Paul Stokell

Paul Stokell
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1968-03-08) 8 March 1968 (age 57) Tasmania, Australia
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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian Grand Prix Australian Drivers' Championship Australian Nations Cup Australian Nations Cup Australian Mini Challenge Australian Targa Championship

Paul Francis 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.

Open wheelers

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 Indonesian Grand Prix. ^[2]

Sports cars

Stokell driving a Lamborghini Diablo SVR in the 2001 Australian Nations Cup Championship.

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 ^[3] 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. ^[4] He followed that by representing Australia for the second time in the Spanish Mini Challenge in 2010 ^[5] as well as finishing second in the Australian Mini Challenge in 2010. ^[6]

Career results

Some results sources from: ^[7]

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
1990	Motorcraft Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series	2nd	Reynard FF88 Ford Swift FB90 Ford	Phoenix Motorsport Swift Australia
1992	Australian Drivers' Championship	15th	Shrike NB89H Holden
1993	Australian Drivers' Championship	3rd	Reynard 90D Holden	Birrana Racing
1994	Australian Drivers' Championship	1st	Reynard 91D Holden	Birrana Racing
	EFDA Nations Cup	16th †	Van Diemen – Opel	Team Australia
1995	Australian Drivers' Championship	1st	Reynard 91D Holden	Birrana Racing
	Pan-Pacific Formula Brabham Championship	1st
1996	Australian Drivers' Championship	1st	Reynard 91D Holden	Birrana Racing
1998	Australian GT Production Car Championship	6th	Lotus Elise Sport 19
2000	Australian Nations Cup Championship	4th	Lamborghini Diablo SVR	Team Lamborghini Australia
	Shell Championship Series	50th	Ford Falcon (AU)	Steven Ellery Racing
2001	Australian Drivers' Championship	11th	Reynard Holden	Birrana Racing
	Australian Nations Cup Championship	2nd	Lamborghini Diablo SVR	Team Lamborghini Australia
	Shell Championship Series	74th	Ford Falcon (AU)	Dick Johnson Racing
2002	Australian Nations Cup Championship	4th	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	Team Lamborghini Australia
	V8Supercar Championship Series	47th	Ford Falcon (AU)	Paul Little Racing
2003	Australian Nations Cup Championship	1st	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	Team Lamborghini Australia
	V8Supercar Championship Series	69th	Ford Falcon (BA)	Paul Little Racing
	Australian GT Performance Championship	21st	Volkswagen Golf R32	Volkswagen Australia
2004	Australian Nations Cup Championship	1st	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	Team Lamborghini Australia
	Australian GT Performance Championship	2nd	Volkswagen Golf R32	Volkswagen Australia
	V8 Supercar Championship Series	57th	Holden Commodore (VY)	Team Dynamik
2007	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	14th	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup
	Australian GT Championship	24th	Lamborghini Gallardo	Team Palmer
2008	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	19th	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Sherrin Motor Sport
	Australian Mini Challenge	2nd	Mini John Cooper Works Challenge	Decorug Racing
2009	Australian Mini Challenge	1st	Mini John Cooper Works Challenge	Decorug Racing
2010	Australian Mini Challenge	2nd	Mini John Cooper Works Challenge	Decorug Racing
2021	GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am	6th	Audi R8 LMS (2015)	Melbourne Performance Centre
2022	GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am	1st	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	Melbourne Performance Centre
2023	GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am	2nd*	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	Melbourne Performance Centre

• † Team result

Complete V8 Supercar results

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

Complete Australian Nations Cup results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final pos	Points
2000	Team Lamborghini Australia	Lamborghini Diablo SVR	ADL 3	ECK 4	CAN 7	QLD 2	ORA 9	CAL 4	SUR 3	BAT 1	4th	147
2001	Team Lamborghini Australia	Lamborghini Diablo SVR	ADL 1	WAK 2	CAN 20	QLD 1	ECK 1	SAN DNF	SUR 1	ORA 5	2nd	876
2002	Team Lamborghini Australia	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	ADL 1	SYM	ORA 9	WIN 1	QLD	WAK 4	PHI 3	SUR 2	4th	855
2003	Team Lamborghini Australia	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	ADL 2	SYM 4	WAK 2	QLD 1	ORA 1	PHI 1	WIN 2	SUR 1	1st	539
2004	Team Lamborghini Australia	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	ADL 1	ORA 2	SAN 1	WIN 2	ECK 1	WAK 1	MAL 2		1st	572

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Outright	Class
1990	Toyota Team Australia	Toyota Corolla FX-GT	Mike Dowson John Faulkner	3	130	27th	3rd
1997	Wayne Gardner Racing	Holden Commodore VS	Peter Bradbury Anthony Tratt	L1	16	DNF	DNF
1998	Wayne Gardner Racing	Holden VS Commodore	Wayne Gardner	OC	149	13th	12th
2000	Steven Ellery Racing	Ford AU Falcon	Steven Ellery		82	DNF	DNF
2002	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Anthony Tratt		160	12th	12th
2003	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon BA	Anthony Tratt		106	DNF	DNF
2004	Team Dynamik	Holden Commodore VY	Simon Wills		159	13th	13th

Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results

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

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

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
2022	Supabarn Motorsport	James Koundouris Theo Koundouris David Russell	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	AAm	283	9th	1st

References

1. "Formula Ford - About - Records and Statistics". Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012. 1990 Australian Formula Ford pointscore
2. "Paul Stokell storms opening win". Jawawa.id. 13 August 1995. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
3. "2005 FIA GT Championship: Zhuhai, Round 9". Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
4. "Stokell bound for Spain after MINI win". Speedcafe.com. 8 December 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
5. "Mixed results for Aussies in Spanish MINIs". Speedcafe.com. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
6. "Alajajian takes all in MINI Challenge finale - Speedcafe". 11 June 2012. Archived from the original on 11 June 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
7. "Paul Stokell Online". Archived from the original on 16 October 2004. Retrieved 27 December 2009. PaulStokel.com Career Highlights

External links

• Official website
• Paul Stokell career summary at DriverDB.com
• Paul Stokell driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Paul Stokell - Third Turn profile.
• Paul Stokell - Speedsport Profile.
• Paul Stokell - Conrad V8 Profile.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mark Skaife	Winner of the Australian Drivers' Championship 1994, 1995 and 1996	Succeeded by Jason Bright
Preceded by Craig Baird	Lady Wigram Trophy Winner 1994	Succeeded by Darren Palmer
Preceded by First title	Pan-Pacific Formula Brabham Championship Champion 1995	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Jim Richards	Australian Nations Cup Championship Champion 2003 & 2004	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Neil McFadyen	Australian Mini Challenge Champion 2009	Succeeded by Chris Alajajian
Preceded by Andrew Macpherson & Ben Porter	GT World Challenge Australia GT Am Champion 2022	Succeeded by Brad Schumacher