2023 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship

The 2023 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship was the third season of the S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship. The championship was held under the new unified SpeedSeries banner, promoted and organized jointly by Motorsport Australia and the Australian Racing Group.[1]

Drivers not only competed to win the Australian Drivers' Championship (the MA Gold Star), the last round of the season also doubled as the third edition of the S5000 Tasman Series.[2]

At the first race of this last round, GRM driver Aaron Cameron won the Drivers' Championship. After claiming three victories from three races through the weekend, he also became the Tasman Series Champion.

Through the end of the 2023 season, discussions about the future of the series arose. Particularly the eligibility rules for a Supercar license de facto mandating a stint in the Super2 series were accused to draw interest away from the S5000 championship. After these arguments could not be resolved, the championship was parked indefinitely at the beginning of 2024.[3]

  1. ^ arggrant (21 October 2022). "Unified SpeedSeries primed for bumper 2023". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  2. ^ richardrt (7 December 2022). "2023 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship schedule confirmed". S5000. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  3. ^ Herrero, Daniel (11 January 2024). "S5000 parked over Supercars eligibility rules". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 11 January 2024.