{"id":547636,"date":"2026-03-18T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:30:16","slug":"tcr-australia-revival-called-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547636\/","title":{"rendered":"TCR Australia revival called off"},"content":{"rendered":"

TCR Australia will not be revived in 2026 after all.<\/p>\n

A lifeline for the hot-hatch category had emerged via a partnership between The Bend, Motorsport Australia and WSC Group, whereby a five-round series would be run exclusively in South Australia.<\/p>\n

The Bend Motorsport Park was to host four of those five rounds, with a day\/night Mallala meeting completing the calendar, while ex-British Racing and Sports Car Club event operations manager Charlotte White was named category manager.<\/p>\n

However, communications had grown increasingly quiet in the lead-up to the March 20-22 opener, and it has now been confirmed to V8 Sleuth that the entire TCR Australia season has been cancelled.<\/p>\n

That almost certainly marks the final nail in the coffin for a series that had debuted with so much promise in 2019.<\/p>\n

TCR returned from a COVID hiatus still going relatively strong, but gradually faded to the point where there was just one Australian event last year \u2013 one that doubled as a stop on the World Tour schedule.<\/p>\n

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V8 Sleuth understands there are still some teams\/drivers interested in running cars, but that most likely will now need to happen as a class within an existing category elsewhere, or in overseas TCR competitions.<\/p>\n

Garry Rogers<\/a> Motorsport director and former Australian Racing Group chief Barry Rogers last month lamented the fall of TCR.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a shame, TCR, but in Australia it\u2019s been said many a time: we keep bringing categories here but our population, we\u2019re just not big enough for the amount of categories that are here,\u201d he told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose the thing with TCR is it\u2019s quite different to anything else.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at Trans Am, if you look at Mustang Cup, they\u2019re all tin-top V8 racing. It\u2019s what Australians love.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to get curious about whether people will embrace other forms and we probably get sucked in occasionally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is, I think it is pretty well proven now that if it hasn\u2019t got a V8 in it, it really struggles in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TCR Australia will not be revived in 2026 after all. A lifeline for the hot-hatch category had emerged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-547636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547636","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=547636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}