2023 TCR World Tour

The 2023 Kumho TCR World Tour is set to be the inaugural season of the TCR World Tour, a new international touring car racing competition for TCR cars. Effectively succeeding the WTCR series, this will be the ninth season of an international TCR championship dating back to the 2015 TCR International Series.

The season will consist of nine events selected from a number of TCR series worldwide, and will determine 15 of the drivers to qualify for the end-of-year TCR World Final.[1][2] It is planned to start on 28 April at Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portugal and end on 19 November at Guia Circuit, Macau.[3][4]

The top 15 drivers from the World Tour will join the top 45 drivers that qualified with TCR World Ranking points into a 2023 TCR World Final, which is scheduled to take place in late 2023 or early 2024. It will be held over four days.

Calendar

The championship will be contested over nine rounds in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.

Round Race Circuit Date Championship
1 1 Portugal Algarve International Circuit, Portimão, Portugal 28–30 April TCR Europe Touring Car Series
2
2 3 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 26–28 May
4
3 5 Italy Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma, Italy 9–11 June TCR Italy Touring Car Championship
6
4 7 Hungary Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary 16–18 June TCR Europe Touring Car Series
8
5 9 Uruguay Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini, El Pinar, Uruguay 18–20 August TCR South America Touring Car Championship
10
6 11 Argentina Autódromo José Carlos Bassi, Villa Mercedes, Argentina 25–27 August
12
7 13 Australia Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, Australia 3–5 November TCR Australia Touring Car Series
14
15
8 16 Australia Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia 10–12 November
17
18
9 19 Macau Guia Circuit, Macau Peninsula, Macau[lower-alpha 1] 17–19 November TCR China Series
TCR Asia Challenge
20

Teams and drivers
Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref.
Italy Aggressive Team Italia Hyundai Elantra N TCR 8 Italy Nicola Baldan 1 [6]
48 Sweden Mikael Karlsson 1 [7]
64 Hungary Levente Losonczy TBA [8]
TBA Belgium Giovanni Scamardi TBA [7]
Sweden MA:GP Lynk & Co 03 TCR 10 Sweden Viktor Andersson 1 [9]
Belgium Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 11 North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski 1 [10]
22 Belgium Kobe Pauwels 1 [11]
27 France John Filippi 1 [10]
34 Netherlands Tom Coronel 1 [10][12]
Belgium Audi Sport Team Comtoyou 122 Belgium Frédéric Vervisch W 1 [13]
179 United Kingdom Robert Huff W 1
Spain RC2 Racing Team Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 12 Spain Rubén Fernández 1 [14]
19 Spain Felipe Fernández 1
Spain Volcano Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 23 United Kingdom Isaac Smith 1 [15]
39 United Kingdom Lewis Brown 1 [16]
Italy PMA Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 44 Italy Felice Jelmini TBA [17]
Italy Target Competition Hyundai Elantra N TCR 62 Serbia Dušan Borković 1 [18]
France Team Clairet Sport - Burson Auto Parts Racing Peugeot 308 TCR 71 Australia Ben Bargwanna 1 [19]
Italy BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse Hyundai Elantra N TCR 105 Hungary Norbert Michelisz W 1 [20][21]
196 Spain Mikel Azcona W 1
Sweden Cyan Racing Lynk & Co Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR 111 Sweden Thed Björk W 1 [22][23][24]
112 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia W 1 [22][23][25]
155 China Ma Qing Hua W 1 [22][23][24]
168 France Yann Ehrlacher W 1 [22][23][25]
Estonia ALM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 129 Argentina Néstor Girolami W 1 [26]
Source:[27]
Icon Class
W TCR World Tour entries not eligible to score points in the local series

Results
Rnd. Circuit/Location Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning Team
1 1 Portugal Algarve International Circuit Hungary Norbert Michelisz Spain Mikel Azcona Hungary Norbert Michelisz Italy BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse
2 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia Uruguay Santiago Urrutia Sweden Cyan Racing Lynk & Co
2 3 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
4
3 5 Italy Vallelunga Circuit
6
4 7 Hungary Hungaroring
8
5 9 Uruguay Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini
10
6 11 Argentina Autódromo José Carlos Bassi
12
7 13 Australia Sydney Motorsport Park
14
15
8 16 Australia Mount Panorama Circuit
17
18
9 19 Macau Guia Circuit
20

Points standings
Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th 
Qualifying 15 10 8 6 4 2 —
Races 30 25 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1

Drivers
Pos. Driver POR
Portugal		 SPA
Belgium		 VAL
Italy		 HUN
Hungary		 ELP
Uruguay		 VIL
Argentina		 SYD
Australia		 BAT
Australia		 MAC
Macau		  Pts. 
1 Hungary Norbert Michelisz 11 8 57
2 Spain Mikel Azcona 22 4 55
3 Belgium Frédéric Vervisch 44 3 48
4 United Kingdom Robert Huff 33 6 46
5 Sweden Thed Björk 8 2 37
6 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia Ret 1 30
7 France Yann Ehrlacher 7 7 28
8 China Ma Qing Hua 66 10 26
9 Netherlands Tom Coronel 11 5 24
10 Argentina Néstor Girolami 55 Ret 22
11 France John Filippi 9 9 20
12 Belgium Kobe Pauwels 10 Ret 8
13 Spain Rubén Fernández 18 11 6
14 United Kingdom Isaac Smith 14 13 5
15 Australia Ben Bargwanna 17 12 4
16 Serbia Dušan Borković 12 Ret 4
17 North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski 13 19 3
18 Sweden Viktor Andersson 21† 14 2
19 Italy Nicola Baldan 16 15 1
20 Spain Felipe Fernández 15 18 1
21 United Kingdom Lewis Brown 19 16 0
22 Sweden Mikael Karlsson 20† 17 0
Pos. Driver POR
Portugal		 SPA
Belgium		 VAL
Italy		 HUN
Hungary		 ELP
Uruguay		 VIL
Argentina		 SYD
Australia		 BAT
Australia		 MAC
Macau		  Pts. 
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

1 2 3 4 5 6 – Points-scoring position in qualifying

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

Notes
  1. Subject to agreement with promoters.[5]

References
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  14. "RC2 Racing Team confirms Portimao entry". TouringCarTimes. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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