2021 TCR Europe Touring Car Series

2021 TCR Europe Touring Car Series

Drivers' Champion: Mikel Azcona
Teams' Champion: Sébastien Loeb Racing

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The 2021 TCR Europe Touring Car Series was the sixth season of TCR Europe Touring Car Series. The season began at the Slovakiaring in May and ended at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in October. ^[1]

Mikel Azcona won the drivers' championship for the second time and Sébastien Loeb Racing won the teams' championship for the first time.

Calendar

The calendar was announced on 23 December 2020 with 7 rounds scheduled. ^[1]

Rnd.		Circuit/Location	Date	Supporting
1	1	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring, Orechová Potôň, Slovakia	7–9 May	TCR Eastern Europe Trophy
	2
2	3	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France	28–30 May	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
	4
3	5	Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands	18–20 June	GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
	6
4	7	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium	29–31 July	Spa 24 Hours
	8
5	9	Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany	3–5 September	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
	10
6	11	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy	24–26 September	International GT Open F4 French Championship
	12
7	13	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain	8–10 October	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
	14

Calendar Changes

• The Circuito del Jarama and Circuit of Zolder rounds were dropped out of the calendar
• Nurburgring and Slovakiaring were included in the calendar.

Teams and drivers

Hankook is the official tire supplier.

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref. Lema Racing CUPRA León Competición TCR 3 Giacomo Ghermandi 7 [2] RC2 Junior Team CUPRA León Competición TCR 5 Rubén Fernández Y 6 [3] 19 Felipe Fernández R 7 [4] 101 Sergio Lopez Bolotin R 6–7 [3] Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 8 Nicolas Baert J All [5] 32 Tom Coronel All [6] 162 Dušan Borković All [7] Sébastien Loeb Racing Hyundai Elantra N TCR 10 Niels Langeveld All [8] 25 Sami Taoufik J All [8] [9] 44 Felice Jelmini All [8] [9] 250 Mehdi Bennani All [8] Brianmadsen Sport Peugeot 308 TCR 11 Gustav Birch R 3, 6 [10] VRC Team Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 14 Klim Gavrilov J 1–6 [11] Volcano Motorsport CUPRA León Competición TCR 7 [12] 16 Evgeni Leonov 1–4, 6–7 [13] 96 Mikel Azcona 1–2, 4–7 [13] Brutal Fish Racing Team Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 17 Martin Ryba Y All [14] 26 Isidro Callejas R All [14] [15] 62 Jack Young J All [14] [16] Team Clairet Sport Peugeot 308 TCR 20 Teddy Clairet All [17] 21 Jimmy Clairet All [17] CUPRA León TCR 66 Gilles Colombani Y All [17] 77 Sylvain Pussier Y All [17] Janík Motorsport Hyundai i30 N TCR 24 Jáchym Galáš R All [18] 70 Maťo Homola All [18] Horňák-Aditis Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 38 Petr Čížek Y 6 [19] 97 Bartosz Groszek R 6 [19] BTC Maszyny Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 53 Łukasz Stolarczyk R 5–6 [20] PSS Racing Team Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 72 Franco Girolami All [21] 110 Viktor Davidovski Y 1–3, 5–7 [21] Trico WRT Hyundai i30 N TCR 81 Damiano Reduzzi Y 6 [22] Zengő Motorsport CUPRA León Competición TCR 99 Dániel Nagy 1 [23]

Icon Class R Eligible for TCR Europe Rookie Trophy J Eligible for TCR Europe Junior Trophy Y Eligible for TCR Europe Diamond Trophy G Guest drivers ineligible to score points

Summary

• SMC Junior Motorsport will enter a Peugeot 308 TCR for Fernando Navarrete, who will be competing in a partial campaign during the season
• Brutal Fish Racing will enter three Honda Civic Type R TCR, as last year. Martin Ryba, Isidro Callejas and Jack Young are confirmed. Dan Lloyd left the series to return the British Touring Car Championship and join Power Maxed Racing, but will remain within the team as a driver coach. ^{[24] [25]}
• Tom Coronel will move from Boutsen Ginion Racing to Comtoyou Racing to replace Mehdi Bennani and he will be joined by 2020 TCR Eastern Europe winner Dušan Borković who returns to the series after having last raced in 2019 for Autodis Racing by Target Competition to replace Sami Taoufik.
• After running a partial campaign during the 2020 season, Volcano Motorsport will enter the series full-time, but will enter two all new Cupra León Competición TCR cars for Evgeni Leonov and Mikel Azcona.
• Sébastien Loeb Racing will enter four Hyundai Elantra N TCR cars during the season. Niels Langeveld, Felice Jelmini and Sami Taoufik have been confirmed to be three of the team's entries, Mehdi Bennani returns to the team.
• Team Clairet Sport will enter two Peugeot 308 TCR and two Cupra Leon TCR. Teddy Clairet, Jimmy Clairet and Gilles Colombani were remained at the team but Gilles Colombani will switch from Peugeot 308 TCR to Cupra León TCR and Sylvain Pussier returned to the series and Team Clairet Sport to replace Stéphane Ventaja.
• Dániel Nagy will move from Hyundai i30 N TCR to Cupra León Competición TCR and return to Zengő Motorsport.

