Paul Stokell

Paul Francis Stokell (born 8 March 1968 in Tasmania) 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 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 (which reverted to its original name of Formula Holden in 1996). 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 Indonesian Grand Prix.

Sports cars Stokell driving a Lamborghini Diablo SVR in the 2001 Australian Nations Cup Championship.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 second 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: † Team result

Complete Indonesian Grand Prix results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Car 1 2 Rank Points 1993 Reynard 90D Mugen-Honda SEN SEN 2nd 30

Complete V8 Supercar results Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final pos Points 2000 Steven Ellery RacingPHIPTHADL ECKHDVCAN QLDWIN OPK CDR QLDSAN BAT 50 56 2001 Dick Johnson RacingPHIADL ECKHDVCANPTHCDROPK QLD WIN BAT PUK SAN 74th 72 2002 Toll Racing ADL PHI ECK HDV CAN PTH ORP WIN QLDBAT SUR PUK SAN 1 SAN 2 47th 81 2003 Toll Racing ADL PHI ECK WIN PTH HDV QLD ORP SANBAT SUR PUK ECK 69th 80 2004 Team Dynamik ADL ECK PUK HDV PTH QLD WIN ORP SAN BAT SUR SYM ECK 57th 144

Complete Australian Nations Cup results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final pos Points 2000 Team Lamborghini Australia Lamborghini Diablo SVR ADLECKCAN QLDORACAL SUR BAT 4th 147 2001 Team Lamborghini Australia Lamborghini Diablo SVR ADL WAKCAN QLD ECKSAN SURORA 2nd 876 2002 Team Lamborghini Australia Lamborghini Diablo GTR ADLSYMORA WINQLDWAK PHI SUR 4th 855 2003 Team Lamborghini Australia Lamborghini Diablo GTR ADLSYM WAK QLD ORA PHI WIN SUR 1st 539 2004 Team Lamborghini Australia Lamborghini Diablo GTR ADL ORA SAN WIN ECK WAK MAL 1st 572

Complete Bathurst 1000 results Year Team Car Drivers Class Laps Outright Class 1990 Toyota Team Australia Toyota Corolla FX-GT Mike Dowson John Faulkner 3 130 27th 3rd 1997 Wayne Gardner Racing Holden Commodore VS Peter Bradbury Anthony Tratt L1 16 DNF DNF 1998 Wayne Gardner Racing Holden VS Commodore Wayne Gardner OC 149 13th 12th 2000 Steven Ellery Racing Ford AU Falcon Steven Ellery 82 DNF DNF 2002 Paul Little Racing Ford Falcon AU Anthony Tratt 160 12th 12th 2003 Paul Little Racing Ford Falcon BA Anthony Tratt 106 DNF DNF 2004 Team Dynamik Holden Commodore VY Simon Wills 159 13th 13th

Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2003 Mark Coffey Racing Allan Simonsen Luke Youlden Peter Hackett Lamborghini Diablo GTR A 487 8th 6th

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2009 Rockstar Energy Drink Josh Hunt Jonathon Webb Nissan 350Z B 149 DNF DNF 2014 Fiat Abarth Motorsport Clyde Campbell Joshua Dowling Toby Hagon Fiat Abarth 500 F 236 22nd 2nd 2022 Supabarn Motorsport James Koundouris Theo Koundouris David Russell Audi R8 LMS Evo II AAm 283 9th 1st