The 2020 MRF Tyres NSW Production Touring Car Championship will launch into gear with a pair of one-hour endurance races at Sydney Motorsport Park, with a couple of new names joining some familiar faces.<\/p>\n
For an added twist, the NSW PTC races will be held in conjunction with the Australian Production Car Series, ensuring a large and diverse field of vehicles will be in action at the SMP circuit.<\/p>\n
BMW has proven to be a popular choice of manufacturer for Class A1 (High Performance Forced Induction) with Simon Hodges, the father-and-son combination of Urs\/Tom Muller and Dieter\/Alex Holzl all representing the German marque. Mercedes is also represented in the class, with Michael Sheargold\/Alex Bryden entered in their RAM Motorsport A45 AMG, prepared by GWR Australia.<\/p>\n
Taking the fight up to the Europeans will be Joe Krinelos (HSV GTS) and Stephen Thompson (Mitsubishi Evo).<\/p>\n
In Class A2 (High Performance Naturally Aspirated), contenders with Aussie-built machinery will be the experienced Matthew Holt, brothers Daniel\/Jacques Oosthuizen and Barry Sternbeck in their Holdens.<\/p>\n
Like Class A1, the A2 Class also features some European thoroughbreds with Bradley Carr and Brent Howard\/Garth Walden entered in BMW M3s.<\/p>\n
The popularity of the BMWs continues into Class B1 (Performance Forced Induction) with veteran Peter O\u2019Donnell entering his trusty 335i. O\u2019Donnell will be joined in the class by Stephen Muller\/Reece McIntosh in their VW Golf GTI.<\/p>\n
The B2 (Performance Naturally Aspirated) Class is mainly the domain of six cylinder and V8 rear-wheel-drive vehicles; Adam Gosling will be strong in his E46 BMW M3, as will Corrine Virag in her VF Commodore SS.<\/p>\n
In Class C, former Australian Karting Champion David Krusza makes his return to the category in a BMW E36 M3, while John Fitzgerald lines up in the Garry Mennell-owned BMW 130i.<\/p>\n
Last year, Class D (Other Touring) featured a nail-biting contest between a couple of Toyota 86 drivers, with Edan Thornburrow clinching the title in the very last race of the season.<\/p>\n
Thornburrow is back to defend his title, with his rivals including Zach Loscialpo (Toyota 86) and Michael Ferns (VW Golf).<\/p>\n
The field is rounded out by the sole Class E (Small Capacity Touring) entrant, Nick Hickson who makes his category debut in a Mazda 626, formerly raced by a lengthy roster of drivers including Grant Denyer and Emily Duggan.<\/p>\n
Click here for the full entry list.<\/a><\/p>\n The weekend format will consist of a trio of practice sessions on Friday, two qualifying sessions and Race 1 on Saturday, and Race 2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n Click here for the event schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n The racing action on both days will be live streamed via Blend Line TV\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> and Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2020 MRF Tyres NSW Production Touring Car Championship will launch into gear with a pair of one-hour endurance races at Sydney Motorsport Park, with a couple of new names joining some familiar faces. For an added twist, the NSW PTC races will be held in conjunction with the Australian Production Car Series, ensuring a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nswproductiontouringcars.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}