The Kumho FIA TCR World Tour 2024 will be the second season of the TCR World Tour, an international touring car racing series for TCR cars. Effectively succeeding the WTCR series, it will also be the tenth season of international TCR competition, starting with the TCR International Series in 2015. The season marks the return of Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) status for the competition after a one-year hiatus.
The season will consist of seven events selected from different TCR series around the world and will determine 15 of the drivers who will qualify for the final TCR world championship standings at the end of the year, where the TCR world champion will be determined.
The championship was initially scheduled to be contested in nine rounds in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, South America and Africa. On Feb. 16, the two scheduled events in Australia were removed from the calendar due to logistical problems for the teams that would have had to transport the cars to the country, thus reducing the championship to seven events. On Feb. 28, the calendar was approved by the FIA’s World Motorsport Council, in which it was announced that the Brazilian round will be held at the Interlagos circuit and the Chinese round will be moved up a month. more precisely to October.
Calendar:
1 – Vallelunga Italy – 19/21 April
2 – Marrakech Morocco – 3/4 May
3 – Mid Ohio USA – 7/9 June
4 – Interlagos Brazil – 19/21 July
5 – El Pinar Uruguay – 2/4 August
6 – Zhouzhou China – 18/20 October
7 – Macau – 14/17 November
Opened in 1951, Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi is named in honour of the Mille Miglia road racer and the track’s principal design engineer. The venue near Rome has hosted international and national-level competition over the years. In 2021 it was the setting of the inaugural PURE ETCR event two years after it staged the first FIA Motorsport Games, which included the Touring Car Cup consisting of two races for TCR cars. The 3.2-kilometre ‘Historical International’ layout will be operational for WTCR Race of Italy having been the track used for a number of famous touring car battles in the 1990s.
The Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan (also known as Marrakech Street Circuit and Marrakech Racetrack) is a 2.971 km (1.846 mi) temporary street circuit in Agdal district, Marrakech, Morocco. The circuit is operated by MGP, it has a capacity of 10,000 spectators.
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is a road course auto racing facility located in Troy Township, Morrow County, Ohio, United States, just outside the village of Lexington. It hosts a number of racing series such as IndyCar, IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, along with other club events such has SCCA and National Auto Sport Association. There is grandstand seating for 12,000 spectators and three observation mounds alongside the track raise the capacity to over 75,000. Mid-Ohio is classified as an FIA Grade Two circuit.
The Autódromo José Carlos Pace (in Portuguese Autódromo José Carlos Pace) is a motor racing circuit in São Paulo, Brazil, also known as the Interlagos circuit after the name of the city area where it is located. Opened in 1940, between 1973 and 2019 it hosted 39 editions of the Brazilian Grand Prix valid for the Formula 1 World Championship. Since 2021, also in Formula 1, it has hosted the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. It is also part of the circuits used by the FIA World Endurance Championship. At 4.309 km long, its overall lap record belongs to Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas, with a time of 1’10″540 (average 219.909 km/h), while the distance record is the prerogative of Britain’s Lewis Hamilton (305.879 km in 1h27’09″066, average 210.585 km/h). Both performances were set during the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix in Mercedes AMG F1 W09 EQ Power+.
The Autodromo Víctor Borrat Fabini is a racetrack in El Pinar, Uruguay, located 31 km (19 mi) from Montevideo. It was inaugurated on October 14, 1956. The circuit features different track configurations. Currently, the circuit hosts the TCR World Tour, TCR South America Touring Car Championship and national championships, but in the past it has also hosted other continental championships and the Argentine car championships. In 1999, the “Gota de Agua” corner was eliminated and the “Beco” corner was built in the inner part of the circuit. In 2017, the circuit was expanded and the section of the “Gota de Agua” curve was resurfaced.
The circuit hosted its first TCR World Tour intercontinental event in August 18-20, 2023. For this event, the circuit was renovated and the track was lengthened by about 0.500 km (0.311 mi).
Zhuzhou International Circuit is a 3.774 km (2.345 mi) FIA Grade 2 motor racing circuit in Zhuzhou, China. The circuit was built between March 2018 and October 2019 and was designed by Yaq Qiming.
Macau’s Circuito da Guia blends twisty turns and narrow blasts with long, wide-open straights and sweeping corners, plus gradient changes, to create one of the most challenging and spectacular street circuits on the planet. After two years away, the world’s fastest international touring car series returns in 2017 to the Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, restoring the famous Guia Race to its former glory in the process.
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Mikel AzconaAfter just three seasons in the series, 25-year-old Spaniard Mikel has established himself as one of the undisputed stars of WTCR.
He began his racing career in the Renault Clio Cup Spain before moving up to the Renault Clio Eurocup, finishing second in the championship aged 18.
Mikel was a runner-up again in the 2016 SEAT Leon Eurocup and the 2017 Audi Sport TT Cup. However in 2018 he claimed his first ever title, winning the TCR Europe Touring Car Series. This impressive performance saw him achieve a drive at the pinnacle of touring car racing for the 2019 season.
Over his three years in WTCR, the Spaniard has taken three victories – one in each season – and 12 podiums. In 2021, he competed once again in the TCR Europe Touring Car Series alongside his WTCR commitments and emphatically secured his second drivers’ title. Mikel also competed in the inaugural season of PURE ETCR, and was the only driver to win the King of the Weekend crown twice (Vallelunga and Hungaroring).
Mikel will join Norbert to complete our 2022 Customer Racing line-up in WTCR.
In 2022 Mikel triumphs becoming WTCR World Champion with the Hyundai Elantra TCR managed by BRC Racing Team.
Néstor GirolamiNéstor Girolami born in Cordoba on May 22, 1989) is an Argentine racing driver. He made his World Touring Car Championship debut in Slovakia in 2015 in a Honda Civic WTCC, scoring points on his debut with a 10th place finish. He competed in the 2017 World Touring Car Championship for Polestar Cyan Racing and scored his first win in China. In 2019 he participated in the World Touring Car Cup on a Honda Civic Type R TCR managed by Münnich Motorsport official Honda team, ending the year with 3 wins including two consecutive wins in Hungary. In 2020 and 2021 he is reappointed as an official Honda driver.
Norbert MicheliszMichelisz’s online racing exploits earned him a test in a Zengő Motorsport Renault Clio at the Hungaroring in 2005. Despite being a total rookie, he ended up 0.2s slower than established racer Gábor Wéber.
One-make maestro: That testing performance earned him a season in the Suzuki Swift Cup in his homeland in 2006. He promptly took the title before adding the Renault Clio equivalent the following season.
The SEAT León Eurocup was next and after securing the crown in 2009, he stepped up to the FIA World Touring Car Championship with Zengő Motorsport a guiding light.
After winning the WTCC Trophy for independent racers twice, Michelisz landed a factory Honda ride for 2016, which culminated in an outright title challenge one year later. He finished second with three wins and three fastest laps.
Michelisz, the King of WTCR following his 2019 title triumph, established his own racing team, M1RA, with Hungarian engineer Dávid Bári.
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