Australian Production Car Championship
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The Australian Production Car Championship is a CAMS
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 ....

 sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of production cars, which must compete in close to standard specification. Since 2008 the title has been awarded to the most successful driver in the annual Australian Manufacturers' Championship
Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The Australian Manufacturers' Championship is a motor racing title awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the winning car manufacturer in a series of races held throughout Australia...

 series which runs on the Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships
Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships
The Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships is a series of motor racing events held across five states of Australia. It was first held as the CAMS National Racing Championships in 2006 and adopted its present name the following year when it gained Shannons Insurance as a new partner.The...

 program.

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
Winton Motor Raceway
Winton Motor Raceway is a Motor Racing track in Winton, near Benalla, Victoria, Australia.-History:The Benalla Auto Club began planning for a permanent racing track around 1958. In 1960 it was decided to build the track at Winton Recreation Reserve and was completed in twelve months...

 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 and competitors were restricted to using only front wheel drive cars of less than 2.5 litre capacity in 1994 and 1995. The introduction in 1996 of 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...

 (which permitted GT type cars such as Porsche 911
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...

 and Ferrari F355
Ferrari F355
The Ferrari F355 is a sports car built by Ferrari from May 1994 to 1999. It is an evolution of the Ferrari 348 and was replaced by the Ferrari 360. It is a mid-engined, rear wheel drive V8-powered 2-seat coupe...

) saw the APCC discontinued from that year. Following the transfer of the GT cars to the new Australian Nations Cup Championship
Australian Nations Cup Championship
The Australian Nations Cup Championship was a motor racing title sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport from 2000 to 2004.-History:...

 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 back to the Australian Production Car Championship name for the 2003 season. For 2008 the cars from the Australian Performance Car Championship
Australian Performance Car Championship
The Australian Performance Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of production based, high-performance coupes and sedans racing with limited modifications...

 join those from the Australian Production Car Championship to contest the Australian Manufacturers' Championship
Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The Australian Manufacturers' Championship is a motor racing title awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to the winning car manufacturer in a series of races held throughout Australia...

. with the Australian Production Car Championship title awarded to the highest scoring driver over the same series of races.

Champions

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Year Champion Vehicle
1987 Peter Fitzgerald Mitsubishi Starion Turbo
Mitsubishi Starion
The Mitsubishi Starion is a two-door, turbocharged four-cylinder rear-wheel drive four-seat sports car that was in production from 1982 to 1989. It was also marketed in North America as the Conquest under the Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth names; both the Starion and Conquest came to an end in 1989...

1988 Garry Waldon Mazda RX-7 Turbo
Mazda RX-7
Series 1 is commonly referred to as the "SA22C" from the first alphanumerics of the vehicle identification number. This series of RX-7 had exposed steel bumpers and a high-mounted indentation-located license plate, called by Werner Buhrer of Road & Track magazine a "Baroque depression."In 1980...

1989
1989 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1989 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Production Cars complying with Group 3E regulations...

Peter Fitzgerald Toyota Supra Turbo
Toyota Supra
The Toyota Supra is a sports car/grand tourer that was produced by Toyota Motor Company from 1979 to 2002. The styling of the Toyota Supra was derived from the Toyota Celica, but it was both longer and wider. Starting in mid-1986, the Supra became its own model and was no longer based on the Celica...

1990
1990 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1990 Australian Production Car Championship was a national motor racing title for drivers of Series Production Cars complying with CAMS Group 3E regulations.The title was contested over an eight round series....

Kent Youlden Ford EA Falcon
Ford EA Falcon
-Model range:The EA series was available in seven model variants:* Falcon GL Sedan* Falcon GL Wagon* Falcon S Sedan* Fairmont Sedan* Fairmont Wagon* Fairmont Ghia Sedan* Fairmont Ghia Wagon...

1991
1991 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1991 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars.The title was contested over an eight round series.* Round 1, Sandown, Victoria, 24 February...

Kent Youlden Ford EA Falcon
Ford EA Falcon
-Model range:The EA series was available in seven model variants:* Falcon GL Sedan* Falcon GL Wagon* Falcon S Sedan* Fairmont Sedan* Fairmont Wagon* Fairmont Ghia Sedan* Fairmont Ghia Wagon...

