Garage 1 will run a CUPRA in TCR Australia

A CUPRA car has arrived in Australia and could compete as early as the TCR Australia final round at The Bend next month.
The car has been purchased by Melbourne-based racing outfit Garage1, owned by long-time motorsport operators Marty Brant and John Evans.
The car that Garage1 has purchased was raced in TCR Germany and received the 2019 updates before being brought to Australia.

“We decided to go to TCR a few months ago. It’s good racing and we feel it’s the category to be in,” said Brant. “We chose the CUPRA because it’s different and we see a good future in it. It’s very competitive overseas, and the benefit of it is that we can use Melbourne Performance Centre as our base for parts and help if we need it. We’d like to expand to at least two cars in the future and we’d like to be at The Bend for the final round. It’ snot a priority, but we are working on a couple of deals to make that happen.”

If the Cupra makes its debut at The Bend, it will be the tenth different brand of car to compete in the inaugural TCR Australia.

“As far as we can see, TCR is the future for Australian motorsport,” said Evans. “It is an interesting and exciting class, full of variety. They are proper little race cars. There’s enough there for an engineer or mechanic to spark the interest, and they are very race and reward the driver too. It’s a real good challenge.”