The TCR Denmark Touring Car Series is a

touring car racing Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition that uses race-prepared touring cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not move a ...

series based in

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

. The TCR Denmark Touring Car Series debuted in 2020, running five events.

Background

The

TCR Touring Car A TCR Touring Car is a touring car specification, first introduced in 2014 and is now employed by a multitude of series worldwide. All TCR Touring Cars are front-wheel drive cars based on 4 or 5 door production vehicles, and are powered by 1.75 ...

formula is recognised as a popular and affordable type of series in motorsport. The TCR Denmark Touring Car Championship will open up new opportunities for Danish drivers and will be a new way for national drivers to move up to larger TCR international series among more professional drivers. Martin Jensen, who entered in the Danish round of the 2019 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship at Jyllands-Ringen, will act as the CEO for the series. Jensen stated that "Our aim was presenting the best of Touring Car racing to the Danish fans at all the Danish racetracks". The series will also re-introduce

Touring car racing Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition that uses race-prepared touring cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not move a ...

to Denmark for the first time since the

Danish Touringcar Championship The Danish Touringcar Championship (abbreviated as the DTC) was a touring car racing series in Denmark. The inaugural year for the DTC was 1999, after the huge success in Scandinavia of the British Touring Car Championship. For the first two years ...

, which folded in 2010 to create the

Scandinavian Touring Car Championship The Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) is a touring car racing series based in Scandinavia. The series took over from the Danish Touringcar Championship The Danish Touringcar Championship (abbreviated as the DTC) was a touring car ra ...

2020 season

Within the first two weeks of the series' announcement, six confirmed entries had already been made, and two drivers; ex-

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and

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driver

Jan Magnussen Jan Ellegaard Magnussen (born 4 July 1973) is a Danish professional racing driver and was a factory driver for General Motors until the end of the 2020 season. He has competed in Champ Car, Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), NASCAR, the FIA ...

and quadruple Danish Touringcar Champion

Casper Elgaard Casper Gunvad Elgaard (born 5 April 1978 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish auto racing driver. He has competed several times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2001, as well as regular drives in the Le Mans Series. In 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2008 ...

. 2019 ADAC GT Masters race winner Nicolai Sylvest will join Magnussen. Norwegian TCR Scandinavia driver Kristian Sætheren will pilot an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR for Insight Racing. The calendar for the 2020 season was announced on 17 December 2019, confirming six rounds, three at Jyllandsringen, one in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

which is the site of the annual Classic Race Aarhus, one at

Ring Djursland Ring Djursland is a Motorsport, motor racing Race track, circuit in Pederstrup, Denmark. The circuit is owned by Tradium, who run daily driving courses there. It used to host rounds of the Danish Touringcar Championship and the :da:Danish Thunder ...

and the final round taking place at

Padborg Park Padborg Park is a motor racing circuit in Padborg, Denmark. The circuit opened in 2003 on the site of an airfield. The circuit has regularly hosted rounds of the Danish Touringcar Championship (DTC), TCR Denmark Touring Car Series, Super GT Den ...

. One round of the season is scheduled to be supporting the Danish round of the STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship at Bellahøj Park in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

. The official test days for the season were announced on 16 January 2020. The announced dates were the 1st, 2nd and 16th of April at Jyllandsringen. These will also serve as the series' media days for photos and interviews for the drivers and team to take place. A new calendar was released on 1 May 2020 featuring 18 races as well as a six-race double header at Jyllandsringen. 16 Cars were entered for the first round.

Media coverage

On 12 June 2020, it was announced that Discovery Networks Denmark would broadcast all the rounds of the 2020 TCR Denmark season.

Champions

References

External links

* {{TCR Series championships TCR Series Motorsport competitions in Denmark 2019 establishments in Denmark