2021 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship

The following teams and drivers were under contract to compete in the 2021 championship:

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Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds	Ref.
Team BRM	15	Kaleb Ngatoa	2–4	[2]
	16	Tommy Smith	1	[3]
	27	Joey Mawson	All	[4]
	49	Thomas Randle	All[a]	[5]
Tim Macrow Racing	23	Tim Macrow	All[a]	[6]
Garry Rogers Motorsport	29	Nathan Herne	All	[7]
	31	James Golding	All[a]	[8]
	96	Luis Leeds	All[a]	[8]
Astuti Motorsport	39	Antonio Astuti	1–3[b]	[5]
Australian Racing Enterprise	88	Cooper Webster	All	[5]
Willmington Motorsport	89	Braydan Willmington	All[a]	[5]
Modena Engineering	92	Ricky Capo	All[a]	[9]

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The following drivers only competed in practice and/or qualifying for the abandoned March 2020 round at Melbourne:

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Team	No.	Drivers	Ref.
Team BRM	16	Jack Aitken	[10]
	33	James Davison	[11]
	93	Zane Goddard	[12]
	111	Rubens Barrichello	[13]
Milldun Motorsport	27	Barton Mawer	[14]
Garry Rogers Motorsport	34	Alexandre Prémat	[15]
Borland Racing Developments	38	Giancarlo Fisichella	[16]
88Racing	88	Jordan Michels	[17]

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The original 2020 calendar proposal was released on 29 October 2019, with six confirmed rounds, plus one non-championship round at the "Bathurst International", all held in Australia. Qualifying was held during the opening round at Melbourne, but the event was abandoned on March 13, 2020, as the headlining Australian Grand Prix had been cancelled by Formula 1 because of McLaren's withdrawal after a team member was tested positive for COVID-19.^[18]

With multiple disruptions delaying the season start due to the COVID-19 pandemic, heavy border restrictions in Australia further complicating the holding of the championship,^[19][20] and various calendar revisions that did not went ahead as scheduled,^{[21][22][23][24]} the season started in January 2021, with a four-round calendar where one venue was still to be announced.^[25][26] It included a round at Symmons Plains, which was not featured in the calendar until the May 2020 revision. Rounds at Winton and The Bend were not rescheduled, while the rounds at Melbourne and Bathurst were set apart from the calendar due to their later dates as support events for the Australian Grand Prix and the inaugural Bathurst International,^[27] being later featured as part of the end-of-year S5000 Tasman Series. The round at Phillip Island was later postponed and rescheduled.^[28][29] On 16 February 2021 it was announced the third round would be held at Sandown.^[30] As had been planned for 2020, the winner of each feature race received a trophy named in honour of former Australian racing drivers.^[31]

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Round	Circuit	Feature Race	Location	Date
1	Symmons Plains Raceway	John McCormack Cup[31]	Launceston, Tasmania	25–26 January[c]
2	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Costanzo Cup[32]	Phillip Island, Victoria	13–14 March[d]
3	Sandown Raceway	John Bowe Trophy[33]	Springvale, Victoria	21 March[e]
4	Sydney Motorsport Park	Warwick Brown Cup[34]	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	1–2 May[f]

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The following racetracks were included at some point on the 2020 calendar, but were not rescheduled for the 2021 Australian Drivers' Championship.

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Circuit	Location	Scheduled dates
Albert Park Circuit	Melbourne, Victoria	12–15 March 2020[g]
Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	1–3 May 2020
The Bend Motorsport Park	Tailem Bend, South Australia	12–14 June 2020
Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	13–15 November 2020[h]

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See: 2021 S5000 Tasman Series

The follow-up season, initially billed as the 2021–2022 S5000 Australian Drivers Championship, was planned to feature the inaugural holding of the S5000 International Triple Crown, a stand-alone series-within-the-series consisting of the three events held in Melbourne, Bathurst and Gold Coast, supporting the Australian Grand Prix, the Bathurst International and the Gold Coast 500 respectively. After the cancellation of the 2021 Australian Grand Prix, it was decided to instead revive the Tasman Series with the remaining 2021 rounds, separate from the S5000 Australian Drivers Championship that will be held in 2022.

At each meeting, a qualifying session, two qualifying heats and a Main Event were held. Meeting points were awarded to the fastest ten qualifiers in qualifying, where the grid for the first heat was set. For the second heat, the top 75% from qualifying were reversed. The grid for the Main Event was defined by the points earned by the drivers across the weekend.^[35]

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Pos.	Driver	SYM				PHI				SAN				SYD				Points
		Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME	Q	H1	H2	ME
1	Joey Mawson	2	1	4	4	10	5	3	1	1	5	2	1	1	2	5	8	392
2	Thomas Randle	1	2	6	1	3	2	2	4	3	DNS	3	6	6	5	3	4	346
3	Tim Macrow	7	5	1	2	2	1	5	3	5	4	7	5	5	6	2	5	339
4	James Golding	3	3	5	Ret	1	4	6	2	2	1	Ret	4	2	1	4	1	329
5	Luis Leeds	6	6	2	7	5	6	7	5	6	6	6	3	4	3	7	2	307
6	Nathan Herne	4	Ret	3	3	4	3	4	Ret	4	2	4	2	3	4	6	3	304
7	Cooper Webster	8	8	7	6	7	8	1	6	7	Ret	8	7	9	8	8	6	209
8	Ricky Capo	5	4	8	5	6	7	DNS	7	9	7	5	9	7	Ret	10	Ret	173
9	Kaleb Ngatoa					8	10	Ret	8	8	3	1	DNS	8	7	1	7	149
10	Braydan Willmington	11	10	10	9	9	DNS	8	10	11	8	10	10	10	9	9	9	148
11	Antonio Astuti	10	9	9	8	11	9	9	9	10	9	9	8					128
12	Tommy Smith	9	7	Ret	DNS													18
Pos.	Driver	SYM				PHI				SAN				SYD				Points

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