2025 GT World Challenge Australia

The 2025 GT World Challenge Australia Powered by AWS is an Australian motor sport competition for GT3 cars. This is the second season since the SRO Motorsports Group took over sole management of the series. The season started at Phillip Island on April 5 and will finish at Hampton Downs in New Zealand on November 2.

2025 GT World Challenge Australia

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2024

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2026

Support series:
GT4 Australia Series
Radical Cup Australia
Ferrari Challenge Australasia

Calendar

The provisional six-round calendar was announced at the 2024 SRO Press conference at the 24 Hours of Spa. For the first time the series had a media day at Phillip Island.^[1] On 18 October, the calendar was updated, in which the Queensland round was shifted to June and the championship will return to Sandown Raceway after 3 years.^[2]

Unlike previous years where most race weekends were run by another promoter as part of the SpeedSeries event series, in 2025 the SRO has taken over as event promoter as well as category promoter.^[3] Other categories at the race meetings will include the Radical Cup Australia^[4] and GT4 Australia.^[5]

Round	Circuit	City / State	Date	Map
1	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Phillip Island, Victoria	4–6 April	Phillip Island Eastern Creek Ipswich Sandown Tailem Bend	Hampton Downs
2	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	2–4 May
3	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	30 May–1 June
4	Sandown Raceway	Melbourne, Victoria	25–27 July
5	The Bend Motorsport Park	Tailem Bend, South Australia	5–7 September
6	Hampton Downs Motorsport Park	North Waikato, New Zealand	31 October–2 November
Source

Entry list

Team Car Engine No. Drivers Class Rounds Volante Rosso Motorsport[6] Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Aston Martin AMR16A 4.0 L Turbo V8 1 Liam Talbot[7] PA 1–4 Declan Fraser[7] 1–3 Jamie Day[8] 4 Melbourne Performance Centre[9][10][11][12] Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 7 Brendon Leitch[9] PA 1–3 Tim Miles[9] 1–3 9 Lee Holdsworth[13] PA 4 Marc Cini[13] 88 Steve Brooks[12] PA 1–2, 4 Ryan Wood[12] 181 Renee Gracie[10] Am 1–4 888 Broc Feeney[11] PA 1–4 Brad Schumacher[11] Will Brown[11] TBC Audi R8 LMS Evo 24 Gary Higgon[14] T 2–3 Matt Stoupas[14] 2, 4 Paul Stokell[15] 3–4 Black Wolf Motorsport[16] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 16 Ben Schoots[16] Am 1–2, 4 Shane Woodman[16] Zagame Autosport[17] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6 23 Josh Buchan[17] PA TBC Cameron Campbell[17] Arise Racing GT[18] Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6 26 Jaxon Evans[18] PA 1–4 Elliott Schutte[18] 77 Steve Wyatt[19] PA 1–4 Jordan Love[19] 1–2, 4 Aaron Love[20] 3 KMB Motorsport[14] Bentley Continental GT3 Bentley 4.0 L Turbo V8 38 Valentino Astuti[14] PA TBC TBA Tigani Motorsport[21][22][15] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 44 Thomas Randle[23] PA 2 Marcel Zalloua[23] 47 James Koundouris[15] Am 3–4 Theo Koundouris[15] 55 George King[21] PA 1–4 Sergio Pires[21] 66 Paul Lucchitti[22] PA 1–4 Jayden Ojeda[22] Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 47 James Koundouris[24] Am 1–2 Theo Koundouris[24] Porsche 911 GT3 R (991) Porsche 4.0 L Flat 6 71 Nathan Halstead[15] T 3 Luke Youlden[15] Wall Racing[25] Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10 93 Adrian Deitz[25] PA 1–3 Tony D'Alberto[25] 1–2 David Wall[15] 3 Mach 1 Engineering[14] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 96 Ant Pedersen[14] PA 1 Paul Pedersen[14] 111 Racing[14] Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 111 Darren Currie[14] Am 1, 3–4 Grant Donaldson[14] Team BRM[26] Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 268 Alex Peroni[26] PA 1–4 Mark Rosser[26] EMA Motorsport[27] Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 911 Dorian Boccolacci[27] PA 1 Shane Smollen[27]

Icon Class PA Pro-Am Cup Am Am Cup T Trophy Cup

Race results

Bold indicates the overall winner.

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Pro-Am winners	Am winners	Trophy winners
1	R1	Phillip Island	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 16 Black Wolf Motorsport	No entries
			Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Ben Schoots Shane Woodman
	R2		No. 911 EMA Motorsport	No. 888 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Dorian Boccolacci Shane Smollen	Broc Feeney Brad Schumacher	Renee Gracie
2	R1	Eastern Creek	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre	No finishers
			Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Renee Gracie
	R2		No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Renee Gracie	Gary Higgon Matt Stoupas
3	R1	Queensland	No. 888 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 888 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Broc Feeney Brad Schumacher	Broc Feeney Brad Schumacher	Renee Gracie	Gary Higgon Paul Stokell
	R2		No. 888 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 268 Team BRM	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Broc Feeney Brad Schumacher	Alex Peroni Mark Rosser	Renee Gracie	Gary Higgon Paul Stokell
4	R1	Sandown	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 16 Black Wolf Motorsport	No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Ben Schoots Shane Woodman	Paul Stokell Matt Stoupas
	R2		No. 26 Arise Racing GT	No. 1 Volante Rosso Motorsport	No. 181 Melbourne Performance Centre	No. 24 Melbourne Performance Centre
			Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte	Jamie Day Liam Talbot	Renee Gracie	Paul Stokell Matt Stoupas
5	R1	The Bend
	R2
6	R1	Hampton Downs
	R2

