About Carrera Cup
THE BIGGEST ever Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship season awaits thanks to confirmation of the 2024 racing calendar for Australia’s top one-make category.
Attracting the best Pro and Pro-Am sports car drivers from the Australasian region, Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup is the premier one-make Championship in Australia with drivers competing in identical Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 992) race cars.
Carrera Cup Australia races across the country at the biggest motorsport events in Australia, delivering market leading event attendees, broadcast reach, and premium experiences for all drivers, teams and partners involved.
An international trip, night racing and positions at five of the largest motorsport events in the country are set to set to position Carrera Cup once again as one of Australia’s premier racing categories.
Coming off the back of a record-breaking year in 2023, the championship is set to jump to another level in the 2024 season with an even bigger and better schedule of events.
Following the traditional start at the Formula 1 ® Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, the championship will cross the Tasman and head to New Zealand for the first time in series history.
Carrera Cup Australia’s second ever international round will be held at the ITM Taupo Super400 event and will represent a significant milestone for the championship as it competes internationally again.
The visit to New Zealand is especially pertinent given the strong Kiwi interest in the championship, both from teams and drivers.
It will be just the second time the championship has raced internationally, following the first overseas trip to Malaysia in 2017.
From New Zealand, it’s back to the sunshine of Darwin for Round 3 at the ever-popular Betr Triple Crown.
Carrera Cup will then return to Sydney Motorsport Park to race under lights at the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight event in late July – the first night race in series’ history.
The addition of Sydney to the program comes following a successful debut of Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge at the SuperNight event in 2023.
The run to the title decider will then include four of the highest profile events on the calendar: The Penrite Oil Sandown 500, Repco Bathurst 1000, Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 and VAILO Adelaide 500 ending off a massive year.
As the premier support category to the Repco Supercars Championship, 2024 will again feature a comprehensive broadcast package, with every qualifying and race live on Fox Sports 506 and Kayo Sports.
Meanwhile, free-to-air coverage on the Seven Network of Darwin, Sandown, Bathurst, Gold Coast and Adelaide will add to the audiences watching from home or on the go.
As Carrera Cup Australia is owned and operated by Porsche Cars Australia, the brand ensures Australia’s premier one-make series is run at the highest standard by Porsche’s in-house motorsport team.
With a capacity field, breathtaking racing cars and some of Australia’s best Pro and Pro-Am sports car drivers, 2024 will be one of the best in the Championship’s 19-year history.
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Broadcast Schedule
Round 1
Adelaide 500
Round 2
Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix
Round 3
Phillip Island 500
Round 4
Darwin Triple Crown
Round 5
Townsville 500
Round 6
The Bend SuperSprint
Round 7
Bathurst 1000
Round 8
Gold Coast 600
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 992)
The spectacularly styled Cup car is the first racing version based on the current 992 generation road car and the first one make-cup racer of the German sports car manufacturer to feature a wide turbo-spec body.
Producing around 375 kW (510 hp), the new 911 GT3 Cup exceeds the output of its immediate predecessor by 25 horsepower.
The overall increase in performance of the 992 generation - over the Type 991 II generation - was immediately apparent in the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup rounds in 2021, where lap times were slashed by up to three seconds at most European circuits.
This was in part due to not only the increase in power, but increased traction and downforce, with component run times also extended over the previous generation - offering lower running costs and reliability for all.
Technical Specs
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Classifications
DRIVERS IN CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA FALL WITHIN TWO CLASSES – PRO AND PRO-AM. THERE ARE GUIDELINES IN PLACE TO HELP DETERMINE THE CLASSIFICATION OF A DRIVER, WITH THE ULTIMATE DECISION FALLING WITH PORSCHE CARS AUSTRALIA.
Pro
At the front of the Carrera Cup Australia field will be drivers competing in the Pro class. Consisting of some of the country’s best sports car drivers, the Pro class is for experienced drivers, many of whom have had, or have an ambition to forge a professional motor racing career.
The Pro class consists of reserve Supercars Championship drivers as well as talented junior drivers who are eager to use their experienced rivals as a benchmark to prove their ability in identical 911 GT3 Cup (Type 992) race cars.
Morris Finance Pro-Am
Carrera Cup Australia is just as much about the Pro-Am racer as it is of the drivers competing for outright victory.
