World Touring Car Cup

World Touring Car Cup
Touring Car World Cup 2020
Vehicle type	Touring car
Country or region	World cup
Current name	FIA World Touring Car Cup
Previous names	FIA Touring Car World Cup
First season	1993 and 2018
Official website	www.fiawtcr.com

The FIA - World Touring Car World Cup (officially FIA World Touring Car Cup , shortly WTCR , formerly FIA Touring Car World Cup ) is a worldwide advertised by the FIA race series for touring cars without FIA World Championship status. The WTCR emerged in 2018 from the merger of the World Touring Car Championship with the TCR International Series .

history

At the meeting of the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) of the World Automobile Federation FIA in Paris on December 6, 2017, a decision was made between the FIA, Eurosport Events and WSC Ltd. (World Sporting Consulting) agrees to announce a new World Touring Car Cup (WTCR), which will replace the previous WTCC and the TCR International Series . In addition to François Ribeiro, the current head of Eurosport Events, Marcello Lotti, CEO of WSC Ltd, who was François Ribeiro's predecessor as head of Eurosport Events, was also involved in the agreements. Eurosport Events takes on the role of organizer of the WTCR. The technical regulations for the TCR (TCN2) class created by the WSC were licensed for the new FIA WTCR for the next two years and frozen until the end of 2019. Since the TCR concept is geared towards customer sport for private teams, no manufacturer registrations are possible in the WTCR. This also means that the FIA ​​does not award a World Championship title and the World Touring Car Championship has been converted into the World Touring Car Cup. Two FIA World Cup titles will be awarded for drivers and teams.

In addition to the World Touring Car Championship and the TCR International Series, the European FIA ETC Cup will also be discontinued in 2018 . Like the TCR International Series, the latter recently used the TCR regulations, which are now being adopted by the WTCR. The successor to the ETC Cup is the TCR Europe Series, which has been advertised since 2016 and, like the discontinued TCR International Series by WSC Ltd. is organized.

An FIA Touring Car World Cup (officially FIA Touring Car World Cup ) already existed between 1993 and 1996 . This was advertised as an event taking place once a year. The class 2 regulations of the super touring cars , which were used in many national racing series at the time, served as the basis here. In 1993 the race took place in Monza , in 1994 in Donington and 1995 in Le Castellet .

Set of rules

Racing format

Compared to the WTCC and the TCR International Series, the WTCR has a new racing format. This consists of 3 races per weekend and two independent qualifying sessions . Each race weekend begins with two 30-minute free practice sessions, followed by 30 minutes of qualifying and race 1. The second day includes a second qualifying with Q1 of 25 minutes, Q2 of 10 minutes and Q3 with a top 5 individual time trial , followed by races 2 and Race 3. In the first race, the starting grid is established according to the first qualifying. The second race will start in reverse order of the top 10 positions from Q2 of the second qualifying, while the starting grid for the third race will be formed according to the combined result after Q3.

Point system

In order to weight the three races according to their difficulty, there was a separate point system for all three races per weekend in the 2018 season. However, this was withdrawn for the 2019 season and a uniform point system was established for all races. In addition, the awarding of points was extended to the 15th place. While only the second qualifying was awarded points in 2018, points will also be awarded for the first qualifying from 2019.

Points system in qualifying
	Qualifying 1st					Qualifying 2
placement	1	2	3	4th	5	1	2	3	4th	5
Points 2018	-	-	-	-	-	5	4th	3	2	1
Points 2019	5	4th	3	2	1	5	4th	3	2	1

Points system in the race
	Race 1															Race 2															Race 3
placement	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Points 2018	27	20th	17th	14th	12	10	8th	6th	4th	2	-	-	-	-	-	25th	18th	15th	12	10	8th	6th	4th	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	30th	23	19th	16	13	10	7th	4th	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
Points 2019	25th	20th	16	13	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1	25th	20th	16	13	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1	25th	20th	16	13	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Overall winner

Touring Car World Cup
			Driver ranking				Manufacturer rating			Nations ranking
year	route		driver	team	vehicle		Manufacturer	vehicle		nation
1993	Monza		Paul Radisich	Ford Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo		-	-		Italy
1994	Donington		Paul Radisich	Ford Team Mondeo	Ford Mondeo		BMW	BMW 318i		Germany
1995	Le Castellet		Frank Biela	Racing Organization Course	Audi A4 Quattro		Audi	Audi A4 Quattro		-
World Touring Car Cup
			Driver ranking				Team evaluation
year			driver	team	vehicle		team	vehicle
2018			Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai i30 N TCR		M Racing-YMR	Hyundai i30 N TCR
2019			Norbert Michelisz	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai i30 N TCR		Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 TCR

Web links

Commons : World Touring Car Cup  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• www.fiawtcr.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Lüttgens & Jack Cozens: Change to TCR regulations: WTCC loses World Championship status. Motorsport-Total.com, December 6, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Manuel Schulz: WTCR with a completely revised weekend format. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 7, 2017, accessed January 3, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: Significantly simplified: WTCR 2019 with a new point system. Motorsport-Total.com, December 5, 2018, accessed April 7, 2019 .