TCR Europe Touring Car Series

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TCR Europe Touring Car Series
Category Touring cars
Country Europe
Inaugural season2016
Tyre suppliers Hankook
Drivers' champion Flag of Argentina.svg Franco Girolami
Teams' champion Flag of Estonia.svg ALM Motorsport
Official website europe.tcr-series.com
Motorsport current event.svg Current season

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]

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History

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

Champions

YearChampion (Car)2nd (Car)3rd (Car)Team Champions (Car)
2016 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Pierre-Yves Corthals Opel-Logo 2017.svg Opel Astra Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caprasse Opel-Logo 2017.svg Opel Astra Flag of Finland.svg Antti Buri Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS
2017 Flag of France.svg Aurélien Comte Peugeot 308 Flag of Italy.svg Giacomo Altoè Volkswagen logo 2019.svg VW Golf GTI Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Josh Files Honda.svg Honda Civic Flag of Italy.svg Target Competition Honda.svg Honda Civic
2018 Flag of Spain.svg Mikel Azcona SEAT Logo from 2017.svg SEAT Leon Flag of France.svg Jean-Karl Vernay Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of Serbia.svg Dušan Borković Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai i30 N Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hell Energy Racing with KCMG Honda.svg Honda Civic Type R
2019 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Josh Files Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai i30 N Flag of France.svg Julien Briché Peugeot 308 Flag of Uruguay.svg Santiago Urrutia Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of Italy.svg Target Competition Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai i30 N
2020 Flag of Morocco.svg Mehdi Bennani Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of France.svg John Filippi Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai i30 N Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Nicolas Baert Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Comtoyou Racing Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS
2021 Flag of Spain.svg Mikel Azcona Cupra.svg CUPRA León Competición Flag of Argentina.svg Franco Girolami Honda.svg Honda Civic Type R Flag of the Netherlands.svg Tom Coronel Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of France.svg Sébastien Loeb Racing Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai Elantra
2022 Flag of Argentina.svg Franco Girolami Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of the Netherlands.svg Tom Coronel Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Josh Files Hyundai logo.svg Hyundai Elantra Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Comtoyou Racing Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS
2023 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Tom Coronel Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of France.svg John Filippi Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Kobe Pauwels Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Comtoyou Racing Audi-Logo 2016.svg Audi RS 3 LMS
2024 Flag of Argentina.svg Franco Girolami Cupra.svg CUPRA León VZ Flag of France.svg Aurélien Comte Cupra.svg CUPRA León VZ Flag of Argentina.svg Ignacio Montenegro Honda.svg Honda Civic Type R Flag of Estonia.svg ALM Motorsport Honda.svg Honda Civic Type R

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