The 2018 World Touring Car Cup took over from the World Touring Car Championship and adopted the TCR technical regulations, it was the 14th overall season of the series that dates from the 2005 World Touring Car Championship… On Sunday, Race 2 and Race 3 will be broadcast live on Eurosport, Fox Sports (Latin America), J SPORTS (Japan), M4 Sport (Hungary), OSN (Middle East and North Africa) and 2M (Morocco).If you’re unable to catch the racing on TV, then be sure to check in on The Checkered Flag.co.uk as we’ll have reports from qualifying and all the races right here on the site.©Copyright MMXX - The Checkered Flag - All Rights Reserved.Andy Priaulx is one of the most decorated touring car drivers of all-time, but that didn’t stop him stamping his mark on F1 despite never racing.Hyundai Motorsport have outlied their plans for the summer despite the WRC and WTCR seasons only starting in September at the earliest.In a recent podcast appearance, Yvan Muller revealed that he wasn’t even supposed to be on the grid for the 2018 WCTR season and more.Sebring set to kick off 2021 FIA WEC season,ByKolles Racing Unveil Images of Their 2021 PMC Project LMH Hypercar,2020 Rally Turkey: Loeb Takes Surprise Lead on WRC Return,Multiple race winner Rob Austin set for BTCC return at Thruxton with Power Maxed Racing,Petecof and Rasmussen win at the Red Bull Ring to Extend Prema's Winning Run in FREC,How touring car success got Priaulx an F1 drive,Hyundai Motorsport gets back into business,Touring car legend Yvan Muller - Formula 1 was my target before I realised there is a life outside of it. The FIA World Touring Car Cup (known as the FIA WTCR presented by Oscaro for sponsorship reasons) was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for touring cars.. Wuhan will host a second Chinese round of the new-for-2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup in as many weeks, with the championship organisers confirming a fourth street circuit at the official season launch this evening (28 March). While Esteban Guerrieri’s last real-life appearance at the 5.542-kilometre Sepang International Circuit ended in disappointment when Norbert Michelisz beat him to the 2019 WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup, he had reason to celebrate after taking the chequered flag first the eighth and final race of the Pre-season Esports Beat the Drivers series back in May. On 6 December 2017, during the FIA's World Motorsport Council in Paris, it was approved the formation of the new World Touring Car Cup starting from 2018. You always have something to prove, first to yourself and maybe then to others. Not only does the track present a particular challenge to the drivers, the atmosphere at the circuit can be infectious too.
The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA World Touring Car Cup has promised to reveal a revised 2020 schedule in the wake of the news that its Vila Real street race in Portugal has been axed. Latest headlines. The intention is for those two drivers to be of the same nationality as the host venue for that event. The new series would utilize the TCR rules, which have been in use in numerous national and international touring car racing series, including the TCR International Series . Each car is assigned a minimum racing weight which is used to,For the 2019 season, FIA WTCR races are awarded the following points, similar to,For the predecessor series run between 2005 and 2017, see,World Touring Car Championship (2005–2017),(in English, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, and German),Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile,https://www.autosport.com/wtcc/news/133642/wtcr-keeps-wtcc-showpieces-on-2018-calendar,"World Touring Car Cup made official as WTCC, TCR combine in two-year deal - TouringCarTimes","WTCR race format confirmed by the World Motor Sport Council","32 car limit and new points system confirmed for 2019 WTCR","Two-car teams to be introduced and points system overhauled in 2019",List of World Touring Car Championship drivers,FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy,FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society,Masters Historic Formula One Championship,South American Super Touring Car Championship,Central European Supertouring Car Championship,https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Touring_Car_Cup&oldid=978561881,Recurring sporting events established in 2018,Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia,Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja),Articles with Italian-language sources (it),Articles with French-language sources (fr),Articles with Spanish-language sources (es),Articles with German-language sources (de),Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.