2025 Australian Formula Open

The 2025 Australian Formula Open: Driven by FRCA is a multi-event open-wheel single seater motor racing championship. This is the third season of the Australian Formula Open series, which was originally founded by two-time Australian Gold Star winner Tim Macrow in 2023 as a direct successor to the Australian Formula 3 championship.^[1]

2025 Australian Formula Open

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2024 (NSW FCC)

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2026

When AFO's original organizers launched the AU3 Championship for 2025, the AFO moniker was taken over mid-year by the organizers of the NSW Formula Car Championship, an open formula championship run since 2011 as one of Motorsport Australia's State Championships. That saw that championship effectively be rebranded under the AFO guise.^[2]

The championship is planned to be run over five weekends and started on 22 February at One Raceway.^[3]

Teams and drivers

All teams and drivers are Australian-registered.

Team	No.	Driver	Car	Rounds
Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite	1	Rodney Baker	Dallara F399	1–2
TWS Motorsport	14	Trent Shirvington	Mygale M11	1
Sydney Photo Booth / AGI Sport	23	Lawrence Katsidis	Dallara F304	1–2
Apollo Patios	24	Nathan Beer	Dallara F305/7	1–2
Formula Race Car Association	41	Greg Muddle	Dallara F305	1–2
Douglas Barry Specials	44	Douglas Barry	Reynard 92D	1–2
Phil Morrow Racing	48	Phil Morrow	Dallara F305/7	1
SMJ Plastering	95	Shayne Morrow	Dallara F300/01	1
Raven Gruppe	666	Adam Savic	Stohr F1000	1–2
Privateer	3	Robert Sviderskas	Mantis M2-001	1–2
	21	Graeme Holmes	Dallara F3	2
	42	Michael Doherty	Performer P1000	1–2
	55	Glenn Lynch	Dallara F397	1
	72	Shane Varley	Performer P1000	1–2
	88	Andrew Fitzpatrick	Mygale M14-F4	1
	655	Abhishek Jain	Swift 2015	2
Source: [4][5]

Race calendar

The 2025 calendar was announced in early January of 2024 - still under the guise of the NSW Formula Car Challenge.^[6] Compared to 2024, two events at One Raceway were added while Sydney Motorsport Park only hosted two instead of three rounds. A sixth event at Morgan Park Raceway was also part of the first version of the calendar, but was later removed.

Round		Circuit	Date	Support bill	Map of circuit locations
1	R1	One Raceway, Goulburn	22 February	NSW Production Touring Cars NSW Improved Production Championship New South Wales Formula Ford Championship	Winton Sydney Goulburn
	R2		23 February
	R3
2	R1	Winton Motor Raceway, Winton	10 May	NSW Production Touring Cars NSW Improved Production Championship Victorian Improved Production Championship New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
	R2		11 May
	R3
3	R1	Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek	26 July	Australian Formula Ford Championship NSW Production Touring Cars NSW Improved Production Championship SuperSports NSW State Championship
	R2
	R3
4	R1		27–28 September	NSW Production Touring Cars NSW Improved Production Championship SuperSports NSW State Championship NSW Sports Sedan State Championship
	R2
	R3
5	R1	One Raceway, Goulburn	18–19 October	NSW Sports Sedan State Championship SuperSports NSW State Championship New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
	R2
	R3

Race results

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	One Raceway	Trent Shirvington	Trent Shirvington	Trent Shirvington	TWS Motorsport
	R2			Trent Shirvington	Trent Shirvington	TWS Motorsport
	R3			Rodney Baker	Rodney Baker	Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
2	R1	Winton Motor Raceway	Michael Doherty	Rodney Baker	Rodney Baker	Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
	R2			Michael Doherty	Michael Doherty	Privateer
	R3			Michael Doherty	Michael Doherty	Privateer
3	R1	Sydney Motorsport Park
	R2
	R3
4	R1
	R2
	R3
5	R1	One Raceway
	R2
	R3

Championship standings

Points are awarded as follows:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Pos Driver ONE1 WIN SYD1 SYD2 ONE2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Michael Doherty 6 5 4 2 1 1 98 2 Rodney Baker 5 2 1 1 Ret 2 96 3 Lawrence Katsidis 3 3 6 4 4 4 74 4 Trent Shirvington 1 1 Ret 50 5 Andrew Fitzpatrick 4 4 2 42 6 Shane Varley 10 8 10 Ret 2 3 39 7 Adam Savic 9 10 11 3 3 Ret 33 8 Nathan Beer 2 6 7 WD WD WD 32 9 Robert Sviderskas Ret DNS DNS DNS 5 5 20 10 Glenn Lynch 7 7 8 16 11 Greg Muddle 11 Ret 3 DNS Ret WD 15 12 Douglas Barry DNS Ret 5 WD WD WD 10 13 Shayne Morrow 8 9 9 8 — Phil Morrow Ret Ret DNS 0 — Graeme Holmes WD WD WD 0 — Abhishek Jain WD WD WD 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts ONE1 WIN SYD1 SYD2 ONE2

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish, but classified