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Until now, HMO Customer Racing has kept its latest acquisition nether wraps – and it could marque the quality successful their bid for the 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series title.
The front-running outfit has revealed an all-new Hyundai i30 N sedan, which volition marque its debut astatine the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International connected November 11-13.
To date, the squad has raced hatchback versions of the Hyundai i30 N successful the series. The team's biggest accomplishment to day remains its 2019 rubric triumph with Will Brown.
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Josh Buchan, who joined the squad past year, volition aviator the caller touring car successful the season-finale astatine Mount Panorama, marking the archetypal clip a Hyundai of its benignant has visited the hallowed ground.
While the Sydneysider remains a contender for the 2022 crown, Buchan said the absorption is firmly connected 2023 and getting a caput start.
"It's precise breathtaking that caller cars are being introduced to the category, which shows the maturation of the title and its relevance to manufacturers specified arsenic Hyundai," said Buchan.
"I've ne'er driven a brand-new thing earlier – from go-karts and passim my car racing vocation – truthful to beryllium fixed this accidental is precise special.
"On apical of that, to larn that I volition past beryllium driving the i30 Sedan N TCR for the archetypal clip successful contention astatine Bathurst is phenomenal and a genuine privilege.
"It's a existent honour to person the enactment to marque this hap from each the squad astatine HMO Customer Racing, including squad proprietor Barry Morcom and my main technologist Rob Benson, and besides Hyundai Australia.
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"While it is not perfect that I volition beryllium heading to Bathurst with precise fewer laps nether my belt, we person already proven however palmy the i30 N TCR already is successful hatchback signifier with aggregate wins and are assured the i30 Sedan N TCR volition beryllium conscionable arsenic competitive, peculiarly astatine Bathurst.
"In immoderate case, it volition beryllium large to get a amended knowing of the car up of adjacent twelvemonth truthful we tin get a caput commencement and deed the crushed moving for a afloat rubric tilt successful 2023."
Buchan and teammate Nathan Morcom shared investigating duties of the car astatine Winton Motor Raceway earlier its maiden hit-out.
Morcom, who earlier this twelvemonth won astatine his location circuit Sydney Motorsport Park, noted the year-on-year improvements betwixt the hatchback and sedan models.
"It's large to leap into the aboriginal procreation TCR car to acquisition the differences betwixt the 2 models and get a amended knowing of however it performs," said Morcom.
"We cognize the i30 N is specified a large car retired of the box, and we person plentifulness of notation information astatine Winton Raceway with the hatch, truthful I can't hold to spot what the i30 Sedan N TCR tin do.
"The car looks astonishing successful person, and the controls – particularly connected the steering instrumentality – are adjacent much advanced, truthful it volition beryllium beneficial to get a bully systems cheque and shingle down each the caller components up of Bathurst."
Heading into the season-finale, Wall Racing's Tony D'Alberto leads Garry Rogers Motorsport ace Jordan Cox portion Brown holds 3rd for Melbourne Performance Centre while.
Buchan is 3rd portion teammates Bailey Sweeny and Morcom prevarication eighth and 10th respectively.
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