Australian Racing Group to promote TCR Australia

The Confederation of Australian Motorsport (CAMS) has granted the commercial and promotional rights of the TCR Australia series to newly-formed promoter Australian Racing Group, an Australian-owned business that aims to develop and promote top quality racing categories at high-profile motorsport events.
The company is owned by a consortium of businessmen and is spearheaded by Matt Braid, the former Managing Director for Volvo Cars Australia and the Supercars Championship. Australian Racing Group intends to kick off the inaugural TCR Series Australia in late 2019 and also has the commercial and management rights to develop Super 5000, the category based on the 1970s-inspired Formula 5000 category.

Matt Braid commented: “We are extremely pleased to be awarded the rights to launch and promote TCR in Australia. TCR has proven itself to be an extremely popular, exciting and successful category in many countries around the world, and we look forward to working with competitors, manufacturers and event promoters to successfully launch the TCR series in Australia.”

Eugene Arocca, CEO, CAMS said: “We are thrilled to confirm Australian Racing Group as the category promoter for TCR Australia. This is a very exciting development for motor sport in Australia and already the interest in TCR has been very promising, from both a competitor and manufacturer stand point. We look forward to seeing the series start off strong and go from strength-to-strength as TCR makes its mark on Australian motor sport.”

Marcello Lotti, CEO, WSC group added: “We have been delighted, earlier this year, to sign a deal with CAMS for launching TCR Australia. Now that this new series has been definitely scheduled to start in 2019, we can’t wait for the opening event. It will be a landmark moment for TCR that lands on a fourth continent after Europe, Asia and the Americas, where TCR series have already been successfully established. This also represents a great challenge, because Touring Car racing is hugely popular in Australia and the local motor sport fans are enthusiastic and competent. We are confident that they will soon learn to love TCR just as has happened with their fellow fans across the rest of the world. We wish the Australian Racing Group success in launching and promoting TCR Australia.”