{"id":96913,"date":"2025-10-23T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:30:15","slug":"supercars-news-will-brown-to-make-international-tcr-debut-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/96913\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Will Brown to make international TCR debut in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Brown
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown onboard the HMO Customer Racing Hyundai i30 N Sedan.<\/p>\n

Brown will join HMO Customer Racing in the penultimate round of the TCR World Tour at China\u2019s Zhuzhou International Circuit on October 31-November 2.<\/p>\n

Brown will race the Hyundai i30 N Sedan usually driven by Josh Buchan, who will instead be at Hampton Downs to make his GT World Challenge Australia debut in a Ferrari 296 GT3 with Zagame Autosport.<\/p>\n

The China outing is a one-off for Brown. Buchan will return to the HMO Customer Racing squad for the season finale at Macau in November.<\/p>\n

Brown takes the reins of the #301 Hyundai fresh off Buchan taking a win and a second place finish at South Korea\u2019s Inje Speedium.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I want to congratulate Josh and the entire team on their performance in South Korea,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was an incredible achievement, and another fantastic showcase for the talent that exists in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m stoked to be joining HMO Customer Racing again for the TCR World Tour round in China and hopefully continue that front-running form.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it will be the first time I have driven the Hyundai i30 Sedan N TCR, I am confident the team will give me a rocket ship and hopefully bring home another trophy for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/p>\n

Will Brown with the Hyundai i30 N Sedan he\u2019ll race in the TCR World Tour round in China.<\/p>\n

Brown will join Ryan MacMillan at the team, who is hopeful he can lean on the Supercars star for some advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Zhuzhou circuit looks like a totally different type of circuit to what I\u2019ve raced on so far at The Bend and Inje Speedium, with a lot more heavy braking zones and slow-speed corners which should allow for more overtaking opportunities, said MacMillan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team did a fantastic job developing a new set-up direction at Inje which has transformed the car, and I know we\u2019ve got the speed on my side of the garage as well to run at the front, just as Josh did in South Korea.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy weekend there was hampered from the outset by starting outside the top 10 when a red flag spoiled my fastest lap in qualifying. But I learnt a lot during the races with some good, hard battles against some of the best touring car drivers in the world, and plan to take another step forward again in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be sharing the garage with Will for the weekend too. He brings an enviable record with him, and another opportunity to benchmark myself against a TCR Australia championship winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown won the first TCR Australia Series title in 2019 with HMO Customer Racing. He remains one of the most successful drivers, with 15 wins and 30 podiums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown onboard the HMO Customer Racing Hyundai i30 N Sedan. Brown will join HMO Customer Racing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71516,111,139,69,213,15968],"class_list":["post-96913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-josh-buchan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-will-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}