2022 Shannons AUSCAR Championship

The **2022 AUSCAR Championship** (commercially known as the **2022 Shannons AUSCAR Championship**) is a motor racing series for AUSCAR-specification vehicles. It is the first running of AUSCAR under the simulation of DerpP. The current leader of the championship is (no race contested yet).

## Teams and Drivers

The following teams and drivers are competing in the 2021 championship.

### Team Changes

All teams were new to the championship. Walkinshaw Andretti United, Team18, Team Sydney, Triple Eight Race Engineering, Blanchard Racing Team, Tickford, DJR Team Penske, Grove Racing, Erebus Motorsport, Brad Jones Racing and Matt Stone Racing moved from the Supercars Championship to AUSCAR. Dick Johnson Racing re-partnered with Team Penske, and both they and Grove Racing expanded by one car (the 22 and 10 respectively).

Of the remaining teams, Eggleston Motorsport and Paul Morris Motorsport (as Flash Bush Racing) moved from and maintained their Super2 programs (rebranded to AUSCAR Junior Series), Wall Racing and TKR x EBM joined from Carrera Cup Australia, Keltic Racing and MARC from Fanatec GTWC Australia, Garry Rogers Motorsport from TCR Australia, S5000 and Trans Am, while Kostecki Brothers Racing was a reformation of a priorly defunct team (having last raced in Super2 in 2019), and Boost Mobile Motorsport having been a newly created team by former GRM and Tickford, and current Erebus, sponsor Peter Adderton.

### Driver Changes

All existing Supercars teams honoured their 2022 contract agreements in terms of main drivers. Additionally, Grove Racing signed Michael Caruso for their #10 car, while Scott McLaughlin returned from IndyCar to take the wheel of the #17 for Dick Johnson Racing.

For new teams, their signings were as follows:

* Eggleston Motorsport signed Tickford-affiliated junior Zak Best to a two year deal. It's thought Tickford have an option after the first year in the case of James Courtney retiring.
* Paul Morris Motorsport also signed a rookie in Jayden Ojeda. He signed a one year contract, with serious consideration about enduro co-driver Nash Morris replacing him for 2023.
* Wall Racing signed James Moffat for one year. He formerly drove for them at Carrera Cup level during 2019.
* Team Kiwi Racing x Earl Bamber Motorsport signed Grove junior Matthew Payne, who drove for them at Carrera Cup level the prior season. Similarly to Best's deal, it is a two year contract with a Grove out after one year.
* Keltic Racing, after being linked to Caruso and Jaxon Evans, surprised many by selecting former BTCC driver Dan Cammish to drive the #77 Toyota.
* MARC Cars Australia signed rookie Tyler Everingham to a two-year deal. Everingham was thought to be in the mix for the third KGR seat, but ended up selecting MARC.
* Garry Rogers Motorsport signed Lee Holdsworth to a one-year contract. It's thought GRM wish to expand to two cars in 2023, with young driver Nathan Herne touted for one seat. Holdsworth may claim the other but the one-year contract is an out in case no REC is found.
* Kostecki Brothers Racing unsurprisingly selected team owner Kurt Kostecki on a two-year deal.
* Boost Mobile Motorsport's driver choice was equally unsurprising, hiring Richie Stanaway on a twelve month contract after the failed Erebus wildcard for the 2021 Bathurst 1000.

## Results and Standings

Season Summary:

LASTCAR