1992
1992 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1992 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars. The title, which was the sixth Australian Production Car Championship was contested over an eight round series with one race per round.-Calendar:* Round 1,...

Terry Lewis Holden VP Commodore SS
Holden VP Commodore
The Holden VP Commodore is an automobile which was produced by Australian automaker Holden from 1991 to 1993. It is the seventh generation Holden Commodore....

1993
1993 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1993 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing competition open to Group 3E Production Cars. The championship, which was the seventh Australian Production Car Championship, was won by Mal Rose driving a Ford EB Falcon....

Mal Rose Ford EB Falcon SS
1994 Phil Morriss Nissan Pulsar SSS
Nissan Pulsar
The Nissan Pulsar is an automobile that was produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978, when it debuted as a subcompact car, to 2007, when it was replaced in all markets by the Nissan Tiida. It was originally conceived as a replacement for Nissan's first front-wheel drive platform, the...

1995
1995 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1995 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars...

Harry Bargwanna Nissan Pulsar SSS
Nissan Pulsar
The Nissan Pulsar is an automobile that was produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978, when it debuted as a subcompact car, to 2007, when it was replaced in all markets by the Nissan Tiida. It was originally conceived as a replacement for Nissan's first front-wheel drive platform, the...

1996–2002 absorbed into 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...

2003 Scott Loadsman Holden VX Commodore SS
Holden VX Commodore
The Holden VX Commodore, Berlina and Calais range of full-size cars were the eleventh instalment of Holden Commodore, a model manufactured by Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors...

2004
2004 Australian Production Car Championship
The 2004 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to Group 3E Series Production Cars. The championship, which was the 11th Australian Production Car Championship, was managed by Procar Australia as part of the 2004 PROCAR Championship Series...

Chris Alajajian
Chris Alajajian
Chris Alajajian is an Australian race car driver.In 2004 he won the Australian Production Car Championship, becoming the youngest ever driver to win an Australian championship...

Subaru Liberty GT
Subaru Legacy
The Subaru Legacy is a mid-size car built by the Japanese company Fuji Heavy Industries, and manufactured by its division Subaru since 1989, and is available as a sedan or wagon. Part of the original design goals for the Legacy model was to provide Subaru a vehicle in which they could compete in...

2005 Colin Osborne Toyota Celica
Toyota Celica
The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial"....

2006
2006 Australian Production Car Championship
The 2006 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars. The championship, which was administered by the Production Car Association of Australia, was the 13th Australian Production Car Championship.-Calendar:The title...

David Ryan Ford BF Falcon XR6 Turbo
Ford BF Falcon
The Ford BF Falcon was a full-size car that was manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Victoria, Australia. The BF Falcon started production in October 2005 and a MkII update was released in October 2006...

2007 Garry Holt BMW 335i
BMW E90
The saloon model was the first model sold of the 5th generation BMW 3 series. Debuting in the US in 2006, the E90 came in two trims, the 325i/xi and 330i/xi models...

2008
2008 Australian Production Car Championship
The 2008 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars...

Colin Osborne Toyota Celica
Toyota Celica
The Toyota Celica name has been applied to a series of coupes made by the Japanese company Toyota. The name is ultimately derived from the Latin word coelica meaning "heavenly" or "celestial"....

2009
2009 Australian Production Car Championship
The 2009 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group 3E Series Production Cars. It was the 16th Australian Production Car Championship title to be awarded by CAMS. As well as claiming the Class A2 title, Garry Holt won the overall...

Garry Holt BMW 335i
BMW E90
The saloon model was the first model sold of the 5th generation BMW 3 series. Debuting in the US in 2006, the E90 came in two trims, the 325i/xi and 330i/xi models...

2010 Stuart Kostera Mitsubishi Lancer RS-Evolution X
2011
2011 Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The 2011 Australian Manufacturers' Championship is a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing championship for car manufacturers. It is the 26th manufacturers title to be awarded by CAMS and the 17th to be contested under the Australian Manufacturers' Championship name...

Stuart Kostera Mitsubishi Lancer RS-Evolution X

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