Race Tasmania still on track this month despite interstate COVID-19 scare

The first major motorsport event in Tasmania for almost two years still has a green light for January.

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IT’S all systems go for Race Tasmania’s back-to-back motorsport weekends later this month, with teams to touch down in the state from January 20 for the first major motorsport event in Tasmania in almost two years.

Matt Braid, boss of the TCR national championship, said his series still had the green light from the state government to race at Symmons Plains on January 24-26 and Baskerville the following weekend.

The major categories at the events are TCR Australia, S5000, Touring Car Masters and Trans Am.

Australia's newest touring car category TCR Australia will compete at both Symmons Plains and Baskerville in January

Racing will features the likes of James Moffat, Lee Holdsworth, Michael Caruso and Tony D’Alberto in TCR Australia, the nation’s young guns in S5000, Tasmanian legend John Bowe and Queenslander Steve Johnson in TCM, and Tasmanian Owen Kelly in Trans Am.

“As we stand now, Race Tasmania is going ahead 100 per cent,” Braid said.

“There are obviously some challenges across New South Wales and Brisbane at the moment.

“We are working closely with the Tasmanian Government and the affected drivers and teams in those areas to ensure they can safely get down there and get racing.

“All of the conversations with we’ve had with the Tasmanian Government are really good and positive.

”Our teams have supplied the required information to allow them to travel, and we’re expecting some communication back from them imminently.

“The situation we all face means that nothing is ever guaranteed, but at this stage it looks very positive.”