2021 TCR Australia Touring Car Series

The 2021 TCR Australia Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2021 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series^[1]) was an Australian motor racing competition for TCR Touring Cars. It was the second TCR Australia Touring Car Series.^[2] The series was sanctioned by Motorsport Australia as a National Series with the Australian Racing Group Pty Ltd appointed as the Category Manager.^[1] It was contested as part of the renamed Motorsport Australia Championships series.

2021 TCR Australia Touring Car Series

Previous

2020

Next

2022

Parent series:
Motorsport Australia Championships
Support series:
GT World Challenge Australia

Australian S5000 Championship

Chaz Mostert won his first TCR championship

The series was won by Chaz Mostert driving an Audi RS 3 LMS TCR.

Race calendar

The calendar was announced on 23 November 2020 with seven confirmed rounds.^[3]

Round	Circuit	Location	Date
1	Symmons Plains Raceway	Launceston, Tasmania	24–26 January
2	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Phillip Island, Victoria	12–14 March1
3	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	2–4 April
4	Sydney Motorsport Park	Eastern Creek, New South Wales	1–2 May
5	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	30 November–5 December

^1 – The Phillip Island round was postponed to 12−14 March from its original February 18-21 date after a snap lockdown was enacted in response to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in Melbourne.^[4]

Teams and drivers

The start of Race 3 during the third round at Mount Panorama. Aaron Cameron leads from Chaz Mostert and Jordan Cox.

The following teams and drivers are under contract to compete in the 2021 series:

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds	Ref.
Melbourne Performance Centre	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	2	Luke King	All	[5]
		25	Chaz Mostert	All	[6]
		75	Garth Tander	3	[7]
			Christopher Mies	5	[8]
	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	9	Jay Hanson	5	[9][10]
	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	14	Lachlan Mineeff	2, 4	[11]
		37	Chelsea Angelo	2–4	[12]
Garry Rogers Motorsport	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	5	Jordan Cox	All	[13]
GRM Team Valvoline		7	Michael Caruso	1–3	[14]
		150		4–5
	Peugeot 308 TCR	18	Aaron Cameron	1–3	[15]
		155		4–5
Ashley Seward Motorsport	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	9	Jay Hanson	1–4	[16]
		10	Lee Holdsworth	1–4	[17]
HMO Customer Racing	Hyundai i30 N TCR	11	Nathan Morcom	All	[18]
		30	Josh Buchan	All	[19]
		130	Duvashen Padayachee	3–4	[7]
Purple Sector	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	14	Lachlan Mineeff	5	[20]
		78	Keegan Brain	5	[21]
Michael Clemente Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	15	Michael Clemente	1–4	[15]
Burson Auto Parts Racing	Peugeot 308 TCR	17	Jason Bargwanna	All	[15]
		71	Ben Bargwanna	All	[15]
Wall Racing	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	24	John Martin	All	[22][23]
		50	Tony D'Alberto	1–4	[24]
Renault Sport GRM	Renault Mégane R.S TCR	33	Dylan O'Keeffe	All	[25]
		34	James Moffat	All	[25]
LM Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	97	Liam McAdam	3	[26]
Team Soutar Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	110	Zac Soutar	All	[15]
DashSport	Hyundai i30 N TCR	111	Michael King	4	[27]
Tilton Racing		333	Bradley Shiels	All	[15]

Summary

Round	Race	Event	Pole position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Report
1	1	Symmons Plains Raceway	Lee Holdsworth	Jordan Cox	Lee Holdsworth	Ashley Seward Motorsport	[28]
	2			Jordan Cox	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Lee Holdsworth	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport
2	1	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Melbourne Performance Centre	[29]
	2			Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Melbourne Performance Centre
	3			Luke King	Jason Bargwanna	Burson Auto Parts Racing
3	1	Mount Panorama Circuit	Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Melbourne Performance Centre
	2			Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Melbourne Performance Centre
	3			Chaz Mostert	Chaz Mostert	Melbourne Performance Centre
4	1	Sydney Motorsport Park	Dylan O'Keeffe	Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	HMO Customer Racing
	2			Josh Buchan	Josh Buchan	HMO Customer Racing
	3			Lee Holdsworth	Michael Caruso	Garry Rogers Motorsport
5	1	Mount Panorama Circuit	Ben Bargwanna	Aaron Cameron	Aaron Cameron	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	2			Jordan Cox	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport
	3			Jordan Cox	Jordan Cox	Garry Rogers Motorsport

Drivers' standings

Points system

Points are awarded as follows at each event. Drivers are required to finish a race in order to receive points.

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

• 2 points are awarded for qualifying on pole position.
• At the final round, the Race 3 points scale was also used for Race 1.

