The 2020 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the fifth season of touring car racing to be run by the German-based sanctioning body ADAC to the TCR regulations. The series will run predominantly in ADAC's home nation Germany. As a support category to the ADAC GT Masters series, the championship will also take in races in the neighbouring nations of Austria and the Netherlands.
Max Hesse is the defending Drivers' champion, while Hyundai Team Engstler are the defending Teams' champions. [1]
Yokohama is the official tire supplier.
Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Class | Rounds | Ref. |
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HP Racing International | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 2 | Harald Proczyk | All | [2] | |
98 | Jan Seyffert | All | [2] | |||
Hyundai Team Engstler | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 13 | Antti Buri | All | [3] [4] | |
29 | Mitchell Cheah | 5 | ||||
97 | Nicolas Gruber | J | 1–4, 6–7 | [3] [4] | ||
Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 7 | Mike Halder | 1–2 | ||
55 | Marcel Fugel | J | 3–7 | [5] | ||
88 | Dominik Fugel | All | [5] | |||
Volkswagen Team Oettinger | Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR | 8 | René Kircher | J | All | [6] |
Legutko Racing – ADAC Berlin | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2) | 17 | Albert Legutko | J | 1, 3–7 | [6] |
Positione Motorsport | Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR | 51 | Harri Salminen | 1–4 | [6] | |
Profi-Car Team Halder | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 53 | Michelle Halder | 1–2 | [7] [8] | |
55 | Marcel Fugel | J | 1–2 | |||
Skuba Racing Team | Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR | 92 | Dziugas Tovilavicius | All | [6] | |
Entries ineligible to score points | ||||||
Lubner Motorsport | Opel Astra TCR | 6 | Steffen Redlich | 3 | [9] | |
84 | Philipp Welsdorf | 3 | [9] | |||
Target Competition | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 19 | Andreas Bäckman | 2 | [10] | |
26 | Jessica Bäckman | 2 | [10] | |||
Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) | 18 | Tiago Monteiro | 7 | [11] | |
GT2 Motorsport | Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR | 21 | Szymon Ładniak | J | 2–3, 5 | |
MAIR Racing Osttirol | Audi RS 3 LMS TCR | 23 | Sandro Soubek | 5 | ||
Wimmer Werk Motorsport | CUPRA Leon Competición TCR | 24 | Felix Wimmer | 3, 5 | [12] | |
56 | Günter Benninger | 3, 5 | [12] | |||
99 | Christian Voithofer | 5 | ||||
Hyundai Team Engstler | Hyundai i30 N TCR | 100 | Guido Naumann | 1 | ||
101 | Niki Schelle | 3 | [13] | |||
102 | Patrick Simon | 5 | ||||
103 | Laura Kraihamer | 6 | ||||
105 | Norbert Michelisz | 2 | [14] | |||
108 | Luca Engstler | 7 | ||||
123 | Marcel Schrötter | 4 | [15] | |||
The initial calendar was released on 29 September 2019 with 7 rounds scheduled across Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Czech Republic. [16] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic on 16 March 2020 the pre-season test and the opening round, both scheduled to be held at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, were cancelled. [17] [18] The first revision of the calendar saw Autodrom Most in August as the season opener. [19] On 24 May 2020 the final version of the calendar was published with the round at the Autodrom Most replaced by a round at the Lausitzring. [20] [21]
Rnd. | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning team | Junior winner | |
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1 | 1 | Lausitzring, Klettwitz | 2 August | Antti Buri | Nicolas Gruber | Nicolas Gruber | Hyundai Team Engstler | Nicolas Gruber |
2 | Antti Buri | Dominik Fugel | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Nicolas Gruber | ||||
2 | 3 | Nürburgring, Nürburg | 15 August | Harald Proczyk [N 1] | Mike Halder [N 2] | Michelle Halder [N 3] | Profi-Car Team Halder [N 3] | René Kircher |
4 | 16 August | Harald Proczyk | Harald Proczyk | HP Racing International | Marcel Fugel | |||
3 | 5 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 19 September | Nicolas Gruber | Jan Seyffert | Jan Seyffert | HP Racing International | René Kircher [N 4] |
6 | 20 September | Dominik Fugel | Antti Buri | Hyundai Team Engstler | Marcel Fugel | |||
4 | 7 | Sachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal | 3 October | Jan Seyffert | Dominik Fugel | Dominik Fugel | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Marcel Fugel |
8 | 4 October | Dominik Fugel | Harald Proczyk | HP Racing International | Marcel Fugel | |||
5 | 9 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 17 October | Mitchell Cheah | Harald Proczyk | Harald Proczyk | HP Racing International | Marcel Fugel |
10 | 18 October | Antti Buri [N 5] | Antti Buri | Hyundai Team Engstler | Albert Legutko | |||
6 | 11 | Lausitzring, Klettwitz | 31 October | Harald Proczyk | Antti Buri | Antti Buri | Hyundai Team Engstler | Albert Legutko |
12 | 1 November | Dominik Fugel | Dominik Fugel | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Albert Legutko | |||
7 | 13 | Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Oschersleben | 7 November | Antti Buri | Antti Buri | Antti Buri | Hyundai Team Engstler | Marcel Fugel |
14 | 8 November | Dominik Fugel | Dominik Fugel | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Nicolas Gruber |
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | PP |
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Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Bold – Pole |
Pos. | Team | LAU | NÜR | HOC | SAC | RBR | ZAN | OSC | Pts. | |||||||
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1 | HP Racing International | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 398 |
52 | 6 | 83 | 4 | 2 | Ret | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | Ret | |||
2 | Hyundai Team Engstler | 13 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 374 |
31 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 13 | Ret | 6 | 7 | 5 | Ret | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | |||
3 | Profi-Car Team ADAC Sachsen | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 363 |
10 | 9 | DSQ | WD | Ret | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14† | 7 | Ret | Ret | 5 | Ret | |||
4 | Volkswagen Team Oettinger | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 8 | Ret | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 132 |
5 | Skuba Racing Team | 12 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 4 | Ret | 119 |
6 | Legutko Racing – ADAC Berlin | Ret | 10 | DSQ | 5 | 8 | Ret | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 94 | ||
7 | Profi Car Team Halder | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 80 | ||||||||||
11 | Ret | 7 | WD | |||||||||||||
8 | Positione Motorsport | 9 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 50 | ||||||
Teams ineligible to score points | ||||||||||||||||
– | Hyundai Team Engstler | 8 | Ret | 1 | 2 | 10 | Ret | 9 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | Ret | Ret | – |
– | Target Competition | 2 | 6 | – | ||||||||||||
Ret | 10 | |||||||||||||||
– | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | 2 | Ret | – | ||||||||||||
– | Lubner Motorsport | 4 | 6 | – | ||||||||||||
8 | 9 | |||||||||||||||
– | MAIR Racing Osttirol | Ret | 4 | – | ||||||||||||
– | GT2 Motorsport | 10 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 9 | – | ||||||||
– | Wimmer Werk Motorsport | 6 | 10 | 11 | 11 | – | ||||||||||
12 | Ret | 12 | 12 | |||||||||||||
Pos. | Team | LAU | NÜR | HOC | SAC | RBR | ZAN | OSC | Pts. |
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