215 3 Steel Giuliania 9 10 9 2 4 5 Ret 8 6 6 4 3 4 3 3 2 2 3 2 Ret 3 141 4 Jordan Skinner 4 4 5 3 5 4 1 Ret 8 5 6 7 Ret 5 5 3 4 6 111 5 Hayden Cooper 8 7 4 6 8 7 7 7 5 9 9 9 5 8 6 5 5 4 3 1 Ret 109 6 John Magro 6 5 7 Ret 2 3 Ret 4 Ret 2 1 1 88 7 Ben Gersekowski 5 8 Ret Ret 7 8 6 5 4 10 7 8 6 Ret 8 4 7 DNS Ret 6 6 75 8 Lockie Marshall 7 8 6 8 10 7 7 6 5 4 7 5 57 9 Tim Macrow 2 1 1 44 10 Adrian Cottrell Ret Ret 6 5 6 6 5 6 7 38 11 Mat Sofi 2 2 2 35 12 Nick Foster 3 3 3 28 13 Cam Waters 4 3 4 25 14 Nathan Morcom 5 5 4 22 15 Jon Collins DNS 7 9 8 9 8 Ret Ret 7 18 Roman Krumins 9 8 7 7 8 9 18 17 Jake Fouracre 6 2 8 17 18 Nathan Gotch 8 9 Ret 7 6 10 15 19 Mike Wayne 7 9 9 8 10 10 10 Ret DNS 14 20 Chris Vlok 7 6 Ret 9 21 Chris Slusarski 10 9 8 6 22 Jon Mills 8 Ret Ret DNS DNS DNS Ret Ret DNS 3 23 Adam Gill Ret 9 Ret 2

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

See also

• Australian Drivers' Championship
• Australian Formula 3

References

1. 2016 CAMS Manual of Motor Sport – Australian Titles, docs.cams.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org
2. SpeedCafe (28 November 2011). "Formula 3 gets four V8 events on 2012 calendar". Speedcafe. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
3. 2012 Results, www.formula3.com.au, as archived at www.webcitation.org Retrieved on 21 November 2012
4. www.natsoft.com.au
5. 2012 Australian Formula 3 Championship Sporting and Technical Regulations, www.formula3.com.au, as archived at www.webcitation.org Retrieved on 21 November 2012

External links

• Official Australian Formula 3 website