2021 TCR Europe Touring Car Series

The 2021 TCR Europe Touring Car Series was the sixth season of TCR Europe Touring Car Series. The season began at the Slovakiaring in May and ended at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in October.[1]

Mikel Azcona won the drivers' championship for the second time and Sébastien Loeb Racing won the teams' championship for the first time.

Calendar

The calendar was announced on 23 December 2020 with 7 rounds scheduled.[1]

Rnd. Circuit/Location Date Supporting
1 1 Slovakia Automotodróm Slovakia Ring, Orechová Potôň, Slovakia 7–9 May TCR Eastern Europe Trophy
2
2 3 France Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France 28–30 May GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
4
3 5 Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands 18–20 June GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
6
4 7 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 29–31 July Spa 24 Hours
8
5 9 Germany Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany 3–5 September GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
10
6 11 Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy 24–26 September International GT Open
F4 French Championship
12
7 13 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain 8–10 October GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
14

Calendar Changes
  • The Circuito del Jarama and Circuit of Zolder rounds were dropped out of the calendar
  • Nurburgring and Slovakiaring were included in the calendar.

Teams and drivers

Hankook is the official tire supplier.

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref.
Slovenia Lema Racing CUPRA León Competición TCR 3 Italy Giacomo Ghermandi 7 [2]
Spain RC2 Junior Team CUPRA León Competición TCR 5 Spain Rubén Fernández Y 6 [3]
19 Spain Felipe Fernández R 7 [4]
101 Venezuela Sergio Lopez Bolotin R 6–7 [3]
Belgium Comtoyou Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 8 Belgium Nicolas Baert J All [5]
32 Netherlands Tom Coronel All [6]
162 Serbia Dušan Borković All [7]
France Sébastien Loeb Racing Hyundai Elantra N TCR 10 Netherlands Niels Langeveld All [8]
25 Morocco Sami Taoufik J All [8][9]
44 Italy Felice Jelmini All [8][9]
250 Morocco Mehdi Bennani All [8]
Denmark Brianmadsen Sport Peugeot 308 TCR 11 Denmark Gustav Birch R 3, 6 [10]
Russia VRC Team Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 14 Russia Klim Gavrilov J 1–6 [11]
Spain Volcano Motorsport CUPRA León Competición TCR 7 [12]
16 Russia Evgeni Leonov 1–4, 6–7 [13]
96 Spain Mikel Azcona 1–2, 4–7 [13]
Slovakia Brutal Fish Racing Team Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 17 Slovakia Martin Ryba Y All [14]
26 Spain Isidro Callejas R All [14][15]
62 United Kingdom Jack Young J All [14][16]
France Team Clairet Sport Peugeot 308 TCR 20 France Teddy Clairet All [17]
21 France Jimmy Clairet All [17]
CUPRA León TCR 66 France Gilles Colombani Y All [17]
77 France Sylvain Pussier Y All [17]
Czech Republic Janík Motorsport Hyundai i30 N TCR 24 Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš R All [18]
70 Slovakia Maťo Homola All [18]
Slovakia Horňák-Aditis Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 38 Czech Republic Petr Čížek Y 6 [19]
97 Poland Bartosz Groszek R 6 [19]
Poland BTC Maszyny Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 53 Poland Łukasz Stolarczyk R 5–6 [20]
North Macedonia PSS Racing Team Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 72 Argentina Franco Girolami All [21]
110 North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski Y 1–3, 5–7 [21]
Italy Trico WRT Hyundai i30 N TCR 81 Italy Damiano Reduzzi Y 6 [22]
Hungary Zengő Motorsport CUPRA León Competición TCR 99 Hungary Dániel Nagy 1 [23]
Icon Class
R Eligible for TCR Europe Rookie Trophy
J Eligible for TCR Europe Junior Trophy
Y Eligible for TCR Europe Diamond Trophy
G Guest drivers ineligible to score points

Summary
  • SMC Junior Motorsport will enter a Peugeot 308 TCR for Fernando Navarrete, who will be competing in a partial campaign during the season
  • Brutal Fish Racing will enter three Honda Civic Type R TCR, as last year. Martin Ryba, Isidro Callejas and Jack Young are confirmed. Dan Lloyd left the series to return the British Touring Car Championship and join Power Maxed Racing, but will remain within the team as a driver coach.[24][25]
  • Tom Coronel will move from Boutsen Ginion Racing to Comtoyou Racing to replace Mehdi Bennani and he will be joined by 2020 TCR Eastern Europe winner Dušan Borković who returns to the series after having last raced in 2019 for Autodis Racing by Target Competition to replace Sami Taoufik.
  • After running a partial campaign during the 2020 season, Volcano Motorsport will enter the series full-time, but will enter two all new Cupra León Competición TCR cars for Evgeni Leonov and Mikel Azcona.
  • Sébastien Loeb Racing will enter four Hyundai Elantra N TCR cars during the season. Niels Langeveld, Felice Jelmini and Sami Taoufik have been confirmed to be three of the team's entries, Mehdi Bennani returns to the team.
  • Team Clairet Sport will enter two Peugeot 308 TCR and two Cupra Leon TCR. Teddy Clairet, Jimmy Clairet and Gilles Colombani were remained at the team but Gilles Colombani will switch from Peugeot 308 TCR to Cupra León TCR and Sylvain Pussier returned to the series and Team Clairet Sport to replace Stéphane Ventaja.
  • Dániel Nagy will move from Hyundai i30 N TCR to Cupra León Competición TCR and return to Zengő Motorsport.

