TCR Europe Touring Car Series

TCR Europe Touring Car Series

Category	Touring cars
Country	Europe
Inaugural season	2016
Tyre suppliers	Hankook
Drivers' champion	Tom Coronel
Teams' champion	Comtoyou Racing
Official website	https://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

• Adria International Raceway (2017)
• Algarve International Circuit (2022–2023)
• Automotodróm Slovakia Ring (2021)
• Brno Circuit (2024)
• Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (2018–2023)
• Circuit de Pau-Ville (2023)
• Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (2018–present)
• Circuit Paul Ricard (2018, 2020–2023)
• Circuito de Jerez (2016)
• Circuito del Jarama (2020)
• Circuit Ricardo Tormo (2024)
• Circuit Zandvoort (2016, 2021)
• Circuit Zolder (2016, 2020, 2024)
• Hockenheimring (2016, 2019)
• Hungaroring (2018–2019, 2023)
• Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli (2016)
• Monza Circuit (2018–2023)
• Motorsport Arena Oschersleben (2019)
• Norisring (2022)
• Nürburgring (2016, 2021–2022)
• Red Bull Ring (2019)
• Salzburgring (2024)
• Smolensk Ring (2016)
• TT Circuit Assen (2018)
• Vallelunga Circuit (2024)

Champions

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

References

External links

• TCR Europe Series Official website