What is TCR Europe?

There has been much change in the TCR landscape across the past 12 months, leading to a shuffle in the pecking order of the various championships. With the FIA World Touring Car Championship – previously for Tc1-spec machinery – ceasing at the end of 2017, the new FIA World Touring Car Cup will adopt TCR regulations to become the top tier of global touring car racing. What was the TCR International Series will now revert to running in Europe only, being renamed the TCR European Series. This sits as the second-tier category underneath the World Touring Car Cup. TCR Europe consists of seven rounds at world-class venues such as Spa, Hungaroring, Monza and Barcelona, with each round featuring a single qualifying session and two 25-minute races. The top 10 finishers for race one will be reversed on the grid for race two. Various national-level TCR categories – such as the German, Benelux, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and new UK variant – are designed to feed drivers into the European scene.

2018 CALENDAR

DATE EVENT

May 6 Paul Ricard F

May 21 Zandvoort NL

Jun 10 Spa-francorchamps B

Jul 8 Hungaroring H

Aug 19 Assen NL

Sept 23 Monza I

Oct 21 Barcelona E