{"id":329656,"date":"2023-09-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=329656"},"modified":"2023-09-09T07:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T07:02:09","slug":"worlds-toughest-street-circuit-awaits-racing-greats-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=329656","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s toughest street circuit awaits racing great&#039;s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/speedseries\" title=\"TCR Australia Series\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TCR Australia Series<\/a> race winner Ben Bargwanna, the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/bathurst-1000\" title=\"Bathurst 1000\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bathurst 1000<\/a> champion Jason Bargwanna, is set to tackle one of world motorsport&#x27;s toughest street circuits.<\/p>\n<p>The Garry Rogers Motorsport driver has confirmed he&#x27;ll join the TCR World Tour at the Macau Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>The Guia circuit is famed for its narrow streets and has been the scene of some of the biggest crashes annually.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stan Sport is the only place to watch the 2023 SpeedSeries.<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/DnH61N\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>All the action streaming ad-free, live and on demand<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"05a96d08-6f67-4dca-a93d-6a8458c9cd2d\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/05a96d08-6f67-4dca-a93d-6a8458c9cd2d\" alt=\"The start of the 2019 WTCR race at the Macau Grand Prix.\" data-width=\"4564\" data-height=\"3043\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The TCR World Tour event is one of the headline acts at the Macau Grand Prix alongside the FIA F3 World Cup and FIA GT World Cup on November 16-19.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of the TCR World Tour is live, ad-free, and exclusively on Stan Sport.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s one of the most famous races so to have the chance to go and compete there is something we had to grab when Hangcha came on board,&quot; said Bargwanna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/speedseries-news-2023-renee-gracie-paint-scheme-controversy-liveries-formula-1-supercars-nascar\/95670143-4b38-4f7a-acfb-cef33db90359\" title=\"OnlyFans sponsored race car courts controversy\ufeff\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>OnlyFans sponsored race car courts controversy\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/news-2023-usman-khawaja-rejuvenated-test-team-cricket-australia-justin-langer-the-test-docuseries\/e01f67d8-853a-4d18-b083-24f4faa5f831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Getting slagged off&#x27;: What changed for recalled Uzzie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE\ufeff:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-melbourne-storm-brisbane-broncos-cameron-munster-interview\/f684b432-9f0c-42f1-adb7-3c36728156fd\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Munster&#x27;s scathing reaction to &#x27;terrible&#x27; Storm defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ll jump from the Burson car to the Hangcha car and go and have a crack. It&#x27;s one of those iconic races that is on the bucket list of loads of drivers so it&#x27;s very cool to know I&#x27;m going to go there and race in the final round of the 2023 TCR World Tour.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The end of my year will be Sydney, Bathurst, Macau and Adelaide in the S5000. It&#x27;s a pretty incredible way to finish the year, for sure.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"70dcc76b-67dd-4b3e-bcdc-4c048411067a\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/70dcc76b-67dd-4b3e-bcdc-4c048411067a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Bargwanna (left) and dad Jason celebrate at Phillip Island.\" data-width=\"4000\" data-height=\"2667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with confirmation that Bargwanna will race overseas came news that the Clairet brothers, Teddy and Jimmy, will contest the TCR World Tour rounds in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Those two events will take place at Sydney Motorsport Park and Mount Panorama on November 4-5 and 11-12 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will each get one round apiece in a Peugeot 308. The respective outings are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>It will mark a return for Teddy, who made his TCR Australia Series return at the Bathurst International last year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b02ab612-749c-456e-8734-91b7e8160b66\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/b02ab612-749c-456e-8734-91b7e8160b66-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Clairet and the Peugeot 308 he raced at the Bathurst International in 2022.\" data-width=\"3000\" data-height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve forged a great relationship with the Clairet brothers over the journey and they&#x27;ve become great friends,&quot; Bargwanna said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s great to have both of them coming down for the two World Tour rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think at the moment they&#x27;re playing rock, paper, scissors to see who gets to race at Sydney and who gets Bathurst.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s great for the team to have them in the Hangcha car in a field that is getting more and more competitive by the day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7f6c4d11-c7fa-4a92-bafe-92f1299dac90\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/7f6c4d11-c7fa-4a92-bafe-92f1299dac90-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Hangcha car that Ben Bargwanna will race at the Macau Grand Prix.\" data-width=\"6000\" data-height=\"4000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Macau round will mark the third international race for Bargwanna after contesting the opening two rounds of the TCR World Tour at Algarve and Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Bargwanna will continue his campaign in the TCR Australia Series on September 9-10 at Sandown, with coverage live and ad-free on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TCR Australia Series race winner Ben Bargwanna, the son of Bathurst 1000 champion Jason Bargwanna, is set to tackle one of world motorsport&#x27;s toughest street <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=329656\" title=\"World&#039;s toughest street circuit awaits racing great&#039;s son\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329663,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329656\/revisions\/329663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}