The dates and venue for the 2024 Hyundai N Festival have been announced, with more than 1500 enthusiastic N owners expected to descend on Morgan Park Raceway at Warwick, Queensland this December.
HMO Customer Racing driver and reigning TCR Australia champion Josh Buchan took to N Australia social media channels to announce both the venue and the December 7-8 dates for the sixth annual N Fest, promising even more action at the now award-winning event.
“Book your tickets, book whatever you need to do, your transporters, come on up, it’s going to be a massive event,” he said in the announcement video.
“We’re taking over the town.”
More than 1800 Hyundai N-car owners and appreciators flocked to Sydney Motorsport Park for last year’s event, where they were involved in a unique combination of track sessions, show’n’shines, driver training, tech talks and motorkhana exercises.
The 2023 event was later crowned ‘Event of the Year’ at the inaugural Newspress Australia Awards and was comfortably the biggest edition yet.
Hyundai is the only brand to host this kind – and magnitude – of event for its owners and, in doing, so has fostered an increasingly strong performance car community spanning cities, states and even countries.
Right now – just under five months out from the event – the official Facebook event for N Fest 2024 has 347 confirmed attendees and another 424 ‘interested’.
The first N Festival was held at Wakefield Park (NSW) in 2019 and attracted 105 customer cars – a number that grew by just one the following year at Queensland Raceway under COVID restrictions.
The 2021 event was hosted at Winton Raceway (Vic) and had 130 N-cars in attendance.
Twelve months later the event moved to The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia and was headlined by the Hyundai RN22e rolling lab – which previewed the tech and capabilities of the now-released Hyundai IONIQ 5 N super crossover – and was attended by former N boss Albert Biermann.
Some 200 N-cars attended the 2022 event outside Adelaide, but that was nothing compared to the 2023 edition, where roughly 500 N vehicles rolled through the gates of SMP.