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MCCORKINDALE COMPLETES TRANS AM SWITCH

Jon McCorkindale completes Trans Am switch - Image: Supplied

By Timothy Neal

Jon McCorkindale will make the switch from Super2 to Trans Am this season, swapping his Holden VF Commodore for a Ford Mustang.

The experienced 31-year-old has purchased the ex-Ian McAlister Ford and will debut when the series kicks off at Race Tasmania next month.

McCorkindale finished 15th in the Super2 Series standings last year after starting the season in Super3.

A shakedown at Wakefield Park is scheduled for McCorkindale to get acquainted with his new machine, which will be adorned in the green Dial Before You Dig livery that will be familiar to most.

“It’s exciting as it’s a pretty big step forward for my team and myself,” McCorkindale said.

“It’s also a bit daunting with the amount of cars expected to race in Tassie as well as the lack of time I’m going to have to prepare. I haven’t even sat in one yet.

“I think it is one of the best categories in Australia. To have the costs of the cars and parts lower, I want to get back to a bit of rubbing, proper motorsport, you can get aggressive.”

“With Bathurst ending so late last year and not selling my Super2 car until a couple of weeks ago, we were up in the air with how we were going to do it even.

“The car we bought is in Queensland, so we’ve had no time to look at it, sit in it, we just rang him and said we’d take it.

Looking to the season ahead, McCorkindale believed he could challenge the series frontrunners for the title.

Having watched the category from afar, McCorkindale is eager to challenge the established competitors in Trans Am led by reigning series winner Nathan Herne.

“I’d love to be fighting for the title coming to the end of the year, but obviously that is going to take some time.

“After Tassie we’ll have a better indication of how much either I need to work on myself or the team, but in the perfect world I’d like to be straight up the front.”

Race Tasmania will again begin the Trans Am Series in 2022 at Symmons Plains, supported by the TCR Australia Series, the S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship and three local categories.

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