Little-known Aussie to take on world's best drivers

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After falling agonisingly abbreviated of taking the rubric past year, Jordan Cox has confirmed he'll instrumentality to the TCR Australia Series successful 2023.

The Garry Rogers Motorsport operator volition instrumentality for his 3rd afloat play successful the touring car class driving a Peugeot 308 arsenic portion of the SpeedSeries program.

Cox was among the front-runners to triumph the rubric successful 2022 but stumbled astatine the last hurdle erstwhile helium crashed successful qualifying for the season-finale astatine Mount Panorama.

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The Bathurst International proved to beryllium a play to hide arsenic helium fell from 2nd successful the standings to fourth.

Now, the 25-year-old is focused connected redeeming himself by winning the title.

"It is fantastic to beryllium going into different twelvemonth with the GRM team, to person that consistency with the aforesaid radical of radical is simply a large boost to commencement the season," said Cox.

"We had a comparatively bully play past year, but conscionable erstwhile we thought we were making inroads we'd deed a snag of immoderate sort.

"It was frustrating but we cognize moving into 2023 that we person everything acceptable to enactment unneurotic a precise competitory season."

There's other inducement this twelvemonth excessively with the 2 TCR World Tour circular drafting immoderate of the world's champion touring car drivers to Australia.

One of those volition beryllium astatine the season-ending Bathurst International with the different apt to beryllium astatine Sandown.

The TCR World Rankings person Cox presently placed successful the apical end, 24th overall.

Ending up astatine the pointy extremity volition suffice him for the TCR World Ranking final, which volition determine who is the champion TCR operator from astir the globe.

"The World Ranking is an absorbing element, it's a beauteous bully look from what I've seen, and the World Final volition beryllium a benignant of carrot being dangled passim the twelvemonth for america to chase," said Cox.

"The ranking goes manus successful manus with show however, truthful our lone absorption volition beryllium to guarantee we are performing and warring for the title present successful Australia.

"The class is getting much competitive, we're seeing much assertive setups and drivers pushing harder arsenic we person each figured retired however to extract the astir retired of a beauteous unsocial contention car.

"It's going to beryllium precise absorbing erstwhile we contention alongside the planetary drivers with the World Tour events.

"We've got a radical of truly skilled radical each pushing hard this twelvemonth truthful I'm excited to get the twelvemonth underway, and I spot nary crushed wherefore we shouldn't beryllium up the pointy extremity again successful 2023."

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Cox is the 3rd operator confirmed astatine Garry Rogers Motorsport aft Cody Garland and Aaron Cameron.

The TCR Australia Series play gets underway astatine Symmons Plains with Race Tasmania connected February 24-26.

The touring cars volition beryllium supported by the National Trans Am Series, S5000, Touring Car Masters, Tin Tops, and Hyundai Excels.

2023 SpeedSeries calendar (provisional):

Round 1: Race Tasmania, Symmons Plains – February 24-26

Round 2: Bathurst 6 Hour – April 7-9*

Round 3: Phillip Island – May 12-14

Round 4: Winton Raceway – June 9-11

Round 5: Sydney Motorsport Park – June 23-25

Round 6: Queensland Raceway – August 11-13

Round 7: Sandown International Raceway – September 8-10

Round 8: Bathurst International (TCR World Tour) – November 10-12

* - TCR Australia Series not successful attendance

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