Reality of 'heartbreaking' card sinks in for skipper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nLynk & Co will bring a fleet of four cars Down Under with Cyan Racing. Sweden's Thed Bjork leads their contingent as a multiple champion.<\/p>\n
He'll be joined by two-time World Touring Car Cup winner Yann Ehrlacher of France, Uruguay's Santiago Urrutia, and China's Ma Qinghua.<\/p>\n
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Audi Sport's Comtoyou outfit will bring two Audi RS3 LMS racers with the United Kingdom's Rob Huff and Frederic Vervisch of Belgium.<\/p>\n
Huff is one of the world's most experienced front-wheel-drive touring car pilots having raced in world touring cars since 2005.<\/p>\n
Vervisch is one of Audi's top drivers, winning the 24 Hours of Nurburgring outright in 2019.<\/p>\n
Two international drivers will make their return to Australia. Honda will bring Argentina's Nestor Girolami while Jimmy Clairet of France will drive a Peugeot 308.<\/p>\n
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Clairet's brother Teddy will take the reins of that car at Mount Panorama one week later at the Bathurst International.<\/p>\n
It'll be uncharted territory for all the international drivers at Race Sydney as part of the SpeedSeries program, with none of them having ever raced at Sydney Motorsport Park.<\/p>\n
Australia's contingent will be led by TCR Australia Series winners Tony D'Alberto and Will Brown.<\/p>\n
D'Alberto will debut his brand new Honda Civic Type R while Brown returns in his latest generation Audi.<\/p>\n
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Bailey Sweeny sill leads the series in his Hyundai i30 N ahead of teammate Josh Buchan in his i30 N sedan. Aaron Cameron has been the quiet achiever in third.<\/p>\n
Race Sydney marks the second-to-last round of the TCR Australia Series before the Bathurst International on November 10-12.<\/p>\n
Catch race one of the TCR World Tour and National Trans Am Series live and free-to-air on 9Gem and 9Now from 2pm on November 4.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nAfter the Australian double-header, the TCR World Tour will continue November 16-19 at the Macau Grand Prix. Coverage of that will be live, ad-free, and exclusively on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n
The combined TCR World Tour and TCR Australia Series grid will take in three 30-minute races across Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Race one gets underway on Friday at 8.40pm AEDT with races two and three at 4.05pm and 7.55pm respectively.<\/p>\n
TCR Australia Series entry list<\/strong><\/p>\n#1 – Tony D'Alberto – Honda Civic FL5\u00a0<\/p>\n
#9 – Will Brown – Audi RS3 LMS\u00a0<\/p>\n
#14 – Lachlan Mineeff – Audi RS3 LMS\u00a0<\/p>\n
#15 – Michael Clemente – Cupra Leon Competicion<\/p>\n
#18 – Aaron Cameron – Peugeot 308\u00a0<\/p>\n
#22 – Iain McDougall – RS3 LMS\u00a0<\/p>\n
#30 – Josh Buchan – Hyundai Elantra N Sedan<\/p>\n
#33 – Jordan Cox – Peugeot 308<\/p>\n
#41 – Kody Garland – Peugeot 308\u00a0<\/p>\n
#71 – Ben Bargwanna – Peugeot 308\u00a0<\/p>\n
#74 – Brad Harris – Honda Civic FK7\u00a0<\/p>\n
#110 – Zac Soutar – Audi RS3 LMS TCR<\/p>\n
#115 – Tom Oliphant – Lynk & Co 03<\/p>\n
#130 – Bailey Sweeny – Hyundai i30N\u00a0<\/p>\n
#TBC – Will Harris – Honda Civic FK7\u00a0<\/p>\n
TCR World Tour entry list<\/strong><\/p>\n#4 – Jimmy Clairet – Peugeot 308<\/p>\n
#105 – Norbert Michelisz – Hyundai Elantra N Sedan<\/p>\n
#111- Thed Bjork – Lynk & Co 03<\/p>\n
#112 – Santiago Urrutia – Lynk & Co 03\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
#122 – Frederic Vervisch – Audi RS3\u00a0<\/p>\n
#129 – Nestor Girolami – Honda Civic FL5\u00a0<\/p>\n
#155 – Ma Qing Hua – Lynk & Co 03<\/p>\n
#168- Yann Ehrlacher – Lynk & Co 03<\/p>\n
#179 – Rob Huff – Audi RS3 LMS\u00a0<\/p>\n
#196 – Mikel Azcona – Hyundai i30 N Sedan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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