Championship standings

Scoring system

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

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver Team PHI SYD QLD SAN BEN HAM Points Pro-Am 1 Jaxon Evans Elliott Schutte Arise Racing GT 1 3 1 1 3 5 1 3 160 2 Broc Feeney Brad Schumacher Melbourne Performance Centre 9 1 4 3 1 3 3 2 129 3 Paul Lucchitti Jayden Ojeda Tigani Motorsport 2 14† 3 4 2 8 4 4 95 4 Liam Talbot Volante Rosso Motorsport 5 2 11 7 4 12 8 1 78 5 George King Sergio Pires Tigani Motorsport 8 4 5 6 6 6 5 9 64 6 Steve Brooks Ryan Wood Melbourne Performance Centre 13 6 6 2 2 6 60 7 Alex Peroni Mark Rosser Team BRM 7 15[a] 7 8 Ret 1 13 5 53 8 Brendon Leitch Tim Miles Melbourne Performance Centre 3 5 14 5 Ret 2 53 9 Jordan Love Arise Racing GT 6 8 8 10 6 7 53 10 Steve Wyatt Arise Racing GT 6 8 8 10 5 4 6 7 53 11 Declan Fraser Volante Rosso Motorsport 5 2 11 7 4 12 49 12 Jamie Day Volante Rosso Motorsport 8 1 29 13 Aaron Love Arise Racing GT 5 4 22 14 Thomas Randle Marcel Zalloua Tigani Motorsport 2 9 20 15 Adrian Deitz Wall Racing 11 9 9 14 9 9 14 16 Dorian Boccolacci Shane Smollen EMA Motorsport 4 11 14 17 David Wall Wall Racing 9 9 10 18 Marc Cini Lee Holdsworth Melbourne Performance Centre 7 13 8 19 Ant Pedersen Paul Pedersen Mach 1 Engineering Ret 7 6 20 Tony D'Alberto Wall Racing 11 9 9 14 4 Am 1 Renee Gracie Melbourne Performance Centre 12 10 10 11 7 7 10 10 191 2 Ben Schoots Shane Woodman Black Wolf Motorsport 10 12 12 13 9 12 117 3 James Koundouris Theo Koundouris Tigani Motorsport 14† 13 13 12 11 10 11 Ret 111 4 Darren Currie Grant Donaldson 111 Racing WD WD 8 11 14 11 33 Trophy 1 Paul Stokell Melbourne Performance Centre 10 13 12 8 104 2 Matt Stoupas Melbourne Performance Centre DNS 15 12 8 78 1 Gary Higgon Melbourne Performance Centre DNS 15 10 13 77 4 Nathan Halstead Luke Youlden Tigani Motorsport 12 Ret 18 Pos. Driver Team PHI SYD QLD SAN BEN HAM Points

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

Notes:

• † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Teams' championships

Pos.	Team	PHI		SYD		QLD		SAN		BEN		HAM		Points
Pro-Am
1	Arise Racing GT	1	3	1	1	3	4	1	3					165
2	Melbourne Performance Centre	3	1	4	2	1	2	2	2					154
3	Tigani Motorsport	2	4	2	4	2	6	3	4					120
4	Volante Rosso Motorsport	5	2	11	7	4	12	8	1					105
5	Team BRM	7	15[a]	7	8	Ret	1	13	5					79
6	Wall Racing	11	9	9	14	9	9							52
7	EMA Motorsport	4	11											19
8	Mach 1 Engineering	Ret	7											10
Am
1	Melbourne Performance Centre	12	10	10	11	7	7	10	10					191
2	Black Wolf Motorsport	10	12	12	13			9	12					117
3	Tigani Motorsport	14†	13	13	12	12	10							111
4	111 Racing	WD	WD			8	11							33
Trophy
1	Melbourne Performance Centre			DNS	15	10	13	12	8					127
2	Tigani Motorsport					12	Ret							18
Pos.	Team	PHI		SYD		QLD		SAN		BEN		HAM		Points

Notes:

• † – Entry did not finish the race but was classified, as it completed more than 75% of the race distance.

See also

• 2025 GT World Challenge Europe
• 2025 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
• 2025 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
• 2025 GT World Challenge Asia
• 2025 GT World Challenge America
• 2025 Intercontinental GT Challenge
• 2025 British GT Championship

Notes

1. Team BRM did not score points in Race 2 at Phillip Island, despite Alex Peroni and Mark Rosser completing at least 75% of the race distance.