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Like many other organisations, "that" virus and dealing with it will have impacted ARG's plan for TCR.
Clearly the initial plan was to throw oodles of financial support at it, buy cars, fund drivers etc so that it kicked off with more cars/teams/drivers than would be the case if it was grown organically. Typically, for most new series, there are many interested competitors who "sit on the fence" waiting to see how the series goes before commiting high levels of finance and time to it (understandable) and in any case, some track record makes sponsor discussions more effective.
ARG overcame that initial inertia by financially propping it up (similarly with S5000) and the word was out within the industry that after the 1st season, that support would be wound right back. Now however, after the impact of that virus, we're kind of back to square 1 (not quite but not far from it either) and the series is effectively starting again.
Whether or not the financial support will re-emerge remains to be seen but I suspect that it won't so in reality the future of TCR in Oz is yet to be clear.
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