The 2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the third season of

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to be run by the German-based sanctioning body

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to the

TCR regulations A TCR Touring Car is a touring car specification, first introduced in 2014 and is now employed by a multitude of series worldwide. All TCR Touring Cars are front-wheel drive cars based on 4 or 5 door production vehicles, and are powered by 1.75 ...

. The series will run predominantly in ADAC's home nation Germany. As a support category to the

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series, the championship will also take in races in the neighbouring nations of Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

Josh Files Joshua Luke Files (born 9 January 1991) is a British racing driver currently competing in the TCR International Series. Having previously competed in the Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom and Eurocup Clio amongst others. Files won both champions ...

will be the defending Drivers' champion, while

Target Competition Target Competition is an Italian auto racing team based in Eppan an der Weinstraße, Italy. The team is currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup and others TCR series. The team has previously raced in the TCR Europe Touring Car Series, SE ...

will the defending Teams' champions.

Teams and drivers

Team and driver changes

Former ADAC Procar champions YACO Racing will enter the series with a single

Audi RS3 LMS TCR Audi AG () is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. As a subsidiary of its parent company, the Volkswagen Group, Audi produces vehicles in nine production facilities worldwide. The o ...

for Simon Reicher, who moves from Certainty Racing Team. Wolf-Power Racing will switch from SEAT León TCR to Renault Mégane TCR for the 2018 season.

Engstler Motorsport Engstler Motorsport is a private German auto racing team based in Wiggensbach, run by driver Franz Engstler. It has competed successfully in the Asian Touring Car Championship and the ADAC Procar Series. It is sponsored by lubricants company Liq ...

will retain

Luca Engstler Luca Engstler (born 8 March 2000) is a German racing driver currently competing in the WTCR and ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship. Having previously competed in the TCR Middle East Touring Car Series and ADAC Formula 4 amongst others. ...

and Floran Thoma. In addition the team will increase to five cars during the entire season signing Théo Coicaud, Justin Häußermann and Niko Kankkunen. German footballer

Max Kruse Max Bennet Kruse (; born 19 March 1988) is a German professional footballer who last played as a forward for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team. Early years Kruse was born in Reinbek, Kreis Stormarn, Schleswig-Holste ...

will set up his own team Max Kruse Racing, fielding a single Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR for

Benjamin Leuchter Benjamin Leuchter (born 22 November 1987) is a German racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup. Having previously competed in the ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship, German Formula Three Championship and Formula BMW ...

, who returns to the series after missing out the 2017 season. Reigning double teams' champion

withdrew from the series to join the

TCR Europe Series A TCR Touring Car is a touring car specification, first introduced in 2014 and is now employed by a multitude of series worldwide. All TCR Touring Cars are front-wheel drive cars based on 4 or 5 door production vehicles, and are powered by 1.75 t ...

. The team had originally signed Reece Barr to drive in the series.

Calendar and results

The 2018 schedule was announced on 30 November 2017, with three events scheduled to be held outside Germany. The championship will again run in support of the

weekends.

Footnotes

Calendar changes

The series would make its first visit to the

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on 29 April at the

Autodrom Most Autodrom Most is a hard-surfaced long race track for motorsport outside of the city of Most in the northwest of the Czech Republic. The racing circuit was built between 1978 and 1983, but the Most district was known for organizing motorcycle an ...

becoming the second round of the season. The second round held at the

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, which supported the

TCR International Series The TCR International Series was an international touring car championship. The championship was promoted by World Sporting Consulting (WSC), founded by former World Touring Car Championship manager Marcello Lotti. It was marketed as a cost-eff ...

since the series' inception, was discontinued.

Drivers' Championship

;Scoring systems † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
‡ – Half points were awarded in Race 2 at

as less than 75% of the scheduled distance was completed.

Teams' Championship

References

External links

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