Paul Stokell | |
---|---|
Nationality | Australian |
Born | Tasmania, Australia | 8 March 1968
Australian Mini Challenge | |
Years active | 2008-2010 |
Teams | Decorug Racing |
Starts | 62 |
Wins | 16 |
Poles | 6 |
Fastest laps | 15 |
Best finish | 1st in 2009 Australian Mini Challenge |
Previous series | |
Pre 1990 1990 1992-96, 2001 1994 1995 1998 2000-04 2000-04 2004 2007-08 2007 | Formula Vee Aust. Formula Ford Australian Drivers' Championship EFDA Nations Cup Malaysian Grand Prix Australian GT Production Nations Cup V8 Supercar Australian GT Performance Australian Carrera Cup Australian GT Championship |
Championship titles | |
1994 1995 1995 1996 2003 2004 2009 2018-19 | Australian Drivers' Championship Australian Drivers' Championship Malaysian Grand Prix Australian Drivers' Championship Australian Nations Cup Australian Nations Cup Australian Mini Challenge Australian Targa Championship |
Paul Stokell (born 8 March 1968 in Tasmania) is an Australian racing driver. Highly decorated in every category he has competed, Stokell has been a race and multiple championship winning driver in open wheel, sportscar racing and tarmac rallying, consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today having won back to back Australian Targa Championship in 2018/2019.
While Tasmanian born, today Stokell is Queensland based where he has operated a performance driving school since 2008, and has been involved with the Sherrin Motor Sport Porsche Carrera Cup team taking their maiden victory in 2007.
Stokell first emerged into the national spotlight racing in the national Australian Formula Ford series, taking a Reynard to runner up in the 1990 title behind Russell Ingall. [1] Stokell tried to push his career in England in the next couple of years however a lack of support forced his return to Australian racing in 1993 driving for Malcolm Ramsay's South Australian Birrana Racing team in Formula Brabham (which reverted to its original name of Formula Holden in 1996). With Stokell leading, Birrana came to dominate the category and Stokell took a trifecta of Australian Drivers' Championships in the mid-90s. In 1994, he represented Australia in the EFDA Nations Cup but the highlight of the era was his first international victory, winning the 1994 New Zealand International Series and 1995 Pan Pacific title including the Malaysian Grand Prix.
In 1998, Stokell led an importer supported team driving Lotus Elise in the Australian GT Production Car Championship and against larger and more powerful cars Stokell became a giant-killer in the Lotus, finishing sixth in the championship. Out of this effort came an invitation to join the newly formed Team Lamborghini Australia, to race Lamborghini Diablos in the Australian Nations Cup Championship. Starting in 2000, Stokell was a constant front runner in the black Diablo and again became a championship winner in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, he drove in one round of the FIA GT Championship [2] in a Lotus placing second in the G2 class.
Since then Stokell has made sporadic appearances in a variety of categories and became a competitor and entrant in the new Mini Challenge series in 2008 and became series champion in 2009. [3] He followed that by representing Australia for the second time in the Spanish Mini Challenge in 2010 [4] as well as finishing second in the Australian Mini Challenge in 2010. [5]
Some results sources from: [6]
Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Final pos | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Steven Ellery Racing | PHI | PTH | ADL | ECK | HDV | CAN | QLD | WIN | OPK | CDR | QLD 13 | SAN | BAT Ret | 50 | 56 | |
2001 | Dick Johnson Racing | PHI | ADL | ECK | HDV | CAN | PTH | CDR | OPK | QLD Ret | WIN | BAT | PUK | SAN | 74th | 72 | |
2002 | Toll Racing | ADL | PHI | ECK | HDV | CAN | PTH | ORP | WIN | QLD 21 | BAT 12 | SUR | PUK | SAN 1 24 | SAN 2 Ret | 47th | 81 |
2003 | Toll Racing | ADL | PHI | ECK | WIN | PTH | HDV | QLD | ORP | SAN 30 | BAT 11 | SUR | PUK | ECK | 69th | 80 | |
2004 | Team Dynamik | ADL | ECK | PUK | HDV | PTH | QLD | WIN | ORP | SAN Ret | BAT 13 | SUR | SYM | ECK | 57th | 144 |
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | Mark Coffey Racing | Allan Simonsen Luke Youlden Peter Hackett | Lamborghini Diablo GTR | A | 487 | 8th | 6th |
Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Rockstar Energy Drink | Josh Hunt Jonathon Webb | Nissan 350Z | B | 149 | DNF | DNF |
2014 | Fiat Abarth Motorsport | Clyde Campbell Joshua Dowling Toby Hagon | Fiat Abarth 500 | F | 236 | 22nd | 2nd |
2023 | Supabarn Motorsport | James Koundouris Theo Koundouris David Russell | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | AAm | 283 | 9th | 1st |
Johannes Antonius "Jan" Lammers is a racing driver from the Netherlands whose most notable claim to fame is victory in the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours for Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR, next to a four-season spell in Formula One in 1979-1982, driving for Shadow, ATS, Ensign and Theodore. This was followed by a comeback with March for two races in 1992, after a world-record time gap of ten years.
