The 2021 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship, known by its sponsored identity the VHT S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship, was the inaugural season of the Australian S5000 Championship, run after a series of exhibition races in 2019.^[1] The series was sanctioned by Motorsport Australia (MA) and promoted by the Australian Racing Group as part of the 2020 and 2021 Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Series. The season was held over 4 rounds, it began in January at Symmons Plains Raceway and ended in May at Sydney Motorsport Park. Joey Mawson won the Australian Drivers' Championship (MA Gold Star) title.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2021 championship:

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds	Ref.
Team BRM	15	Kaleb Ngatoa	2–4	[2]
	16	Tommy Smith	1	[3]
	27	Joey Mawson	All	[4]
	49	Thomas Randle	All[a]	[5]
Tim Macrow Racing	23	Tim Macrow	All[a]	[6]
Garry Rogers Motorsport	29	Nathan Herne	All	[7]
	31	James Golding	All[a]	[8]
	96	Luis Leeds	All[a]	[8]
Astuti Motorsport	39	Antonio Astuti	1–3[b]	[5]
Australian Racing Enterprise	88	Cooper Webster	All	[5]
Willmington Motorsport	89	Braydan Willmington	All[a]	[5]
Modena Engineering	92	Ricky Capo	All[a]	[9]

The following drivers only competed in practice and/or qualifying for the abandoned March 2020 round at Melbourne:

Team	No.	Drivers	Ref.
Team BRM	16	Jack Aitken	[10]
	33	James Davison	[11]
	93	Zane Goddard	[12]
	111	Rubens Barrichello	[13]
Milldun Motorsport	27	Barton Mawer	[14]
Garry Rogers Motorsport	34	Alexandre Prémat	[15]
Borland Racing Developments	38	Giancarlo Fisichella	[16]
88Racing	88	Jordan Michels	[17]

Race calendar

The original 2020 calendar proposal was released on 29 October 2019, with six confirmed rounds, plus one non-championship round at the "Bathurst International", all held in Australia. Qualifying was held during the opening round at Melbourne, but the event was abandoned on March 13, 2020, as the headlining Australian Grand Prix had been cancelled by Formula 1 because of McLaren's withdrawal after a team member was tested positive for COVID-19.^[18]

With multiple disruptions delaying the season start due to the COVID-19 pandemic, heavy border restrictions in Australia further complicating the holding of the championship,^[19][20] and various calendar revisions that did not went ahead as scheduled,^{[21][22][23][24]} the season started in January 2021, with a four-round calendar where one venue was still to be announced.^[25][26] It included a round at Symmons Plains, which was not featured in the calendar until the May 2020 revision. Rounds at Winton and The Bend were not rescheduled, while the rounds at Melbourne and Bathurst were set apart from the calendar due to their later dates as support events for the Australian Grand Prix and the inaugural Bathurst International,^[27] being later featured as part of the end-of-year S5000 Tasman Series. The round at Phillip Island was later postponed and rescheduled.^[28][29] On 16 February 2021 it was announced the third round would be held at Sandown.^[30] As had been planned for 2020, the winner of each feature race received a trophy named in honour of former Australian racing drivers.^[31]

Round	Circuit	Feature Race	Location	Date
1	Symmons Plains Raceway	John McCormack Cup[31]	Launceston, Tasmania	25–26 January[c]
2	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Costanzo Cup[32]	Phillip Island, Victoria	13–14 March[d]
3	Sandown Raceway	John Bowe Trophy[33]	Springvale, Victoria	21 March[e]
4	Sydney Motorsport Park	Warwick Brown Cup[34]	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	1–2 May[f]

The following racetracks were included at some point on the 2020 calendar, but were not rescheduled for the 2021 Australian Drivers' Championship.

Circuit	Location	Scheduled dates
Albert Park Circuit	Melbourne, Victoria	12–15 March 2020[g]
Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	1–3 May 2020
The Bend Motorsport Park	Tailem Bend, South Australia	12–14 June 2020
Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	13–15 November 2020[h]

S5000 Tasman Series

See: 2021 S5000 Tasman Series

The follow-up season, initially billed as the 2021–2022 S5000 Australian Drivers Championship, was planned to feature the inaugural holding of the S5000 International Triple Crown, a stand-alone series-within-the-series consisting of the three events held in Melbourne, Bathurst and Gold Coast, supporting the Australian Grand Prix, the Bathurst International and the Gold Coast 500 respectively. After the cancellation of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix, it was decided to instead revive the Tasman Series with the remaining 2021 rounds, separate from the S5000 Australian Drivers Championship that will be held in 2022.

Race results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning entrant
1	H1	Symmons Plains Raceway	25 January	Thomas Randle	Thomas Randle	Joey Mawson	Team BRM
	H2		26 January		Joey Mawson	Tim Macrow	Macrow Racing
	ME				Thomas Randle	Thomas Randle	Team BRM
2	H1	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	13 March	James Golding	Joey Mawson	Tim Macrow	Macrow Racing
	H2				Thomas Randle	Cooper Webster	Australian Racing Enterprise
	ME		14 March		Joey Mawson	Joey Mawson	Team BRM
3	H1	Sandown Raceway	20 March	Joey Mawson	Joey Mawson	James Golding	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	H2		21 March		Kaleb Ngatoa	Kaleb Ngatoa	Team BRM
	ME				Joey Mawson	Joey Mawson	Team BRM
4	H1	Sydney Motorsport Park	1 May	Joey Mawson	James Golding	James Golding	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	H2				Cooper Webster	Kaleb Ngatoa	Team BRM
	ME		2 May		James Golding	James Golding	Garry Rogers Motorsport

Drivers' standings

At each meeting, a qualifying session, two qualifying heats and a Main Event were held. Meeting points were awarded to the fastest ten qualifiers in qualifying, where the grid for the first heat was set. For the second heat, the top 75% from qualifying were reversed. The grid for the Main Event was defined by the points earned by the drivers across the weekend.^[35]

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	Ret
Qualifying	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0					0
Qualifying Heats	30	27	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2	1	0
Main Event	60	50	40	32	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	0

Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2021_S5000_Australian_Drivers'_Championship
Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia.

---



---

www.astronomia.sk | www.biologia.sk | www.botanika.sk | www.dejiny.sk | www.economy.sk | www.elektrotechnika.sk | www.estetika.sk | www.farmakologia.sk | www.filozofia.sk | Fyzika | www.futurologia.sk | www.genetika.sk | www.chemia.sk | www.lingvistika.sk | www.politologia.sk | www.psychologia.sk | www.sexuologia.sk | www.sociologia.sk | www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

---

Pos.	Driver	SYM				PHI				SAN				SYD				Points
		Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME
1	Joey Mawson	2	1	4	4	10	5	3	1	1	5	2	1	1	2	5	8	392
2	Thomas Randle	1	2	6	1	3	2	2	4	3	DNS	3	6	6	5	3	4	346