Japan’s premier single-seater open wheel series, featuring Dallara chassis at IndyCar or Formula 2 level, mated to Super GT Toyota or Honda engines. Very quick cars.
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Japan’s top sports car series, mixing impressive home-grown GT500 cars as the top class, along with a GT300 class which includes FIA GT3 cars and others.
GT500 is the playground of Honda, Lexus and Nissan.
GT300 sees a big grid of the usual mix of GT3 cars from Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Nissan, Honda, BMW, Bentley – along with Toyotas and Lotuses running to local regulations.
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Germany’s top series expands to ten race events again, the first time at that number since the series switched to 2 races each weekend.
Once again it will be a battle between three big German marques, Audi, BMW and Mercedes AMG. It will be the final season for Mercedes AMG who will depart for Formula E at the end of the year after 19 seasons, having been present since the rebirth of DTM in 2000.
2018 is set to be the final year of the current rules package, in 2019 there will be new rules closely aligned with Super GT’s GT500 cars.
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Or unofficially ‘World TCR’, this is the result of a merger, or takeover, between the FIA WTCC and the TCR International Series.
Effectively Eurosport Events, the people behind WTCC, will adopt the TCR rulebook. Factory teams are out, privateers are in, many from the TCR series. The reduction of factory teams means a downgrade from ‘FIA Championship’ status to ‘FIA Cup’, but that shouldn’t matter, most importantly the racing should be excellent.
In terms of calendar housekeeping, I used the WTCC calendar and renamed it.
If you remain subscribed to my TCR International series calendar, I will now be using this for the new TCR Europe continental series. Link on the main Calendar page.
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