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Will Brown Joins HMO Customer Racing

Young Gun Will Brown joins
HMO Customer Racing for 2019 TCR Australia Series.

HMO Customer Racing is pleased to announce that Will Brown will drive their second Hyundai i30 N TCR Car in the 2019 TCR Australia Series.

Brown will join former Super2 Series teammate Nathan Morcom as he joins the Sydney based team for the inaugural season of the TCR Series on Australian soil.

The 21-year old is one of only five drivers to achieve two National Circuit Titles in Australia in the same year, after winning both the Australian Formula 4 Championship and Australian Toyota 86 Series in 2016.

Brown is a recipient of the 2017 Peter Brock Medal and Mike Kable Young Gun Award, awarded to the best first-year driver across the Supercar Championship and Super2 Series.

Alongside racing with HMO Customer Racing in 2019, Brown will also continue to drive in the Super2 Series and will co-drive with Anton De Pasquale from Erebus Motorsport in the Supercars Championship Endurance Cup.

Despite a busy racing calendar, the 21-year-old is looking forward to racing under the HMO Customer banner for the upcoming TCR Australia Series.

"Personally, I’m stoked to be on board with the HMO Customer Racing Team for 2019. I’ve been in discussion with Barry Morcom (Team Owner) for a little while now, so it’s great to finally get the deal over the line. It’s a great opportunity for me, the cars look really cool and the HMO Customer Team are all great people so it was a bit of no brainer in the end. It’s exciting to see a lot of cars on the grid for the inaugural series. There seems to be a lot of people interested in the category at the moment, which adds good hype rolling into Round 1."
WILL BROWN
HMO CUSTOMER RACING DRIVER

In what will be a first, Brown takes on the new challenge of guiding a Hyundai i30 N TCR Car throughout the seven-round Series.

"I'm definitely looking forward to driving the Hyundai in this year's series, the car looks pretty competitive overseas so it should be pretty capable of fighting up the front. The ultimate goal would be to win the Series. I've done a lot of production car racing like TCR so I'm confident I've got what it takes to run up the top end of the field."
WILL BROWN
HMO CUSTOMER RACING DRIVER

In what is building to be one of the most exciting motorsport events of 2019, the TCR Australia Series opener at Sydney Motorsport Park will be one very familiar to Brown.

"I'm pretty pumped for the first Round at Sydney Motorsport Park. I've done a lot of racing there, plus it's a great track so I'm looking forward to rolling out there in a few weeks time. I think it will be a great first event. There’ll be plenty of opportunities for passing around the track and with the subtle size of the cars, it'll make for super competitive racing down the straight. We’ll be looking for a top three finish at Sydney, but obviously there’s work to be done between now and then to get us in that position."
WILL BROWN
HMO CUSTOMER RACING DRIVER

Brown will now prepare for Testing at Winton on May 6, before lining up on the grid for Round 1 at Sydney Motorsport Park, to be held on 17 – 19 May with the races to be televised LIVE and FREE on SBS HD.

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Nathan Morcom Joins HMO Customer Racing

NATHAN MORCOM JOINS HMO CUSTOMER RACING
FOR 2019 TCR AUSTRALIA SERIES

HMO Customer Racing is pleased to announce that Nathan Morcom will drive one of the two Hyundai i30 N TCR entries in the 2019 TCR Australia Series.

Morcom will become an inaugural part of Australian Motorsport history as he suits up for the first season of the internationally recognized TCR Championship on Australian soil.

Morcom brings with him a wealth of racing experience to the HMO Customer Team, with starts in the Dunlop Super2 Series with Eggleston Motorsport in 2018 and 2017, as well as an Australian Endurance Championship and a third place finish in the Australian GT Championship in 2016.

In the same year, Morcom was also the World Time Attack Winner and took out the Bathurst 6 Hour alongside Supercars driver Chaz Mostert.

Morcom has also taken part in GT races across Europe and Asia, as well as racing in Formula Ford in Australia and the US, Australian Formula 3 and New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series.

"I’m really looking forward to driving the Hyundai i30 N TCR for HMO Customer Racing in 2019. It’s a great feeling to be part of the first outfit to race in the all new TCR Series here in Australia, the team is looking really good. It’s great to have the two cars here in Australia already, it provides a great platform for our engineers to prepare the cars properly leading into Round 1. The team is definitely looking forward to seeing how far we can push the Hyundai i30N in the season opener in May."
NATHAN MORCOM
HMO CUSTOMER RACING DRIVER

Despite no official announcement on securing the drive for 2019, Morcom has been active throughout the past two months in the Hyundai i30 N TCR Car, with a special guest appearance in the Ultimate Speed Comparison at the Australian Grand Prix as well as recent testing at Sydney Motorsport Park.

"The Practice Session went well at Sydney Motorsport Park, it provided further insight into the habits of the car, and it was pleasing to see what we put in place was running nicely within the Hyundai set up."
NATHAN MORCOM
HMO CUSTOMER RACING DRIVER

With five weeks to go until the inaugural start of the 2019 Touring Car Racing Championship, Australia, Morcom will now turn his attention to Testing at Winton on 30 April, before lining up on the grid for Round 1 at Sydney Motorsport Park, to be held on 17 – 19 May with the races to be televised LIVE and FREE on SBS HD.

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HMO debut at AusGP

The TCR Australia Series is pleased to confirm that it will make its official track debut at the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix this week.

In a special guest appearance, one of HMO Customer Racing’s Hyundai i30 N TCR car will compete in the popular Ultimate Speed Comparison.

With the assistant of the handicapper’s stopwatch, the TCR machine will race alongside its road-going i30 N variant and the V10 Cosworth-powered Minardi two-seater F1 car.

The Hyundai TCR car will be driven by Nathan Morcom, while Hyundai test pilot and international rally driver Brendan Reeves will drive the road-going i30.

This event will mark the first official competition for a TCR Series car in Australia ahead of its opening round of the 2019 series at Sydney Motorsport Park on May 17-19.

The Ultimate Speed Comparison will be held four times over the Australian Grand Prix weekend. See below for dates and times of the competition.

A high quality and variety of racing categories are a feature of the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix, so we are delighted to extend this further in the MSS Security Ultimate Speed Comparison with the involvement of Hyundai and TCR Australia. TCR is an exciting, global touring car formula coming to Australia in 2019, and we are pleased that our fans will have an Australian-first chance to see a TCR car in action at Albert Park. Lining up road and race versions of the Hyundai i30N alongside the Minardi F1 Two-Seater will make for an entertaining and visual demonstration of speed differences, which is what the MSS Security Ultimate Speed Comparison is all about.

Craig Fletcher - Motorsport, Entertainment & Industry, AusGP

It’s fantastic to have the Hyundai TCR car on track and on display at Australia’s biggest motorsport event, the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix, The speed comparison will be the first ‘competition’ event for a TCR car in Australia, so it’s a great opportunity for the big crowds to see, hear and feel the latest touring car category that is coming to our country. I believe that most people who have never seen or heard a TCR car will be genuinely surprised with their speed and sound. We are all really looking forward to seeing the Hyundai on track, racing against its road-going cousin and the two-seat F1 car.

Matt Braid - Director, Australian Racing Group