Paul Stokell


Paul Stokell is an Australian racing driver. Highly decorated in every category he has competed, Stokell has been a race and multiple championship winning driver in open wheel, sportscar racing and tarmac rallying, consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today having won back to back Australian Targa Championship in 2018/2019.
While Tasmanian born, today Stokell is Queensland based where he has operated a performance driving school www.drivingevents.com.au since 2008 and has been involved with the Sherrin Motor Sport Porsche Carrera Cup team taking their maiden victory in 2007.

Open wheelers

Stokell first emerged into the national spotlight racing in the national Australian Formula Ford series, taking a Reynard to runner up in the 1990 title behind Russell Ingall. Stokell tried to push his career in England in the next couple of years however a lack of support forced his return to Australian racing in 1993 driving for Malcolm Ramsay's South Australian Birrana Racing team in Formula Brabham. With Stokell leading, Birrana came to dominate the category and Stokell took a trifecta of Australian Drivers' Championships in the mid-90s. In 1994 he represented Australia in the EFDA Nations Cup but the highlight of the era was his first international victory, winning the 1994 New Zealand International Series and 1995 Pan Pacific title including the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Sports cars

In 1998 Stokell led an importer supported team driving Lotus Elise in the Australian GT Production Car Championship and against larger and more powerful cars Stokell became a giant-killer in the Lotus, finishing sixth in the championship. Out of this effort came an invitation to join the newly formed Team Lamborghini Australia, to race Lamborghini Diablos in the Australian Nations Cup Championship. Starting in 2000, Stokell was a constant front runner in the black Diablo and again became a championship winner in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 he drove in one round of the FIA GT Championship in a Lotus placing 2nd in the G2 class.
Since then Stokell has made sporadic appearances in a variety of categories and became a competitor and entrant in the new Mini Challenge series in 2008 and became series champion in 2009. He followed that by representing Australia for the second time in the Spanish Mini Challenge in 2010 as well as finishing second in the Australian Mini Challenge in 2010.

Career results

Some results sources from:
SeasonSeriesPositionCarTeam
1990Motorcraft Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series2ndReynard FF88 Ford
Swift FB90 Ford		Phoenix Motorsport
Swift Australia
1992Australian Drivers' Championship15thShrike NB89H Holden
1993Australian Drivers' Championship3rdReynard 90D HoldenBirrana Racing
1994Australian Drivers' Championship1stReynard 91D HoldenBirrana Racing
1994EFDA Nations Cup16th †Van Diemen – OpelTeam Australia
1995Australian Drivers' Championship1stReynard 91D HoldenBirrana Racing
1995Pan-Pacific Formula Brabham Championship1stReynard 91D HoldenBirrana Racing
1996Australian Drivers' Championship1stReynard 91D HoldenBirrana Racing
1998Australian GT Production Car Championship6thLotus Elise Sport 19
2000Australian Nations Cup Championship4thLamborghini Diablo SVRTeam Lamborghini Australia
2000Shell Championship Series50thFord AU FalconSteven Ellery Racing
2001Australian Drivers' Championship11thReynard HoldenBirrana Racing
2001Australian Nations Cup Championship2ndLamborghini Diablo SVRTeam Lamborghini Australia
2001Shell Championship Series74thFord AU FalconDick Johnson Racing
2002Australian Nations Cup Championship4thLamborghini Diablo GTRTeam Lamborghini Australia
2002V8Supercar Championship Series47thFord AU FalconPaul Little Racing
2003Australian Nations Cup Championship1stLamborghini Diablo GTRTeam Lamborghini Australia
2003V8Supercar Championship Series69thFord BA FalconPaul Little Racing
2004Australian Nations Cup Championship1stLamborghini Diablo GTRTeam Lamborghini Australia
2004Australian GT Performance Championship2ndVolkswagen Golf R32
2004V8 Supercar Championship Series57thHolden VY CommodoreTeam Dynamik
2007Australian Carrera Cup Championship14thPorsche 997 GT3 Cup
2007Australian GT Championship24thLamborghini GallardoTeam Palmer
2008Australian Carrera Cup Championship19thPorsche 997 GT3 CupSherrin Motor Sport
2008Australian Mini Challenge2ndMini John Cooper Works ChallengeDecorug Racing
2009Australian Mini Challenge1stMini John Cooper Works ChallengeDecorug Racing
2010Australian Mini Challenge2ndMini John Cooper Works ChallengeDecorug Racing

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