Results and standings

Season summary

Rnd.		Circuit/Location	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning Team	Winning Rookie driver	Winning Junior driver	Winning Diamond driver
1	1	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	Tom Coronel	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Jáchym Galáš	Nicolas Baert	Martin Ryba
	2			Mikel Azcona	Mehdi Bennani	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Isidro Callejas	Klim Gavrilov	Martin Ryba
2	3	Circuit Paul Ricard	Teddy Clairet	Felice Jelmini	Teddy Clairet	Team Clairet Sport	Jáchym Galáš	Jack Young	Viktor Davidovski
	4			Jack Young	Jimmy Clairet	Team Clairet Sport	Isidro Callejas	Sami Taoufik	Viktor Davidovski
3	5	Circuit Zandvoort	Jack Young	Tom Coronel	Tom Coronel	Comtoyou Racing	Isidro Callejas	Jack Young	Viktor Davidovski
	6			Franco Girolami	Franco Girolami	PSS Racing Team	Isidro Callejas	Sami Taoufik	Viktor Davidovski
4	7	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Felice Jelmini	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Isidro Callejas	Sami Taoufik	Martin Ryba
	8			Klim Gavrilov	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Isidro Callejas	Sami Taoufik	Martin Ryba
5	9	Nürburgring	Isidro Callejas	Niels Langeveld	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Isidro Callejas	Klim Gavrilov	Martin Ryba
	10			Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Jáchym Galáš	Jack Young	Viktor Davidovski
6	11	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Franco Girolami	Mikel Azcona	Franco Girolami	PSS Racing Team	Bartosz Groszek	Sami Taoufik	Viktor Davidovski
	12			Jack Young	Maťo Homola	Janík Motorsport	Isidro Callejas	Jack Young	Sylvain Pussier
7	13	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Volcano Motorsport	Isidro Callejas	Sami Taoufik	Martin Ryba
	14			Sami Taoufik	Klim Gavrilov	Volcano Motorsport	Jáchym Galáš	Klim Gavrilov	Gilles Colombani

Drivers' standings

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Qualifying	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	—
Race	40	35	30	27	24	21	18	15	13	11	9	7	5	3	1

Pos. Driver SVK LEC ZAN SPA NUR MNZ BAR  Pts.  1 Mikel Azcona 12 2 68 2 14 1 15 1 27 4 11 WD 432 2 Franco Girolami 126 3 79 5 57 1 57 7 22 2 11 19 17 5 353 3 Niels Langeveld 4 21† 45 Ret 49 2 8 5 33 4 10 14 66 4 295 4 Tom Coronel 51 6 9 8 12 Ret 10 10 56 Ret 34 2 14 WD 258 5 Mehdi Bennani 610 1 182 6 125 6 22 9 11 14 21† 12 107 2 252 6 Jimmy Clairet Ret 9 37 1 78 5 13 11 15 11 48 6 9 16 247 7 Nicolas Baert 23 8 15 13 64 8 66 8 14 8 810 8 44 8 242 8 Teddy Clairet Ret 14 11 Ret 16 13 78 3 44 7 Ret 9 23 3 220 9 Sami Taoufik 17 Ret Ret4 3 1010 7 45 6 9 12 5 10 32 15 216 10 Jack Young 11 11 56 Ret 21 9 18† 13 1710 3 Ret2 3 88 12 205 11 Isidro Callejas 188 7 Ret 10 86 3 99 4 71 10 Ret5 11 59 DSQ 204 12 Dušan Borković 74 10 14 11 33 4 12 14 8 9 76 7 DNS WD 192 13 Maťo Homola DNS 12 11 9 13 11 143 2 10 Ret 69 1 13 7 186 14 Felice Jelmini 89 13 23 7 17 Ret 31 Ret 13 Ret Ret3 5 Ret 9 173 15 Klim Gavrilov Ret7 4 13 15 9 Ret 1110 12 67 6 15 16 1110 1 164 16 Viktor Davidovski 13 18 810 4 11 10 189 13 9 26 12 19 95 17 Jáchym Galáš 16 16 12 Ret DSQ 17 Ret 16 128 5 Ret 17 15 6 63 18 Dániel Nagy 35 5 60 19 Martin Ryba 10 15 16 16 14 12 15 15 16 15 Ret Ret 75 Ret 49 20 Evgeni Leonov 9 17 10 12 15 Ret 17 Ret 13 15 16 17 38 21 Sylvain Pussier 14 19 19 14 19 15 Ret DNS Ret 16 20 18 18 11 16 22 Gilles Colombani 15 20 17 17 18 14 16 17 19 17 16 22 DNS 10 15 23 Bartosz Groszek 11 13 WD WD 14 24 Rubén Fernández 12 Ret 7 25 Sergio López Bolotin Ret 20 20 13 5 26 Damiano Reduzzi 14 21 3 27 Felipe Fernández Ret 14 3 28 Gustav Birch 20 16 17 23 0 29 Łukasz Stolarczyk 20 18 18 25 0 30 Giacomo Ghermandi 19 18 0 31 Petr Čížek 19 24 WD WD 0 Pos. Driver SVK LEC ZAN SPA NUR MNZ BAR  Pts.

