2024 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship

The 2024 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship is the ninth season of the ITCC to run under TCR regulations and the 38th season since the national touring car series was revived in 1987 as the Campionato Italiano Turismo.

Calendar edit

The schedule for 2024 was announced on 8 November 2023 containing 12 races across 6 rounds.[1][2]

  Race is part of TCR World Tour
Rnd. Circuit Location Date Supporting
NC   Vallelunga Circuit Campagnano di Roma, Lazio 19–21 April TCR World Tour
TCR Europe Series
1   Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli Misano Adriatico, Emilia-Romagna 3–5 May 2024 TCR Italy DSG
2   Autodromo di Pergusa Enna, Isle of Sicily 7–9 June
3   Autodromo del Mugello Scarperia e San Piero, Tuscany 12–14 July
4   Imola Circuit Imola, Emilia-Romagna 6–8 September
5   Vallelunga Circuit Campagnano di Roma, Lazio 20–22 September
6   Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Lombardy 25–27 October

Teams and drivers edit

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref.
  PMA Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 1   Sandro Pelatti NC [3]
72 1 [4]
17   Nicolas Taylor U25 1 [5]
  Scuderia del Girasole CUPRA Racing Cupra León VZ TCR 3   Raffaele Gurrieri M 1 [6]
4   Salvatore Tavano 1
  GRT Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 4   Giulio Valentini NC [3]
  Aikoa Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 5   Demir Eröge NC [3]
8   Nicola Baldan 1 [7]
15   Filippo Barberi NC [8]
38 1
  NOS Racing Cupra León VZ TCR 5   Cosimo Barberini 1 [9]
  Target Competition Hyundai Elantra N TCR 7   Kim Hwarang 1 [10]
76   Alex Ley 1 [11]
  Gearworks Racelab Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 9   Matteo Poloni 1 [12]
  ALM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 11   Paolo Rocca U25 1 [13]
27   Ruben Volt 1 [14]
64   Levente Losonczy 1 [15]
  BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse Hyundai Elantra N TCR 12   Gabriele Covini 1 [16]
Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 105   Norbert Michelisz W NC [17][18]
129   Néstor Girolami W NC
196   Mikel Azcona W NC
  RTM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 24   Antonio Citera 1 [19]
  BF Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 34   Ramazan Kaya NC [3]
  Fox Racing with BF Motorsport 69   Tommaso Fossati U25 1 [20]
  MM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 39   Tony Verhulst NC [3]
77   Federico Danova 1 [21]
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 82   Jacopo Giuseppe Cimenes NC, 1 [22]
  Auto Club RC2 Valles Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 41   Victor Fernández NC [3]
  CRM Motorsport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 44   Michele Imberti 1 [23]
  Pinetti Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 67   Marco Pellegrini M 1 [24]
91   Luciano Martínez U25 1 [25]
  Duller Motorsport Opel Astra TCR 77   Philipp Mattersdorfer NC [3]
  Trico WRT Hyundai Elantra N TCR 81   Damiano Reduzzi M 1 [26]
  Solite Indigo Racing Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 87   Park Jun-ui U25 1 [27]
Hyundai Elantra N TCR 97   Park June-sung 1
  Planet Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 90   Denis Babuin M 1 [28]
  Cyan Racing Lynk & Co Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR 111   Thed Björk W NC [29]
112   Santiago Urrutia W NC
155   Ma Qing Hua W NC
168   Yann Ehrlacher W NC
  Volcano Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 127   John Filippi W NC [30]
212   Sami Taoufik W NC
  GOAT Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 186   Esteban Guerrieri W NC [31][32]
199   Marco Butti W NC [31][33]
Sources: [34]
Icon Class
U25 Eligible for TCR Italy Under 25 Trophy
M Eligible for TCR Italy Master Trophy
W TCR World Tour entries not eligible to score points in the local series

TCR Italy DSG edit

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds Ref.
  Pro Race Cupra León TCR 102   Giorgio Fantilli 1 [35]
129   Emilio Damante 1 [36]
178   Alessandro Berton 1 [37]
184   Mattia Lancellotti 1 [38]
185   Alessandro Lisi 1 [39]
  NOS Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 105   Fabio Bagnoli 1 [40]
  Progetto E20 Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 107   Angelo Marino 1 [41]
131   Paolo Maria Silvestrini 1 [42]
  RPM Performance Motorsport Cupra León TCR 111   Matteo Roccadelli 1 [43]
  Aikoa Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 119   Paolo Palanti 1 [44]
191   Luca Franca 1 [45]
  RC Motorsport Cupra León TCR 123   Fabio Antonello 1 [46]
Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 195   Pietro Alessi 1 [47]
  Planet Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 139   Luca Verdi 1 [48]
  Brothers in Arms Cupra León TCR 167   Andrea Fazioli 1 [49]
168   Andrea Argenti 1 [50]
  Tuder Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 174   Alessandro Alcidi 1 [51]
TBA   Alessio Alcidi TBA
Sources: [34]

Results and standings edit

Rnd. Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team Winning U25 driver Winning Master driver DSG Winning
Driver
DSG Winning
Team
NC 1 ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma 19–21 April   Norbert Michelisz   Esteban Guerrieri   Norbert Michelisz   BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse not held not held not held not held
2   Néstor Girolami   Néstor Girolami   BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse
1 3 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico 5–7 May   Alex Ley   Alex Ley   Alex Ley   Target Competition   Park Jun-ui   Denis Babuin   Matteo Roccadelli   RPM Performance Motorsport
4   Park Jun-ui   Park Jun-ui   Solite Indigo Racing   Park Jun-ui   Marco Pellegrini   Alessandro Alcidi   Tuder Motorsport
2 5 Autodromo di Pergusa, Enna 7–9 June
6
3 7 Mugello Circuit, Scarperia 12–14 July
8
4 9 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola 6–8 September
10
5 11 ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma 20–22 September
12
6 13 Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza 25–27 October
14
Scoring system
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th   11th   12th   13th   14th   15th 
Qualifying 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Races 40 35 30 27 24 21 18 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1

Drivers' championship edit

The joint round with TCR World Tour at Vallelunga did not count for the championship.

References edit

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