2023 Race Sydney
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Date | 3–4 November, 2023 | ||||||||||||
Location | Eastern Creek, New South Wales | ||||||||||||
Course | Sydney Motorsport Park 3.93 kilometres (2.44 mi) | ||||||||||||
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2023 Race Sydney will be the seventh round of nine in the 2023 TCR World Tour. It is scheduled to be held on 3–4 November 2023 at Sydney Motorsport Park in Eastern Creek, New South Wales, Australia. The event will also be the sixth round of seven in the 2023 TCR Australia Touring Car Series.[1]
Report
Background
The event will be the first staging of an international touring car championship in Australia since the 1987 Calder Park 500, held as part of the 1987 World Touring Car Championship for Group A.[2] In the TCR World Tour standings, Norbert Michelisz led Yann Ehrlacher by 4 points in the drivers' championship, and Cyan Racing led BRC Racing Team by 116 points in the teams' championship. In the TCR Australia standings, Bailey Sweeny led Joshua Buchan by 30 points in the drivers' championship.
Entry list
A total of 25 cars have been entered, including entries from TCR World Tour and TCR Australia.
Entry changes
- Michael Clemente had withdrawn from the event due to budget issues.
- Kody Garland did not compete in the races as a result of excessive damage to his car following a technical failure-caused accident during the practice session.
Race 1
The first race was held in wet conditions at night. Local driver Will Brown claimed victory having led the vast majority of the race, which had to be red-flagged just shy of halfway after a number of cars went off following a deluge of rain. World Tour drivers Mikel Azcona and Ma Qinghua completed the podium, with championship challenger Yann Ehrlacher penalised for a Safety Car infringement.[4]
Results
Practice summary
Session | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
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Warm Up | 30 | Australia Joshua Buchan | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 1:34.5825 |
Practice 1 | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 1:35.2179 |
Practice 2 | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 1:34.7565 |
Qualifying
Pos. | Cat. | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Times | Points | ||
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Qualifying 1 | Qualifying 2 | W | A | ||||||
1 | A | 71 | Australia Ben Bargwanna | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | +3.6770 | 1:37.8033 | 15 | 10 |
2 | A | 9 | Australia Will Brown | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | +0.8491 | +0.7921 | 10 | 7 |
3 | W | 196 | Spain Mikel Azcona | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 1:40.8794 | +1.0413 | 8 | |
4 | A | 130 | Australia Bailey Sweeny | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai i30 N TCR | +1.3978 | +1.5546 | 6 | 5 |
5 | W | 179 | United Kingdom Robert Huff | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | +2.4923 | +3.8706 | 4 | |
6 | W | 155 | China Ma Qinghua | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | +0.9856 | +4.3068 | 2 | |
7 | A | 30 | Australia Joshua Buchan | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | +2.6810 | +5.3960 | 3 | |
8 | W | 105 | Hungary Norbert Michelisz | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | +2.0434 | +5.4137 | ||
9 | A | 4 | France Jimmy Clairet | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | +3.3295 | +7.0083 | 2 | |
10 | A | 110 | Australia Zachary Soutar | Australia Team Soutar Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | +2.6699 | +7.2923 | ||
11 | A | 22 | Australia Iain McDougall | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | +4.1280 | |||
12 | W | 129 | Argentina Néstor Girolami | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | +4.3419 | |||
13 | W | 168 | France Yann Ehrlacher | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | +4.7326 | |||
14 | A | 1 | Australia Tony D'Alberto | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | +5.2848 | |||
15 | W | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | +5.3777 | |||
16 | W | 112 | Uruguay Santiago Urrutia | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | +5.9688 | |||
17 | A | 18 | Australia Aaron Cameron | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | +6.6882 | |||
18 | A | 115 | United Kingdom Thomas Oliphant | Australia Ashley Seward Motorsport | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | +6.8936 | |||
19 | W | 122 | Belgium Frédéric Vervisch | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | +7.8618 | |||
20 | A | 74 | Australia Bradley Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | +8.6676 | |||
21 | A | 33 | Australia Jordan Cox | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | +9.7104 | |||
22 | A | 76 | Australia William Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | +10.2376 | |||
23 | A | 14 | Australia Lachlan Mineeff | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | +15.0488 | |||
Sources:[5][6] |
Race 1
Pos. | Cat. | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Time / Retired |
Grid | Points | |
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W | A | |||||||||
1 | A | 9 | Australia Will Brown | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | 51:07.3619 | 2 | 30 | 50 |
2 | W | 196 | Spain Mikel Azcona | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +7.3892 | 3 | 25 | |
3 | W | 155 | China Ma Qinghua | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +11.6553 | 6 | 22 | |
