TCR Europe Touring Car Series

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]

TCR Europe Touring Car Series
CategoryTouring cars
CountryEurope
Inaugural season2016
Tyre suppliersHankook
Drivers' championNetherlands Tom Coronel
Teams' championBelgium Comtoyou Racing
Official websitehttps://europe.tcr-series.com/
Current season

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 Pierre-Yves Corthals Opel Astra Frédéric Caprasse Opel Astra Antti Buri Audi RS 3 LMS
2017 Aurélien ComtePeugeot 308 Giacomo Altoè VW Golf GTI Josh Files Honda Civic Target Competition Honda Civic
2018 Mikel Azcona SEAT Leon Jean-Karl Vernay Audi RS 3 LMS Dušan Borković Hyundai i30 N Hell Energy Racing with KCMG Honda Civic Type R
2019 Josh Files Hyundai i30 N Julien BrichéPeugeot 308 Santiago Urrutia Audi RS 3 LMS Target Competition Hyundai i30 N
2020 Mehdi Bennani Audi RS 3 LMS John Filippi Hyundai i30 N Nicolas Baert Audi RS 3 LMS Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS
2021 Mikel Azcona CUPRA León Competición Franco Girolami Honda Civic Type R Tom Coronel Audi RS 3 LMS Sébastien Loeb Racing Hyundai Elantra
2022 Franco Girolami Audi RS 3 LMS Tom Coronel Audi RS 3 LMS Josh Files Hyundai Elantra Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS
2023 Tom Coronel Audi RS 3 LMS John Filippi Audi RS 3 LMS Kobe Pauwels Audi RS 3 LMS Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS

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