Halder Motorsport (competing as Profi Car Team Halder) is a German

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team based in

Meßkirch Meßkirch (; Swabian: ''Mässkirch'') is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's ''Zimmern Chronicle'' (1559–1 ...

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, run by siblings Mike and Michelle Halder. The team has previously competed in the

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and the

ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship The ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series based in Germany. History On 16 September 2015, the German Series was launched by ADAC and Engstler Motorsport, who already run in the International Series. The new categ ...

ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship

The team made its début in the

2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship The 2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the third 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 sup ...

with the help of Fugel Sport fielding a CUPRA León TCR for Michelle Halder and a Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2). The team's best finish during this season was two second places by Halder in the second race 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 ...

and in the second race at the

Sachsenring The Sachsenring () is a motorsport racing circuit located in Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Chemnitz in Saxony, Germany. Among other events, it features the annual German motorcycle Grand Prix of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championship ...

. In the overall standings Halder finished 9th, while Fugel finished 23rd. In the teams' classification the team finished 8th. For the next season the team entered a single Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) for Halder, while Marcel Fugel was entered in the older Civic at selected events as a guest driver. At the

Circuit Zandvoort Circuit Zandvoort (), known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, and previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, the Netherlands, near the North Sea ...

Halder managed to score her first win in the second race, which helped her finish 7th in the drivers' standings while the team was classified 6th. For the 2020 season Michelle was joined in the team by her brother Mike, who moved from the Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen team. However the team abruptly withdrew from the series during the second round at the

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...

following a disqualification of Mike Halder (who competed for the Profi-Car Team Honda ADAC Sachsen team) for parc fermé irregularities with Michelle Halder inheriting the full championship points.

TCR Europe Touring Car Series

Following their withdrawal from the ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship, both Halder siblings moved to the

again racing under the Profi Car Team Halder banner entering their two Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) cars.

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External links

Halder Motorsport official website
Auto racing teams in Germany Auto racing teams established in 2018