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Buchan Makes TCR Australia History with Second Title
HMO Customer Racing’s Josh Buchan has sealed his second successive Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series victory in the final race of the 2024 series at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International.
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The Hyundai Elantra pilot finished sixth in today’s series final race; a result good enough to seal this year’s title.
In doing so he becomes the first driver to win back-to-back TCR Australia titles and claims HMO Customer Racing’s third win in the series; Will Brown won the inaugural series in 2019 and Buchan clinched the 2023 crown at last year’s Bathurst International.
“It’s a tremendous honour, I get to have my name on the trophy … I’m a small cog that gets the glory … what an incredible day,” said Buchan in victory lane post-race.
Buchan’s main title rival Zac Soutar finished third in the final race of the seasonbut it wasn’t enough to topple Buchan from claiming the championship, the Audi driver falling 18 points short in the final pointscore.
He survived a worrying moment on the opening lap at Griffins Bend when he ran on the outside of Dylan O’Keeffe’s Lynk & Co and slid wide. He narrowly avoided contacting the outside concrete wall and was able to press on.
While Buchan clinched his second TCR Australia series title, today’s final race of the season was dominated by winner O’Keeffe.
O’Keeffe’s Lynk & Co won the jump on pole-sitter Soutar from second on the grid and led all the way to head home Tom Oliphant’s Hyundai i30 by 0.7527-seconds.
It was the Autoglym Lynk & Co’s second race win this season and first since round two at Symmons Plains earlier in the year.
Ryan Casha was fourth in his Valvoline GRM Peugeot from Will Harris, Buchan, Brad Harris, Ben Bargwanna, Blake Knowles and Jordan Cox, who was delayed mid-race when his Schaeffler Peugeot stopped on-track.
He re-fired the car and pressed on, crossing the line 75 seconds behind winner O’Keeffe in the timed 30-minute race that ran 11 laps.
Today’s final race was the 21st and final race of the 2024 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series with further details on the 2025 season set to be confirmed soon.