{"id":122956,"date":"2025-09-06T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122956\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T10:32:11","slug":"lo-sze-ho-to-race-ex-tom-oliphant-hyundai-at-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122956\/","title":{"rendered":"Lo Sze Ho to race ex-Tom Oliphant Hyundai at The Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HMO Customer Racing has rounded out its three-pronged line-up for the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour event next weekend at The Bend.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie Hyundai team has signed Hong Kong driver Lo Sze Ho to fill the i30 N Hatch vacated by Tom Oliphant.<\/p>\n<p>Lo has made three previous World Tour starts across the past two years: twice at Macau and once at China (Zhuzhou).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a remarkable experience for me to race in Australia for HMO Customer Racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been watching the TCR Australia Series for a long time, and the competitive racing and professionalism of the Australian teams is world standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very proud to be racing with HMO, which has been the champion team in TCR Australia for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lo-Sze-Ho-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-232329\"  \/>Lo Sze Ho. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been intending to come to Australia and race in TCR for some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI planned to join HMO for a previous TCR Australia round this year before it was unfortunately cancelled, so I am excited to now be getting this chance at Tailem Bend, and in the TCR World Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lo joins two-time champion Josh Buchan and rookie Ryan MacMillan in the HMO stable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome Sze Ho to HMO Customer Racing for his first outing in Australia at Tailem Bend,\u201d said team manager Aaron Grech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic venue to make a debut, and having the Hyundai i30 N Hatch beneath him will give Sze Ho the perfect platform to settle in and show what he can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole team at HMO is looking forward to working alongside him and supporting his racing journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HMO has committed to contesting the remainder of the 2025 TCR World Tour season, with three rounds to follow The Bend: South Korea, China and Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HMO Customer Racing has rounded out its three-pronged line-up for the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour event next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-122956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}