2020 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship

Last updated January 11, 2025

The 2020 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship will be the sixth season of the ITCC to run under TCR regulations and the 34rd season since the national touring car series was revived in 1987 as the Campionato Italiano Turismo. Salvatore Tavano won the drivers' championship, his third consecutive and fourth overall.

Teams and drivers

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds	Ref.
South Italy Racing Team	Opel Astra TCR	2	Andrea Argenti	1–2, 4, 6	^[1]
Scuderia del Girasole Cupra Racing	CUPRA Leon Competición TCR	3	Simone Pellegrinelli	All	^[2]
		4	Salvatore Tavano	All	^[2]
		28	Federico Paolino	5–6
		96	Mikel Azcona	6
	CUPRA León TCR DSG	6	Raffaele Gurrieri	1–4	^[3]
		19	Eric Scalvini	2–4
		21	Nicola Guida	All	^[4]
Élite Motorsport	CUPRA Leon Competición TCR	8	Nicola Baldan	6
	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	24	Gennaro Manolio	2
	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	26	Francesco Savoia	1
	CUPRA León TCR DSG	44	Michele Imberti	All
Poloni Msport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	9	Matteo Poloni	All	^[4]
PMA Motorsport	Hyundai i30 N TCR	11	Felice Jelmini	All	^[5]
PMA Motorsport	CUPRA León TCR	94	Riccardo Ruberti	1–2	^[4]
LPR Stefanovski Racing Team	Hyundai i30 N TCR	14	Igor Stefanovski	3–6	^[6]
BF Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	16	Ronnie Valori	5
		68	Eric Brigliadori	All	^[4]
		69	Francesca Raffaele	1–4	^[7]
Xeo Group	Opel Astra TCR	18	Nello Nataloni	2
Xeo Group	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	26	Francesco Savoia	2–4
Antonello Racing	CUPRA León TCR	23	Fabio Antonello	1–3	^[4]
MM Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	24	Jonathan Giacon	5–6
		25	Alessandro Giardelli	3–5
		63	Franco Girolami	1–2	^[4]
		64	Massimiliano Mugelli	1–4	^[4]
		65	Jacopo Guidetti	3–6	^[8]
		95	Ibragim Akhmadov	6
	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2)	72	Alessio Caiola	4
B.D. Racing	CUPRA León TCR DSG	25	Alessandro Giardelli	1-2	^[3]
	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2)	28	Federico Paolino	1–4	^[3]
	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2)	76	Massimiliano Danetti	5
Massimiliano Pezzuto	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	29	Massimiliano Pezzuto	4
Proteam Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	43	Riccardo Romagnoli	All	^[9]
CRM Motorsport	Hyundai i30 N TCR	47	Ettore Carminati	1–5	^[10]
Target Competition	Hyundai i30 N TCR	67	Marco Pellegrini	All	^[4]
Target Competition	Hyundai i30 N TCR	69	Francesca Raffaele	5–6
CRC - Cappellari Reparto Corse	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR DSG	76	Daniele Cappellari	2, 4	^[11]
Trico WRT	Hyundai i30 N TCR	81	Damiano Reduzzi	1, 3, 5–6	^[4]
Volcano Motorsport	CUPRA León TCR	85	Evgeni Leonov	6
RC Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR DSG	92	Carlotta Fedeli	1–4	^[4]
Aggressive Italia	Hyundai i30 N TCR	93	Mauro Guastamacchia	1–5	^[12]

Calendar and results

The calendar was announced in December but due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been postponed to a date yet to be decided.^[13]

