2021 TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship

The 2021 TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship (known for commercial reasons as the Allied Petroleum TCR New Zealand Championship) will be the inaugural season of the TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship.

2021 New Zealand Touring Car Championship Logo

Teams and drivers

All teams are based and registered in New Zealand.

Team Car No Drivers Ref
New Zealand Racer Products[1] Hyundai i30 N TCR 5 New Zealand Gene Rollinson
New Zealand Paddon Rallysport 20 New Zealand Hayden Paddon [2]
New Zealand Jaden Ransley Racing 53 New Zealand Jaden Ransley [3]
New Zealand TrackTec Racing[4] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 7 New Zealand Chris van der Drift [5]
26 New Zealand Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes [6]
51 New Zealand Greg Murphy [7]
New Zealand Evolution Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 23 New Zealand Jordan Michels [8]
New Zealand M-Developments Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 79 New Zealand Paul Radisich [9]

Race calendar

The 2020 calendar was announced on April 30, 2019. It was also announced that the summer scheduled (labelled the Sprint Championship) was scheduled to be followed by an endurance series later on in the year.[10] The series was later rescheduled for the second half of 2020,[11] then for March 2021 with three rounds.[12]

Round Circuit Date
1 New Zealand Highlands Motorsport Park 23-24 April

Results

Summary
Round Race Circuit Pole position Winning Driver Winning Team
1 1 Highlands Motorsport Park New Zealand Hayden Paddon New Zealand Chris van der Drift TrackTec Racing
2 New Zealand Chris van der Drift TrackTec Racing
3 New Zealand Hayden Paddon Paddon Rallysport

Standings
Pos. Driver No. HIG
New Zealand		 Points
1 New Zealand Chris van der Drift 7 1 1 5 199
2 New Zealand Jordan Michels 23 5 7 3 147
3 New Zealand Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes 26 4 8 4 147
4 New Zealand Gene Rollinson 5 2 2 Ret 134
5 New Zealand Hayden Paddon 20 Ret 4 1 129
6 New Zealand Greg Murphy 51 3 3 Ret 120
7 New Zealand Jaden Ransley 53 Ret 5 2 115
8 New Zealand Paul Radisich 79 6 6 Ret 94
Pos. Driver No. HIG
New Zealand		 Points

References
  1. "First Hyundai I30 N TCR Arrives In New Zealand". 30 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. "WRC winner Hayden Paddon confirms TCR New Zealand tilt". 20 November 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  3. "Ransley joins TCRNZ". Motorsport NZ. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. "First Audi RS 3 LMS Confirmed For TCR New Zealand Series". 29 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  5. "Van der Drift set for TCRNZ". Motorsport NZ. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  6. "Track Tec Racing completes three-car TCR New Zealand line-up". TouringCarTimes. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  7. "Murphy set for TCRNZ". Speedcafe. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  8. "Jordan Michels Commits To TCR New Zealand Campaign". 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  9. "Radisich set for TCRNZ". Speedcafe. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  10. "TCR NEW ZEALAND REVEAL AMBITIOUS DUAL SPRINT AND ENDURANCE CALENDARS". 19 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  11. "TCR New Zealand announce revised and extended calendar". TouringCarTimes.com. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  12. "Amended TCR New Zealand calendar down to three events". TouringCarTimes.com. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
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