Touring Car Masters

{{Short description|Australian motor racing series}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2013}}

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| category = Touring Car Racing

| country/region = Australia

| inaugural = 2007

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| tyres = Hoosier Tires

| champion driver = Steve Johnson

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| website = [http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au touringcarmasters.com.au]

| current_season = 2023 Touring Car Masters

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Touring Car Masters is an Australian motor racing series open to modified touring cars manufactured between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1980.[https://web.archive.org/web/20230304084846/https://motorsport.org.au/docs/default-source/sporting-technical/national/2023/2023-gulf-western-oil-touring-car-masters-series-sporting-and-technical-regulations---version-1.pdf?sfvrsn=d6660278_4 2023 Gulf Western Oil Touring Car Masters Series Sporting and Technical Regulations, motorsport.org.au, as archived at web.archive.org] 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.[http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/History/seriesInformation.html Series History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112842/http://www.touringcarmasters.com.au/History/seriesInformation.html |date=6 July 2011 }} Retrieved on 20 June 2011 These improvements would have been against the spirit of Group N regulations which are focused on vehicles racing as much as possible as they did in the period when the cars were new.

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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 three classes by the appointed category managers, TCM Racing Pty. Ltd, with drivers competing for Outright and Class awards. 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.

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