2026 TCR South America Touring Car Championship

2026 TCR South America Touring Car Championship

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The 2026 TCR South America Touring Car Championship will be the fifth season of TCR South America Touring Car Championship.

Calendar

Announced on 5 January 2026, the championship is scheduled be contested of 10 rounds across Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. ^[1] However, the calendar is updated again on 15 January 2026, Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel replaced Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul. ^[2] The season will begin at Circuito dos Cristais in March and will end at Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini in early December.

  Race is an Endurance Event

  Race is held together with TCR Brazil

Rnd.	Circuit/Location	Dates	Support bill	Map
1	Circuito dos Cristais, Curvelo	6–8 March	Stock Car Pro Series	Curvelo Cascavel Interlagos Cuiabá Velo Città Río Hondo Rosario El Pinar
2	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel	27–29 March	Stock Car Pro Series Turismo Nacional BR
3	Interlagos Circuit, São Paulo	24–26 April	Stock Car Pro Series Stock Light F4 Brazilian Championship
4	Autódromo Internacional de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá	19–20 June	Stock Car Pro Series Stock Light F4 Brazilian Championship Turismo Nacional BR
5	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	24–26 July	Stock Car Pro Series Stock Light
6	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Termas de Río Hondo	21–23 August	TBA
7	TBA	4–6 September
8	TBA	2–4 October
9	Autódromo Municipal Juan Manuel Fangio, Rosario	6–8 November
10	Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini, El Pinar	4–6 December

Teams and drivers

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref. Co-Driver name Rounds Ref. Honda Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 1 Leonel Pernía B 1–3 [3] Julián Santero 3 [4] 33 Nelson Piquet Jr. B 1–3 Marcos Regadas 3 [4] Paladini Racing Lynk & Co 03 TCR 3 Nicolás Fuca BJ 1–3 [5] Santiago Urrutia 3 [6] 5 Fabián Yannantuoni  [ es ] 1–3 [7] Beto Monteiro 3 [4] 9 Fabricio Pezzini B 1–3 [8] Carlos Javier Merlo  [ es ] 3 [4] 16 Juan Ángel Rosso  [ es ] 1–3 [9] Francisco Viel Bugliotti  [ es ] 3 [4] W2 ProGP Cupra León VZ TCR 7 Erick Schotten BJ 1–3 [10] Bruno Massa 3 [4] 22 Celso Neto B 1 [11] —N/a —N/a 77 Raphael Reis B 1–3 [12] Felipe Fraga 3 [4] Uruguay Racing Team Peugeot 308 TCR 8 Joaquín Cafaro J 1–3 [13] [14] Mauricio Lambiris 3 [4] 15 Enrique Maglione BT 1–3 [15] Facundo Ferra 3 [4] 60 Juan Manuel Casella B 1–3 [16] Galid Osman 3 [6] G Racing Motorsport Cupra León VZ TCR 19 Enzo Gianfratti B 1–3 [17] Jenson Brickley 3 [18] 20 Bruno Massa BJ 1–2 [19] —N/a —N/a 43 Pedro Cardoso B 1–3 [20] Celso Neto 3 [6] Hyundai N MSA Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 27 Camilo Trappa J 1–3 [21] Alex Ley 3 [4] 29 Néstor Girolami 1–3 [22] Gaetano di Mauro 3 [6] 56 Gabriel Romano 3 [23] [24] [4] Alberto Cattucci 3 [4] 115 Diego Ciantini 1–3 [25] Rodrigo Lugón 3 [4] Honda YPF Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 61 Fernando Croce BT 1 [26] —N/a —N/a 85 Tiago Pernía B 1–3 [27] Esteban Guerrieri 3 [28] 88 Adrián Chiriano BT 1–3 [26] Fabio Casagrande 3 [6] Cobra Racing Team Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 55 Mariano Pernía B 3 [4] Alex Seid 3 [4] 81 Guilherme Reischl BT 2 [29] —N/a —N/a 86 Gabriel Moura BJ 1–3 [30] Gastón Iansa  [ es ] 3 [4] Porthack Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 56 Gabriel Romano BJ 2 [31] —N/a —N/a 99 Enzo Falquete BJ 1 [32] —N/a —N/a

Icon Class B Eligible for TCR Brazil J Eligible for Copa Junior T Eligible for Copa Trophy

Results

Season summary

Rnd.		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning Junior driver	Winning Trophy driver
1	1	Curvelo	Leonel Pernía	Leonel Pernía	Leonel Pernía	Honda Racing	Camilo Trappa	Adrián Chiriano
	2			Juan Ángel Rosso  [ es ]	Camilo Trappa	Hyundai N MSA	Camilo Trappa	Adrián Chiriano
2	3	Cascavel	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Leonel Pernía	Pedro Cardoso	G Racing Motorsport	Joaquín Cafaro	Enrique Maglione
	4			Pedro Cardoso	Leonel Pernía	Honda Racing	Joaquín Cafaro	Adrián Chiriano
3		Interlagos	Raphael Reis Felipe Fraga	Raphael Reis Felipe Fraga	Raphael Reis Felipe Fraga	W2 ProGP	Nicolás Fuca Santiago Urrutia	Adrián Chiriano Fabio Casagrande
4	6	Mato Grosso
	7
5	8	Velo Città
	9
6	10	Termas de Río Hondo
	11
7	12	TBA
	13
8	14	TBA
	15
9	16	Rosario
	17
10	18	El Pinar
	19
Source: official TCR South America website [33]

