Vikki Paxton has sealed a national title for the second consecutive year after putting on a masterclass during the CAMS Australian Supersprints at Wakefield Park.

Behind the wheel of her Dallara F3 F301, Paxton was the only driver to crack the one-minute barrier twice all weekend, her championship winning of 57.3038 seconds coming on the second day of action. 

Despite having back issues throughout the weekend and suffering catastrophic engine failure during an outing at Morgan Park a week earlier, Paxton revealed how special this year’s victory truly was. 

“While it was great to win my first title last year, this year was more special to me because of all the challenges we had faced in the lead up to the weekend,” Paxton said.

“The issues include those severe engine difficulties that we sustained at Morgan Park. I also had no experience with the track before so it really means a lot.

“It was a truly awesome feeling because I had no idea what the track was like and the first lap on Saturday morning was the first time I saw it but I still had a fantastic time all weekend

“This one was sweet because it was just fantastic, being a dual champion is quite sensational.”

Competing drivers had two days to stake their claim for the title, the defending champion was solid from the , needing only 18 laps to secure her leading time of 58 seconds.

While Paxton ended day one with the fastest time, Ginetta G55 pilot Richard Perini was hot on her tail - his fastest time only of a second behind the leader. 

In the second day of action, Paxton continued her solid form picking up quick times and working her way to her eventual championship-winning lap, which came on her eighth attempt.

With Perini not taking part in the second day due to failure late on Saturday, Paxton remained unchallenged as Stephen Fields took out the second fastest time of the day, the Radical pilot finishing just over half a second over a minute, picking up outright third in the process.  

As Paxton was crowned champion of 2018 and Perini and Fields’ times enough to secure second and third respectively, the battle for fourth was the entertaining battle that went right down to the wire.

After Saturday’s action, only of a second separated Mitsubishi Evo X driver Nik Kalis and Phillip Ryan with Kalis holding the slight advantage.

Like Perini, Kalis didn’t take part in Sunday’s action, which allowed Ryan a serious crack at his rival, and it only took four laps for the Nissan 280ZX pilot to beat Kalis by of a second and secure fourth.  

Click here for the 2018 CAMS Australian Supersprint full results.