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Website dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of touring car racing. Results, stats, and articles covering championships from around the world through various eras.
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Now that the 2025 season is all but finished, it's time to start updating each series section on the site!

In this first batch we have:

🇬🇧 Britcar Endurance Championship (TCR Class)
🇩🇪 NXT Gen Cup
🇸🇪 NXT Gen Cup - Swedish Junior Championship

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photo of a group of cars, led by a bright green and black Cupra Leon TCR, entering the first corner at Snetterton during a round of the 2025 Britcar Endurance Championship photo of a group of NXT Gen Cup cars in a close battle mid-corner photo of Enzo Hallman's orange and white #7 LRT NXT1 Mini about to cross the finish line in first place in the third race of the 2025 NXT Gen Cup Swedish Junior Championship
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The 2025 British Touring Car Championship kicks off this weekend, so here's a guide to what's new for this year, all the teams, and all the drivers!

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2025 BTCC Season Preview — Touring Car Archive
A comprehensive team-by-team rundown of every competitor in the 2025 British Touring Car Championship ahead of the new season
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April 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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4️⃣ more 2024 season updates tonight:

🇲🇾 🇹🇭 🇲🇴 TCR Asia
🇩🇰 TCR Denmark
🇪🇺 TCR Europe
🇪🇸 TCR Spain

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photo of the 2024 TCR Asia field racing into the first corner at Sepang photo of part of the 2024 TCR Denmark field racing in the wet at Rudskogen photo of Franco Girolami and Aurélien Comte battling in their Cupra Leon VZs at Spa during the 2024 TCR Europe season photo of the 2024 TCR Spain field racing into the first corner at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, during the final round of the season
April 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Continuing on from last night, more championships/events updated as of the end of 2024!

🌍 FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup
🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Supercars Endurance Series (TCR class)
🇦🇺 TCR Australia
🇭🇺 🇦🇹 🇸🇰 🇨🇿 TCR Eastern Europe
🇯🇵 TCR Japan
🇹🇼 TCR Taiwan
🇬🇧 TCR UK

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Photo taken during the finale of the FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup in 2024, with Ignacio Montenegro's white and light blue Team Argentina Honda Civic Type-R (FL5) leading the way. Photo taken during one of the Bathurst races in the 2024 TCR Australia season. The photo shows Ben Bargwanna (dark blue livery) and Jordan Cox (white and green livery) door-to-door in their Peugeot 308 (P51) TCRs, heading into Griffins Bend. Photo taken during the Salzburgring round of TCR Eastern Europe in 2024, showing four cars closely following one another through a corner. Žarko Knego leads the way in his multi-coloured Hyundai Elantra N, ahead of Adam Kout in his factory-liveried Elantra, René Kircher's black Honda Civic Type-R (FK7), and Maťo Homola in another factory-liveried Elantra. Photo taken at the start of a race during the 2024 TCR Taiwan season, at the Lihpao Racing Park circuit. The field is closely bunched together heading into the first corner, lead by Wu Yizhan (white with blue and red Honda Civic Type-R FL5) and Shi Shiwei (white and pink Honda Civic Type-R FK7).
March 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A small late night site update, with 4 championships now updated to the end of the 2024 season:

🇬🇧 British Endurance Championship (touring car class)
🇪🇺 TCR European Endurance
🇲🇽 TCR Mexico
🇲🇽 TCR Mexico Endurance

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photo of a white, black, and red Cupra Leon TCR on track at Donington Park competing in the British Endurance Championship photo of a red, black, and white Audi RS 3 LMS TCR Gen 2 and a Cupra Leon TCR at night competing in a round of the TCR European Endurance Series photo of a black and bright green Cupra Leon Competicion TCR competing in the TCR Mexico series photo taken on the grid prior to the start of the final round of the TCR Mexico Endurance series. the TCR cars are all lined up and the photo is taken from behind the line of cars, and angled looking down the line. in the foreground is a Hyundai Elantra N TCR in a light blue and orange livery.
March 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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What happens if you combine a prolific Formula 1 designer, a convicted drug smuggler team boss, and a manufacturer that's never won a BTCC race?

You get the Peugeot 307; one of the more forgotten cars of the BTCC's modern era.

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Backmarker Appreciation No.3: Peugeot 307 BTC-T (BTCC) — Touring Car Archive
Peugeot has enjoyed plenty of success in touring car racing; except for in the BTCC. After a difficult start to the BTC-T regs, was this the car to finally bring them success? I’ll give you two guesse...
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March 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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With the news that Colin Turkington won't race in the BTCC in 2025, it's worth appreciating the numbers behind his immense success:

Race Starts: 569
Races Finished: 91.21%
Top 10s: 448
Top 5s: 295
Podiums: 192
Race Wins: 72
Pole Positions: 31
Fastest Laps: 75
Drivers' Titles: 4

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Photo of Colin Turkington racing his orange RAC sponsored S2000-spec BMW 320si during the 2009 British Touring Car Championship season.
February 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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All eras of racing have cancelled or rumoured cars that never raced, but did you know there were a whole host of them during the Super Touring era?

Here's a tour of the most interesting cases of lost Super Tourers: from Mercedes-Benz to Hyundai, via Lancia 👀

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What Could’ve Been No.2: The Lost Super Tourers — Touring Car Archive
With so many manfuacturers building touring cars in the 1990s, you’d be forgiven for thinking they all made it onto the track; but plenty didn’t! From Mercedes-Benz to Hyundai, and everything in-betwe...
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November 25, 2024 at 5:55 PM