National Trans AM Sale Settlement Completed

The sale of the National Trans AM Series from the Australian Racing Group to HCC Pty Ltd has been completed with the new owners taking control of the series, effective immediately, and planning underway for another large field at Round 3 of the Trico Trans AM series as a support to the Supercar Hidden Valley event in Darwin next month.

HCC Pty Ltd, (Hadley, Crutcher, Cheney), a new syndicate formed by regular TA2 competitors Paul Hadley, Mark Crutcher and Graham Cheney also purchased the TA2 Muscle Car Series from founder’s Peter and Dayna Robinson earlier this year.  

Up to 30 Trans AM entries are expected for the Northern Territory event, while negotiations completed this week will also see the TA2 spec cars replace TCR as a support category at the upcoming Western Australia Supercar round at Carco.com.au Raceway. This will be a one-off non-championship event for the “King of the West” title.

“All the formal paperwork with Motor Australia has been signed regarding the transfer of ownership, settlement has been completed, and we are now focussed on growing both the Trans AM and TA2 Muscle Car platforms. We have already invested in a much larger trailer to service both series on track with parts and components, expanded staffing where required, ordered more new cars from Howe Engineering in Michigan, confirmed supply of Chevrolet crate engines as well as Holinger Engineering for the supply of an optional gearbox to the original G Force for both series,”  HCC’s Mark Crutcher explained.

“My role is to head up the new entity and continue the expanding trajectory for both categories and as well as being a quick driver, Graham has a good engineering and racing head and will support the technical side with ongoing product development.  Paul brings an enormous breadth of business skills to the table, I believe we are a very complementary team.”

The recent 41 car field for Round Two at the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour was a record grid for the series so far, and there’s strong competitor interest in both the Trico Trans AM and the TA2 Muscle Car Series, both serving a different level of competition. With round 3 of the Hi Tec Oils Super Series taking place at Sydney Motorsport Park at the end of May.

Following TCR’s withdrawal as a support category to the Perth Supercar event, HCC will step in with a field of TA2 spec cars as a one-off event.

“Due to our previous King of the West titles in Western Australia, there’s quite a number of cars and drivers already in Perth that are keen to compete. Previous WA champions Brett Niall and Ron Moller have entered, along with speedway star Jason Pryde and we are confident of delivering a field of up to 15 cars. We plan to send 3 or 4 cars from the East over to Perth to top up the field. It will be a super busy time between TA2 and Trico Trans AM with Perth, Darwin, Sydney and Queensland Raceway all in a space of 5 weeks!” said TA2 Category Manager Matty Mack.