The Pro-Am class is exclusively for semi-professional race car drivers. These drivers do not seek to make a profession from motor racing nor do they seek to earn an income from racing duties. Instead, the Pro-Am racer consists of business leaders with a willingness to race sports cars. Or more specifically, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
Past Champions
Dean Grant (Pro-Am)
Dean Grant (Pro-Am)
Rodney Jane (Pro-Am)
Rodney Jane (Pro-Am)
James Koundouris (Pro-Am)
Max Twigg (Pro-Am)
Max Twigg (Pro-Am)
Max Twigg (Pro-Am)
Stephen Grove (Pro-Am)
Shane Smollen (Pro-Am)
Bates (Pro-Am)
Stephen Grove (Pro-Am)
Stephen Grove (Pro-Am)
Stephen Grove (Pro-Am)
Liam Talbot (Pro-Am)
Sam Shahin (Pro-Am)
Geoff Emery (Pro-Am)
Adrian Flack (Pro-Am)
Runners-up (outright)
Endurance Cup
About Endurance Cup
The Endurance Cup is a popular addition to Carrera Cup Australia. Beginning in 2017 with a three-race series before expanding to a six-race series in 2018 awarding both the leading Pro and Pro-Am racers.
The Endurance Cup is a popular addition to Carrera Cup Australia. Beginning in 2017 with a three-race series before expanding to a six-race series in 2018 awarding both the leading Pro and Pro-Am racers.
In 2023, the Endurance Cup will continue with multiple 40 to 45 minute races across several rounds.
At the end of the season, the drivers who score the most Championship points in both the Proand Pro-Am classifications from the season’s Endurance Cup races will be crowned the 2023 Endurance Cup Champions.
Endurance Cup Champions
Alex Davison
Outright (2017)
Marc Cini
Pro-Am (2017)
David Wall
Pro (2018)
Stephen Grove
Pro-Am (2018)
Jordan Love
Outright (2019)
Adrian Flack
Pro-Am (2019)
Not awarded
2020
Cameron Hill
Pro (2021)
Geoff Emery
Pro-Am (2021)
Harri Jones
Pro (2022)
Liam Talbot
Pro-Am (2022)
Callum Hedge
Pro (2023)
Adrian Flack
Pro-Am (2023)
Junior Programme
About Junior Programme
Porsche Cars Australia and Michelin Australia have joined forces to launch one of Australian motorsport’s most extensive driver development programmes, providing total benefits of up to $300,000.
The Porsche Michelin Junior Programme Australia supports seven young drivers across Australia’s two Porsche one-make series – GT3 Cup Challenge Australia and Carrera Cup Australia – providing all Michelin Juniors financial support by way of entry fee support and an allocation of Michelin race tyres, along with access to training, mentorship and education throughout the racing season.
The Porsche Michelin Junior Programme Australia will consist of two teams – the GT3 Cup Challenge Junior Team, consisting of three drivers, and the four-driver Carrera Cup Junior Team.
2019 Junior Drivers
Driver Bio
Victorian Mouzouris joins the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia championship battle-hardened following two seasons in the competitive Supercars Super2 Series.
The 2019 Australian Formula Ford Champion, Mouzouris moved into Supercars the following season with Triple Eight Race Engineering, finishing on the podium in his second season.
His move to Carrera Cup reunites him with the team in which he claimed his Formula Ford title, multiple series champions Sonic Motor Racing.
Driver Bio
Second-generation Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia racer Jackson Walls stepped up to the big time in 2021, making his one-make Porsche debut aboard an Objective Racing Porsche, run by the McElrea Racing squad.
The son of Morris Finance Pro-Am class regular Tony, 19-year-old Jackson has plied his trade in junior open-wheel racing, completing two years in Australian Formula 4 before tackling the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Toyota Racing Series.
He’s since shifted his focus to Porsche racing and made his debut in the non-championship Porsche PAYCE and Michelin event at Sandown in late 2020, impressing by being on the pace immediately.
His first ‘full’ season in 2021 saw him finish 10th in the championship, with a best finish of sixth at Mount Panorama in the final round of the season.
Driver Bio
A graduate from the competitive world of Hyundai Excel Racing, Bayley Hall’s two most recent seasons may have been interrupted by the Pandemic, but he’s still shown plenty of speed in his brief appearances at a National scene to prove he has what it takes at a high level.
Fresh from success in Queensland state-level competition, Hall expanded into national-level racing via the MARC Cars Australia program, including making a start in the Bathurst 12 Hour.
He finished sixth in the Bathurst 6 Hour in 2021 and also made his Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia debut with McElrea Racing that year, scoring one podium finish from two round starts in the pandemic challenged season.
He steps to Carrera Cup this year with the same team.
Driver Bio
THE Grandson of former Carrera Cup racer Tony and son of Carrera Cup racer Klark, Ryder Quinn is the first, third-generation driver to compete in Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia. Linking with McElrea Racing, Quinn comes into the championship fresh from a Formula Ford campaign in 2022, and a summer in New Zealand in Formula Regional Oceania. His first major race win came in the A2 class of the 2023 Bathurst 6 Hour, driving with his ‘Popeye’ and Grant Denyer.
