Former Supercars front-runner and Bathurst winner, Jason Bargwanna, won last weekend’s second round of the 2021 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series at Phillip Island, Victoria.
He drove his Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) run Burson Auto Parts Racing Peugeot to its first TCR race win and overall round victory.
The win came in race two, when Bargwanna fought his way through the top end of the field in perfect weather to score Peugeot’s first Australian race victory.
He took the lead when a tyre failed on Chaz Mostert’s car on lap 12, and then extended his lead by several tenths of a second per lap on his way to the chequered flag
The win is the latest in a series of firsts for Bargwanna and GRM. He scored the team’s first Supercars victory in 1998 and won the Bathurst 1000 with GRM for the first time in 2000.
“To come back to GRM with Burson Auto Parts and obviously having my son Ben as my teammate, it’s pretty emotional stuff,” Bargwanna said.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time, but to be able to come back and get the winner’s trophy – it’s pretty special. The guys at GRM worked hard to fix this old girl after Tassie (where the car crashed) and to come back, and it was a bit of a jet in that last race.
“We were out of the window a bit in qualifying (but) we managed to work our way to it, and we were catching Chaz, which is always a good thing.”
Ben Bargwanna, drivng the Precision Auto Equipment liveried second GRM TCR Australia Peugeot 308 finished sixth in race two.
Saturday’s TCR race saw torrential rain hit the Victorian seaside circuit, with Jason and Ben finishing fifth and ninth respectively.
The next TCR round is at Bathurst at Easter.
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