2024 TCR South America Touring Car Championship

The 2024 TCR South America Touring Car Championship is the fourth season of TCR South America Touring Car Championship.

Calendar edit

The championship is to begin in April 2024, with a maximum of 35 entries, ten rounds consisting of eighteen 35-minute races and two endurance races would be run in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.[1] It will also feature two rounds of the TCR World Tour.[2] On February 29, the circuits were announced except for the seventh round.[3]

  Race is an Endurance Event
  Race is part of TCR Brazil
  Race is an endurance event and part of TCR Brazil
  Race is part of TCR World Tour
Rnd. Circuit/Location Date Map
1   Interlagos Circuit, São Paulo 12–14 April
2   Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel 24–26 May
3   Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu 14–16 June
4   Interlagos Circuit, São Paulo 19–21 July
5   Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini, El Pinar 2–4 August
6   Polideportivo Ciudad de Mercedes, Mercedes 23–25 August
7   TBA 13–15 September
8   Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez, Buenos Aires 4–6 October
9   Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Termas de Río Hondo 8–10 November
10   Autódromo Municipal Juan Manuel Fangio, Rosario 29 November–1 December

Teams and drivers edit

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Co-Driver name Rounds
  Cobra Racing Team[4] Toyota GR Corolla Sport TCR 07   Thiago Vivacqua[4] 1–2   Nicolas Costa[5] 1
47   Norberto Fontana[6] 1–2   Felipe Maluhy[6] 1
  Squadra Martino[7] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 3   Rodrigo Baptista[8] 1–2   Diego Nunes[5] 1
15   Enrique Maglione[9] T 1–2   Rodrigo Aramendia[5] 1
34   Fabio Casagrande[10] T 1–2   Franco Coscia[5] 1
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 60   Juan Manuel Casella[7] 1–2   Ignacio Montenegro[5] 1
  Paladini Racing[11] Toyota GR Corolla Sport TCR 5   Fabián Yannantuoni [es][12] 1–2   Enric Bordás Cotes[13] 1
13   Fabricio Pezzini[5] 1   Juan Pablo Bessone[5] 1
16   Juan Ángel Rosso [es][11] 1–2   Facundo Marques[5] 1
73   Diego Gutiérrez 2
  Toyota Team Argentina[14] Toyota GR Corolla Sport TCR 17   Matías Rossi[14] 2
  PMO - Full Time Sports[15] Lynk & Co 03 TCR 27   Marcos Regadas[5] T 1   Rafael Suzuki[5] 1
55   Lucas Fecury[5] 1   Arthur Leist[5] 1
TBA   TBA TBA
TBA   TBA TBA
  PMO Racing[16] Peugeot 308 TCR 27   Marcos Regadas[5] T 2
43   Pedro Cardoso[16] 1–2   Celso Neto[5] 1
44   Leonel Pernía 2
88   Werner Neugebauer[5] 1   Caca Bueno[5] 1
  W2 ProGP[17] Cupra León Competición TCR 28   Galid Osman[18] 1   Felipe Lapenna[5]
Cupra León VZ TCR 2
Cupra León Competición TCR 37   Guilherme Reischl[17] T 1–2   Guilherme Salas[5] 1
Cupra León VZ TCR 77   Raphael Reis[19] 1–2   Lucas Foresti[5] 1
  GOAT Racing[20] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 62   Dušan Borković[21] W TBA
186   Esteban Guerrieri[22] W TBA
199   Marco Butti[23] W TBA
  BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse[24] Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 105   Norbert Michelisz[25] W TBA
129   Néstor Girolami[25] W TBA
196   Mikel Azcona[25] W TBA
  Lynk & Co Cyan Racing[26] Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR 111   Thed Björk[26] W TBA
112   Santiago Urrutia[26] W TBA
155   Ma Qing Hua[26] W TBA
168   Yann Ehrlacher[26] W TBA
  Volcano Motorsport[27] Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 127   John Filippi[27] W TBA
212   Sami Taoufik[27] W TBA
Icon Class
T Eligible for TCR Trophy
B Eligible for TCR Brazil
W Eligible for TCR World Tour

Results edit

Season summary edit

Rnd. Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning Team Winning Trophy driver
1 R1   Interlagos Circuit   Juan Manuel Casella
  Ignacio Montenegro
  Raphael Reis
  Lucas Foresti
  Raphael Reis
  Lucas Foresti
  W2 ProGP   Guilherme Reischl
2 R2   Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel   Rodrigo Baptista   Rodrigo Baptista   Rodrigo Baptista   Squadra Martino
R3   Juan Manuel Casella   Fabián Yannantuoni   Paladini Racing
3 R4   Autódromo Velo Città
R5
4 R6   Interlagos Circuit
R7
5 R8   Autódromo Víctor Borrat Fabini
R9
6 R10   Polideportivo Ciudad de Mercedes
R11
7 R12   Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez
R13
8 R14   Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo
R15
9 R16   Autódromo Municipal Juan Manuel Fangio
R17

