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The FIA World Touring Car Cup (known as the FIA WTCR presented by Oscaro for sponsorship reasons)[1] is an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for touring cars. The 2018 World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) takes over from the World Touring Car Championship and adopts the TCR technical regulations, though it will be the 14th overall season of the series that dates from the 2005 World Touring Car Championship. The change of name and new rules follow the declining interest in the TC1 regulations used by the World Touring Car Championship from 2014-2017 and the growing interest among manufacturers in the TCR touring car category.[2]

Teams and drivers

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
Season entries
Italy BRC Racing Team[3] Hyundai i30 N TCR[3] 5 Hungary Norbert Michelisz[3] 1–3
30 Italy Gabriele Tarquini[3] 1–3
Belgium DG Sport Compétition[4] Peugeot 308 TCR[4] 7 France Aurélien Comte[4] 1–3
70 Slovakia Maťo Homola[5] 1–3
Hungary Zengő Motorsport[6] CUPRA León TCR[6] 8 Hungary Norbert Nagy[6] 1–3
66 Hungary Zsolt Szabó[7] 1–3
Belgium Boutsen Ginion Racing[8][9] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)[8] 9 Netherlands Tom Coronel[10] 1–3
18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro[11] TBA
63 Belgium Benjamin Lessennes[12] 1–3
Italy Team Mulsanne[13][14] Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR[13] 10 Italy Gianni Morbidelli[15] 1–3
88 Italy Fabrizio Giovanardi[16] 1–3
France YMR[17][14] Hyundai i30 N TCR[17] 11 Sweden Thed Björk[17] 1–3
48 France Yvan Muller[17] 1–3
France Sébastien Loeb Racing[18] Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[18] 12 United Kingdom Robert Huff[19] 1–3
25 Morocco Mehdi Bennani[20] 1–3
Germany ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport[11] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)[11] 15 United Kingdom James Thompson[21] 1–3
68 France Yann Ehrlacher[22] 1–3
86 Argentina Esteban Guerrieri[11] 1–3
Belgium Audi Sport Team Comtoyou[14] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR[23] 20 Belgium Denis Dupont[23] 1–3
22 Belgium Frédéric Vervisch[24] 1–3
Belgium Comtoyou Racing[23][25] 21 France Aurélien Panis[26] 1–3
23 France Nathanaël Berthon[24] 1–3
Spain Team Oscaro by Campos Racing[27][14] CUPRA León TCR[27][28] 27 France John Filippi[27] 1–3
74 Spain Pepe Oriola[29] 1–3
Luxembourg Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT[30] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR[30] 52 United Kingdom Gordon Shedden[31] 1–3
69 France Jean-Karl Vernay[31] 1–3
Wildcard entries
Hong Kong KCMG[32] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)[32] 19 Hungary Attila Tassi[32] 2
94 Switzerland Kris Richard[33] 3
Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT[34] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR[34] 33 Germany René Rast[34] 3
Netherlands Bas Koeten Racing[35] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR[35] 56 Netherlands Michael Verhagen[36] 4
TBA Netherlands Bernhard van Oranje[35] 4
Hungary M1RA[37] Hyundai i30 N TCR[37] 99 Hungary Dániel Nagy[37] 2

Team and driver changes

Calendar

A provisional calendar was released in December 2017.[43] In March 2018 an additional round in China was added at the Wuhan Street Circuit.

Rnd. Race Race Name Circuit Date Supporting
1 1 AFRIQUIA Race of Morocco Morocco Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan 7 April stand-alone event
2 8 April
3
2 4 Race of Hungary Hungary Hungaroring 28 April stand-alone event
5 29 April
6
3 7 Race of Germany Germany Nürburgring Nordschleife 10 May Nürburgring 24 Hours
8 12 May
9
4 10 Race of the Netherlands Netherlands Circuit Zandvoort 20 May TCR Europe Series
TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship
TCR Swiss Trophy
11 21 May
12
5 13 Race of Portugal Portugal Circuito Internacional de Vila Real 23 June Campeonato Nacional de Velocidade Turismos
14 24 June
15
6 16 Race of Argentina Argentina Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo 4 August Campeonato Argentino de Turismo Nacional
17 5 August
18
7 19 Race of China – Ningbo China Ningbo International Circuit 29 September China Touring Car Championship
F4 Chinese Championship
20 30 September
21
8 22 Race of China – Wuhan China Wuhan Street Circuit 6 October China Touring Car Championship
TCR China Touring Car Championship
23 7 October
24
9 25 Race of Japan Japan Suzuka Circuit 27 October Super Formula Championship
26 28 October
27
10 28 Guia Race of Macau Macau Guia Circuit, Macau 17 November TCR Chinese Racing Cup
FIA F3 World Cup
FIA GT World Cup
29 18 November
30

