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2025 Australian Formula Open Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Australian_Formula_Open

The 2025 Australian Formula Open: Driven by FRCA is a multi-event open-wheel single seater motor racing championship. This is 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 is planned to be run over five weekends and started on 22 February at One Raceway.[3]

Teams and drivers

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All teams and drivers are Australian-registered.

Team No. Driver Car Rounds
Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite 1 Rodney Baker Dallara F399 1–2
TWS Motorsport 14 Trent Shirvington Mygale M11 1
Sydney Photo Booth / AGI Sport 23 Lawrence Katsidis Dallara F304 1–2
Apollo Patios 24 Nathan Beer Dallara F305/7 1–2
Formula Race Car Association 41 Greg Muddle Dallara F305 1–2
Douglas Barry Specials 44 Douglas Barry Reynard 92D 1–2
Phil Morrow Racing 48 Phil Morrow Dallara F305/7 1
SMJ Plastering 95 Shayne Morrow Dallara F300/01 1
Raven Gruppe 666 Adam Savic Stohr F1000 1–2
Privateer 3 Robert Sviderskas Mantis M2-001 1–2
21 Graeme Holmes Dallara F3 2
42 Michael Doherty Performer P1000 1–2
55 Glenn Lynch Dallara F397 1
72 Shane Varley Performer P1000 1–2
88 Andrew Fitzpatrick Mygale M14-F4 1
655 Abhishek Jain Swift 2015 2
Source: [4][5]

Race calendar

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The 2025 calendar was announced in early January of 2024 - still under the guise of the NSW Formula Car Challenge.[6] 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 New South Wales 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 Victoria (state) 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 New South Wales 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 27–28 September NSW Production Touring Cars
NSW Improved Production Championship
SuperSports NSW State Championship
NSW Sports Sedan State Championship
R2
R3
5 R1 New South Wales One Raceway, Goulburn 18–19 October NSW Sports Sedan State Championship
SuperSports NSW State Championship
New South Wales Formula Ford Championship
R2
R3

Race results

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Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 New South Wales 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 Victoria (state) Winton Motor Raceway Michael Doherty Rodney Baker Rodney Baker Baker Motorsport - Team Penrite
R2 Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Privateer
R3 Michael Doherty Michael Doherty Privateer
3 R1 New South Wales Sydney Motorsport Park
R2
R3
4 R1
R2
R3
5 R1 New South Wales One Raceway
R2
R3

Championship standings

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Points are 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
New South Wales 		WIN
Victoria (state) 		SYD1
New South Wales 		SYD2
New South Wales 		ONE2
New South Wales 		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 98
2 Rodney Baker 5 2 1 1 Ret 2 96
3 Lawrence Katsidis 3 3 6 4 4 4 74
4 Trent Shirvington 1 1 Ret 50
5 Andrew Fitzpatrick 4 4 2 42
6 Shane Varley 10 8 10 Ret 2 3 39
7 Adam Savic 9 10 11 3 3 Ret 33
8 Nathan Beer 2 6 7 WD WD WD 32
9 Robert Sviderskas Ret DNS DNS DNS 5 5 20
10 Glenn Lynch 7 7 8 16
11 Greg Muddle 11 Ret 3 DNS Ret WD 15
12 Douglas Barry DNS Ret 5 WD WD WD 10
13 Shayne Morrow 8 9 9 8
— Phil Morrow Ret Ret DNS 0
— Graeme Holmes WD WD WD 0
— Abhishek Jain WD WD WD 0
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts
ONE1
New South Wales 		WIN
Victoria (state) 		SYD1
New South Wales 		SYD2
New South Wales 		ONE2
New South Wales
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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  1. ^ "Australian Formula Open Calendar confirmed – The Race Torque". Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  2. ^ "AUSTRALIAN FORMULA OPEN - Australia's home of wings and slicks - DRIVEN BY FRCA". Australian Formula Open. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  3. ^ "2025 Calendar » Formula Race Cars Association". Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  4. ^ "NSW Motor Race Championship - Round 1 One Raceway - Wakefield Circuit: NSW Motorsport Australia Formula Car Champ - Qualifying". Natsoft Race Results. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  5. ^ "NSW Motor Racing Championship (NSWMRC)". Winton Motor Raceway. 2 May 2025. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
  6. ^ "2025 Calendar » Formula Race Cars Association". Retrieved 7 January 2025.
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