TCR Australia’s new season kicks off at Symmons Plains

2022 TCR Australia begins this weekend at Symmons Plains with the Race Tasmania event that will feature three races, one on Saturday and two on Sunday.
A field of 20 cars, the strongest ever, will take part in the season opener, representing seven brands: Alfa Romeo, Audi, Honda, Hyundai, Peugeot, Renault and Volkswagen.
Jay Hanson will drive the newest machine, an Audi RS 3 LMS TCR run by the Melbourne Performance Centre that will also field one previous generation Audi for the 2019 champion Will Brown and one Volkswagen Golf GTI for local Tasmanian driver Eddie Maguire, rallyman who faces his circuit racing debut.
The guest star of the event is experienced Supercars race winner Fabian Coulthard in a Wall Racing Honda Civic Type R alongside Tony D’Alberto.
Other drivers with serious ambitions are last year's vice-champion Aaron Cameron, Dylan O'Keefe, Jordan Cox and Ben Bargwanna in the Peugeot 308 cars entered by Garry Rogers Motorsport, Michael Caruso at the wheel of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce for Ashley Seward Motorsport, Nathan Morcom with one of HMO Customer Racing's three Hyundai i30 N cars, and James Moffat in a Garry Rogers Motorsport-run Renault Mégane RS.

TCR Australia - entry list
8 – Dylan O'Keeffe (Schaeffler GRM, Peugeot 308 TCR)
9 – Jay Hanson (AWC MPC Racing, Audi RS 3 LMS TCR)
10 – Michael Caruso (Ashley Seward Motorsport, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR)
11 – Nathan Morcom (HMO Customer Racing, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
14 – Lachlan Mineef (Melbourne Performance Centre, Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR)
18 – Aaron Cameron (Team Valvoline GRM, Peugeot 308 TCR)
24 – Fabian Coulthard (Stan Sport Wall Racing, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
30 – Josh Buchan (HMO Customer Racing, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
33 – Jordan Cox (Swyftx GRM, Peugeot 308 TCR)
34 – James Moffat (LMCT+ Racing GRM, Renault Mégane RS TCR)
41 – Kody Garland (Valvoline Racing GRM, Renault Mégane RS TCR)
44 – Eddie Maguire (Melbourne Performance Centre, Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR)
50 – Tony D'Alberto (Honda Wall Racing, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
71 – Ben Bargwanna (Burson Auto Parts GRM, Peugeot 308 TCR)
89 – Braydan Willmington (Willmington Motorsp., Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR)
97 – Liam McAdam (Forza Brakes Motorsport, Audi RS 3 LMS)
110 – Zac Soutar (Team Soutar Motorsport, Honda Civic Type R FK7 TCR)
130 – Bailey Sweeny (HMO Customer Racing, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
333 – Brad Shiels (Royal Purple Tilton Racing, Hyundai i30 N TCR)
999 – Will Brown (Liqui Moly MPC Racing, Audi RS 3 LMS)

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