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Calendar

The championship was contested over a nine round series.

Points system

Points were awarded to the first 20 placegetters in each race as per the following table: * Where a round was contested over multiple heats, each driver's points were aggregated and then divided by the number of heats to determine the championship points allocation for that round. * Only the best eight round results counted towards a driver's total.

Championship results

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, Peter Glover , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 28.5 , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 235.5 , - , height="14" align="center" , 2 , Peter Macrow , align="center" , 25 ,

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, Peter Macrow , align="center" , 25.5 , align="center" , 28.5 , align="center" , 30 , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , 27 , align="center" , 219 , - , height="14" align="center" , 3 , Grahame Blee , align="center" , 2 ,

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, Mark Potter , align="center" , - , align="center" , 6 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 11 , align="center" , 15 , align="center" , 20 , align="center" , 13.5 , align="center" , 15 , align="center" , 24 , align="center" , 104.5 , - , height="14" align="center" , 5 , Arthur Abrahams , align="center" , 19 ,

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, Arthur Abrahams , align="center" , - , align="center" , 10.5 , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , 94.5 , - , height="14" align="center" , 6 , Bob Power , align="center" , 8 ,

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, Bob Power , align="center" , 10.5 , align="center" , 20 , align="center" , 24 , align="center" , 7 , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , 14 , align="center" , 75.5 , - , height="14" align="center" , 7 , Craig Sparks , align="center" , 33 , Richards 201

, Craig Sparks , align="center" , 15.5 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , 19 , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , 17 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 72.5 , - , height="14" align="center" , 8 , Mark McLaughlan , align="center" , 9 , Elfin 852

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, Derek Pingle , align="center" , - , align="center" , 18 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 21 , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , 19 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 58 , - , height="14" align="center" , 10 , Rob Newman , align="center" , 26 ,

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, Rob Newman , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , - , align="center" , 19 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 15 , align="center" , 13 , align="center" , - , align="center" , 47 Note: The above table lists only the top ten championship positions.

References

Australian Formula 2 Championship

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