2024 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship

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The 2024 TCR Italy Touring Car Championship is the ninth season of the ITCC to run under TCR regulations and the 38th season since the national touring car series was revived in 1987 as the Campionato Italiano Turismo.

Calendar[edit]

The schedule for 2024 was announced on 8 November 2023 containing 12 races across 6 rounds.[1][2]

  Race is part of TCR World Tour
Rnd. Circuit Location Date Supporting
NC Italy Vallelunga Circuit Campagnano di Roma, Lazio 19–21 April TCR World Tour
TCR Europe Series
1 Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli Misano Adriatico, Emilia-Romagna 3–5 May 2024 TCR Italy DSG
2 Italy Autodromo di Pergusa Enna, Isle of Sicily 7–9 June
3 Italy Autodromo del Mugello Scarperia e San Piero, Tuscany 12–14 July
4 Italy Imola Circuit Imola, Emilia-Romagna 6–8 September
5 Italy Vallelunga Circuit Campagnano di Roma, Lazio 20–22 September
6 Italy Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Lombardy 25–27 October

Teams and drivers[edit]

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref.
Italy PMA Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 1 Italy Sandro Pelatti NC [3]
72 1 [4]
17 Canada Nicolas Taylor U25 1 [5]
Italy Scuderia del Girasole CUPRA Racing Cupra León VZ TCR 3 Italy Raffaele Gurrieri M 1 [6]
4 Italy Salvatore Tavano 1
Italy GRT Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 4 Italy Giulio Valentini NC [3]
Italy Aikoa Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 5 Turkey Demir Eröge NC [3]
8 Italy Nicola Baldan 1 [7]
15 Italy Filippo Barberi NC [8]
38 1
Italy NOS Racing Cupra León VZ TCR 5 Italy Cosimo Barberini 1 [9]
Italy Target Competition Hyundai Elantra N TCR 7 South Korea Kim Hwarang 1 [10]
76 United Kingdom Alex Ley 1 [11]
Italy Gearworks Racelab Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 9 Italy Matteo Poloni 1 [12]
Estonia ALM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 11 Italy Paolo Rocca U25 1 [13]
27 Estonia Ruben Volt 1 [14]
64 Hungary Levente Losonczy 1 [15]
Italy BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse Hyundai Elantra N TCR 12 Italy Gabriele Covini 1 [16]
Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 105 Hungary Norbert Michelisz W NC [17][18]
129 Argentina Néstor Girolami W NC
196 Spain Mikel Azcona W NC
Austria RTM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 24 Switzerland Antonio Citera 1 [19]
Italy BF Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 34 Turkey Ramazan Kaya NC [3]
United Kingdom Fox Racing with BF Motorsport 69 Italy Tommaso Fossati U25 1 [20]
Italy MM Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 39 Netherlands Tony Verhulst NC [3]
77 Italy Federico Danova 1 [21]
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 82 Italy Jacopo Giuseppe Cimenes NC, 1 [22]
Spain Auto Club RC2 Valles Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 41 Spain Victor Fernández NC [3]
Italy CRM Motorsport Hyundai Elantra N TCR 44 Italy Michele Imberti 1 [23]
Italy Pinetti Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 67 Italy Marco Pellegrini M 1 [24]
91 Argentina Luciano Martínez U25 1 [25]
Austria Duller Motorsport Opel Astra TCR 77 Austria Philipp Mattersdorfer NC [3]
Italy Trico WRT Hyundai Elantra N TCR 81 Italy Damiano Reduzzi M 1 [26]
South Korea Solite Indigo Racing Hyundai Elantra N TCR (2024) 87 South Korea Park Jun-ui U25 1 [27]
97 South Korea Park June-sung 1
Italy Planet Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 90 Italy Denis Babuin M 1 [28]
Sweden Cyan Racing Lynk & Co Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR 111 Sweden Thed Björk W NC [29]
112 Uruguay Santiago Urrutia W NC
155 China Ma Qing Hua W NC
168 France Yann Ehrlacher W NC
Spain Volcano Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021) 127 France John Filippi W NC [30]
212 Morocco Sami Taoufik W NC
Spain GOAT Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5) 186 Argentina Esteban Guerrieri W NC [31][32]
199 Italy Marco Butti W NC [31][33]
Sources: [34]
Icon Class
U25 Eligible for TCR Italy Under 25 Trophy
M Eligible for TCR Italy Master Trophy
W TCR World Tour entries not eligible to score points in the local series

TCR Italy DSG[edit]

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds Ref.
Italy Pro Race Cupra León TCR 102 Italy Giorgio Fantilli 1 [35]
129 Italy Emilio Damante 1 [36]
178 Italy Alessandro Berton 1 [37]
184 Switzerland Mattia Lancellotti 1 [38]
185 Italy Alessandro Lisi 1 [39]
Italy NOS Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 105 Italy Fabio Bagnoli 1 [40]
Italy Progetto E20 Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 107 Italy Angelo Marino 1 [41]
131 Italy Paolo Maria Silvestrini 1 [42]
Italy RPM Performance Motorsport Cupra León TCR 111 Italy Matteo Roccadelli 1 [43]
Italy Aikoa Racing Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 119 Italy Paolo Palanti 1 [44]
191 Italy Luca Franca 1 [45]
Italy RC Motorsport Cupra León TCR 123 Italy Fabio Antonello 1 [46]
Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 195 Italy Pietro Alessi 1 [47]
Italy Planet Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017) 139 Italy Luca Verdi 1 [48]
Italy Brothers in Arms Cupra León TCR 167 Italy Andrea Fazioli 1 [49]
168 Italy Andrea Argenti 1 [50]
Italy Tuder Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 174 Italy Alessandro Alcidi 1 [51]
TBA Italy Alessio Alcidi TBA
Sources: [34]

Results and standings[edit]

Rnd. Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team Winning U25 driver Winning Master driver DSG Winning
Driver
DSG Winning
Team
NC 1 ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma 19–21 April Hungary Norbert Michelisz Argentina Esteban Guerrieri Hungary Norbert Michelisz Italy BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse not held not held not held not held
2 Argentina Néstor Girolami Argentina Néstor Girolami Italy BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse
1 3 Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico 5–7 May United Kingdom Alex Ley
4
2 5 Autodromo di Pergusa, Enna 7–9 June
6
3 7 Mugello Circuit, Scarperia 12–14 July
8
4 9 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola 6–8 September
10
5 11 ACI Vallelunga Circuit, Campagnano di Roma 20–22 September
12
6 13 Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza 25–27 October
14

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