2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship

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The 2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the third season of touring car racing to be run by the German-based sanctioning body ADAC to the TCR regulations. The series will run predominantly in ADAC's home nation Germany. As a support category to the ADAC GT Masters series, the championship will also take in races in the neighbouring nations of Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

Josh Files will be the defending Drivers' champion, while Target Competition will the defending Teams' champions.

Team and driver changes

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
Germany Team Engstler Germany[1][2] Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[1] 3 Germany Kai Jordan[2] All
77 Germany Justin Häußermann[1] 1–4, 6–7
Germany Team Engstler Europe[1][2] 39 Switzerland Florian Thoma[1] 1–3
47 Finland Niko Kankkunen[3] All
Switzerland Wolf-Power Racing[4] Renault Mégane TCR[4] 5 United Kingdom Alex Morgan[4] 1
CUPRA León TCR[4] 6 Switzerland Oliver Holdener 1–4, 7
Germany Honda ADAC Sachsen[5] Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)[5] 7 Germany Mike Halder[5] All
88 Germany Dominik Fugel[6] All
Germany Liqui Moly Team Engstler[1][2]
Germany Hyundai Team Engstler[7]
Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[1] 8 Germany Luca Engstler[1] 1–3
Hyundai i30 N TCR[7] 4–7
27 France Théo Coicaud[3] 4–7
Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[1] 1–3
Germany Max Kruse Racing[8] Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[8] 10 Germany Benjamin Leuchter[8] All
39 Switzerland Florian Thoma 4–7
Austria HP Racing International[9] Opel Astra TCR[9] 11 Germany Luke Wankmüller[9] All
22 Austria Harald Proczyk[9] All
Germany RacingOne[10][11] Audi RS3 LMS TCR[10][11] 14 Netherlands Niels Langeveld[10] All
99 Netherlands Maurits Sandberg[11] 1–2, 4–7
Switzerland Besagroup Team Renault[2] Renault Mégane TCR[2] 15 Croatia Franjo Kovač[2] 4
41 Germany Steve Kirsch[12] 1, 4, 6
Czech Republic Steibel Motorsport[2] Opel Astra TCR[2] 17 Switzerland Jasmin Preisig[2] All
Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[2] 23 Germany Sebastian Steibel[2] All
Germany PROsport Performance[13] Audi RS3 LMS TCR[13] 19 Germany Max Hesse[13] All
44 Germany Sandro Kaibach[13] 1–3
45 Germany Peter Terting 4
Finland Positione Motorsport[14] Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR[14] 29 Finland Jussi Kuusiniemi[14] All
Finland LMS Racing[12] Audi RS3 LMS TCR[12] 30 Finland Antti Buri[12] All
Switzerland TOPCAR Sport[2] CUPRA León TCR[2] 33 Switzerland J.C. Reynolds[2] All
60 Germany Loris Prattes[2] 1–3, 5–7
Austria Niedertscheider Motorsport Team[15] Peugeot 308 TCR[15] 42 Austria Lukas Niedertscheider[15] All
Germany Profi-Car Team Halder[6] CUPRA León TCR[6] 53 Germany Michelle Halder[6] All
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2)[6] 55 Germany Marcel Fugel[6] 1–3, 6–7
Germany YACO Racing[16] Audi RS3 LMS TCR[16] 54 Austria Simon Reicher[16] All
Entries ineligible to score points
Czech Republic Fullín Race Academy[17] CUPRA León TCR[17] 2 Czech Republic Petr Fulín[17] 1–2
Germany Lubner Motorsport Opel Astra TCR 4 Germany Jan Seyffert 3–4, 6
Switzerland Besagroup Team Renault Renault Mégane TCR 5 United Kingdom Alex Morgan 6
Austria HP Racing International Opel Astra TCR 9 Germany Daniel Davidovac 3–4, 7
Austria Tessitore Racing Opel Astra TCR 13 Austria "Tessitore" 3
Czech Republic Steibel Motorsport CUPRA León TCR 28 Switzerland Pascal Eberle 6–7
Switzerland Young Driver Challenge CUPRA León TCR 31 Switzerland Leonardo Tinland 4
32 Switzerland Francesco Ruga 6
34 Switzerland Julien Apothéloz 7
Germany BC Motorsport Opel Astra TCR 36 Germany Dino Calcum 3
Switzerland Vuković Motorsport Renault Mégane TCR 4
Finland LMS Racing CUPRA León TCR 40 Finland Olli Parhankangas 4
Switzerland Wolf-Power Racing Renault Mégane TCR 50 Switzerland Milenko Vuković 3

Former ADAC Procar champions YACO Racing will enter the series with a single Audi RS3 LMS TCR for Simon Reicher, who moves from Certainty Racing Team.[16]

Wolf-Power Racing will switch from SEAT León TCR to Renault Mégane TCR for the 2018 season.[4]

Engstler Motorsport will retain Luca Engstler and Floran Thoma. In addition the team will increase to five cars during the entire season signing Théo Coicaud, Justin Häußermann and Niko Kankkunen.[1][3]

German footballer Max Kruse will set up his own team Max Kruse Racing, fielding a single Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR for Benjamin Leuchter, who returns to the series after missing out the 2017 season.[18]

Reigning double teams' champion Target Competition withdrew from the series to join the TCR Europe Series. The team had originally signed Reece Barr to drive in the series.[19]

Calendar and results

References

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