Rule changes

Sporting regulations

  • With titles for drivers and teams only the new series will receive "World Cup" rather than "World Championship" status. Manufacturers will be able to develop cars for competition that are then sold to privateer entrants and will also be allowed to provide ongoing support and development to those teams.[2]
  • The WTCR series will be capped at 26 entries with up to two wildcards nominated by the organizers at each race weekend. The entry cap will be in place for all races except for the Nurburgring Nordschleife.[citation needed] All Teams will have to enter a minimum two cars with an entry fee of 150,000 Euro.[44]
  • The weekend format was also changed. Now there are three races per weekend instead of two with the first race being held on Saturdays with its own 30-minute qualifying session right after the two Free Practice sessions. On Sundays there is going to be another qualifying session to determine the grid for Race 3, while Race 2's starting grid will have the Top 10 drivers from the session in reverse order.[45]
  • The tires will be supplied by Yokohama and the fuel by Panta.[46]

Results

Race Race Name Pole Position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1 Morocco Race of Morocco Sweden Thed Björk Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy BRC Racing Team
2 France Jean-Karl Vernay France Jean-Karl Vernay Belgium Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team
3 Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy BRC Racing Team
4 Hungary Race of Hungary Hungary Norbert Michelisz Argentina Esteban Guerrieri France Yann Ehrlacher Germany ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport
5 Hungary Dániel Nagy United Kingdom Robert Huff France Sébastien Loeb Racing
6 Hungary Norbert Michelisz France Yann Ehrlacher Italy Gabriele Tarquini Italy BRC Racing Team
7 Germany Race of Germany Sweden Thed Björk Hungary Norbert Michelisz France Yvan Muller France YMR
8 Hungary Norbert Michelisz Argentina Esteban Guerrieri Germany ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport
9 Sweden Thed Björk Belgium Frédéric Vervisch Sweden Thed Björk France YMR
10 Netherlands Race of the Netherlands
11
12
13 Portugal Race of Portugal
14
15
16 Argentina Race of Argentina
17
18
19 China Race of China – Ningbo
20
21
22 China Race of China – Wuhan
23
24
25 Japan Race of Japan
26
27
28 Macau Guia Race of Macau
29
30

Championship standings

Championship points were awarded on the results of each race at each event as follows:

