The 2008 Australian Mini Challenge was the inaugural running of the Australian Mini Challenge

Australian Mini Challenge

The Australian Mini Challenge was a touring car racing category in Australia. First held in 2008, the Mini Challenge supported both the V8 Supercar Championship Series and the Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series. The category is managed by Toleman Motorsport, who took over management rights following the...

. It began on 7 March at Eastern Creek Raceway

Eastern Creek Raceway

Eastern Creek International Raceway is a motorsports circuit located on Brabham Drive, Eastern Creek , New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Western Sydney International Dragway. It was built and is owned by the New South Wales Government and is operated by the...

 and ended on 7 December at Oran Park Raceway

Oran Park Raceway

Oran Park Raceway was a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which was operational from 1962 to 2010....

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Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers contested the 2008 Australian Mini Challenge.

Team	No	Drivers
Decorug Racing	5	Nathan Geier
	27	Paul Stokell Paul Stokell Paul Stokell is an Australian racing driver. Despite never making a significant impact in touring car racing, Stokell has been a race and championship winning driver in open wheel and sportscar racing consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today have won the Australian Mini Challenge in...
	95	Grant Denyer Grant Denyer Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...   Nathan Geier
Bib Stillwell Mini Garage	6	Michael Stillwell
	60	Nicholas Stillwell   David Stillwell
	66	Gary Young
Racer Industries	7	Ryan McLeod
Doulman Automotive	8	Neil McFadyen
Glory Team Racing	10	David Turner
Kingsway Mini Garage	16	Tim Leahey   Robert Graham
Mini	18	Damien White
Motorline Mini Garage	21	Darren Berry
	22	Todd Wanless   Paul Morris Paul Morris (motorsport) Paul Morris is a V8 Supercar racecar driver.-Early career:Paul Morris started his motor racing career at the age of 19 in 1987, driving in the Queensland Gemini Series. He won Rookie of the Year in his debut season, and won the state championship the following year. He spent the next three years...
	43	Matt Neal Matt Neal Matthew Neal is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2011. He has also won a European Touring Car Championship race. He is 6' 6" tall, making him almost entirely unable to race single-seaters...   Brendan Cook
	80	Jason Akermanis Jason Akermanis Jason Dean Akermanis is an Australian rules football player. He is a Brownlow Medallist and triple premiership player who played for the Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs...
Brisbane Mini Garage	23	Todd Fiore
	30	Paul Fiore
BMW Uber Star	25	Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.-Career history:Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category...   Ben Tune Ben Tune Ben Tune is an Australian rugby union player. He played most of his rugby career on the wing but later switched to outside centre....   Leanne Tander Leanne Tander -Leanne Tander is an Australian racecar driver having raced cars such as Formula Ford, Formula 3 and V8 Supercars.- Career :...   Paul Mercurio Paul Mercurio Paul Joseph Mercurio is an Australian actor, dancer and TV presenter. Mercurio is well-known for his lead role in Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom . His father was the character actor Gus Mercurio.- Biography :...   Bob Holden Bob Holden (racing driver) Robin John Holden born December 1, 1932, is an Australian racing driver. Holden raced small-engined touring cars throughout his career, racing Peugeots in the early 1960s, establishing a reputation for himself which saw him become a regular part of BMC Australias racing program for Minis which...   Boris Said Boris Said Boris Said is an American race car driver from Carlsbad, California but considers his hometown to be Stamford, Connecticut. His father, Bob Said, was a Formula One race driver and US Olympic bobsled driver in 1968 and 1972. He drove the #26 Ford Fusion for Latitude 43 Motorsports in the NASCAR...   Stuart Appleby Stuart Appleby Stuart Appleby is an Australian professional golfer.-Early life:Appleby was born in Cohuna in rural northern Victoria, and grew up on a nearby dairy farm. He began in golf by hitting balls from paddock to paddock after his farm chores were completed...
Iron House Brewery	32	Jason White
PDL Electrical Solutions	44	Brent Collins
Trivett Classic Race Team	79	Scott Bargwanna
	97	Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.-Career history:Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category...
Bruce Lynton Mini Garage	80 99	Beric Lynton
Darren Harris	93	Chris Wootton Chris Wootton Christopher James Wootton is an Australian racing driver.With racing in his blood, Chris commenced his motor sporting career in karting in December 2004, at the Gold Coast Christmas race meeting...

Calendar

The 2008 Australian Mini Challenge will be contested over eight rounds, starting at Eastern Creek in March and finishing at Oran Park in December.

