TCR Europe Touring Car Series

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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]

TCR Europe Touring Car Series
CategoryTouring cars
CountryEurope
Inaugural season2016
Tyre suppliersHankook
Drivers' championArgentina Franco Girolami
Teams' championEstonia ALM Motorsport
Official websitehttps://europe.tcr-series.com/
Current season

History

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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

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Champions

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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
2024   Franco Girolami   CUPRA León VZ   Aurélien Comte   CUPRA León VZ   Ignacio Montenegro   Honda Civic Type R   ALM Motorsport   Honda Civic Type R

References

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  1. ^ a b "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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