2024 TCR Australia Touring Car Series

The 2024 TCR Australia Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series) was the fifth season of the TCR Australia Touring Car Series. The series ras as part of the Australian Racing Group's SpeedSeries. Initially, the rounds at Sydney Motorsport Park and Mount Panorama Circuit were scheduled to be part of the TCR World Tour, but the rounds were removed from that championship due to logistics issues for teams transporting cars in to the country.^[1]

2024 TCR Australia Touring Car Series

Previous

2023

Next

2025

Support series:
GT World Challenge Australia
GT4 Australia Series
Australian National Trans Am Series

Josh Buchan became the first multiple time and back to back champion of the series, after securing the championship.

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Map
1	Sandown Raceway	Springvale, Victoria	9–11 February	Sandown Launceston Phillip Island Tailem Bend Ipswich Eastern Creek Bathurst
2	Symmons Plains Raceway	Launceston, Tasmania	15–17 March
3	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Phillip Island, Victoria	12–14 April
4	The Bend Motorsport Park	Tailem Bend, South Australia	31 May–2 June
5	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	2–4 August
6	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	18–20 October
7	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	8–10 November
[2][3]

Calendar changes

The round at Queensland was originally set to be held on 12–14 July, but on 6 June, the event was moved to 2–4 August.^[4]

Entry list

The following teams and drivers are contracted to compete in the 2024 championship.

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Class	Rounds	Ref.
HMO Customer Racing	Hyundai i30 N TCR	1	Josh Buchan		1–3	[5]
	Hyundai Elantra N TCR				4–7	[6]
	Hyundai i30 N TCR	15	Tom Oliphant		All	[7]
Wall Racing[a]	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5)	2	Tony D'Alberto		1–6	[8]
		74	Brad Harris		All	[9]
	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	76	John Martin		1	[10]
			William Harris		2–6	[9]
	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5)				7	[9]
Carl Cox Motorsport	Cupra León Competición TCR	4	Clay Richards		1–4	[11]
Ashley Seward Motorsport[b]	Lynk & Co 03 TCR	11	Dylan O'Keeffe		All	[12]
Garry Rogers Motorsport[c]	Peugeot 308 TCR	18	Aaron Cameron		1–6	[13]
		33	Jordan Cox		1–5	[14]
		71	Ben Bargwanna		1–6	[15]
		79	Ryan Casha		1–5	[13]
	Peugeot 308 P51 TCR	18	Aaron Cameron		7	[16]
		33	Jordan Cox		6	[17][18]
		71	Ben Bargwanna		6
		79	Ryan Casha		7	[16]
Challenge Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	22	Iain McDougall		1, 4	[19][20]
BRM Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	29	Glenn Nirwan		1–6	[21]
Team Soutar Motorsport[d]		110	Zac Soutar		All
99Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	99	Marcus LaDelle		1	[22][23]
			Ben Stewart		5	[24]
			Blake Knowles		7	[25]
Jude Bargwanna Motorsport	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	179	Jude Bargwanna		3	[26]

Results and standings

Season summary

Round	Race	Event	Pole position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	1	Sandown Raceway	Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	Ben Bargwanna	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	2			Aaron Cameron	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Josh Buchan	Ben Bargwanna	Garry Rogers Motorsport
2	1	Symmons Plains Raceway	Tony D'Alberto	Tony D'Alberto	Tony D'Alberto	Wall Racing
	2			Tom Oliphant	Dylan O'Keeffe	Ashley Seward Motorsport
	3			Dylan O'Keeffe	Tom Oliphant	HMO Customer Racing
3	1	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Tony D'Alberto	Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	HMO Customer Racing
	2			Brad Harris	Brad Harris	Wall Racing
	3			Ben Bargwanna	Brad Harris	Wall Racing
4	1	The Bend Motorsport Park	Tony D'Alberto	Zac Soutar	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	2			Tom Oliphant	Zac Soutar	Team Soutar Motorsport
	3			Josh Buchan	Zac Soutar	Team Soutar Motorsport
5	1	Queensland Raceway	Tom Oliphant	Aaron Cameron	Tony D'Alberto	Wall Racing
	2			Tom Oliphant	Ryan Casha	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Tom Oliphant	Tony D'Alberto	Wall Racing
6	1	Sydney Motorsport Park	Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	HMO Customer Racing
	2			Jordan Cox	Dylan O'Keeffe	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Josh Buchan	Aaron Cameron	HMO Customer Racing
7	1	Mount Panorama Circuit	Zac Soutar	Zac Soutar	Zac Soutar	Team Soutar Motorsport
	2			Jordan Cox	William Harris	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Dylan O'Keeffe	Zac Soutar	Ashley Seward Motorsport