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) 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

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' standings

Pos.	Team	Pts.
1	Sébastien Loeb Racing	759
2	Comtoyou Racing	605
3	Volcano Motorsport	562
4	Team Clairet Sport	542
5	PSS Racing Team	484
6	Brutal Fish Racing Team	481
7	Janík Motorsport	295
8	VRC Team	137
9	Zengő Motorsport	61
10	RC2 Junior Team	26
11	Horňák-Aditis	20
12	Brianmadsen Sport	10
13	Trico WRT	5
14	Lema Racing	4
=	BTC Maszyny Racing	4

TCR BeNeLux Drivers' standings (top 3)

Pos.	Driver	Pts.
1	Niels Langeveld	?
2		?
3		?
Pos.	Driver	Pts.

References

1. "Nürburgring and Slovakiaring added to finalised 2021 calendar". TouringCarTimes. 23 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-23. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
2. "Giacomo Ghermandi to debut in season finale". TouringCarTimes. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
3. "RC2 Junior Team enters two Cupras for Monza". TouringCarTimes. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
4. "Felipe Fernández joins grid for Barcelona finale". TouringCarTimes. 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
5. "Nicolas Baert joins Coronel and Borković at Comtoyou Racing". TouringCarTimes. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
6. "Tom Coronel to run double duty with TCR Europe programme". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
7. "Dušan Borković to make TCR Europe return". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
8. "Niels Langeveld to race SLR Hyundai Elantra in new European programme". TouringCarTimes. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
9. "Sébastien Loeb Racing completes line-up with Bennani, Taoufik". touringcartimes.com. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
10. "Gustav Birch joins TCR Europe round at Zandvoort". TouringCarTimes. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
11. "Klim Gavrilov set for full TCR Europe season". TouringCarTimes. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
12. "Klim Gavrilov makes Cupra switch for season finale". TouringCarTimes. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
13. "Mikel Azcona to lead Volcano Motorsport entry". TouringCarTimes. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
14. "Brutal Fish confirm three-car programme". Touring Car Times. 22 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
15. "Teenage racer Isidro Callejas secures Brutal Fish seat". Touring Car Times. 3 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
16. "Brutal Fish Racing confirms Jack Young for TCR Europe". Touring Car Times. 25 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
17. "Team Clairet confirms four-car TCR Europe programme". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
18. "Mat'o Homola joins expanded Janík Motorsport programme". TouringCarTimes. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
19. "Horňák-Aditis Racing Team enters two Audis for Monza". TouringCarTimes. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
20. "Łukasz Stolarczyk joins Nürburgring grid". TouringCarTimes. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
21. "PSS Racing Team confirms Franco Girolami and Viktor Davidovski". TouringCarTimes. 20 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
22. "Damiano Reduzzi to make Eurppean debut on home soil". TouringCarTimes. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
23. "Zengő Motorsport enters Dániel Nagy for Slovakiaring opener". TouringCarTimes. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
24. "Dan Lloyd to make BTCC return with Power Maxed". TouringCarTimes. 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
25. "Brutal Fish confirm three-car programme". TouringCarTimes. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-04-19.

External links

• TCR Europe Series Official website