# 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 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 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:
| Season | Series | Position | Car | Team |
| 1990 | Motorcraft Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series | 2nd | Reynard FF88 Ford Swift FB90 Ford | Phoenix Motorsport Swift Australia |
| 1992 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 15th | Shrike NB89H Holden | |
| 1993 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 3rd | Reynard 90D Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 1994 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 1st | Reynard 91D Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 1994 | EFDA Nations Cup | 16th † | Van Diemen – Opel | Team Australia |
| 1995 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 1st | Reynard 91D Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 1995 | Pan-Pacific Formula Brabham Championship | 1st | Reynard 91D Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 1996 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 1st | Reynard 91D Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 1998 | Australian GT Production Car Championship | 6th | Lotus Elise Sport 19 | |
| 2000 | Australian Nations Cup Championship | 4th | Lamborghini Diablo SVR | Team Lamborghini Australia |
| 2000 | Shell Championship Series | 50th | Ford Falcon (AU) | Steven Ellery Racing |
| 2001 | Australian Drivers' Championship | 11th | Reynard Holden | Birrana Racing |
| 2001 | Australian Nations Cup Championship | 2nd | Lamborghini Diablo SVR | Team Lamborghini Australia |
| 2001 | Shell Championship Series | 74th | Ford Falcon (AU) | Dick Johnson Racing |
| 2002 | Australian Nations Cup Championship | 4th | Lamborghini Diablo GTR | Team Lamborghini Australia |
| 2002 | V8Supercar Championship Series | 47th | Ford Falcon (AU) | Paul Little Racing |
| 2003 | Australian Nations Cup Championship | 1st | Lamborghini Diablo GTR | Team Lamborghini Australia |
| 2003 | V8Supercar Championship Series | 69th | Ford Falcon (BA) | Paul Little Racing |
| 2003 | Australian GT Performance Championship | 21st | Volkswagen Golf R32 | Volkswagen Australia |
| 2004 | Australian Nations Cup Championship | 1st | Lamborghini Diablo GTR | Team Lamborghini Australia |
| 2004 | Australian GT Performance Championship | 2nd | Volkswagen Golf R32 | Volkswagen Australia |
| 2004 | V8 Supercar Championship Series | 57th | Holden Commodore (VY) | Team Dynamik |
| 2007 | Australian Carrera Cup Championship | 14th | Porsche 997 GT3 Cup | |
| 2007 | Australian GT Championship | 24th | Lamborghini Gallardo | Team Palmer |
| 2008 | Australian Carrera Cup Championship | 19th | Porsche 997 GT3 Cup | Sherrin Motor Sport |
| 2008 | Australian Mini Challenge | 2nd | Mini John Cooper Works Challenge | Decorug Racing |
| 2009 | Australian Mini Challenge | 1st | Mini John Cooper Works Challenge | Decorug Racing |
| 2010 | Australian Mini Challenge | 2nd | Mini John Cooper Works Challenge | Decorug Racing |
| 2021 | GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am | 6th | Audi R8 LMS (2015) | Melbourne Performance Centre |
| 2022 | GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am | 1st | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Melbourne Performance Centre |
| 2023 | GT World Challenge Australia - GT Am | 2nd* | Audi R8 LMS Evo II | Melbourne Performance Centre |
* † Team result

### 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 Racing | PHI | PTH | ADL | ECK | HDV | CAN | QLD | WIN | OPK | CDR | QLD 13 | SAN | BAT Ret | | 50 | 56 |
| 2001 | Dick Johnson Racing | PHI | ADL | ECK | HDV | CAN | PTH | CDR | OPK | QLD Ret | WIN | BAT | PUK | SAN | | 74th | 72 |
| 2002 | Toll Racing | ADL | PHI | ECK | HDV | CAN | PTH | ORP | WIN | QLD 21 | BAT 12 | SUR | PUK | SAN 1 24 | SAN 2 Ret | 47th | 81 |
| 2003 | Toll Racing | ADL | PHI | ECK | WIN | PTH | HDV | QLD | ORP | SAN 30 | BAT 11 | SUR | PUK | ECK | | 69th | 80 |
| 2004 | Team Dynamik | ADL | ECK | PUK | HDV | PTH | QLD | WIN | ORP | SAN Ret | BAT 13 | SUR | SYM | ECK | | 57th | 144 |

### 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 | Pos. | Class pos. |
| 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 | Pos. | Class pos. |
| 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 |