Take a look at some key events for our customers this weekend
Hyundai N team drivers look to add to Zhejiang success story
Just three points separate the top three in the TCR China standings after the series’ opening two weekends, with 2023 champion and Hyundai N team driver Martin Cao sitting second after a strong start to the year, including victory in the season opener. This weekend the series will reach its half-way point, with race five and six of the 12-event season taking place at the Zhejiang International Circuit. Cao will have fond memories of the championship’s 2023 visit to the tight, technical circuit, as he scored a victory, despite weather terrible conditions.
The circuit is also an important one for Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing, as it hosted the competitive debut of the i30 N TCR in 2018, when Gabriele Tarquini took a stunning victory in the TCR International Series.
Cao’s team-mates Andy Yan and Rainey He have not had the same great start to the year, each still without a top five finish so far in 2024. However, Evolve Racing driver Lo Sze Ho – contesting a full TCR China season as a Hyundai Motorsport customer for the first time has shown some of the same pace that secured him the TCR Asia Challenge title in Macau last year, scoring a pair of top tens from the early rounds to leave him ninth in the standings.
Freshly expanded KMSA Motorsport squad gear up for new TCR Japan season
A new season of TCR Japan begins this weekend at the country’s Motegi circuit with a trio of Hyundai Motorsport customers due to be among the grid. All three cars – a pair of Elantra N TCR alongside a single i30 N TCR will be run by the Korean KMSA Motorsport squad, who debuted in the series last year, expanding to become a two-car effort in the final round where they scored a first victory and a double-podium.
Both drivers from that successful finale return to the team for the start of the new campaign – Korean driver Jeong Weon Choi and Japanese Masanobu Kato back at the wheels of the Elantra N TCR. The three-car team for the opening weekend is completed by Choi’s countryman Kim Sung Hyun.
