Australian Production Car Championship

The Australian Production Car Championship is an Australian motor racing title for production cars. The championship was first contested in 1987 and from 2008 to 2015 the title was awarded to the most successful driver in the annual Australian Manufacturers' Championship series which ran on the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships program.

For 2016 the Australian Manufacturers' Championship (and thus the Australian Production Car Championship) was rebranded again as the Australian Production Car Series.

In 2025, the series, which had since its inception been sanctioned by Motorsport Australia and its predecessors organisation CAMS, switched to the Australian Auto Sport Alliance and will run as part of the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series event calendar.

History

The title was first contested in 1987, with the inaugural champion determined from the results of two races held at the Winton Motor Raceway in Victoria on 27 September. The APCC was expanded to a series format in 1988. Changes to the Group 3E regulations in 1990 saw various cars including turbocharged and V8 powered models deemed ineligible for the championship from that year. In 1994 and 1995, competitors were restricted to using only front wheel drive cars of less than 2.5 litre capacity. The introduction in 1996 of the Australian GT Production Car Championship (which permitted GT type cars such as Porsche 911 and Ferrari F355) saw the APCC discontinued from that year.

Following the transfer of the GT cars to the new Australian Nations Cup Championship in 2000 and the relocation of other high performance models into a new Australian GT Performance Car Championship in 2003, the Australian GT Production Car Championship reverted to the Australian Production Car Championship name for the 2003 season.

For 2008, the cars from the Australian Performance Car Championship joined those from the Australian Production Car Championship to contest the Australian Manufacturers' Championship.^[1] with the Australian Production Car Championship title awarded to the highest scoring driver over the same series of races.^[2] This continued through to 2015.^[3]

For 2016 the Australian Manufacturers' Championship (and thus the Australian Production Car Championship) was replaced by the Australian Production Car Series.^[4]

In 2025, the series switched its sanctioning to the Australian Auto Sport Alliance, to run at the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series. According to the category organiser, the switch was due to reduced entry fees, better television coverage and more certainty of track time at events.^[5]

Results

Australian Production Car Championship

Australian Production Car Series

Notes

1. ^ "New era for Production Car racing to start at Phillip Island". The Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships. 12 June 2008. Archived from the original on 28 June 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
2. ^ 2008 Australian Manufacturers' Championship Sporting Reg, retrieved on 19 June 2008
3. ^ 2015 CAMS Australian Manufacturers Championship – Sporting and Technical Regulations, www.camsmanual.com.au, as archived web.archive.org
4. ^ Australian Production Car Series – 2016 Calendar, australianproductioncars.com.au Retrieved 2 June 2016
5. ^ Miles, Thomas (2025-01-22). "AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION CARS MAKES BIG SWITCH". Auto Action. Retrieved 2025-01-25.
6. ^ Shannons APCC 2007 Corrected Round Points APCC Outright Points score Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Production Car Association of Australia retrieved on 20 January 2008

References

• Australian Auto Action, 9 October 1987
• Australian Motor Racing Yearbook, 1987/88 to 1995
• CAMS Manual of Motor Sport, 1987 to 2006

External links

• PROCAR website (Archived on 14 February 2008) Retrieved on 18 August 2009