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The 2020 Australian GT Championship was scheduled to be the 24th running of the Australian GT Championship, a Motorsport Australia-sanctioned Australian motor racing championship open to FIA GT3 cars, FIA GT4 cars and similar cars as approved for the championship. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in only the first round of the Australian Endurance Championship, and the first & second rounds of the Australian GT Trophy Series taking place before the rest of the season was abandoned.
The 2020 calendar was unveiled on 31 October 2019. [1]
A revised calendar was announced on 26 June 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Ultimately, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in all further rounds being cancelled.
End | TS | Circuit | Location | Date | Supporting |
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1 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 30 January – 2 February | Intercontinental GT Challenge [lower-alpha 1] | |
1 | Sandown Raceway | Melbourne, Victoria | 15–16 February | Victorian State Series | |
2 | Sydney Motorsport Park | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | 7–8 March | NSW State Series |
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Bold indicates overall winner.
Round | Circuit | Pole position | Silver winners | Pro-am winners | GT4 winners | Invitational winners |
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1 | Bathurst | No. 59 Team 59Racing | No. 59 Team 59Racing | No. 9 Hallmarc Racing | No. 19 Nineteen Corp. with Multimatic Motorsports | No. 91 SCANDIA Racing - by Racer Industries |
Martin Kodrić Fraser Ross Dominic Storey | Martin Kodrić Fraser Ross Dominic Storey | Marc Cini Dean Fiore Lee Holdsworth | Mark Griffith Dirk Müller Harrison Newey | Aaron Cameron Broc Feeney Nick Percat |
Round | Circuit | Pole position | TS Am Winners | TC Am Winners | |
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1 | R1 | Sandown | No. 23 KFC Racing | No. 23 KFC Racing | No. 29 Trofeo Motorsport |
Matt Stoupas | Matt Stoupas | Tayla Heath | |||
R2 | No. 23 KFC Racing | No. 19 Trofeo Motorsport | |||
Matt Stoupas | Arthur Abrahams | ||||
2 | R1 | Sydney | No. 23 KFC Racing | No. 23 KFC Racing | No. 95 GJ Motorsport |
Matt Stoupas | Matt Stoupas | Geoff Taunton | |||
R2 | No. 24 KFC Racing | No. 95 GJ Motorsport | |||
Nathan Antunes Gary Higgon | Geoff Taunton |
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th+ |
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Qualifying | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||
TS | 50 | 44 | 39 | 33 | 31 | 30 | 27 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
AEC | 450 | 398 | 345 | 293 | 285 | 270 | 248 | 225 | 215 | 203 | 192 | 180 | 170 | 158 | 147 | 135 | 125 | 113 | 102 | 90 | 68 | 45 | 23 | 8 |
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Bold - Pole position in class |
Pos. | Drivers | SAN | SMP | Points | ||||
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QP | R1 | R2 | QP | R1 | R2 | |||
1 | Matt Stoupas | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 201 |
2 | Gary Higgon | 7 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 189 |
3 | Nathan Antunes | 10 | 3 | 1 | 99 | |||
4 | Wayne Mack | 8 | 2 | 3 | 91 | |||
5 | Vince Muriti | 6 | 4 | 2 | 83 | |||
6 | Nick Kelly | 7 | 2 | 5 | 82 | |||
7 | Richard Gartner | 5 | Ret | 3 | 44 | |||
8 | Dale Paterson | 6 | DNS | Ret | 6 | |||
9 | Peter Corbett | 0 | DNS | DNS | 0 | |||
Pos. | Drivers | SAN | SMP | Points |
Pos. | Drivers | SAN | SMP | Points | ||||
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QP | R1 | R2 | QP | R1 | R2 | |||
1 | Arthur Abrahams | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 198 |
2 | Michael Stillwell | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 170 |
3 | Geoff Taunton | 10 | 1 | 1 | 110 | |||
4 | Tayla Heath | 10 | 1 | 2 | 104 | |||
5 | Dave Stillwell | 7 | 3 | 3 | 85 | |||
Pos. | Drivers | SAN | SMP | Points |
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