page_title: Australian Drivers' Championship
section_title: Champions
hierarchical_section_title: Australian Drivers' Championship / Champions
caption_attribution_description: English: Max Stewart in the Alec Mildren Racing entered Mildren Waggott TC4V at the Lakeside round of the 1971 Australian Drivers' Championship
context_page_description: The Australian Drivers' Championship was a motor racing championship contested annually from 1957 to 2014 by drivers of cars complying with Australia's premier open-wheeler racing category as determined by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. From 2005 to 2014 this category was Formula 3 and the championship was promoted as the Formula 3 Australian Drivers' Championship. Each year, the winner was awarded the CAMS Gold Star.
  It was the third oldest continuously awarded title in Australian motorsport, with only the Australian Grand Prix and the Australian Hillclimb Championship having a longer uninterrupted history. While originally intended to be the premier prize for domestic motor racing it had faded in importance over time and from the 1980s had been effectively a feeder series for the Australian Touring Car Championship and V8 Supercars Championship, or a launch pad for drivers to start international careers.
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caption: Max Stewart (Mildren Waggott), winner of the 1971 championship
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