David Russell and Alex Davison have had their FIA driver rating downgraded in the final rankings for the 2018 season.
Both Russell and Davison had been rated as Gold in the draft list published last month, but successfully challenged their rankings, and are now graded as Silver.
They were among only a handful of changes to the provisional list, which also saw Australian GT competitor Liam Talbot dropped from Silver to Bronze.
Russell will join Steve Owen and Roger Lago in a Lamborghini R-EX at the Bathurst 12 Hour in February.
Driver rankings are determined based on a complicated criteria matrix, which takes into account the driver’s age, experience and achievements at key events.
From 2018 however that process will be simplified, with category managers globally providing the FIA with the ten fastest laps from each driver at every race.
It is expected the new process will overcome anomalies of the existing system where a lower rated driver who achieves success as a co-driver is graded too highly.
The publication of the final driver rankings cannot be changed during the course of the season, though new drivers can submit a request to be graded and added to the list.
| Driver | Ranking |
| Earl Bamber | Platinum |
| Jason Bright | Platinum |
| Ryan Briscoe | Platinum |
| Scott Dixon | Platinum |
| Craig Lowndes | Platinum |
| Richie Stanaway | Platinum |
| Garth Tander | Platinum |
| Shane van Gisbergen | Platinum |
| Jamie Whincup | Platinum |
| Craig Baird | Gold |
| David Brabham | Gold |
| Matt Campbell | Gold |
| Dean Canto | Gold |
| Will Davison | Gold |
| Paul Dumbrell | Gold |
| Mitch Evans | Gold |
| Dean Fiore | Gold |
| Matt Halliday | Gold |
| Lee Holdsworth | Gold |
| Rick Kelly | Gold |
| Todd Kelly | Gold |
| Warren Luff | Gold |
| Scott McLaughlin | Gold |
| James Moffat | Gold |
| Chaz Mostert | Gold |
| Steve Owen | Gold |
| Nick Percat | Gold |
| Jack Perkins | Gold |
| Scott Pye | Gold |
| David Reynolds | Gold |
| Tim Slade | Gold |
| Cam Waters | Gold |
| Jonathon Webb | Gold |
| Mark Winterbottom | Gold |
| Caitlin Wood | Gold |
| Michael Almond | Silver |
| Scott Andrews | Silver |
| Nathan Antunes | Silver |
| Elliot Barbour | Silver |
| Tim Blanchard | Silver |
| Matthew Brabham | Silver |
| Will Brown | Silver |
| Jake Camilleri | Silver |
| Jon Collins | Silver |
| Hayden Cooper | Silver |
| Tony D’Alberto | Silver |
| Alex Davison | Silver |
| Anton De Pasquale | Silver |
| Grant Denyer | Silver |
| Geoff Emery | Silver |
| Jaxon Evans | Silver |
| Nick Foster | Silver |
| Jake Fouracre | Silver |
| Daniel Gaunt | Silver |
| Morgan Haber | Silver |
| Peter Hackett | Silver |
| Andre Heimgartner | Silver |
| Brett Hobson | Silver |
| Russell Ingall | Silver |
| Matt Kingsley | Silver |
| Jack Le Brocq | Silver |
| Jono Lester | Silver |
| Tony Longhurst | Silver |
| Tim Macrow | Silver |
| Marcus Marshall | Silver |
| Barton Mawer | Silver |
| Cam McConville | Silver |
| George Miedecke | Silver |
| Ryan Millier | Silver |
| Dylan O’Keeffe | Silver |
| Duvashen Padayachee | Silver |
| Michael Patrizi | Silver |
| Chris Pither | Silver |
| Klark Quinn | Silver |
| Paul Radisich | Silver |
| Thomas Randle | Silver |
| Fraser Ross | Silver |
| David Russell | Silver |
| Aaron Seton | Silver |
| Mat Simmons | Silver |
| Matthew Solomon | Silver |
| Dom Storey | Silver |
| Leanne Tander | Silver |
| Aaron Tebb | Silver |
| Jimmy Vernon | Silver |
| Andrew Waite | Silver |
| Ash Walsh | Silver |
| Tony Bates | Bronze |
| John Bowe | Bronze |
| Marc Cini | Bronze |
| Greg Crick | Bronze |
| Tony Defelice | Bronze |
| Adrian Deitz | Bronze |
| Mark Eddy | Bronze |
| Peter Edwards | Bronze |
| Sam Fillmore | Bronze |
| Peter Fitzgerald | Bronze |
| Richard Gartner | Bronze |
| John Goodacre | Bronze |
| Dean Grant | Bronze |
| Mark Griffith | Bronze |
| Stephen Grove | Bronze |
| Garry Holt | Bronze |
| Sue Hughes | Bronze |
| Keith Kassulke | Bronze |
| James Koundouris | Bronze |
| Theo Koundouris | Bronze |
| Dean Koutsoumidis | Bronze |
| Roger Lago | Bronze |
| Renato Loberto | Bronze |
| Wayne Mack | Bronze |
| Peter Major | Bronze |
| Jim Manolios | Bronze |
| Steve McLaughlan | Bronze |
| Andrew Miedecke | Bronze |
| Tim Miles | Bronze |
| Neale Muston | Bronze |
| Tony Quinn | Bronze |
| Peter Rullo | Bronze |
| Rod Salmon | Bronze |
| Ash Samadi | Bronze |
| Yasser Shahin | Bronze |
| Liam Talbot | Bronze |
| Greg Taylor | Bronze |
| Scott Taylor | Bronze |
| Max Twigg | Bronze |
| Tony Walls | Bronze |
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