The Australian Nations Cup Championship was a motor racing title sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport , has been the governing body of Australian motorsport since 1953. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile ....

 from 2000 to 2004.

History

Nations Cup evolved from the GT Production category, which was created in 1995 by category managers PROCAR Australia

Procar Australia

Procar Australia was a motor sport category management company which operated in Australia over a ten year period from the mid 1990s. It was founded by businessman Ross Palmer in 1994 and was to administer various championships and series for production based cars including:* Australian Super...

. For 2000, PROCAR split The Australian GT Production Car Championship

Australian GT Production Car Championship

The Australian GT Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title, organised by PROCAR Australia Pty Ltd, for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars.PROCAR had first promoted a national series for production based cars in 1994...

 into two separate series so that the more exotic GT cars such as Porsche 911s and Ferrari 360s could compete in the new Australian Nations Cup Championship and the lesser vehicles such as the Mitsubishi Lancers and Subaru Imprezas could now compete for outright wins in the revised Australian GT Production Car Championship.

Demise

With the demise of PROCAR during 2004, CAMS revived the Australian GT Championship

Australian GT Championship

The Australian GT Championship is a CAMS-sanctioned national title for drivers of GT cars, held annually from 1960 to 1963, from 1982 to 1985 and from 2005. Each championship up to and including the 1963 title was contested over a single race and those after that year over a series of races...

 and the series was merged into the grids of the Australian Porsche Drivers Challenge, itself a class of refugees left over after the Australian Carrera Cup Championship

Australian Carrera Cup Championship

The Australian Carrera Cup Championship is a sports car racing championship open to drivers of Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. First held in 2003, it is administered by Porsche Cars Australia and sanctioned by CAMS as an Australian Championship...

 replaced the former Porsche Cup. The regulations differed and not all Nations Cup cars were eligible to race in the GT series, the controversial Holden Monaro 427C

Holden Monaro

The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005...

 the most notable such example.

Championship results

The top three placegetters in these five championships were:
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Year	Champion	Car	Runner Up	Car	Third Place	Car
2000 2000 Australian Nations Cup Championship The 2000 Australian Nations Cup Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Nations Cup cars. It was the inaugural Australian Nations Cup Championship.-Calendar:The championship was contested over an eight round series....	Jim Richards Jim Richards (race driver) Jim Richards is a New Zealand racing driver who has spent most of his racing life in Australia. While retired from professional racing, Richards continues to compete in the historic category Touring Car Masters while running a team in the Australian GT Championship...	Porsche Porsche Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....  996 GT3	Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche 996 GT3	Mark Noske Mark Noske Mark Noske is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. Noske has never placed higher than third in a national event, but has placed third four times in such events.-Formula Racing:...	Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...  360 Challenge
2001 2001 Australian Nations Cup Championship The 2001 Australian Nations Cup Championship was open to drivers of GT style cars complying with Nations Cup regulations as published by PROCAR and approved by CAMS...	Jim Richards	Porsche 996 GT3	Paul Stokell Paul Stokell Paul Stokell is an Australian racing driver. Despite never making a significant impact in touring car racing, Stokell has been a race and championship winning driver in open wheel and sportscar racing consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today have won the Australian Mini Challenge in...	Lamborghini Lamborghini Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini , is an Italian car manufacturer. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like...  Diablo SVR	Peter Fitzgerald	Porsche 996 GT3
2002 2002 Australian Nations Cup Championship The 2002 Australian Nations Cup Championship was open to drivers of GT type cars complying with both Group 3E Series Production Cars regulations as published by CAMS and Nations Cup regulations as published by PROCAR...	Jim Richards	Porsche 996 GT3	Geoff Morgan	Chrysler Chrysler Chrysler Group LLC is a multinational automaker headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925....  Viper ACR	John Bowe John Bowe (racing driver) John Bowe is an Australian racing driver, presently racing a 1969 Ford Mustang in the historic series, Touring Car Masters....	Ferrari 360GT
2003 2003 Australian Nations Cup Championship The 2003 Australian Nations Cup Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of GT sports cars complying with Group 2E Nations Cup regulations...	Paul Stokell	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	John Bowe	Ferrari 360GT	Nathan Pretty	Holden Holden GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery manufacturer. In 1908 it moved into the automotive field, before becoming a subsidiary of the U.S.-based General Motors in 1931...  Monaro 427C
2004 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship The 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of modified production based closed cars complying with "Nations Cup" regulations...	Paul Stokell	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	Nathan Pretty	Holden Monaro 427C	David Stevens	Porsche 996 GT2R