Position[47]  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Race 1[47] 27 20 17 14 12 10 8 6 4 2
Second Qualifying[47] 5 4 3 2 1
Race 2[47] 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Race 3[47] 30 23 19 16 13 10 7 4 2 1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver MAR
Morocco 		HUN
Hungary 		GER
Germany 		NLD
Netherlands 		PRT
Portugal 		ARG
Argentina 		NIN
China 		WUH
China 		JPN
Japan 		MAC
Macau 		 Pts. 
1 France Yvan Muller 11 9 22 4 3 3 1 4 34 137
2 Italy Gabriele Tarquini 1 19† 11 6 4 12 Ret Ret DNS 118
3 Sweden Thed Björk 2 5 34 9 12 9 2 NC 11 112
4 Hungary Norbert Michelisz Ret 7 53 3 6 21 4 5 Ret3 102
5 France Yann Ehrlacher 7 4 45 1 Ret 44 19 6 Ret5 91
6 United Kingdom Robert Huff 3 18 7 5 1 8 3 Ret Ret 82
7 Argentina Esteban Guerrieri 6 8 14 2 5 223 Ret 1 8 76
8 France Jean-Karl Vernay 4 1 9 8 10 10 5 7 7 74
9 Spain Pepe Oriola 18† 3 10 16 Ret 19 8 2 6 50
10 Morocco Mehdi Bennani 9 2 6 10 7 17 13 10 9 43
11 Belgium Frédéric Vervisch Ret Ret Ret 13 17 18 Ret 3 22 42
12 Hungary Dániel Nagy 7 2 6 36
13 Belgium Benjamin Lessennes 15 Ret 17 14 8 55 10 Ret 4 36
14 United Kingdom Gordon Shedden 5 11 18† 18 15 12 7 18 13 20
15 United Kingdom James Thompson 14 6 8 12 NC 7 22 DSQ 19 19
16 France Nathanaël Berthon 12 15 Ret 11 14 16 20 8 5 17
17 Germany Rene Rast 6 Ret DNS 10
18 Netherlands Tom Coronel 21† 10 12 Ret 19 Ret 9 9 10 8
19 France Aurélien Comte 8 Ret DNS 17 16 13 18 13 15 6
20 Hungary Zsolt Szabó 17 Ret Ret 21 9 Ret Ret Ret DNS 2
21 France John Filippi 10 17 11 Ret 13 Ret 16 NC 20 2
22 Hungary Norbert Nagy 16 16 15 Ret 11 11 21 17 17 0
23 France Aurélien Panis Ret 14 16 15 20 Ret 11 12 11 0
24 Belgium Denis Dupont 13 DNS DNS 22 21 21 12 11 12 0
25 Slovakia Mat'o Homola Ret 12 13 20 NC 20 14 14 16 0
26 Italy Fabrizio Giovanardi 19 13 19† 23† 23 Ret 15 Ret 14 0
27 Italy Gianni Morbidelli 20† Ret Ret Ret 22 14 Ret 15 Ret 0
28 Hungary Attila Tassi 19 18 15 0
29 Switzerland Kris Richard 17 16 18 0
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did 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' championship

Pos. Driver MAR
Morocco 		HUN
Hungary 		GER
Germany 		NLD
Netherlands 		PRT
Portugal 		ARG
Argentina 		NIN
China 		WUH
China 		JPN
Japan 		MAC
Macau 		 Pts. 
1 France MRacing - YMR 11 9 22 4 3 3 1 4 34 261
1 19† 11 6 4 12 Ret Ret DNS
2 Italy BRC Racing Team 2 5 34 9 12 9 2 NC 11 227
Ret 7 53 3 6 21 4 5 Ret3
3 Germany ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport 7 4 45 1 Ret 44 19 6 Ret5 171
3 18 7 5 1 8 3 Ret Ret
4 France Sébastien Loeb Racing 6 8 14 2 5 223 Ret 1 8 135
4 1 9 8 10 10 5 7 7
5 Belgium Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team 18† 3 10 16 Ret 19 8 2 6 106
9 2 6 10 7 17 13 10 9
6 Spain Team Oscaro by Campos Racing Ret Ret Ret 13 17 18 Ret 3 22 56
7 2 6
7 Belgium Boutsen Ginion Racing 15 Ret 17 14 8 55 10 Ret 4 51
5 11 18† 18 15 12 7 18 13
8 Belgium Audi Sport Team Comtoyou 14 6 8 12 NC 7 22 DSQ 19 42
12 15 Ret 11 14 16 20 8 5
9 Belgium Comtoyou Racing 6 Ret DNS 21
21† 10 12 Ret 19 Ret 9 9 10
10 Hungary Zengo Motorsport 8 Ret DNS 17 16 13 18 13 15 7
17 Ret Ret 21 9 Ret Ret Ret DNS
11 Belgium DG Sport Compétition 10 17 11 Ret 13 Ret 16 NC 20 6
16 16 15 Ret 11 11 21 17 17
12 France Team Mulsanne Ret 14 16 15 20 Ret 11 12 11 0
13 DNS DNS 22 21 21 12 11 12
Wildcard teams entries ineligible to score points
- Hong Kong KCMG Ret 12 13 20 NC 20 14 14 16 -
19 13 19† 23† 23 Ret 15 Ret 14
- Netherlands Bas Koeten Racing 20† Ret Ret Ret 22 14 Ret 15 Ret -
19 18 15
- Hungary M1RA 17 16 18 -
- Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT 17 16 18 -
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did 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.

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Notes

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