2025 Australian Formula Open

The 2025 Australian Formula Open: Driven by FRCA was a multi-event open-wheel single seater motor racing championship. This was the third season of the Australian Formula Open series, which was originally founded by two-time Australian Gold Star winner Tim Macrow in 2023 as a direct successor to the Australian Formula 3 championship.[1]

When AFO's original organizers launched the AU3 Championship for 2025, the AFO moniker was taken over mid-year by the organizers of the NSW Formula Car Championship, an open formula championship run since 2011 as one of Motorsport Australia's State Championships. That saw that championship effectively be rebranded under the AFO guise.[2]

The championship was run over five weekends from February to October.[3] Performer Australia's Michael Doherty won the Drivers' Championship title at the penultimate race of the season.

Teams and drivers

All teams and drivers were Australian-registered.

Team No. Driver Car Rounds
Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite 1 Rodney Baker Dallara F399 All
RMS Racing 3 Robert Sviderskas Mantis M2-001 All
Genesis Offices 4 Robert Rowe Dallara F308 4
TWS Motorsport 14 Trent Shirvington Mygale M11 1
M Roesler Motorsport Matthew Roesler Tatuus FT-50 4
CO Machining 21 Graeme Holmes Dallara F3 2–5
Sydney Photo Booth / AGI Sport 23 Lawrence Katsidis Dallara F304 All
Apollo Patios 24 Nathan Beer Dallara F305/7 1–3, 5
Phil Morrow Racing 25 Phil Morrow Dallara F305/7 1, 3, 5
CPL 37 Ben Turner Dallara F3 4
Formula Race Car Association 41 Greg Muddle Dallara F305 1–4
Performer Australia 42 Michael Doherty Performer P1000 All
72 Shane Varley Performer P1000 1–2, 4–5
Douglas Barry Specials 44 Douglas Barry Reynard 92D 1–4
ARB Bundaberg 51 Ron Bennet Dallara F399/01 4
Eagle Transportation Pty Ltd 55 Glenn Lynch Dallara F397 1, 3
3 Amigos Racing 76 Jeffrey Senior Dallara F302 3–4
SMJ Plastering 95 Shayne Morrow Dallara F300/01 1, 5
Raven Gruppe 666 Adam Savic Stohr F1000 All
Privateer 73 Simon Bedford Dallara F3 4–5
88 Andrew Fitzpatrick Mygale M14-F4 1
655 Abhishek Jain Swift 2015 2
Source: [4][5][6][7][8]

Race calendar

The 2025 calendar was announced in early January of 2024 - still under the guise of the NSW Formula Car Challenge.[9] Compared to 2024, two events at One Raceway were added while Sydney Motorsport Park only hosted two instead of three rounds. A sixth event at Morgan Park Raceway was also part of the first version of the calendar, but was later removed.

Round Circuit Date Support bill Map of circuit locations
1 R1 One Raceway, Goulburn 22 February NSW Production Touring Cars
NSW Improved Production Championship
New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
R2 23 February
R3
2 R1 Winton Motor Raceway, Winton 10 May NSW Production Touring Cars
NSW Improved Production Championship
Victorian Improved Production Championship
New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
R2 11 May
R3
3 R1 Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek 26 July Australian Formula Ford Championship
NSW Production Touring Cars
NSW Improved Production Championship
SuperSports NSW State Championship
R2
R3
4 R1 27 September NSW Production Touring Cars
NSW Improved Production Championship
SuperSports NSW State Championship
NSW Sports Sedan State Championship
R2 28 September
R3
5 R1 One Raceway, Goulburn 18 October NSW Sports Sedan State Championship
SuperSports NSW State Championship
New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
R2 19 October
R3

Race results

Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 One Raceway Trent Shirvington Trent Shirvington Trent Shirvington TWS Motorsport
R2 Trent Shirvington Trent Shirvington TWS Motorsport
R3 Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
2 R1 Winton Motor Raceway Michael Doherty Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
R2 Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Performer Australia
R3 Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Performer Australia
3 R1 Sydney Motorsport Park Douglas Barry Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Performer Australia
R2 Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Performer Australia
R3 race cancelled after delays to race weekend schedule
4 R1 Rodney Baker Douglas Barry Michael Doherty Performer Australia
R2 Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
R3 Robert Rowe Douglas Barry Douglas Barry Specials
5 R1 One Raceway Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Michael Doherty Performer Australia
R2 Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
R3 Graeme Holmes Graeme Holmes CO Machining

Championship standings

Points were awarded as follows:

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Pos Driver ONE1
 WIN
 SYD1
 SYD2
 ONE2
 Pts
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Michael Doherty 6 5 4 2 1 1 1 1 C 1 2 3 1 3 6 254
2 Rodney Baker 5 2 1 1 Ret 2 4 3 C 4 1 2 2 1 Ret 221
3 Lawrence Katsidis 3 3 6 4 4 4 6 4 C Ret 9 8 Ret 5 2 128
4 Graeme Holmes WD WD WD 2 2 C Ret 6 9 4 2 1 101
5 Shane Varley 10 8 10 Ret 2 3 9 5 4 3 4 5 100
6 Adam Savic 9 10 11 3 3 Ret 8 7 C 8 10 7 Ret 8 4 70
7 Nathan Beer 2 6 7 WD WD WD DNS 9 C Ret 6 3 57
8 Douglas Barry DNS Ret 5 WD WD WD 7 DNS C Ret 3 1 56
9 Trent Shirvington 1 1 Ret 50
10 Jeffrey Senior 3 5 C 7 7 5 47
11 Andrew Fitzpatrick 4 4 2 42
12 Greg Muddle 11 Ret 3 DNS Ret WD 9 8 C 3 WD WD 36
13 Glenn Lynch 7 7 8 5 6 C 34
14 Robert Sviderskas Ret DNS DNS DNS 5 5 10 Ret C Ret 12 Ret 8 Ret WD 25
15 Ron Bennet 5 4 Ret 22
16 Simon Bedford 10 11 10 6 7 7 22
17 Matthew Roesler 6 8 6 20
18 Robert Rowe 2 Ret Ret 18
19 Shayne Morrow 8 9 9 5 Ret Ret 18
20 Phil Morrow Ret Ret DNS Ret DNS C 7 9 Ret 8
— Abhishek Jain WD WD WD 0
— Ben Turner WD WD WD 0
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts
ONE1
 WIN
 SYD1
 SYD2
 ONE2
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points classification
Blue Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)
Bold – Pole

Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Did not finish, but classified

References

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