Sports Racer Series

Sports Racer Series
Category	Sports Car Racing
Country	Australia
Inaugural season	2010
Drivers' champion	Mark Laucke
Official website	sportsracer.com.au/
	Current season

Last updated February 23, 2019

The Sports Racer Series is an Australian motor racing series for competitors racing naturally aspirated small-engined (under 1.6 litres of engine capacity) prototype sports cars. The series eligibility is something of a polyglot collection of existing racing cars and racing categories, featuring Group 2C Supersport racing cars, which in itself is an amalgamation of the former Clubman or Sports 1300 regulations with some newer motorcycle engined cars built specifically for Supersports, and a group of Category 6 sports cars produced by West, Minetti, Radical, Lincspeed and ADR,^[1] many of which formerly raced as Prototype Sports Cars, or Protosports.^[2]

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing which utilizes sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built (Prototype) or related to road-going models.

Supersports is an Australian motor racing class designed as a relatively cheap class of sports racing car. While looking like international sports cars the vehicles themselves are smaller and lighter. Engines are liquid-cooled, four stroke, naturally aspirated engines. They can be sourced from motorcycles with a limit of 1100 cubic centimetres, or from cars with a limit of 1630 cubic centimetres. Cockpit dimensions must have space for two seats.

After two events, the third round of the series was cancelled and no further events appear likely to take place. The series stumbled heavily in its first season. Radical drivers left the series and established their own championship in 2011. A more modest series was held in 2011. Wests made up the bulk of the field.

Classes

The field will be split into two classes based on vehicle configuration and engine specification.^[1]

Class One

Two seater cars. Automobile sourced engine up to 1320cc capacity (matches Sports 1300 regulations).
Two seater cars. Motorcycle sourced engine up to 1200cc capacity (close to matches original Supersports regulations).
Single-seater cars. Engine up to 1000cc capacity.
Cars include: ASP 340C, Stohr WF-1 and West WR1000. Mostly powered by 1000cc Kawasaki engines.

Class Two

Two seater cars. Automobile sourced engine 1321-1600cc capacity.
Two seater cars. Motorcycle sourced engine 1201-1500cc capacity.
Single-seater cars. Engine 1001-1340cc capacity.
Cars include: ADR 3, Chiron LMP3-05, Minetti SS-V2, Radical SR3, Speads RS08 and West WX10. Most common engine is 1340cc Suzuki.

Chiron World Sports Cars is a British company, based in Worcester, which designs and constructs racing cars. The company was founded in 2002 by Henry Nickless. To date Chiron have only built sports-prototype cars, but have worked on smaller engine capacity divisions up to 2000cc, many of which are called Supersports. The LMP3 design has won titles in Europe and Australia, utilising Vauxhall and Toyota engines.

Minetti Sports Cars is an Australian company which designs and constructs racing cars. Located on the Sunshine Coast QLD, Minetti started with the ZZ/I design, utilised for small engine capacity prototype sports car racing. Since then Minetti have followed up with the SS-V1 design. Both cars have utilised motorcycle sourced engines, mostly Suzuki Hayabusa, for powerplants to run in the Supersports category. The earlier ZZ/I design has won championships at state level in both New South Wales and Queensland while the later SS-V1 has had class wins in the QLD Sportscar Championship and also took out the 2008 National Supersprint Championship.

Radical Sportscars is a British manufacturer and constructor of racing cars. The company was founded in January 1997 by amateur drivers and engineers Mick Hyde and Phil Abbott, who built open cockpit sportscars which could be registered for road use and run on a track without modification. Radical produce a mix of purpose built race cars as well as road legal sports cars in varying specifications. The most popular racecar produced to date is the radical SR3 with the V6 RXC being their most numerous road legal sportcar.

Performance parity will be adjusted for each individual vehicle throughout the series. Weights, and maximum engine revolutions will be adjusted if deemed necessary throughout the series. Additional weight will be added to the car in the form of success ballast, increasing the weights of cars finishing in the top three positions in each race over the course of an event. Additionally, a seeded drivers list will be drawn up by CAMS based on past racing history and drivers on that list will have added additional weight.^[1]

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS), is the official governing body of motor sport in Australia. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

Champions

Year	Class One		Class Two
Year	Driver	Car	Driver	Car
2010	Mark Laucke	West WR1000 Kawasaki	Neil McFadyen	Speads RS08 Suzuki
2011	Adam Proctor	Stohr WF-1 Suzuki	Aaron Steer	West WX10 Suzuki
2012	Adam Proctor	Stohr WF-1 Suzuki	Aaron Steer	West WX10 Suzuki
2013	Adam Proctor	Stohr WF-1 Suzuki	not contested
2014	Adam Proctor	Stohr WF-1 Suzuki	not contested
2015	Mark Laucke	West WR1000 Kawasaki	Adam Cranston	RFR F1000 Kawasaki

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