TMR Performance scored a convincing 1st place at Round 2 of the 2010 Australian Manufacturers Championship for Production Cars, with a convincing victory against the opposition.

Stuart Kosteras won the round in his West Surfing Products TMR Evolution X RS, with teammate Inky Tulloch second in his TMR Evolution X RS – both cars were the class of the field, dominating the weekend with Kosteras taking victory in both one-hour long feature races and the two effectively racing each other.

After qualifying 1-2 more than a second clear of third, Kosteras won the first race by 50 seconds, but his nearest rival Tulloch suffered a blown engine while leading, one of three cars to suffer the same problem on the day, leading to speculation that poor locally sold and mandated fuel was causing the problems. The Melbourne-based TMR team was called into urgent response and had a new engine in a car, on the ship to Tasmania and in the pits the next morning for Tulloch to challenge in Sunday’s race two. With a revised fuel mix authorised by race officials, Tulloch came back to lead the second one-hour race on Sunday, before the round of pit stops leap-frogged Kosteras into the lead.

Proving the pace and domination of the TMR Evos, both cars lapped the entire field, up to the third placed car of 2010 Bathurst 12 Hour winner Gary Holt’s BMW, both cars lapping almost a second faster than the opposition, and cementing the team and cars’ place as championship contenders.

The Evo X RS is imported solely into Australia by TMR Performance, and is sold for $48,500, before the option of race preparation to each customer’s requirements for circuit racing, gravel or tarmac rally.

The next round of the six-round 2010 Manufacturers Championship is at Phillip Island on May 1-2.