Touring Car Masters
| Category | Touring Car Racing |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Inaugural season | 2007 |
| Drivers' champion | John Bowe |
| Official website | touringcarmasters.com.au |
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The Touring Car Masters is an Australian motor racing series open to modified touring cars manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1978. It evolved out of a previous series for CAMS Group N Touring Cars but with a greater degree of modifications permitted to improve safety, reliability and affordability. These improvements would have been against the Group N regulations which are focused on vehicles racing as much as possible as they did in the period when the cars were new.
The series has proved popular with fans for the nostalgia value and also for the mix of eligible vehicles with the majority of competing vehicles being Australian or American V8s. Each model is allocated into one of four classes by the appointed category managers, Touring Car Masters Pty. Ltd, with drivers competing for Series Class awards based on finishing positions within each Class at each race. Performance parity is maintained between disparate models by varying maximum engine revolutions and minimum racing weights of those vehicles. In addition, a driver may be classified as a seeded driver and additional parity adjustments applied to cars driven by these drivers, as deemed appropriate.
The 1972 Holden HQ SS of Gary O'Brien at the opening round of the 2010 series
The 1968 Chevrolet Camaro SS of Alastair MacLean at the opening round of the 2011 series
The Ford XY Falcon GTHO of Brad Tilley at the opening round of the 2011 series
The Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop of Eddie Abelnica at the opening round of the 2011 series
The Ford Escort RS1600 of Phillip Showers at the opening round of the 2011 series
The 1969 Ford Mustang of Gavin Bullas at the opening round of the 2011 series
The Alfa Romeo GTAm of Tony Karanfilovski at the opening round of the 2011 series
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