Results and standings

Season summary
Rnd. Circuit/Location Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning Team Winning Rookie driver Winning Junior driver Winning Diamond driver
1 1 Slovakia Automotodróm Slovakia Ring Netherlands Tom Coronel Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš Belgium Nicolas Baert Slovakia Martin Ryba
2 Spain Mikel Azcona Morocco Mehdi Bennani France Sébastien Loeb Racing Spain Isidro Callejas Russia Klim Gavrilov Slovakia Martin Ryba
2 3 France Circuit Paul Ricard France Teddy Clairet Italy Felice Jelmini France Teddy Clairet France Team Clairet Sport Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš United Kingdom Jack Young North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
4 United Kingdom Jack Young France Jimmy Clairet France Team Clairet Sport Spain Isidro Callejas Morocco Sami Taoufik North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
3 5 Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort United Kingdom Jack Young Netherlands Tom Coronel Netherlands Tom Coronel Belgium Comtoyou Racing Spain Isidro Callejas United Kingdom Jack Young North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
6 Argentina Franco Girolami Argentina Franco Girolami North Macedonia PSS Racing Team Spain Isidro Callejas Morocco Sami Taoufik North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
4 7 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Italy Felice Jelmini Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Spain Isidro Callejas Morocco Sami Taoufik Slovakia Martin Ryba
8 Russia Klim Gavrilov Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Spain Isidro Callejas Morocco Sami Taoufik Slovakia Martin Ryba
5 9 Germany Nürburgring Spain Isidro Callejas Netherlands Niels Langeveld Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Spain Isidro Callejas Russia Klim Gavrilov Slovakia Martin Ryba
10 Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš United Kingdom Jack Young North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
6 11 Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza Argentina Franco Girolami Spain Mikel Azcona Argentina Franco Girolami North Macedonia PSS Racing Team Poland Bartosz Groszek Morocco Sami Taoufik North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski
12 United Kingdom Jack Young Slovakia Maťo Homola Czech Republic Janík Motorsport Spain Isidro Callejas United Kingdom Jack Young France Sylvain Pussier
7 13 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Mikel Azcona Spain Volcano Motorsport Spain Isidro Callejas Morocco Sami Taoufik Slovakia Martin Ryba
14 Morocco Sami Taoufik Russia Klim Gavrilov Spain Volcano Motorsport Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš Russia Klim Gavrilov France Gilles Colombani

