Paul Francis Stokell (born 8 March 1968 inTasmania) is an Australian racing driver. Highly decorated in every category he has competed, Stokell has been a race and multiple championship winning driver in open wheel, sportscar racing and tarmac rallying, consistently since the early 1990s and remains so today having won back to backAustralian Targa Championship in 2018/2019.

While Tasmanian born, today Stokell is Queensland based where he has operated a performance driving school since 2008, and has been involved with the Sherrin Motor Sport Porsche Carrera Cup team taking their maiden victory in 2007.

Stokell first emerged into the national spotlight racing in the nationalAustralian Formula Ford series, taking a Reynard to runner up in the 1990 title behindRussell Ingall.^[1] Stokell tried to push his career in England in the next couple of years however a lack of support forced his return to Australian racing in 1993 driving for Malcolm Ramsay's South Australian Birrana Racing team inFormula Brabham (which reverted to its original name of Formula Holden in 1996). With Stokell leading, Birrana came to dominate the category and Stokell took a trifecta ofAustralian Drivers' Championships in the mid-90s. In1994, he represented Australia in theEFDA Nations Cup but the highlight of the era was his first international victory, winning the 1994 New Zealand International Series and 1995 Pan Pacific title including theIndonesian Grand Prix.^[2]

In 1998, Stokell led an importer supported team drivingLotus Elise in theAustralian GT Production Car Championship and against larger and more powerful cars Stokell became a giant-killer in the Lotus, finishing sixth in the championship. Out of this effort came an invitation to join the newly formed Team Lamborghini Australia, to race Lamborghini Diablos in theAustralian Nations Cup Championship. Starting in 2000, Stokell was a constant front runner in the black Diablo and again became a championship winner in 2003 and 2004. In 2005, he drove in one round of theFIA GT Championship^[3] in a Lotus placing second in the G2 class.

Since then Stokell has made sporadic appearances in a variety of categories and became a competitor and entrant in the new Mini Challenge series in 2008 and became series champion in2009.^[4] He followed that by representing Australia for the second time in the Spanish Mini Challenge in 2010^[5] as well as finishing second in the Australian Mini Challenge in 2010.^[6]

Some results sources from:^[7]

• † Team result

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Outright	Class
1990	Toyota Team Australia	Toyota Corolla FX-GT	Mike Dowson John Faulkner	3	130	27th	3rd
1997	Wayne Gardner Racing	Holden Commodore VS	Peter Bradbury Anthony Tratt	L1	16	DNF	DNF
1998	Wayne Gardner Racing	Holden VS Commodore	Wayne Gardner	OC	149	13th	12th
2000	Steven Ellery Racing	Ford AU Falcon	Steven Ellery		82	DNF	DNF
2002	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Anthony Tratt		160	12th	12th
2003	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon BA	Anthony Tratt		106	DNF	DNF
2004	Team Dynamik	Holden Commodore VY	Simon Wills		159	13th	13th

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2003	Mark Coffey Racing	Allan Simonsen Luke Youlden Peter Hackett	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	A	487	8th	6th

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2009	Rockstar Energy Drink	Josh Hunt Jonathon Webb	Nissan 350Z	B	149	DNF	DNF
2014	Fiat Abarth Motorsport	Clyde Campbell Joshua Dowling Toby Hagon	Fiat Abarth 500	F	236	22nd	2nd
2022	Supabarn Motorsport	James Koundouris Theo Koundouris David Russell	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	AAm	283	9th	1st

Wikimedia Commons has media related toPaul Stokell.

• Official website
• Paul Stokell career summary at DriverDB.com
• Paul Stokell driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Paul Stokell - Third Turn profile.
• Paul Stokell - Speedsport Profile.
• Paul Stokell - Conrad V8 Profile.

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