17 января 2015, 09:27 6 мин.

TCR Asia Series 2015 to kick-off at Sepang on September 5-6th

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The calendar for the 2015 TCR Asia Series has been amended, with Korea, Japan gone and instead featuring 4 rounds in Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand and Macau. “Our original plan was to start in May in Korea, however after taking into account the organisation and logistics aspects, we decided to postpone the first event,” explained David Sonenscher, CEO of WSC Asia, the series promoter.

New TCR International Series approved by FIA early December to start first season at Malaysia Sepang on March 29 as support race for F1 Malaysia GP.

It was expected that new national TCR series in Russia, Thailand, China and others will be opened shortly after inauguration of international TCR.

The growth of national series expected to run to the new TCR format is soon be extended further, with series soon to be confirmed by the promoters in Russia, Thailand, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Central America and China, in addition to already confirmed categories in USA, Asia, Italy, Benelux and Portugal, wrote touringcartimes.com on Jan 12th.

The TCR platform is likely to become the most widespread technical formulae around if the plans of the series’ General Director Marcello Lotti come to fruition, with no less than ten different national and regional championships set to exist within the next two years.

“We received a lot of requests from different national promoters and they studied everything and they made the investigations with the manufacturers to make sure the product would exist, as for the first six months there was only my word,” said Lotti to TouringCarTimes. “Some have decided to start in 2015, while for some it’s more logical to run a promotional category in 2015 before 2016.

“We’ve just started to design a communication plan with the different national promoters. Some have been announced already; Italy, Asia, Portugal; while Spain will be announced soon, as will Thailand, Russia, the Dominican Republic, and China.”

On Jan 11 TCR head Marcello Lotti confirmed that five different manufacturers will be represented on the grid for the inaugural TCR International Series season. “We are going to see at least five brands in 2015 with SEAT, Honda, Volkswagen, Ford and Opel. We have three more manufacturers, but I cannot say the names of them yet,” said Lotti in an interview at the Autosport International Show.

The TCR Asia series is maintained by Motorsport Asia and David Sonenscher, who previously has run the Asian Touring Car Series and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia.

2015 TCR Asia Calendar (revised)

MALAYSIA 04-06.09.2015