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Qualifying	10	7	5	4	3	2	1	—N/a
Endurance Race	50	44	38	34	30	26	22	19	16	14	11	9	6	4	2
Sprint Race 1	40	35	30	27	24	21	18	15	13	11	9	7	5	3	1
Sprint Race 2	35	30	27	24	21	18	15	13	11	9	7	5	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver CRV CAS INT CUI VEL TRH TBC TBC ROS ELP Points RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 END RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 RD1 RD2 1 Leonel Pernía 11 15 143 1 22 145 2 Raphael Reis 43 6 164 4 11 138 3 Camilo Trappa 7 1 8 3 8 114 4 Néstor Girolami 22 8 47 8 164 100 5 Pedro Cardoso 5 Ret 15 14 57 100 6 Enzo Gianfratti 17 9 3 15 33 85 7 Joaquín Cafaro Ret6 7 26 2 Ret 84 8 Juan Ángel Rosso  [ es ] 37 3 12 16 10 79 9 Celso Neto 6 4 57 76 10 Felipe Fraga 11 60 11 Tiago Pernía 124 10 152 19 66 56 12 Diego Ciantini 9 17 6 5 Ret 55 13 Fabricio Pezzini 8 Ret 11 10 7 55 14 Julián Santero 22 51 15 Nicolás Fuca 13 12 18 17 45 47 16 Nelson Piquet Jr. 145 2 DNS1 DNS 17 46 17 Gabriel Moura 19† 5 7 11 Ret 46 18 Juan Manuel Casella 10 11 10 7 15 46 19 Jenson Brickley 33 43 20 Fabián Yannantuoni  [ es ] Ret Ret 9 6 11 42 21 Erick Schotten 16 14 5 13 12 38 22 Santiago Urrutia 45 37 23 Esteban Guerrieri 66 28 24 Adrián Chiriano 11 16 19 9 14 24 25 Carlos Javier Merlo  [ es ] 7 22 26 Alex Ley 8 19 27 Mariano Pernía 9 16 27 Alex Seid 9 16 29 Francisco Viel Bugliotti  [ es ] 10 14 30 Bruno Massa 20† 13 DNS DNS 12 12 31 Beto Monteiro 11 11 32 Enrique Maglione Ret Ret 13 12 Ret 10 33 Gabriel Romano 17 18 13 6 34 Alberto Cattucci 13 6 35 Fabio Casagrande 14 4 36 Gaetano di Mauro 164 4 38 Galid Osman 15 2 37 Fernando Croce 15 18 1 39 Marcos Regadas 17 0 40 Enzo Falquete 18† 19 0 41 Rodrigo Lugón Ret 0 42 Mauricio Lambiris Ret 0 43 Facundo Ferra Ret 0 44 Gastón Iansa  [ es ] Ret 0 45 Guilherme Reischl DNS DNS 0 Pos. Driver CRV CAS INT CUI VEL TRH TBC TBC ROS ELP Points Sources: [34] and the official TCR South America website [35]

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) 1-7 – Points-scoring position in qualifying.

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

References

1. "Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay will once again be part of the TCR South America Banco BRB calendar". southamerica.tcr-series.com. 5 January 2026. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
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20. "2024 champion Pedro Cardoso joins G Racing Motorsport". TouringCarTimes. 6 March 2026. Retrieved 6 March 2026.
21. "Camilo Trappa is the second driver confirmed for Hyundai MSA". TCR South America. 21 February 2026. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
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25. "Diego Ciantini joins the Hyundai MSA team for the 2026 TCR South America Banco BRB season". TCR South America. 15 December 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
26. "Honda Racing completes its lineup with five cars featuring Adrián Chiriano, Fernando Croce, and Tiago Pernía". TCR South America. 27 February 2026. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
27. "Leonel Pernía and Tiago Pernía will continue with Honda YPF Racing in TCR South America Banco BRB". TCR South America. 17 December 2025. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
28. "Esteban Guerrieri joins Interlagos grid". TouringCarTimes. 9 April 2026. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
29. "Guilherme Reischl joins Cobra Racing Team". TouringCarTimes. 11 March 2026. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
30. "Gabriel Moura makes the leap from Turismo Nacional to TCR South America Banco BRB with Cobra Racing Team". TCR South America. 26 February 2026. Retrieved 26 February 2026.
31. "Gabryel Romano se incorpora a Porthack Racing para seguir ampliando la grilal de TCR South America Banco BRB". TCR South America. 20 March 2026. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
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External links

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