Steven James Richards is a New Zealand-Australian racing driver, currently competing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship.
TOCA, formally trading as BARC (TOCA) Ltd, is an organiser of motorsport events in the United Kingdom. The company organises and administers the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and the support series to the BTCC, sometimes known as the TOCA Tour[1][2] or TOCA Package.[3][4] The BTCC is the UK's biggest motor racing championship and the headline act to a host of support races covering the entire weekend.
SRO Motorsports Group is an international sporting organisation best known for promoting and running a variety of racing events and series, including the Total 24 Hours of Spa, Intercontinental GT Challenge and Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe.
Peter Kox is a racing driver from the Netherlands.
Reiter Engineering GmbH & Co Kg, commonly known simply as Reiter Engineering, is a German racing team and racing car manufacturer established in 2000 by motorsport engineer Hans Reiter.
The Australian GT Championship is a CAMS-sanctioned national title for drivers of GT cars, held annually from 1960 to 1963, from 1982 to 1985 and from 2005. Each championship up to and including the 1963 title was contested over a single race and those after that year over a series of races. The categories which have contested the championship have not always been well defined and often have become a home for cars orphaned by category collapse or a sudden change in regulation.
James D. Davison is an Australian professional racing driver who drives an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in the Blancpain GT World Challenge America. He has also competed in the NTT IndyCar Series, NASCAR Cup Series, and NASCAR Xfinity Series. He is sometimes also called JD Davison.
Vittorio Zoboli is an Italian racing driver. His career has spanned Formula One, Formula Three, Formula 3000 and sports car racing, in addition to two appearances in the Formula One Indoor Trophy.
The 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship was an Australian motor racing competition for modified production-based coupes complying with "Nations Cup" regulations. Contested as part of the 2004 Procar Championship Series, it was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as a National Championship with PROCAR Australia Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager.
Procar Australia was a motorsport category management company which operated in Australia from 1994 to 2004.
Campeonato Sudamericano de GT previously known as GT3 Brasil Championship, GT Brasil and Campeonato Brasileiro de GT was a sports car racing series based in the Brazil organized by the SRO Latin America.
Alex Fontana is a Swiss racing driver of Greek descent, currently racing as a professional driver in the GT4 European Series for Centri Porsche Ticino. He is a freelance driver with an open contract able to race for different teams and different manufacturers at the same time. When he is not racing, he works as a coach and driving instructor in Europe, America, and China, while commentating the Formula 1 Grands Prix for Swiss television with RSI.
Chaz Mostert is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 25 Ford Mustang GT for Walkinshaw Andretti United. Mostert was the winner of the 2021 Bathurst 1000 with Lee Holdsworth and has also previously won the 2014 Bathurst 1000 with Paul Morris and the 2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship.
Andre Emil Heimgartner is a New Zealand motor-racing driver who currently competes in the Repco Supercars Championship driving the No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Brad Jones Racing.
Jonathan Robert Lester is a racing driver from New Zealand, competing in various GT3 and touring car championships throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Gold Categorisation is a category within the FIA Drivers' Categorisation. The FIA Drivers' Categorisation is a system created by Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile that lists drivers on the basis of their achievements and performances. This categorization is used in sports car racing championships as FIA World Endurance Championship, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, European Le Mans Series, etc. It was merged from the FIA WEC and FIA GT3 lists. The initial categorisation is based on the driver's age and their career record.
Matt Campbell is an Australian racing car driver, specialising in sports car racing. He is a Porsche factory driver, having formerly been a junior then young professional. He is one of three factory drivers whose driver categorisation is gold alongside Sven Müller and Mathieu Jaminet. Campbell is the reigning champion of the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship in the GTD Pro class and is now a full-time driver of the #7 Porsche 963 for Porsche Penske Motorsport. Campbell won the 2016 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia driving for McElrea Racing. Campbell moved to Germany in 2017 and was third in the 2017 Porsche Supercup. Campbell is currently driving for Dempsey-Proton Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship in the LMGTE Am class driving a Porsche 911 RSR. He has taken three victories including at the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans. Campbell also won the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour driving a Porsche 911 GT3 R for Earl Bamber Motorsport.
Harald "Hari" Proczyk is an Austrian racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series. Having previously competed in the ADAC TCR Germany Series, Blancpain Sprint Series & ADAC GT Masters amongst others.
Calan Williams is an Australian racing driver who is competing in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with BMW M Team WRT. He previously competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Trident, having previously raced for Jenzer Motorsport in the FIA Formula 3 Championship during 2020 and 2021. He is the champion of the 2017 Australian Formula 3 Premier Series.