Garth Tander joins TCR Australia at Phillip Island

Touring Car ace Garth Tander will compete in Round 2 of TCR Australia at Phillip Island this weekend. The Victorian, who has won every major Australian motorsport championship and trophy worth winning, will drive one of the brand-new Audi RS 3 LMS cars for the Melbourne Performance Centre team.
Tander is part of Australian motorsport royalty, having won the Bathurst 1000 three-times, a Supercars Championship (2007) and the Bathurst 24 Hour endurance race. He also sits fourth on the all-time list of Supercars Championship race wins. This will be Tander’s first time that he has ever raced a front-wheel drive race car. 

“I’m looking forward to it. I was a keen observer of the first round in Sydney, so to get my opportunity to drive a brand new Audi at Phillip Island is fantastic,” said Tander. “It will be different to drive than anything I’ve done before so it will be a challenge to get my head around it. I’ve never raced a front wheel drive car before. That will be the main thing to get across, but looking at the racing in Sydney, it looked exciting, challenging, and the guys out there are fast and switched on. Drivers like Will Brown, Tony D’Alberto and Jason Bright have have a full race weekend head start on me. I have a bit of catching up to do but I’m up for it.”