Drivers' standings
Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th 
Qualifying 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 —
Race 40 35 30 27 24 21 18 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1
Pos. Driver SVK
Slovakia		 LEC
France		 ZAN
Netherlands		 SPA
Belgium		 NUR
Germany		 MNZ
Italy		 BAR
Spain		  Pts. 
1 Spain Mikel Azcona 12 2 68 2 14 1 15 1 27 4 11 WD 432
2 Argentina Franco Girolami 126 3 79 5 57 1 57 7 22 2 11 19 17 5 353
3 Netherlands Niels Langeveld 4 21† 45 Ret 49 2 8 5 33 4 10 14 66 4 295
4 Netherlands Tom Coronel 51 6 9 8 12 Ret 10 10 56 Ret 34 2 14 WD 258
5 Morocco Mehdi Bennani 610 1 182 6 125 6 22 9 11 14 21† 12 107 2 252
6 France Jimmy Clairet Ret 9 37 1 78 5 13 11 15 11 48 6 9 16 247
7 Belgium Nicolas Baert 23 8 15 13 64 8 66 8 14 8 810 8 44 8 242
8 France Teddy Clairet Ret 14 11 Ret 16 13 78 3 44 7 Ret 9 23 3 220
9 Morocco Sami Taoufik 17 Ret Ret4 3 1010 7 45 6 9 12 5 10 32 15 216
10 United Kingdom Jack Young 11 11 56 Ret 21 9 18† 13 1710 3 Ret2 3 88 12 205
11 Spain Isidro Callejas 188 7 Ret 10 86 3 99 4 71 10 Ret5 11 59 DSQ 204
12 Serbia Dušan Borković 74 10 14 11 33 4 12 14 8 9 76 7 DNS WD 192
13 Slovakia Maťo Homola DNS 12 11 9 13 11 143 2 10 Ret 69 1 13 7 186
14 Italy Felice Jelmini 89 13 23 7 17 Ret 31 Ret 13 Ret Ret3 5 Ret 9 173
15 Russia Klim Gavrilov Ret7 4 13 15 9 Ret 1110 12 67 6 15 16 1110 1 164
16 North Macedonia Viktor Davidovski 13 18 810 4 11 10 189 13 9 26 12 19 95
17 Czech Republic Jáchym Galáš 16 16 12 Ret DSQ 17 Ret 16 128 5 Ret 17 15 6 63
18 Hungary Dániel Nagy 35 5 60
19 Slovakia Martin Ryba 10 15 16 16 14 12 15 15 16 15 Ret Ret 75 Ret 49
20 Russia Evgeni Leonov 9 17 10 12 15 Ret 17 Ret 13 15 16 17 38
21 France Sylvain Pussier 14 19 19 14 19 15 Ret DNS Ret 16 20 18 18 11 16
22 France Gilles Colombani 15 20 17 17 18 14 16 17 19 17 16 22 DNS 10 15
23 Poland Bartosz Groszek 11 13 WD WD 14
24 Spain Rubén Fernández 12 Ret 7
25 Venezuela Sergio López Bolotin Ret 20 20 13 5
26 Italy Damiano Reduzzi 14 21 3
= Spain Felipe Fernández Ret 14 3
NC Denmark Gustav Birch 20 16 17 23 0
NC Poland Łukasz Stolarczyk 20 18 18 25 0
NC Italy Giacomo Ghermandi 19 18 0
NC Czech Republic Petr Čížek 19 24 WD WD 0
Pos. Driver SVK
Slovakia		 LEC
France		 ZAN
Netherlands		 SPA
Belgium		 NUR
Germany		 MNZ
Italy		 BAR
Spain		  Pts. 
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' standings
Pos. Team Pts.
1 France Sébastien Loeb Racing 759
2 Belgium Comtoyou Racing 605
3 Spain Volcano Motorsport 562
4 France Team Clairet Sport 542
5 North Macedonia PSS Racing Team 484
6 Slovakia Brutal Fish Racing Team 481
7 Czech Republic Janík Motorsport 295
8 Russia VRC Team 137
9 Hungary Zengő Motorsport 61
10 Spain RC2 Junior Team 26
11 Slovakia Horňák-Aditis 20
12 Denmark Brianmadsen Sport 10
13 Italy Trico WRT 5
14 Slovenia Lema Racing 4
= Poland BTC Maszyny Racing 4

TCR BeNeLux Drivers' standings (top 3)
Pos. Driver  Pts. 
1 Netherlands Niels Langeveld  ?
2  ?
3  ?
Pos. Driver  Pts. 


References
  1. "Nürburgring and Slovakiaring added to finalised 2021 calendar". TouringCarTimes. 23 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-23. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  2. "Giacomo Ghermandi to debut in season finale". TouringCarTimes. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. "RC2 Junior Team enters two Cupras for Monza". TouringCarTimes. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  4. "Felipe Fernández joins grid for Barcelona finale". TouringCarTimes. 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  5. "Nicolas Baert joins Coronel and Borković at Comtoyou Racing". TouringCarTimes. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  6. "Tom Coronel to run double duty with TCR Europe programme". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  7. "Dušan Borković to make TCR Europe return". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  8. "Niels Langeveld to race SLR Hyundai Elantra in new European programme". TouringCarTimes. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  9. "Sébastien Loeb Racing completes line-up with Bennani, Taoufik". touringcartimes.com. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  10. "Gustav Birch joins TCR Europe round at Zandvoort". TouringCarTimes. 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  11. "Klim Gavrilov set for full TCR Europe season". TouringCarTimes. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  12. "Klim Gavrilov makes Cupra switch for season finale". TouringCarTimes. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  13. "Mikel Azcona to lead Volcano Motorsport entry". TouringCarTimes. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  14. "Brutal Fish confirm three-car programme". Touring Car Times. 22 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  15. "Teenage racer Isidro Callejas secures Brutal Fish seat". Touring Car Times. 3 March 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  16. "Brutal Fish Racing confirms Jack Young for TCR Europe". Touring Car Times. 25 February 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  17. "Team Clairet confirms four-car TCR Europe programme". TouringCarTimes. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  18. "Mat'o Homola joins expanded Janík Motorsport programme". TouringCarTimes. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  19. "Horňák-Aditis Racing Team enters two Audis for Monza". TouringCarTimes. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  20. "Łukasz Stolarczyk joins Nürburgring grid". TouringCarTimes. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  21. "PSS Racing Team confirms Franco Girolami and Viktor Davidovski". TouringCarTimes. 20 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  22. "Damiano Reduzzi to make Eurppean debut on home soil". TouringCarTimes. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  23. "Zengő Motorsport enters Dániel Nagy for Slovakiaring opener". TouringCarTimes. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  24. "Dan Lloyd to make BTCC return with Power Maxed". TouringCarTimes. 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  25. "Brutal Fish confirm three-car programme". TouringCarTimes. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-04-19.


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