The Hyundai Elantra N TCR is a racing car developed by

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. It is Hyundai's third TCR car after the

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and the Hyundai Veloster N TCR.

Development

The Elantra N TCR was unveiled by Hyundai Motorsport in September 2020, before which it took part in an intensive test program for 3 months and with the help of

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, among others, ran . both longer competition packages were developed in parallel. Spy photos of the events were also leaked. The car is equipped with a front-wheel drive and 2-liter turbocharged engine in accordance with the TCR rules, which comes from the base engine of the then completely new

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. It has the same six-speed transmission with shift paddles as the previous two Hyundai TCR models. It was officially unveiled at Auto China. Hyundai Motorsport said the project started with a completely blank sheet of paper, allowing designers and engineers in the Customer Racing department to take full advantage of Elantra's stable, high-performance chassis and limousine body to optimize design - its predecessors were sloping. To create the best competitive package, they were able to leverage the experience of more than two years of racing customers of the i30 N TCR and Veloster N TCR, while taking advantage of opportunities to upgrade their existing car wherever possible. The car made its competitive debut at the

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season opener at the

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. Among the highest-rated touring car series, several copies of the vehicle were launched in the WTCR and the

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, the latter winning its first race, and in the

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, several teams also bought them.

References

{{Reflist TCR cars Cars introduced in 2020 Front-wheel-drive vehicles Elantra N TCR