TCR International Series
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| Category | Touring cars |
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| Region | International |
| Inaugural season | 2015 |
| Tyre suppliers | Michelin |
| Drivers' champion |
 Stefano Comini
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| Teams' champion |
 Team Craft-Bamboo Lukoil
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| Official website | tcr-series.com |
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The TCR International Series is an international Touring Car championship. The championship – founded by former World Touring Car Championship boss Marcello Lotti – is marketing itself as a cost-effective spin-off of the WTCC, targeted at C-category tin-top racing cars. The title TCR follows the naming convention now used by the FIA to classify the cars that compete in touring car racing, with TC1 referring to the top tier as used by the FIA WTCC and TC2 referring to the legacy cars which principally compete in the FIA ETCC.
On 15 July Lotti revealed further details on the TCR series. On the same day it was announced that the TCR series will award a Drivers' Championship title and a Teams' Championship title. The number of teams will be limited to eight and the number of competitors to twenty-four. It was also announced that the series will run alongside Formula One at selected events.
On 21 July more details about the series became available: the race weekend format will be structured like the WTCC, with two free practice sessions and a two part qualifying session, followed by two races on Sunday. The first event would take place in Italy in March, but when a provisional calendar for the 2015 season was released on 31 October, it became clear that the first event will take place at the Sepang International Circuit on 29 March. Lotti confirmed the technical principles of the SEAT León Cup Racer, which is also set to be adopted in the Single-Make Trophy category of the European Touring Car Cup in 2015, will be used by the TCR Series.
On 29 July former WTCC driver Pepe Oriola said in an interview with TouringCarTimes that he hopes to compete in the new series, because he was set to drive for the Onyx Race Engineering team in the 2014 WTCC season with their new Ford Fiesta TC1 car for the last part of the season, before the project was abandoned with no support for homologation from Ford.
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