The 2019 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the fourth 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.
On 20 December 2018 it was announced a partnership between the series' promoter and Auto Sport Switzerland, the Swiss National Sporting Authority, which was going see all 7 rounds of the calendar as part of the 2019 TCR Swiss Trophy which was set to be in its second edition. The TCR Swiss Trophy was set be open to Swiss drivers as well as any driver with valid racing license, issued by Auto Sport Switzerland.[1] On 23 April 2019 it was announced by Auto Sport Switzerland that the TCR Swiss Trophy will be postponed until 2020 due to lack of entries.
Harald Proczyk will be the defending Drivers' champion, while HP Racing International will the defending Teams' champions.[2]
Teams and drivers
Yokohama is set to become the official tire supplier, taking over from Hankook.[3]
Calendar and results
The 2018 schedule was announced on 23 September 2018, with three events scheduled to be held outside Germany. The championship will again run in support of the ADAC GT Masters weekends as well as ADAC GT4 Germany and ADAC Formula 4 (with the exception at Autodrom Most).[3]
Rnd. | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning team | Junior winner | |
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1 | 1 | Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Oschersleben | 27 April | Max Hesse[N 1] | Mike Halder | Mike Halder | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Bradley Burns |
2 | 28 April | Harald Proczyk | Antti Buri | LMS Racing | Bradley Burns | |||
2 | 3 | Autodrom Most, Most | 18 May | Harald Proczyk | Mike Halder | Mike Halder | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Mitchell Cheah |
4 | 19 May | Bradley Burns | Antti Buri | LMS Racing | Bradley Burns | |||
3 | 5 | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | 8 June | Sebastian Steibel | Antti Buri | Harald Proczyk | HP Racing International | Mitchell Cheah |
6 | 9 June | Antti Buri | Antti Buri | LMS Racing | René Kircher | |||
4 | 7 | Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort | 10 August | Dominik Fugel | Max Hesse | Max Hesse | Hyundai Team Engstler | Bradley Burns |
8 | 11 August | Harald Proczyk | Michelle Halder | Profi-Car Team Halder | Michelle Halder | |||
5 | 9 | Nürburgring, Nürburg | 17 August | Max Hesse[N 2] | Max Hesse[N 3] | Max Hesse[N 4] | Hyundai Team Engstler[N 4] | Julien Apothéloz |
10 | 18 August | Antti Buri[N 5] | Max Hesse | Hyundai Team Engstler | Julien Apothéloz | |||
6 | 11 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 14 September | Harald Proczyk | Theo Coicaud | Harald Proczyk | HP Racing International | Mitchell Cheah |
12 | 15 September | Harald Proczyk | Max Hesse | Hyundai Team Engstler | Michelle Halder | |||
7 | 13 | Sachsenring, Hohenstein-Ernstthal | 28 September | Dominik Fugel | Dominik Fugel | Dominik Fugel | Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Michelle Halder |
14 | 29 September | Dominik Fugel | Max Hesse | Hyundai Team Engstler | Julien Apothéloz | |||
Drivers' Championship
- Scoring systems
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | PP | FL |
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Points | 40 | 36 | 32 | 29 | 26 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Teams' Championship
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Bold – Pole |
Footnotes
- ↑ Qualification won by Harald Proczyk, but he received a three-place grid penalty for speeding during red flag period.
- ↑ Actual pole position taken by guest driver Thierry Neuville from Hyundai Team Engstler.
- ↑ Actual fastest lap of the race set by guest driver Thierry Neuville from Hyundai Team Engstler.
- 1 2 Actual race winner was guest driver Thierry Neuville from Hyundai Team Engstler.
- ↑ Actual fastest lap of the race set by guest driver Pascal Eberle from Steibel Motorsport.
References
- ↑ Ravaioli, Fabio (2018-12-20). "The TCR Swiss Trophy joins TCR Germany in 2019". TCR. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
- ↑ "Mike Halder takes final victory of the season while Harald Procyzk is crowned champion with third". TouringCarTimes. 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- 1 2 "Yokohama replaces Hankook as TCR Germany tyre supplier - TouringCarTimes". TouringCarTimes. 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
- 1 2 3 4 "HP Racing switch to Hyundai for 2019". TouringCarTimes. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- 1 2 3 "Pyro Motorsport confirm TCR Germany entry". TouringCarTimes.com. 12 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "Team Honda ADAC Sachsen unchanged for 2019". TouringCarTimes.com. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- 1 2 3 "Racing One signs youngster René Kircher". TouringCarTimes. 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "TCR Germany entry list revealed". TouringCarTimes. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- 1 2 3 4 "Max Hesse joins Théo Coicaud at Team Engstler". TouringCarTimes. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
- 1 2 3 "Mitchell Cheah confirms TCR Germany move". TouringCarTimes. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- 1 2 3 "Oettinger confirm TCR Germany entry alongside Engstler". TouringCarTimes. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- 1 2 3 "Steve Kirsch to lead new Opel squad". TouringCarTimes.com. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- 1 2 3 "Michelle Halder switches from Cupra to Honda for 2019 season". TouringCarTimes.com. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ↑ "Switch from Opel to Lada for Jan Seyffert at Zandvoort". TouringCarTimes.com. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "Andreas and Jessica Bäckman join TCR Germany races at Hockenheim". TouringCarTimes. 11 September 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Münnich Motorsport and Comtoyou Racing among new entries for Sachsenring". TouringCarTimes.com. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "Thierry Neuville, Gabriele Tarquini to drive guest car". TouringCarTimes. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- ↑ "Gabriele Tarquini joins Red Bull grid". TouringCarTimes.com. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ↑ "WRC star Thierry Neuville confirmed for Nürburgring". TouringCarTimes.com. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.