DG Sport Compétition is a

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team based in

Theux Theux (; wa, Teu) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 11,571 inhabitants. The total area is 83.36 km², giving a population density of 139 inhabitants per km². ...

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. The team has raced in 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

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. The also races in the TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship and Belgian Rally Championship. Having previously rallied in the

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TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship

Having first entered the championship in

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, running a single Opel Astra TCR. The team finished second in the drivers championship with drivers

Pierre-Yves Corthals Pierre-Yves Corthals (born 23 October 1975 in Liège) is a Belgian auto racing driver. Career After competing in karting, Corthals began racing in the Belgian Renault Clio Cup in 1994, which he went on to win for three consecutive years between 1 ...

and Frédéric Caprasse, as well as finishing third in the teams' championship. The team took six victories and seventeen podium finishes. They returned in

running an Opel Astra TCR for

Maťo Homola Maťo Homola (born 19 July 1994, in Bratislava) is a Slovak racing driver. He is currently driving in TCR Europe in Target Competition with Hyundai i30 N TCR. Maťo became also a brand new Hyundai N ambassador for Slovakia in 2019. After havin ...

and 2016 driver Frédéric Caprasse and a Peugeot 308 Racing Cup for Aurélien Comte and

Kevin Abbring Kevin Abbring (born 20 January 1989) is a Dutch rally racing driver. His father, Edwin Abbring, is also a well-known former rally driver. Career Abbring started his motorsport career in Rallycross with a 60 bhp strong buggy for newcomers, ...

TCR International Series

Opel Astra TCR (2017)

After having raced in the TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship, the team entered the

2017 TCR International Series The 2017 TCR International Series was the third and the last season of the TCR International Series. Stefano Comini entered the season as defending double champion, but finished only third in the standings with 30 points behind the new champion ...

with 2016 TCR Trophy Europe champion

and

driving an Opel Astra TCR each. Homola took the team's first pole position in the series, in the

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held in

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, with Corthals qualifying in second position.

World Touring Car Cup

Peugeot 308 TCR

The team entered the

2018 World Touring Car Cup The 2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup (known as the FIA WTCR presented by Oscaro for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR). It took over from the World Touring Car Championship and adopted the TCR technica ...

with two Peugeot 308 TCR cars for 2017 TCR Trophy Europe winner Aurélien Comte and

. Comte scored the only win for the team in the second race at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:DG Sport Compétition Auto racing teams in Belgium European Rally Championship teams TCR International Series teams Theux Sport in Liège Province World Rally Championship teams Auto racing teams established in 2013