{"id":81599,"date":"2025-08-20T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81599\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:53:10","slug":"ta2-mulling-motorsport-australia-versus-aasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81599\/","title":{"rendered":"TA2 mulling Motorsport Australia versus AASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

TA2 Muscle Car Series organisers are weighing up a possible switch from AASA alignment to Motorsport Australia.<\/p>\n

Category manager Matt MacKelden has made no secret of having options on the table with both sanctioning bodies for 2026.<\/p>\n

TA2\u2019s position in the landscape has somewhat evolved in the past 12 months, having been acquired by HCC Distribution Pty Ltd which then purchased sister series Trans Am.<\/p>\n

TA2 and Trans Am use the same type of cars, but are this year running on different tyres. HCC is a consortium made up of veteran competitors Mark Crutcher, Paul Hadley and Graham Cheney.<\/p>\n

Already affiliated with Motorsport Australia, Trans Am is anticipated to further strengthen its position as a Supercars support category in 2026.<\/p>\n

So, what about TA2, which currently finds itself on the AASA side of the fence?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve asked both organisations to come back to us with a schedule and a calendar and costs and all that sort of stuff,\u201d MacKelden told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will all be examined and we will make a decision based on what\u2019s right for the category and the customer and what\u2019s going to give us the best outcome.<\/p>\n

\"\"Craig Lowndes<\/a> made his TA2 debut last weekend in Ipswich. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has not been a decision yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe initial discussions have been had. We have put on the table what we believe TA2 requires, which to be frank is not a lot more than we\u2019ve got now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not saying we want to be the be-all and end-all. We know our position in the market really is as a feeder category to Trans Am, and then obviously Trans Am into Super2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think we know where Trans Am is going to go\u2026 once we have both offers, it will be taken onboard and we\u2019ll make the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

TA2 ran its relatively high-profile two-driver event, the Tag Team Enduro, last weekend at Queensland Raceway where its well-known there was some general competitor dissatisfaction with the way things were handled on the management\/officiating side.<\/p>\n

Motorsport Australia meanwhile is undergoing a change of leadership following news of CEO Sunil Vohra\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Two rounds remain in the TA2 season: Mallala Motorsport Park next month and a Winton finale (October 31 to November 2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TA2 Muscle Car Series organisers are weighing up a possible switch from AASA alignment to Motorsport Australia. Category…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81600,"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-81599","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\/81599","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=81599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}