4 | W | 179 | United Kingdom Robert Huff | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +15.6957 | 5 | 20 | |
5 | W | 122 | Belgium Frédéric Vervisch | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +15.9925 | 19 | 18 | |
6 | W | 168 | France Yann Ehrlacher | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +16.42801 | 13 | 16 | |
7 | A | 18 | Australia Aaron Cameron | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +16.6877 | 17 | 14 | 46 |
8 | W | 105 | Hungary Norbert Michelisz | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +19.4938 | 8 | 12 | |
9 | W | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +19.9734 | 15 | 10 | |
10 | W | 129 | Argentina Néstor Girolami | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 17 | +20.6692 | 11 | 8 | |
11 | A | 33 | Australia Jordan Cox | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +20.9922 | 21 | 6 | 44 |
12 | A | 115 | United Kingdom Thomas Oliphant | Australia Ashley Seward Motorsport | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +27.8268 | 18 | 4 | 42 |
13 | A | 14 | Australia Lachlan Mineeff | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +28.6374 | 23 | 3 | 40 |
14 | A | 130 | Australia Bailey Sweeny | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 17 | +30.0708 | 4 | 2 | 38 |
15 | A | 1 | Australia Tony D'Alberto | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 17 | +31.6319 | 14 | 1 | 36 |
16 | A | 30 | Australia Joshua Buchan | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +32.4393 | 7 | 34 | |
17 | A | 74 | Australia Bradley Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +37.2872 | 20 | 32 | |
18 | A | 71 | Australia Ben Bargwanna | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +38.1428 | 1 | 30 | |
19 | A | 4 | France Jimmy Clairet | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +39.7776 | 12 | 28 | |
20 | A | 22 | Australia Iain McDougall | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +43.6663 | 10 | 26 | |
21 | A | 76 | Australia William Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +53.7850 | 22 | 25 | |
DNF | W | 112 | Uruguay Santiago Urrutia | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 12 | 16 | |||
DNF | A | 110 | Australia Zachary Soutar | Australia Team Soutar Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 2 | 9 | |||
Fastest lap: Ma Qinghua (Cyan Racing), 1:37.0422 | ||||||||||
Sources:[7][8] |
- ^1 – Ehrlacher received a 5-second post-race time penalty for a safety car infringement.
Race 2
Pos. | Cat. | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Time / Retired |
Grid | Points | |
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W | A | |||||||||
1 | A | 9 | Australia Will Brown | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | 30:22.5969 | 10 | 30 | 40 |
2 | W | 179 | United Kingdom Robert Huff | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +3.4963 | 7 | 25 | |
3 | W | 122 | Belgium Frédéric Vervisch | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +3.9116 | 6 | 22 | |
4 | W | 105 | Hungary Norbert Michelisz | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +4.9157 | 3 | 20 | |
5 | A | 30 | Australia Joshua Buchan | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +5.4325 | 16 | 18 | 36 |
6 | A | 130 | Australia Bailey Sweeny | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 17 | +7.4825 | 14 | 16 | 34 |
7 | A | 115 | United Kingdom Thomas Oliphant | Australia Ashley Seward Motorsport | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +8.0442 | 12 | 14 | 32 |
8 | A | 18 | Australia Aaron Cameron | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +8.19521 | 4 | 12 | 30 |
9 | W | 168 | France Yann Ehrlacher | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +12.8564 | 5 | 10 | |
10 | W | 112 | Uruguay Santiago Urrutia | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +14.1491 | 22 | 8 | |
11 | A | 14 | Australia Lachlan Mineeff | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +17.4328 | 13 | 6 | 28 |
12 | A | 1 | Australia Tony D'Alberto | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 17 | +18.8901 | 15 | 4 | 26 |
13 | A | 74 | Australia Bradley Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +19.8984 | 17 | 3 | 24 |
14 | A | 33 | Australia Jordan Cox | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +21.0085 | 11 | 2 | 22 |
15 | A | 76 | Australia William Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +23.0228 | 21 | 1 | 20 |
16 | A | 110 | Australia Zachary Soutar | Australia Team Soutar Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +25.80942 | 23 | 18 | |
17 | A | 4 | France Jimmy Clairet | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +28.53792 | 19 | 16 | |
18 | A | 22 | Australia Iain McDougall | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +35.4432 | 20 | 15 | |
19 | W | 196 | Spain Mikel Azcona | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 16 | +1 lap | 8 | ||
DNF | A | 71 | Australia Ben Bargwanna | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 15 | Misfire1 | 18 | ||
DNF | W | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 7 | Crash damage | 2 | ||
DNF | W | 155 | China Ma Qinghua | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 7 | Crash damage | 9 | ||
DNF | W | 129 | Argentina Néstor Girolami | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 2 | 1 | |||
Fastest lap: Joshua Buchan (HMO Customer Racing), 1:36.0981 | ||||||||||
Sources:[9][10] |
- ^1 – Cameron and Bargwanna received five-second post-race time penalties for false starts.