Standings

Pos. [30] Driver [30] SYM PHI BAT1 SMP BAT2 Points [30] 1 Chaz Mostert 5 3 2 1 1 18 1 1 1 3 2 6 8 WD WD 486 2 Aaron Cameron 4 15 8 6 7 10 2 2 2 9 11 Ret 1 2 2 453 3 Jordan Cox 2 1 1 12 Ret DNS 9 4 3 7 Ret 7 4 1 1 434 4 Luke King 6 4 4 2 2 15 8 10 13 14 7 5 6 Ret 4 426 5 John Martin 17 14 13 4 3 4 6 5 5 11 20 12 7 7 9 402 6 Nathan Morcom 9 5 5 19 10 3 18 14 9 5 4 3 11 9 Ret 377 7 Josh Buchan 3 6 6 13 Ret 9 14 11 10 1 1 2 DNS Ret 10 365 8 James Moffat 10 Ret Ret 11 18 12 16 7 6 2 5 4 5 5 15 351 9 Jason Bargwanna 11 8 Ret 7 5 1 11 9 8 DSQ 14 Ret 9 3 5 342 10 Ben Bargwanna 13 10 14 8 9 6 12 12 17 21 9 8 2 Ret 12 333 11 Michael Caruso 12 Ret 9 17 15 17 15 DSQ 18 6 3 1 3 Ret 3 326 12 Bradley Shiels 8 7 15 18 11 14 7 8 7 18 13 10 DSQ 11 8 318 13 Lee Holdsworth 1 2 3 3 16 19 5 6 Ret 8 8 16 315 14 Tony D'Alberto 15 9 12 5 4 2 10 Ret 21 4 10 9 290 15 Dylan O'Keeffe 14 11 10 15 14 7 Ret 18 14 10 6 17 10 Ret 13 285 16 Zac Soutar 18 12 Ret 10 8 16 19 13 15 13 Ret 11 12 12 6 262 17 Jay Hanson 7 Ret 7 Ret 17 8 4 Ret 11 12 19 14 Ret 8 DNS 240 18 Michael Clemente 16 13 11 14 6 5 13 Ret 20 16 12 Ret 198 19 Lachlan Mineef 9 12 13 17 16 15 14 6 11 189 20 Chelsea Angelo 16 13 11 20 17 19 19 15 19 134 21 Garth Tander 3 3 4 110 22 Duvashen Padayachee 21 15 12 15 17 13 95 23 Keegan Brain 13 10 14 69 24 Christopher Mies DNS 4 7 68 25 Liam McAdam 17 16 16 45 26 Michael King 20 18 18 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

Supercheap Auto TCR Baskerville Invitational (Non Championship)

Entries

Team	Car	No.	Drivers
GRM Team Valvoline	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	5	Jordan Cox
		7	Zac Hudson
	Peugeot 308 TCR	18	Aaron Cameron
Renault Sport GRM	Renault Mégane R.S TCR	33	Dylan O'Keeffe
50 Years of Bursons 1971-2021	Peugeot 308 TCR	71	Ben Bargwanna
Team Soutar Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	110	Zac Soutar

Standings

Pos.	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1	Aaron Cameron	2	2	1	1	134
2	Jordan Cox	1	4	3	3	124
3	Zac Soutar	4	3	2	2	121
4	Ben Bargwanna	3	1	4	4	118
5	Zac Hudson	6	6	5	5	102
6	Dylan O'Keeffe	5	5	DNS	DNS	45

Notes

References

1. 2021 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series Sporting Regulations, motorsport.org.au, as archived at web.archive.org
2. Supercheap partner with TCR Australia Auto Action 14 January 2021
3. "Date confirmed for second 2021 TCR Australia round at Phillip Island". TouringCarTimes. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
4. "New date confirmed for Phillip Island event". Speedcafe. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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7. "Tander, McAdam and Padayachee join the TCR Grid for Bathurst". tcraustralia.com. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
8. Herrero, Daniel (2021-11-25). "Audi Factory Driver to contest TCR Australia". Speedcafe.com.
9. "Hanson switches to MPC". Speedcafe.com. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
10. Herrero, Daniel (2021-11-26). "Special tribute livery for Hanson Alfa Romeo at TCR Bathurst 400". Speedcafe.com.
11. "Lachlan Mineeff to make TCR Australia debut at Phillip Island". TouringCarTimes. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
12. "Chelsea Angelo secures Phillip Island seat". TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
13. "New war paint for Cox as he aims high in 2021 TCR Australia Series". tcraustralia.com. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
14. Howard, Tom (17 November 2020). "Caruso-GRM TCR deal rolled over". speedcafe.com. Speedcafe. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
15. "18 cars on the grid for TCR Australia opener at Symmons Plains". touringcartimes.com. 23 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
16. "Ashley Seward Motorsport confirm two Alfa Romeos for 2021". TouringCarTimes. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
17. "Lee Holdsworth completes TCR Australia switch". TouringCarTimes. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
18. "HMO Customer Racing retains Nathan Morcom for 2021 programme". touringcartimes.com. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
19. "Josh Buchan secures Hyundai slot". touringcartimes.com. 17 January 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
20. "TCR Bathurst 400 set for 18 car entry". TouringCarTimes. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
21. "Purple Sector expands to two Volkswagens for Bathurst". TouringCarTimes. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
22. "Honda Australia and Wall Racing confirm 2021 programme". TouringCarTimes. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
23. "John Martin to stay with Wall Racing". TouringCarTimes. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
24. "Wall Racing unveil new livery for Tony D'Alberto". TouringCarTimes. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
25. "GRM unveil 2021 livery for James Moffat". TouringCarTimes. 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
26. "Liam McAdam and Garth Tander to return". TouringCarTimes. 6 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
27. "Michael King confirmed for TCR Australia debut at Sydney Motorsport Park". TouringCarTimes. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
28. "Symmons Plains Raceway".
29. "Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit".
30. 2021 Standings, tcraustralia.com, as archived at web.archive.org

External links

• Official website