The largest field of TCR cars ever to take part in a touring car race in Australia will assemble on the grid for this weekend’s TCR World Tour races at Sydney Motorsport Park.
The entry list includes a total of 25 cars from six different manufacturers and drivers from ten different countries, thanks to the addition of the nine TCR World Tour entrants who are all of different nationalities.
It is the first of two TCR World Tour race weekends which also count towards the TCR Australia championship, which will be decided at Mount Panorama a week later.
This weekend’s races in Sydney will be held under floodlights, with the opening race getting underway on Friday night.
The field of 25 cars is the biggest TCR grid in the series’ history in Australia, surpassing the previous high of 22 cars at Bathurst in 2021.
Joining the regular competitors on the grid will be Jimmy Clairet, entered by GRM in a Peugeot 308 TCR. His brother Teddy Clairet will take over for the event at Bathurst a week later.
Brad Harris, who missed the last round at Sandown, will return to the grid with Wall Racing in a Honda Civic FK7, and he will be joined by twin brother Will Harris in the Honda formerly raced by Tony D’Alberto.
Reigning champion D’Alberto, meanwhile, will move up to a new FL5 Honda Civic, with Argentine TCR World Tour regular Néstor Girolami joining him in a second new-generation Civic. Girolami was last week confirmed as taking part in all of the remaining TCR World Tour races.
Aside from Will Harris, however, no new domestic racers will feature in the return of international touring car racing to Australia.
ENTRY LIST – RACE SYDNEY
| No. | Entrant | Driver | Vehicle |
| 1 | Honda Wall Racing | Tony D’Alberto | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
| 4 | Hangcha Forklifts | Jimmy Clairet | Peugeot 308 TCR |
| 9 | MPC Team LIQUI MOLY | Will Brown | Audi RS3 LMS TCR II |
| 14 | Purple Sector | Lachlan Mineeff | Audi RS3 LMS TCR |
| 15 | Carl Cox Motorspport | Michael Clemente | CUPRA Leon Competición TCR |
| 18 | Team Valvoline GRM | Aaron Cameron | Peugeot 308 TCR |
| 22 | Challenge Motorsport | Iain McDougall | Audi RS3 LMS TCR |
| 30 | HMO Customer Racing | Josh Buchan | Hyundai Elantra N TCR |
| 33 | Schaeffler GRM | Jordan Cox | Peugeot 308 TCR |
| 41 | Valvoline Racing GRM | Kody Garland | Peugeot 308 TCR |
| 71 | Burson Auto Parts Racing | Ben Bargwanna | Peugeot 308 TCR |
| TBC | Exclusive Switchboards / Wall Racing | Will Harris | Honda Civic Type-R FK7 TCR |
| 74 | Exclusive Switchboards / Wall Racing | Brad Harris | Honda Civic Type-R FK7 TCR |
| 105 | BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse | Norbert Michelisz | Hyundai Elantra N TCR |
| 110 | Team Soutar Motorsport | Zac Soutar | Audi RS3 LMS TCR II |
| 111 | Cyan Racing Lynk & Co | Thed Bjork | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR |
| 112 | Cyan Racing Lynk & Co | Santiago Urrutia | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR |
| 115 | Autoglym / Ashley Seward Motorsport | Tom Oliphant | Lynk & Co 03 TCR |
| 122 | Audi Sport Comtoyou | Frederic Vervisch | Audi RS3 LMS TCR II |
| 129 | Honda Wall Racing | Nestor Girolami | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
| 130 | HMO Customer Racing | Bailey Sweeny | Hyundai i30 N TCR |
| 155 | Cyan Racing Lynk & Co | Ma Qing Hua | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR |
| 168 | Cyan Racing Lynk & Co | Yann Ehrlacher | Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR |
| 179 | Audi Sport Comtoyou | Rob Huff | Audi RS3 LMS TCR II |
| 196 | BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse | Mikel Azcona | Hyundai Elantra N TCR |