2019 TCR Australia Silly Season

[kittle]

Aaron Camron was driving the Audi for MPC

[M91]

Originally Posted by Sandgroper

So which unamed drivers ran cars?

ANY Names then

Saw that Chelsea Angelo was at the track on her Instagram. Don't know if she was driving anything though.

[Umai Naa]

Currently trying to identify who was in the blue Subaru and Bright's second Golf, whilst he was driving his own

From someone on site yesterday, there were allegedly numerous drivers, helmet in hand, lining up to have a go and to shore up deals. The next two weeks should be interesting. I suppose it probably didn't help that 3 cars are still in the mail, and one team being a no-show.

[GTRMagic]

Here are the Renault mob...

[champcarman]

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

Currently trying to identify who was in the blue Subaru and Bright's second Golf, whilst he was driving his own

From someone on site yesterday, there were allegedly numerous drivers, helmet in hand, lining up to have a go and to shore up deals. The next two weeks should be interesting. I suppose it probably didn't help that 3 cars are still in the mail, and one team being a no-show.

Not sure about the Subaru but AH was in Golf for filming.

[Umai Naa]

AH?

[Mixer]

Andre Heimgartner

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[Umai Naa]

Interesting.

[V8 Fireworks]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Here are the Renault mob...

A little livery inspiration for GRM...

[Shabbie]

Hi all not sure if this was discussed, but has any one heard if FORD are going to get involved. Would be great to see Team Johnson in this game

[racer69]

I'm hanging for someone to enter a Lynk & Co and some point

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

I also wonder if Mr Bright will be instructed to give his cars the facelifted bumpers, since allegedly there's an unwritten agreement about all cars having to be the latest model, for the sake of appearance?

Said rule had apparently prevented a potential 2-car team from entering a pair of FK2 Civics they were in the process of buying.

What a ridiculous rule for a start-up series

I can understand a desire to have all 'late-model' cars on track, but turning away a team before you've held an event sounds about as short sighted in my opinion as putting the car/grid limit in place and not working out a deal with Rod Salmon

[GTRMagic]

One round or more?

[Umai Naa]

I think most would have thought she'd have had one of the paid for seats already, given the previous relationship with Payce...

[V8 Fireworks]

Originally Posted by racer69

I'm hanging for someone to enter a Lynk & Co and some point

Superb!

Fun fact: the Civic TCR is technically an FK7 (standard Civic) not a Civic Type R which is an FK8 model code. I take it that is because the rules require cars to run conventional MacPhearson struts up front and disallow any kind of those dual-axis split-knuckle things like those found on the FK8?

Given that, I guess these TCR cars have some rather dramatic torque steer on the exit of very low speed corners (say under 80 kph)?

What a ridiculous rule for a start-up series

I can understand a desire to have all 'late-model' cars on track, but turning away a team before you've held an event sounds about as short sighted in my opinion as putting the car/grid limit in place and not working out a deal with Rod Salmon

I don't know. If you buy the current model Civic it will be in date for a long time, which rather offsets the slightly higher purchase price. If you buy the old model, it is only going to get more and more out of date, when it's 5 years out of production it's not a good look for the series I guess. Whereas if you buy the current shape, in 5 years time it will still be the current shape (with facelifted bumpers perhaps).

Requiring facelifted bumpers and taillights where applicable is neither here nor there IMO. Not a big deal.

[GTRMagic]

MSR To Prepare VW TCR Cars For Mr Bright & Ms Whitley

[Umai Naa]

Cool to have Ms Whitley in the series.

[Mark Petch]

Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks

Superb!

Given that, I guess these TCR cars have some rather dramatic torque steer on the exit of very low speed corners (say under 80 kph)?

We ran our new Hyundai i30N TCR car at Pukekohe yesterday.

Gene Rollinson qualified the car at 1:6.6 some 4 second off last years V8 Supercars pole time, at one of the fastest permanent race tracks on the V8 Supercar calendar, which does not play to the TCR car's real strengths.

Gene's comments were that to do that qualifying time you are really leaning on the front tyre's, to the point were they are giving up grip in the slow corners and torque steer becomes an issue. However, backing off the pace only a few tenths, torque steer is not an issue, and nor is tyre life.

For the record, Gene and new NZ FF Champion Jordan Michels, won the the GT4/TCR class and finished 6th over all in the Pukekohe round of the 3 hour North Island Endurance Championship yesterday.

The car averaged 1.2 lets per lap, and used a total of 6 new Hankook 260x660x18, medium compound tyre's. We only changed the two front tyre's during the driver change at 1 hour 50 minutes.

I should add that we didn't carry any lead ballast so the car, so with a 72 Kg driver and 40 litres of fuel on board we weighed in at 1210 Kg's in qualifying trim.

The car ran like clockwork, so we could be more happy with our first TCR experience.

Cheers,

Mark.

[Just Do It!]

A pretty positive result - Well done!!

For a three-hour race like that, what do you feel that your total operating costs were?

The answer might help some of the prospective teams and drivers

[Mark Petch]

Originally Posted by Just Do It!

A pretty positive result - Well done!!

For a three-hour race like that, what do you feel that your total operating costs were?

The answer might help some of the prospective teams and drivers

Operating cost's, excluding entry fee, were basically two set of Hankook TCR tyre's, [NZ$4,000] 300 litres of 98 Octane BP ultimate, [NZ$850] Brembo 340 compound brake pads, [NZ$750 per car set] Crew costs, [NZ$2,000] so all up about NZ$10,000 for a 2 day 3 hour endurance race including all of the practise session etc.

You also have to factor in wear and tear plus lifeing on all the mechanical components etc, so say NZ$20,000 per race weekend.

FYI. new crate engine cost's NZ$8,000, and a complete rebuild on the Xtrac gearbox and differential is NZ$12,000.

Cheers,

Mark.

[GTRMagic]

[Umai Naa]

Ms Angelo finally confirmed at KR in an Astra, after sampling the blue Impreza at Winton last week.

As per 90% of the grid, it is unclear if it's a full season gig.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Umai Naa

Ms Angelo finally confirmed at KR in an Astra, after sampling the blue Impreza at Winton last week.

As per 90% of the grid, it is unclear if it's a full season gig.

[champcarman]

I am wondering what effect the latest BOP settings will have on this weekends competition, at the recent WTCR Round the Hondas were heaviest (but still won R1)?

By the way Alfa Romeo won R2 but all makes seemed close..

[GTRMagic]

[GTRMagic]