• For race 1 of the round at Symmons Plains Raceway, no points were awarded following a protest from Garry Rogers Motorsport that the race had not reached sufficient distance. Race 1 winner Tony D'Alberto elected not to start Race 3 of the event in protest of the result being nullified.^[27]

Championship standings

Points system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	DNF
Qualifying	6	5	4	3	2	1	0														0
Races 1 & 3	50	46	44	42	40	38	36	34	32	30	28	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	0
Race 2	35	31	29	27	25	23	21	19	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	0

• The driver who sets the fastest lap in a race receives one additional point.

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver SAN SYM1 PHI BEN QLD SMP BAT Points 1 Josh Buchan 21 6 2 22 6 11 13 Ret 3 32 3 2 6 3 3 11 3 1 33 6 6 747 2 Zac Soutar 42 4 4 33 5 4 26 7 6 94 1 1 33 6 2 66 Ret 8 11 7 3 729 3 Brad Harris 6 11 12 124 9 7 92 1 1 7 2 4 54 5 9 22 7 4 54 8 7 677 4 Dylan O'Keeffe 9 9 9 10 1 3 34 Ret 8 4 8 5 Ret6 7 6 33 2 2 25 4 1 654 5 Jordan Cox 5 1 3 6 3 6 11 6 11 13 6 7 8 2 7 8 1 Ret 6 1 10 651 6 Ryan Casha 74 3 5 Ret6 10 5 6 3 12 6 4 3 10 1 10 11 8 6 7 5 4 649 7 Ben Bargwanna 13 7 1 5 4 8 4 5 2 10 7 9 7 12 8 9 6 7 8 Ret 8 623 8 Tom Oliphant 11 12 Ret 8 2 1 7 9 7 11 5 Ret 41 11 4 45 Ret 5 46 3 2 536 9 Tony D'Alberto 35 7 6 11 8 WD 141 8 4 21 13 6 12 4 1 54 Ret DNS 490 10 Aaron Cameron 136 8 8 75 12 9 8 2 10 56 9 11 25 13 5 Ret 5 3 Ret DNS DNS 475 11 William Harris 9 Ret DNS 10 10 9 13 12 10 9 8 11 7 4 Ret 92 2 5 369 12 Clay Richards 8 2 7 4 7 2 55 4 5 85 Ret 8 347 13 Glenn Nirwan 14 Ret 14 11 11 10 12 Ret Ret 14 11 Ret 11 10 Ret 10 9 9 226 14 John Martin 10 5 11 83 15 Iain McDougall Ret 13 10 12 10 Ret 81 16 Ben Stewart 12 9 12 69 17 Blake Knowles 10 Ret 9 62 18 Marcus LaDelle 12 Ret 13 51 19 Jude Bargwanna 13 11 Ret 38

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (cell empty) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position Italics Fastest lap Notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 – Qualifying positions

• ^1 No points were awarded for race 1 at Symmons Plains due to the race not reaching sufficient distance.

Notes

1. Car #2 entered under the commercial title "Honda Racing Team Wall", Cars #74 and #76 entered under the commercial title "Exclusive Switchboards".
2. Car #11 entered under the commercial title "Autoglym Team Ashley Seward Motorsport".
3. Cars #18 and #79 entered under the commercial title "GRM Team Valvoline", Car #33 entered under the commercial title "GRM Team Schaeffler", and Car #71 entered under the commercial title "GRM Hangcha Racing".
4. Car #110 entered under the commercial title "Tufflift Racing".