HMO Customer Racing was formed in late 2018 following confirmation that an Australian championship for the global Touring Car Racing (TCR) class was being created locally.

The all-new squad was founded by former racer and entrepreneur Barry Morcom in conjunction with Hyundai Motorsport as the official sales and spare parts agents for all Hyundai Motorsport programs in Australia and New Zealand.

As such, HMO Customer Racing not only operates its own three-car team in the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Championship from its headquarters in South-Western Sydney but provides vital support to privateer teams within the region.

Since its inception, HMO Customer Racing has been a front-running outfit in the TCR Australia series. With a stellar line-up of rising stars in Nathan Morcom and Will Brown, it dominated the inaugural series in 2019 and scored the team’s championship with eight victories and 17 podiums.

Brown also claimed the 2019 TCR Australia Driver’s Championship and was voted by his peers as the best driver in the category.

The TCR Australia Championship was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, HMO Customer Racing welcomed another rising star in Josh Buchan to replace Brown, who leveraged his TCR results and moved to the Supercar series with Erebus Racing.

Even though the season was again punctuated by COVID-19 delays, Buchan proved he was a star of the future with two race wins while a consistent string of front-running finishes saw Morcom remain in title contention right up until the final race of the season.

Now, with a clearer post-pandemic path ahead, HMO Customer Racing has expanded to become a three-car team in 2022, with teenage hot shot Bailey Sweeny joining the squad alongside Morcom and Buchan.

On the technical side, HMO Customer Racing’s chief engineer Rob Benson brings a huge wealth of expertise having worked with front running teams in Supercars, NASCAR, Sportscars and, most recently, with the Hyundai World Rally Team.