2014 European Touring Car Cup
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The 2014 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the tenth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It consisted of five events in France, Slovakia, Austria, Belgium and Italy. The championship was split into three categories:
Super 2000 Super 2000 is an FIA powertrain specification used in the World Rally Championship, the British Touring Car Championship, the World Touring Car Championship, and other touring car championships. The engines were originally 2 L naturally aspirate ...
for TC2 Turbo and TC2 machinery, Super 1600, and the Single-Make Trophy for cars such as the
SEAT León Supercopa The SEAT León Supercopa was a one-make racing series, organised by SEAT Sport, the motorsport division of Spanish car manufacturer SEAT. It used a modified version of the SEAT León road car, and championships have been run in Spain, Germany, Ita ...
. In the Super 2000 class, TC2 Turbo honours were taken by
Nikolay Karamyshev Nikolay Karamyshev (born 19 January 1989 in Kursk) is a Russian auto racing driver. He has competed in the European Touring Car Cup and will make his debut in the World Touring Car Championship at the 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Russia. Racing career ...
, who won six of the season's races. He won the championship by 10 points ahead of Maťo Homola, while
Igor Skuz Igor Vasylyovych Skuz ( ukr, Ігор Васильович Скуз, born 30 May 1976) is a Ukrainian professional racing driver currently competing in the Ukrainian Touring Championship since 2007 for a family-owned MasterKart Racing Team, tha ...
finished in 3rd position, taking 2 victories.
Mikhail Grachev Mikhail Grachev (born 4 January 1988) is a Russian racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series. He made his debut in 2015, having previously raced in the European Touring Car Cup. Racing career Grachev began his career Ka ...
was the only other driver to take a class victory, at the Slovakia Ring. For normally-aspirated cars, the TC2 class saw
Petr Fulín Petr Fulín (born 8 February 1977) is a Czech racing driver. He competed in the European Touring Car Cup, where he has won the championship twice. He is a former World Touring Car Championship driver, who made his debut in 2014. Racing career ...
take the honours; he won seven races and finished the other three races on the podium. He finished 44 points ahead of his nearest challenger Michal Matějovský, who took a win at the Salzburgring. Third place in class was taken by Peter Rikli; other race victories were taken by Christian Fischer and Norbert Kiss, the latter taking an overall win at the Slovakia Ring. In the Super 1600 class, six successive victories for
Gilles Bruckner Gilles Bruckner (born 17 June 1982 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourg racing driver, who has most famously competed in the European Touring Car Cup, as well as the ADAC Procar Series. He was the first ETCC Super 1600 champion from outside of Germa ...
saw him overhaul Ulrike Krafft for class honours, despite missing the opening round of the season at Le Castellet. Krafft won the other four races during the season, before a scoreless round at Spa-Francorchamps stunted her progress for the title. With five second-place finishes, Christian Kranenberg finished in third place. Dmitry Bragin won the Single-Makes Trophy, after achieving two victories as well as two second-place finishes at the double-points finale at Enna. Second place went to Andreas Pfister, who also won two races, while four-time race winner
Aku Pellinen Aku Pellinen (born 17 May 1993) is a Finnish racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series. Having previously competed in the European Touring Car Cup and Porsche Carrera Cup Italy amongst others. Racing career Pellinen beg ...
finished in third place. The only other driver to take a class win was Norbert Nagy, who won both races at Enna in a one-off appearance; he had previously competed in the TC2 class at the first two meetings.


Teams and drivers


Race calendar and results


Championship standings


Super 2000 / Super 1600


Single-makes Trophy

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.


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* {{European Touring Car years European Touring Car Cup European Touring Car Cup Touring Car Cup