- ^2 – Soutar and Clairet received five-second post-race time penalties for exceeding track limits.
Race 3
Pos. | Cat. | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Time / Retired |
Grid | Points | |
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W | A | |||||||||
1 | W | 179 | United Kingdom Robert Huff | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | 27:33.0141 | 2 | 30 | |
2 | W | 105 | Hungary Norbert Michelisz | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +4.3310 | 4 | 25 | |
3 | A | 9 | Australia Will Brown | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +7.32991 | 1 | 22 | 50 |
4 | W | 122 | Belgium Frédéric Vervisch | Belgium Comtoyou Racing | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +9.43851 | 3 | 20 | |
5 | A | 30 | Australia Joshua Buchan | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +12.9729 | 9 | 18 | 46 |
6 | W | 196 | Spain Mikel Azcona | Italy BRC Racing Team | Hyundai Elantra N TCR | 17 | +24.9618 | 7 | 16 | |
7 | W | 168 | France Yann Ehrlacher | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +25.1915 | 5 | 14 | |
8 | W | 129 | Argentina Néstor Girolami | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 17 | +25.9300 | 19 | 12 | |
9 | W | 155 | China Ma Qinghua | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +25.9717 | 11 | 10 | |
10 | A | 1 | Australia Tony D'Alberto | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) | 17 | +26.0663 | 13 | 8 | 44 |
11 | A | 130 | Australia Bailey Sweeny | Australia HMO Customer Racing | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 17 | +26.2050 | 8 | 6 | 42 |
12 | W | 112 | Uruguay Santiago Urrutia | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +26.6346 | 22 | 4 | |
13 | A | 115 | United Kingdom Thomas Oliphant | Australia Ashley Seward Motorsport | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +26.9020 | 10 | 3 | 40 |
14 | A | 14 | Australia Lachlan Mineeff | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +27.3049 | 12 | 2 | 38 |
15 | W | 111 | Sweden Thed Björk | Sweden Cyan Racing | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR | 17 | +28.9423 | 15 | 1 | |
16 | A | 33 | Australia Jordan Cox | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +33.2414 | 16 | 36 | |
17 | A | 110 | Australia Zachary Soutar | Australia Team Soutar Motorsport | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) | 17 | +33.6504 | 23 | 34 | |
18 | A | 18 | Australia Aaron Cameron | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +34.0631 | 6 | 32 | |
19 | A | 74 | Australia Bradley Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +34.7797 | 14 | 30 | |
20 | A | 4 | France Jimmy Clairet | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 17 | +35.2755 | 17 | 28 | |
21 | A | 22 | Australia Iain McDougall | Australia Melbourne Performance Centre | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) | 17 | +54.5130 | 21 | 26 | |
22 | A | 76 | Australia William Harris | Australia Wall Racing | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 17 | +1:21.9377 | 20 | 25 | |
DNF | A | 71 | Australia Ben Bargwanna | Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport | Peugeot 308 TCR | 11 | Turbo | 18 | ||
Fastest lap: Mikel Azcona (BRC Racing Team), 1:36.0279 | ||||||||||
Sources:[11][12] |
- ^1 – Brown and Vervisch received five-second post-race time penalties for false starts.
Championship standings
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings.
References
- ↑ "Race Sydney, Bathurst International schedules out". V8 Sleuth. 18 October 2023.
- ↑ "ULTIMATE GUIDE: Why TCR World Tour's arrival Down Under is so significant". Nine's Wide World of Sports. 2 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 - Entry list 05 - TCR Australia + TCR World Tour - Sydney V1" (PDF). tcr-worldranking.com. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
- ↑ "Brown beats overseas stars in wet, wild Sydney TCR encounter". Speedcafe. 3 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Qualifying 1" (PDF). Natsoft. 3 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Qualifying 2" (PDF). Natsoft. 3 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 1" (PDF). Natsoft. 3 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 1 GRID SHEET" (PDF). Natsoft. 3 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 2" (PDF). Natsoft. 4 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 2 GRID SHEET" (PDF). Natsoft. 4 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 3" (PDF). Natsoft. 4 November 2023.
- ↑ "2023 Shannons Speed Series - Race Sydney - Round 7 SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK GARDNER 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series - Race 3 GRID SHEET" (PDF). Natsoft. 4 November 2023.