TCR DRIVER CAMERON BOUND FOR THE FIA MOTORSPORT GAMES

Supercheap Auto TCR young gun, Aaron Cameron, has been announced as an Australian TCR competitor at the FIA Motorsport games at the Paul Ricard circuit in France for the October 26-30 event.

The 22 year old will race in the TCR competition in a Peugeot 308 TCR, and will be racing in his country’s colours in the Gold, Silver, Bronze format style of games.

Since the inception of the TCR competition in Australia, the driver from Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs has finished third in 2019, second in 2021, and is currently running in eight in this year’s title fight, driving in a Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) 308.

It is Cameron’s third time on the international stage in TCR, having competed in the Dubai and Barcelona 24 Hour Enduro’s in 2019, where he drove an Audi RS 3, and he also represented Australia as a teenager in 2015 at an international Karting Competition.

The TCR field takes to the Queensland Raceway

“It is going to be amazing to represent Australia at the FIA Motorsport Games in France,” Cameron related.

“Not very often in motorsport you get to fight for medals and I’m hoping to bring home the gold for Australia.

“I’m going to be racing a Peugeot 308 TCR over there against lots of world renowned racers, so it should be good and really tough competition and hopefully we can represent Australia in the best way possible.

“I’ve never been to the Paul Ricard Circuit before, but from the research I’ve done, the Peugeot should be well suited there. I’ll be doing some sim work prior so we can hit the ground running from the opening session.

Cameron will join the other Australian racers already earmarked for the games, with the Grove family team, Stephen and Brenton Grove, completing their European summer of racing in the Porsche GT category, where they raced at the SPA 24 Hour, and the Mobile 1 Super Cup, also at the French circuit. In the inaugural 2019 FIA sanctioned games, the pair took home gold in Pro-Am class.

Garry Rogers, from GRM, is elated to be a part of the representation come the October games.

“It is awesome that we will have an Australian representing us in touring cars at the FIA Motorsport Games,” said Rogers.

“We all know that motorsport isn’t accepted or considered an Olympic event, but this is as close as it gets.We’ll have our home grown product representing Australia and the GRM team, and that is very exciting for us. 

“Who knows what will happen, but a good Prime Minister will give us all a national holiday when he wins the gold!”

Eugene Arocca, CEO of Australian Motorsport, is proud of Cameron and the great opportunity he has to represent Australia.

“Congratulations to Aaron for being selected to represent Australia in TCR at this year’s FIA Motorsport Games,” Arocca commented.

 “Aaron has enjoyed great success in the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series and we expect that he will certainly challenge for some form of silverware during the event.

 “Like the other competitors on Team Australia, I have no doubt Aaron will do a fantastic job representing the nation and we wish him and the rest of the team great success in France.”