{"id":547718,"date":"2026-03-18T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:24:17","slug":"national-news-the-bend-abandons-bold-tcr-australia-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547718\/","title":{"rendered":"National news: The Bend abandons bold TCR Australia revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thebend_4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"The Bend abandons bold TCR Australia revival\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe start of a TCR World Tour race at The Bend Motorsport Park in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a five-round series held exclusively in South Australia at The Bend and Mallala was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Only two drivers had announced they would compete, Audi driver Iain McDougall and Honda driver Will Harris.<\/p>\n<p>TCR Australia social networks have been silent since early February.<\/p>\n<p>The opening round of the series was set to be held at The Bend on March 20-22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, despite our best efforts, TCR Australia will not be taking place in 2026,\u201d said category manager Charlotte White in a statement provided to Speedcafe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve not had enough uptake from competitors in order to make it viable this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working with WSC and Motorsport Australia to look at different options to give the cars a place to race whilst maintaining homologation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WSC Group is the global TCR promoter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/285241\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/285241.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of a TCR World Tour race at The Bend Motorsport Park in 2025. Earlier this year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-547718","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\/547718","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=547718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}