The 2024 TCR Australia Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series) will be the fifth season of the TCR Australia Touring Car Series. The series will run as part of the Australian Racing Group's SpeedSeries. Initially, the rounds at Sydney Motorsport Park and Mount Panorama Circuit were scheduled to be part of the TCR World Tour, but the rounds were removed from that championship due to logistics issues for teams transporting cars in to the country. [1]
Round | Circuit | Location | Date | Map |
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1 | Sandown Raceway | Springvale, Victoria | 9–11 February | |
2 | Symmons Plains Raceway | Launceston, Tasmania | 15–17 March | |
3 | Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit | Phillip Island, Victoria | 12–14 April | |
4 | The Bend Motorsport Park | Tailem Bend, South Australia | 31 May–2 June | |
5 | Queensland Raceway | Ipswich, Queensland | 12–14 July | |
6 | Sydney Motorsport Park | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | 18–20 October | |
7 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 8–10 November | |
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The following teams and drivers are contracted to compete in the 2024 championship.
Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Class | Rounds | Ref. |
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HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 1 | Josh Buchan | 1–3 | [4] | |
15 | Tom Oliphant | 1–3 | [5] | |||
Wall Racing [lower-alpha 1] | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 2 | Tony D'Alberto | 1–3 | [6] | |
74 | Brad Harris | 1–3 | [7] | |||
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 76 | John Martin | 1 | |||
William Harris | 2–3 | |||||
Carl Cox Motorsport | Cupra León Competición TCR | 4 | Clay Richards | 1–3 | [8] | |
Ashley Seward Motorsport [lower-alpha 2] | Lynk & Co 03 TCR | 11 | Dylan O'Keeffe | 1–3 | [9] | |
Garry Rogers Motorsport [lower-alpha 3] | Peugeot 308 TCR | 18 | Aaron Cameron | 1–3 | [10] | |
33 | Jordan Cox | 1–3 | [11] | |||
71 | Ben Bargwanna | 1–3 | [12] | |||
79 | Ryan Casha | 1–3 | [10] | |||
Challenge Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 22 | Iain McDougall | 1 | [13] | |
BRM Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 29 | Glenn Nirwan | 1–3 | [14] | |
Team Soutar Motorsport [lower-alpha 4] | 110 | Zac Soutar | 1–3 | |||
99Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 99 | Marcus LaDelle | 1 | [15] [16] | |
Jude Bargwanna Motorsport | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR | 179 | Jude Bargwanna | 3 | [17] |
Round | Race | Event | Pole position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team |
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1 | 1 | Sandown Raceway | Josh Buchan | Josh Buchan | Ben Bargwanna | Garry Rogers Motorsport |
2 | Aaron Cameron | Jordan Cox | Garry Rogers Motorsport | |||
3 | Josh Buchan | Ben Bargwanna | Garry Rogers Motorsport | |||
2 | 1 | Symmons Plains Raceway | Tony D'Alberto | Tony D'Alberto | Tony D'Alberto | Wall Racing |
2 | Tom Oliphant | Dylan O'Keeffe | Ashley Seward Motorsport | |||
3 | Dylan O'Keeffe | Tom Oliphant | HMO Customer Racing | |||
3 | 1 | Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit | Tony D'Alberto | Josh Buchan | Josh Buchan | HMO Customer Racing |
2 | Brad Harris | Brad Harris | Wall Racing | |||
3 | Ben Bargwanna | Brad Harris | Wall Racing | |||
4 | 1 | The Bend Motorsport Park | ||||
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5 | 1 | Queensland Raceway | ||||
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6 | 1 | Sydney Motorsport Park | ||||
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7 | 1 | Mount Panorama Circuit | ||||
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Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | DNF |
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Qualifying | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Races 1 & 3 | 50 | 46 | 44 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 30 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 0 |
Race 2 | 35 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
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