TCR Roars back into life in Asia
2024 TCR Asia Series
26 January 2024
After a 4-year break due to Covid, TCR Asia is set to return with not one, but two, Pan-Asian Championships.
The TCR Asia Series, first established in 2015 at the birth of the TCR category will make its long-awaited return, with a 5 Event Calendar running to its usual format of two (Sprint) races per weekend.
- 21st April Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
- 5th May Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
- 23rd June Buriram International Circuit, Thailand
- 14th July Zhejiang International Circuit, China
- 8th September Shanghai International Circuit, China
The first two events will take place at Sepang, the circuit which previously hosted the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix. The Series will then move to Buriram in central Thailand before heading off to China with two events taking place in the Yangtze River Delta area at Zhejiang and the grand finale taking place at the home of F1 in China, the Shanghai International Circuit.
As well as the Overall Driver category there will a categories for Cup Drivers (Amateur) and the recently announced Gen 1 Cup for older TCR cars.
At the same time the new TCR Asia Endurance will kick the season off on 21st March at Sepang as part of the Sepang 12-hour race, this will be followed by a 4-hour Endurance in Zhuzhou, China before finishing as part of the Shanghai 8-hour race. More details will be released about this in due course.
- 21st March Sepang International Circuit Sepang 12 Hour
- TBC Ningbo International Circuit 4 Hour
- 6th October Shanghai International Circuit Shanghai 8 Hour
“ I am really pleased that we can finally get back to Touring car racing in Asia. We have been constantly monitoring the situation over the past few years and we feel that this is the right time to get things going again.” I have received a lot of interest, and a certain amount of pressure, from Teams and Drivers since Macau last November and that encouraged me to push ahead to make this happen. Now that we can formally announce this, I expect things to move forward positively.” said Series Director, David Sonenscher.
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