Championship standings edit

Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th 
Qualifying 10 7 5 4 3 2 1
Sprint Race 1 & Endurance 40 35 30 27 24 21 18 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1
Sprint Race 2 35 30 27 24 21 18 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 2 1

Drivers' championship edit

Pos. Driver INT
 
CAS
 
VEL
 
INT
 
ELP
 
PCM
 
BUE
 
TER
 
ROS
 
Points
1   Juan Ángel Rosso 76 47 2 78
2   Raphael Reis 12 65 13 74
3   Rodrigo Baptista Ret4 11 6 72
4   Pedro Cardoso 25 36 Ret 70
5   Fabián Yannantuoni 9 8 1 63
6   Juan Manuel Casella DSQ1 54 5 59
7   Galid Osman 113 22 Ret 56
8   Thiago Vivacqua 4 9 7 55
9   Lucas Foresti 12 47
10   Leonel Pernía 7 3 45
11   Norberto Fontana 6 11 8 43
12   Guilherme Reischl 3 12 14 39
13   Celso Neto 25 38
14   Guilherme Salas 3 30
15   Matías Rossi 153 4 30
16   Nicolas Costa 4 27
17   Lucas Fecury 5 24
18   Arthur Leist 5 24
19   Fabio Casagrande Ret 10 9 22
20   Felipe Maluhy 6 21
21   Facundo Marques 76 20
22   Marcos Regadas 127 Ret 11 15
23   Werner Neugebauer 8 15
24   Cacá Bueno 8 15
25   Felipe Lapenna 113 14
26   Enric Bordás Cotes 9 13
27   Enrique Maglione Ret 14 10 12
28   Fabricio Pezzini 10 11
29   Juan Pablo Bessone 10 11
30   Diego Gutiérrez 13 12 10
31   Ignacio Montenegro DSQ1 10
32   Rafael Suzuki 127 8
33   Diego Nunes Ret4 4
NC   Franco Coscia Ret 0
NC   Rodrigo Aramendia Ret 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)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 – Points-scoring position in qualifying.

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

Notes edit

References edit

  1. ^ "TCR South America reveals ten date 2024 schedule". TouringCarTimes. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  2. ^ "TCR World Tour gets FIA status and confirms 2024 calendar". TouringCarTimes. 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
  3. ^ "TCR South America Banco BRB Confirma Su Calendario En Brazil, Uruguay Y Argentina Para La Temporada 2024". southamerica.tcr-series.com (in Spanish). 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Thiago Vivacqua confirmed for full season with Cobra Racing Team". TouringCarTimes. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "TCR South America to kick off at Interlagos". TouringCarTimes. 14 April 2024. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Thiago Vivacqua confirmed for full season with Cobra Racing Team". TouringCarTimes. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Juan Manuel Casella Wil Continue to be Part of the Squadra Martino with the New Generation Honda Civic". TCR South America. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Rodrigo Baptista Returns to TCR South America Banco BRB with Squadra Martino". TCR South America (in Spanish). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Enrique Maglione re-signs with Squadra Martino". www.touringcartimes.com. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Fabio Casagrande confirms Squadra Martino return". TouringCarTimes. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Juan Ángel Rosso retains Paladini Racing seat". TouringCarTimes. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  12. ^ "Paladini Racing Announced the Continuity of Fabián Yannantuoni". TCR South America. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  13. ^ "TCR Spain champion Enric Bordás joins TCR South America opener". TouringCarTimes. 12 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  14. ^ a b "Matías Rossi joins Toyota Team Argentina in TCR South America". TouringCarTimes. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Full Time Sports join forces with PMO Motorsport to field four Lynk & Cos". TouringCarTimes. 5 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  16. ^ a b "Pedro Cardoso switches to PMO Racing for the 2024 TCR South America season". TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  17. ^ a b "W2 Pro GP retains Galid Osman for 2024 TCR South America season". TouringCarTimes. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  18. ^ "Raphael Reis confirms TCR South America programme with new Cupra". TouringCarTimes. 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  19. ^ "Raphael Reis confirms TCR South America programme with new Cupra". TouringCarTimes. 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  20. ^ "New Honda team confirms World Tour programme". TouringCarTimes.com. 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  21. ^ "Dušan Borković confirmed for remaining part of FIA TCR World Tour season". TouringCarTimes.com. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  22. ^ "Esteban Guerrieri completes GOAT Racing line-up". TouringCarTimes.com. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  23. ^ "Marco Butti takes GOAT Racing seat". TouringCarTimes.com. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  24. ^ "Hyundai updates bodywork and livery of Elantra N TCR for 2024 FIA TCR World Tour". TouringCarTimes.com. 12 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  25. ^ a b c "Girolami joins Azcona and Michelisz in expanded Hyundai programme". TouringCarTimes.com. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  26. ^ a b c d e "Lynk & Co Cyan Racing confirms four-car TCR World Tour line-up". TouringCarTimes. 12 April 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  27. ^ a b c "Volcano Motorsport confirms FIA TCR World Tour switch". TouringCarTimes.com. 15 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

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