The Shannons SpeedSeries will burst onto the Australian motor racing landscape for Round 1 at the picturesque Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, April 4 – 6.

The Island is the traditional curtain raiser for the SpeedSeries and will be the first event of six scheduled for 2025, visiting the best permanent circuits around Australia, and New Zealand.

On–track headlines are GT World Challenge Australia and GT4 Australia, with both featuring new cars making their debuts, updated models, new liveries and some of the biggest racing names in Australian motorsport.

Supporting the on-track action will be Ferrari Challenge Australasia, the highly competitive Porsche Sprint Challenge and Radical Australia Cup.

Shannons, in collaboration with Motorsport Australia, is thrilled to offer Shannons Club Members an exclusive FREE TICKET OFFER, enabling members to get trackside, as well as soak in the many activations and the chance to meet your racing heroes in the vibrant paddock area.

For those interstate or unable to attend Round 1, the Seven Network has once again been locked in to bring you all the action via its fledgling streaming service, 7Plus, along with selected headline races set to be broadcast on free-to-air channel, 7Mate.

GT World Challenge Australia

Bursting onto the stage in 2006, GT3 Sportscar racing has grown to become the dominant GT class not just Australia, but internationally, with GT3 machinery now the appointed GT formula in the famed Le Mans 24–Hour race and World Endurance Championship.

Boasting factory-homologated race cars from Mercedes, Audi, Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin battling it out for supremacy, GTWCA features ‘mini-endurance’ races at each round, a one-hour race taking place on Saturday and Sunday.

GT World Challenge Australia is segmented into competitions within a competition, with Pro-Am and Am Class titles catering for full-time racing stars, as well as part time drivers.

In 2024, Supercars ace Chaz Mostert paired up with Liam Talbot in a Ferrari 296 GT3 to claim the Pro-Am title, with Will Brown and Brad Schumacher nipping at their heels in second. Garth Walden and Mike Sheargold similarly claimed honours in Am Class driving a Mercedes AMG GT3.

GT4 Australia

Making its debut as a standalone series on Australian shores in 2024, the GT4 category has since grown from strength to strength.

It featured factory homologated race cars from seven-different manufacturers last year, including Porsche, McLaren, Audi, Mercedes, Ford, BMW and Ginetta.

This year, Toyota is set to join the grid, with its hero car, the Supra.

Echoing GT World Challenge, GT4 is comprised of three classes, ranking drivers and entries into Am, Pro–Am and Silver tiers.

Although less modified than their GT3 counterparts, the GT4 cars feature a stronger resemblance to the road-going models they are based on, and the racing proves to be every bit as entertaining.

Porsche Sprint Challenge

A foundation of the Porsche Pyramid, the Porsche Sprint Challenge is the starting point for young racers and gentlemen drivers alike to kick off or take the next step in their respective racing careers.

The Sprint Challenge is home to older Porsche Carrera Cup GT3 models that have been handed down from the Carrera Cup Australia Championship.

As such, there are several classes catering for all levels of competition, but the racing for outright and class wins is always close, hard and a popular drawcard for fans.

With healthy grids primed and ready, the Sprint Challenge will be a strong support act for the SpeedSeries in 2025.

Ferrari Challenge Australasia

This series made its competition debut on Australian shores at the Bathurst 12–Hour event earlier this year in February and is skewed towards the ‘gentleman driver’.

Eligible cars are the Ferrari 296 and 488 Challenge models and are both jaw-dropping in appearance.

The cars have less downforce than their GT3 spec siblings, but they produce more horsepower, making them particularly potent in a straight line.

Ferrari Australasia has appointed a strong support crew for competitors, with drivers able to access coaching, hospitality and technical services from a growing arm of Ferrari factory approved personnel.

The new series will join the Shannons SpeedSeries for three rounds in 2025 and will be a drawcard for fans on the GT Festival support bills.

Radical Australia Cup

The destination entry-level prototype sportscar for racers and categories world-wide, Radical Cup continues its enduring legacy with Australia in 2025.

The series features the latest SR3 model, made up of the XXR, RSX and XX. Although they differ in technical specification, all Radicals feature either a screaming or turbocharged engine paired to a six-speed sequential gearbox, lots of downforce and sticky slick tyres.

This makes Radicals one of the fastest outright cars in Australian Circuit Racing.

Race formats are 50-minutes in duration, including a compulsory pitstop which allows for optional driver changes.

Excluding the final round in New Zealand, The Radical Cup will compete at all Shannons SpeedSeries rounds in 2025.

SHANNONS SPEEDSERIES
GT FESTIVAL PHILLIP ISLAND - FREE TICKET OFFER

The Shannons Club in conjunction with Shannons SpeedSeries is offering
FREE GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit for Round 1
of the Shannons SpeedSeries 4 - 6 April 2025.

For recent news and more information on the event: speedseries.com.au/phillipisland/