TCR Europe Touring Car Series
CategoryTouring cars
CountryEurope
Inaugural season2016
Tyre suppliersHankook
Drivers' championNetherlands Tom Coronel
Teams' championBelgium Comtoyou Racing
Official websitehttps://europe.tcr-series.com/
Current season

The TCR Europe Touring Car Series is an annual touring car racing event that is held at various locations across Europe. The series is run in accordance with the TCR Touring Car regulations with production-based cars that are front-wheel drive and powered by 2.0-litre turbocharged engines.[1]

History

On 15 October 2015, Marcello Lotti revealed plans for a European Series including one round from each TCR European championship (Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Russia and Benelux), starting from 2016.[2] On 26 February 2016, the European Trophy was launched, with six rounds (Spanish championship was excluded for not having an own series and Benelux series had two rounds).[3] Subsequent change was made during the course of the season to include additional round from the German series.

In 2017, the one-off event format with two races was adopted. For 2018, it was upgraded to TCR Europe Series with seven events, five of which were run in support of the International GT Open. In 2019, the series continued to have seven events all over Europe with approximately 30 cars and was run in support of the International GT Open. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the 2020 season was postponed to the end of August and the series was run with support from the SRO Organization with a starting grid of 25 cars.[4]

In 2022, the series plans to run two events in support of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.[1][5]

Circuits

Champions

Year Champion (Car) 2nd (Car) 3rd (Car) Team Champions (Car)
2016 Belgium Pierre-Yves Corthals Opel Opel Astra Belgium Frédéric Caprasse Opel Opel Astra Finland Antti Buri Audi Audi RS 3 LMS
2017 France Aurélien Comte Peugeot 308 Italy Giacomo Altoè Volkswagen VW Golf GTI United Kingdom Josh Files Honda Honda Civic Italy Target Competition Honda Honda Civic
2018 Spain Mikel Azcona SEAT SEAT Leon France Jean-Karl Vernay Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Serbia Dušan Borković Hyundai Hyundai i30 N Hong Kong Hell Energy Racing with KCMG Honda Honda Civic Type R
2019 United Kingdom Josh Files Hyundai Hyundai i30 N France Julien Briché Peugeot 308 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Italy Target Competition Hyundai Hyundai i30 N
2020 Morocco Mehdi Bennani Audi Audi RS 3 LMS France John Filippi Hyundai Hyundai i30 N Belgium Nicolas Baert Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Belgium Comtoyou Racing Audi Audi RS 3 LMS
2021 Spain Mikel Azcona Cupra CUPRA León Competición Argentina Franco Girolami Honda Honda Civic Type R Netherlands Tom Coronel Audi Audi RS 3 LMS France Sébastien Loeb Racing Hyundai Hyundai Elantra
2022 Argentina Franco Girolami Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Netherlands Tom Coronel Audi Audi RS 3 LMS United Kingdom Josh Files Hyundai Hyundai Elantra Belgium Comtoyou Racing Audi Audi RS 3 LMS
2023 Netherlands Tom Coronel Audi Audi RS 3 LMS France John Filippi Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Belgium Kobe Pauwels Audi Audi RS 3 LMS Belgium Comtoyou Racing Audi Audi RS 3 LMS

References

  1. 1 2 "TCR Europe to join DTM platform for three events in 2022". TCR Europe. 1 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "TCR Europe plans revealed". TouringCarTimes.com. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 15 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Six rounds to form the TCR Trophy Europe". tcr-series.com. 26 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "TCR Europe Trophy to become Series in 2018 - TouringCarTimes". TouringCarTimes. 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  5. ↑ "TCR Europe startet 2022 dreimal im DTM-Rahmenprogramm". Motorsport.com (in German). Motorsport Network. 1 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
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