Rd.	Supporting	Circuit	City / State	Date	Winner
1	V8SCS 2	Eastern Creek Raceway Eastern Creek Raceway Eastern Creek International Raceway is a motorsports circuit located on Brabham Drive, Eastern Creek , New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Western Sydney International Dragway. It was built and is owned by the New South Wales Government and is operated by the...	Sydney Sydney Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people... , New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...	7-9 Mar	Neil McFadyen
2	FV8SCS 2	Wakefield Park Wakefield Park Wakefield Park is a motor racing circuit located near Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. It is named after Charles Cheers Wakefield, the founder of Castrol Oil...	Goulburn, New South Wales	4-6 Apr	Nathan Geier
3	V8SCS 4	Barbagallo Raceway Barbagallo Raceway Barbagallo Raceway is a motorsport circuit located in Wanneroo, approximately north of Perth in Western Australia.The circuit was originally known as Wanneroo Park and the first race meet took place in March 1969. Initially the major race per year was a 6 hour Le Mans style race for sedans and...	Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000.... , Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...	9-11 May	Damien White
4	V8SCS 5	Sandown International Raceway	Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... , Victoria	7-9 Jun	Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.-Career history:Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category...
5	V8SCS 9	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing racing circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The circuit was opened in 1956.-Road circuit:...	Phillip Island, Victoria	12-14 Sep	Jason Bargwanna
6	V8SCS 10	Mount Panorama	Bathurst Bathurst, New South Wales -CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments... , New South Wales	9-12 Oct	Jason Bargwanna
7	V8SCS 13	Symmons Plains Raceway Symmons Plains Raceway Symmons Plains Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Australia, located about 30 kilometres south of Launceston, Tasmania. Since the closure of the Longford circuit in the 1960s it has been Tasmania's premier motor racing facility...	Launceston Launceston, Tasmania Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart... , Tasmania Tasmania Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...	21-23 Nov	Paul Stokell
8	V8SCS 14	Oran Park Raceway Oran Park Raceway Oran Park Raceway was a motor racing circuit at Narellan in southwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia which was operational from 1962 to 2010....	Sydney, New South Wales	4-7 Dec	Jason Bargwanna

• V8SCS - V8 Supercar Championship Series
• FV8SCS - Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series

Driver standings

After round 8:

EWLINE Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Pts 1 Neil McFadyen ? ? 138 132 78 65 126 117 930 2 Paul Stokell Paul Stokell Paul Stokell is an Australian racing driver. Despite never making a significant impact in touring car racing, Stokell has been a race and championship winning driver in open wheel and sportscar racing consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today have won the Australian Mini Challenge in... ? ? 75 84 69 90 180 138 906 3 Paul Fiore ? ? 78 84 135 51 102 132 834 4 Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna Jason Bargwanna is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.-Career history:Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category... 0 180 180 120 150 168 798 5 Nathan Geier ? ? 48 90 165 48 57 27 717 6 Grant Denyer Grant Denyer Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist... * ? ? 138 150 54 648 7 Gary Young ? ? 114 63 60 27 105 42 585 8 Todd Fiore ? ? 93 84 120 15 54 87 558 9 Scott Bargwanna 69 ? ? 78 111 432 10 David Turner ? ? 36 36 57 12 24 48 357 11 Nathan Callaghan 138 105 243 12 Todd Wanless ? ? ? ? ? 237 13 Nicholas Stillwell ? ? ? ? ? ? 171 14 Damien White 156 156 15 Darren Berry ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 153 Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Pts

The other results were
16th: Michael Stillwell – 132
17th: Iain Sherrin – 117
18th: Robert Graham – 111
19th: David Stillwell – 108
20th: Brent Collins – 96
21st: Jason White – 96
22nd: Paul Morris – 84
23rd: Barry Sternbeck – 78
24th: Matt Neal – 78
25th: Beric Lynton – 75
26th: Mike Sherrin – 69
27th: Damien Flack – 60
28th: Tim Leahey – 54
29th: Christopher Oxley – 54
30th: Ricky Occhipinti – 54
31st: Brendan Cook – 51
32nd: Jim Sweeney – 42
33rd: Callum Ballinger – 39
34th: Tim Poulton – 30
35th: Edward Singleton – 27
36th: Kevin Miller – 18
37th: Jason Akermanis – 18
38th: Ryan Mcleod – 15
39th: Chris Wootton – 9