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Live motorsports return to Seven

Seven is back to Bathurst, announcing a new deal with Australian Racing Group.

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Seven has announced a multiyear deal with the Australian Racing Group for Live coverage of events from 2020.

These including the TCR Australia Series, S5000 as well as other categories from the Shannons Motorsport Australia Championships racing program.

A minimum of six hours of live coverage across the Saturday and Sunday of each event is part of a multiyear deal, simulcast on 7plus.

It will also feature Live coverage of two major events from Mount Panorama, Bathurst: Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour over the Easter weekend and the recently announced Bathurst International event in late 2020, broadcast on Seven channels.

Lewis Martin, Managing Director Seven Melbourne and Head of Network Sport, Seven, said: “We’re thrilled to be broadcasting these great motorsport events from next year. Motorsport has long been a passion of ours at Seven, and we’ve led the way with innovative coverage of iconic Australian motorsport for decades.

“This agreement marks the next step in our commitment to motorsport, and we look forward to working with Australian Racing Group to bring these events to Australians live and free from 2020.”

Matt Braid, Director, Australian Racing Group, said: “The maiden season of TCR Australia has been hugely successful with fantastic feedback from drivers, teams, commercial partners and, most importantly, from fans

“ARG is extremely pleased to announce our new broadcast partnership with the 7 Network and look forward to continuing to develop the TCR Australia Series, and the new S5000 Championship with the support of Australia’s leading Television network.”

The TCR Australia Series will be one of the featured racing categories in the extensive coverage. Recognised as the most exciting new motor racing category to hit local shores in recent memory, the globally recognised touring car platform provides the thrills and spills that television viewers love, while also showcasing market relevant cars that appeal to a broad demographic.

After a successful maiden season this year, it is expected that close to 30 cars will enter each of next season’s nine events.

The all-new S5000 racing car class will also feature on the live and free broadcasts. The category’s sensational debut at Sandown in September attracted a record Shannons Nationals crowd who witnessed a display of high speed, fearless racing from the thundering V8-powered open wheelers.

The live and free coverage will feature a range of other high-quality racing categories, including the ever-popular Touring Car Masters, among others.

The first round that TCR Australia and the Shannons Motorsport Australia Championships will be seen on Seven will be at Sydney Motorsport Park on March 27-29 next year.

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    1. Couldn’t disagree more. Supercars has been great this year!!
      As long as Foxtel keep the Supercars I don’t really care who the FTA partner is.
      Good luck to the TCR guys. Hopefully it doesn’t get destroyed by ads.

  3. What this report doesn’t mention is that the maiden TCR Australia Series, which is for turbo 2.0 litre 4 cylinder touring cars, was telecast live on SBS this year. In my opinion the racing was not close and rather boring.

    1. Boring? This was some amazing racing. Much better than Supercars IMHO. Racing was close, and there was a glorious amount of variety in vehicles.

      It’s a shame 7West now have broadcast rights. SBS have a cracking small team for motorsport and less ads, which was great.

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