The 2009 Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship

Renewed. Reinvigorated. Rebranded. In 2009 Fifty two years of Australian Drivers Championship tradition, and ten years of competitive Formula 3 racing in Australia will come closer together under one banner to grow Australia’s premier Open Wheel category to new heights.

Previously promoted under the often confusing banner of either ‘The Australian Formula 3 Championship’, the ‘Australian Drivers Championship or ‘The Gold Star’, 2009 witnesses a new title for the premier Wings and Slicks category in Australia designed to encompass the best of both worlds.

Hence the rebranding of the series to ‘The Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship’.

With the new title Australia’s only International category, Formula 3, is recognised in the same breath as the prestigious ADC, wherein the winner receives the CAMS Gold Star award, the oldest continually awarded motorsport trophy in Australia.

Therefore F3 champions who won in the Gold Star era – from 2005 onwards – can now more easily be recognised in the same breath as similar winners like Mark Skaife, John Bowe, Alf Costanzo, Bib Stilwell and lex Davison.

It’s all about tying in the latest generation of Australian Open Wheel racing to it’s amazing past.

Hence the series also continues to have international credibility, thanks to the worldwide recognition of the ‘Formula 3’ brand and its position as the key developer of driving talent for Formula 1 (In 2008 19 of the 22 drivers in Formula 1 had raced in F3).

But now the series also speaks better to the domestic market thanks to its embrace of the 53 years of tradition that makes up the Australian Drivers Championship. It’s a powerful combination.

In Australian Motorsport, nothing is faster than the Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship.

Mixing some of the most impressive open wheel racing cars going around and young talent all competing for a future in motorsport, the F3ADC is a melting pot of amazing racing and creates one hell of a show.

Racing in four states (See the 2009 information page) and at some of the best tracks in the country, the F3ADC offers a huge variety of markets, of circuits and of exposure potential for series partners.

The F3ADC also offers several marquee events, including the Clipsal 500 Adelaide and the F3 Tasmanian SuperPrix, the biggest ‘domestic’ Open Wheel race in Australia and a massive motorsport event in Tasmania.

It’s Australia’s highest speed thrill ride that covers over 50 years of magnificent racing history and some of the finest drivers – from here and abroad – to race in the Australian Drivers Championship