Rnd.		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team	DSG Winner	Supporting
1	1	Mugello Circuit, Scarperia	18-19 July	Eric Brigliadori	Felice Jelmini	Salvatore Tavano	Scuderia del Girasole Cupra Racing	Michele Imberti	Ferrari Challenge Europe Italian GT Championship
1	2	Mugello Circuit, Scarperia	18-19 July		Felice Jelmini	Damiano Reduzzi	Trico WRT	Alessandro Giardelli	Ferrari Challenge Europe Italian GT Championship
2	3	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico	1-2 August	Felice Jelmini	Felice Jelmini	Felice Jelmini	PMA Motorsport	Eric Scalvini	Italian F4 Championship
2	4	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico	1-2 August		Felice Jelmini	Eric Brigliadori	BF Motorsport	Michele Imberti
3	5	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	29-30 August	Felice Jelmini	Felice Jelmini	Felice Jelmini	PMA Motorsport	Eric Scalvini
3	6	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	29-30 August		Damiano Reduzzi	Damiano Reduzzi	Trico WRT	Michele Imberti
4	7	ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma	19-20 September	Eric Brigliadori	Eric Brigliadori	Eric Brigliadori	BF Motorsport	Michele Imberti	Italian GT Championship Porsche Carrera Cup Italia
4	8	ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma	19-20 September		Eric Brigliadori	Igor Stefanovski	LPR Stefanovski Racing Team	Michele Imberti	Italian GT Championship Porsche Carrera Cup Italia
5	9	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	7-8 November	Eric Brigliadori	Eric Brigliadori	Jonathan Giacon	MM Motorsport	Riccardo Romagnoli
5	10	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	7-8 November		Eric Brigliadori	Jonathan Giacon	MM Motorsport	Matteo Poloni
6	11	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	21-22 November	Jacopo Guidetti	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Scuderia del Girasole Cupra Racing	Matteo Poloni
6	12	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola	21-22 November		Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Scuderia del Girasole Cupra Racing	Matteo Poloni

Drivers' Championship

Scoring systems

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	PP	FL
Points	25	20	18	15	12	10	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	1	1

Pos.	Driver	MUG		MIS		IMO1		VAL		MNZ		IMO2		Pts.
1	Salvatore Tavano	1	20	3	4	5	2	3	Ret	3	3	7	5	164
2	Eric Brigliadori	18	7	2	1	2	13	1	10	6	2	Ret	2	160
3	Felice Jelmini	3	16	1	3	1	7	4	Ret	2	Ret	3	Ret	154
4	Marco Pellegrini	2	3	4	2	20	8	6	4	7	Ret	11	18†	117
5	Jacopo Guidetti					4	4	5	3	DSQ	DNS	4	3	94
6	Damiano Reduzzi	Ret	1			2	1			9	Ret	Ret	8	84
7	Michele Imberti	4	Ret	7	7	7	5	9	6	Ret	9	13	14	76
8	Alessandro Giardelli	9	5	21	22	11	Ret	2	2	8	12			72
10	Mauro Guastamacchia	8	6	12	10	8	9	11	8	5	6			71
11	Jonathan Giacon									1	1	2	Ret	70
9	Ettore Carminati	7	4	5	5	18	6	Ret	5	Ret	DNS			69
12	Igor Stefanovski					Ret	3	7	1	14	Ret	6	10	67
13	Francesca Raffaele	5	Ret	11	11	22	16	13	Ret	12	4	9	7	54
14	Mikel Azcona											1	1	52
15	Matteo Poloni	6	9	Ret	14	12	11	16	13	15	7	12	13	39
16	Eric Scalvini			6	9	6	10	24	DNS					31
17	Franco Girolami	19	2	22	6									30
18	Simone Pellegrinelli	21	Ret	8	Ret	9	14	23	9	Ret	Ret	10	11	29
19	Ronnie Valori									4	5			27
20	Francesco Savoia	Ret	12	9	8	10	Ret	20	DNS					21
21	Andrea Argenti	12	8	Ret	13			10	Ret			Ret	12	20
22	Ibragim Akhmadov											5	9	18
24	Eugeny Leonov											8	6	17
23	Riccardo Romagnoli	13	13	14	18	13	18	19	12	13	11	14	16	17
26	Nicola Baldan											15	4	15
25	Federico Paolino	16	17	13	15	15	20	22	14	10	8	Ret	15	15
27	Massimiliano Mugelli	20	11	23	Ret	14	12	8	Ret					15
28	Alessio Caiola							12	7					11
31	Nicola Guida	15	18	19	23	21	17	15	16	11	10	16	17	9
29	Carlotta Fedeli	11	10	15	16	17	21	18	Ret					9
30	Daniele Cappellari			10	12			21	17†					8
32	Raffaele Gurrieri	10	15	17	19	16	19	17	15					5
33	Massimiliano Pezzuto							14	11					5
34	Fabio Antonello	14	14	16	17	19	15							2
35	Riccardo Ruberti	17	19	Ret	20									0
36	Nello Nataloni			18	24									0
37	Gennaro Manolio			20	21									0
-	Massimiliano Danetti									DNS	DNS			-
Pos.	Driver	MUG		MIS		IMO1		VAL		MNZ		IMO2		Pts.

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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External links

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