The Touring Car Masters is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n motor racing series open to modified touring cars

Touring car racing

Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Scandinavia and Britain.-Characteristics of a touring car:...

 manufactured between 01 January 1963 and 31 December 1976. It evolved out of a previous series for CAMS

Confederation of Australian Motor Sport

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport , has been the governing body of Australian motorsport since 1953. It is affiliated with the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile ....

 Group N Touring Cars

Group N Touring Cars

Group N Touring Cars is an Australian motor racing category for touring cars built before December 1972.The category was introduced in 1981 and was initially known as Group N Saloon Cars . Cars had to be series production type saloons with seating for four, manufactured prior to 31 December 1964,...

 but with a greater degree of modifications permitted to improve safety, reliability and affordability. These improvements would have been against the Group N regulations which are focused on vehicles racing as much as possible as they did in the period when the cars were new.

The series has proved popular with fans for the nostalgia value and also for the mix of eligible vehicles with the majority of competing vehicles being Australian or American V8s. Each model is allocated into one of three Classes (formerly known as “Groups”) by the appointed category managers, Australian Classic Touring Cars, with drivers competing for Series Class awards based on finishing positions within each Class at each race. Performance parity is maintained between disparate models by varying maximum engine revolutions and minimum racing weights of those vehicles. In addition, a driver may be classified as a seeded driver and additional parity adjustments applied to cars driven by these drivers, as deemed appropriate.

After three rounds, John Bowe (Ford Boss Mustang) heads the 2011 Class C pointscore with Gary O’Brien (Holden HQ Monaro) leading Class B and Greg Keene (Porsche 911SC) leading Class A.

Champions

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Year	Group 1		Group 2		Group 3
	Driver	Car	Driver	Car	Driver	Car
2007	Steve Mason	1969 Chevrolet Camaro	Mick Wilson	1972 Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T	Not contested
2008	Gavin Bullas	1969 Ford Boss Mustang	Greg East	1972 Holden HQ Kingswood Holden Kingswood The Holden Kingswood is a full-size car that was manufactured by General Motors-Holden's, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors , from the beginning of the HK series in 1968 through to the conclusion of the WB series in 1984...	Not contested
2009	Gavin Bullas	1969 Ford Boss Mustang	Trevor Talbot	1972 Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 Holden Torana The Holden Torana is a car which was produced by General Motors–Holden's , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors from 1967 to 1980. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "to fly". The first Torana appeared in 1967 and was a four-cylinder compact vehicle that had its origins in the...	Not contested
2010	Jim Richards	1964 Ford Falcon Sprint	Bernie Stack	Porsche 911 Porsche 911 The Porsche 911 is a luxury 2-door sports coupe made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a distinctive design, rear-engined and with independent rear suspension, an evolution of the swing axle on the Porsche 356. The engine was also air-cooled until the introduction of the Type 996 in 1998...	Tony Karanfilovski	Alfa Romeo GTAM Alfa Romeo GTA The GTA 1300 Junior had a 1300 cc engine that was based on the 1600 engine but with a short stroke crankshaft. The GTA Junior in stradale form did not have many of the light weight features of the 1600 GTA, such as the plastic windows, magnesium engine components and alloy wheels. At start...