Barcelona hosts the official WTCR test day

The teams that have entered in the inaugural season of the WTCR, the FIA World Touring Car Cup, are currently attending the official test, today at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.
The full season entry list comprises 25 cars representing seven brands: Alfa Romeo, Audi, Cupra, Honda, Hyundai, Peugeot and Volkswagen.
The last-minute additions to an already impressive field were James Thompson in the third Honda Civic FK7 TCR run by the All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport and the pair of young Hungarians – Norbert Nagy and Zsolt Dávid Szabó – who will drive the two Cupra TCR cars campaigned by Zengő Motorsport.
The level of the drivers is incredibly high, as altogether they have won 7 World Touring Car Championships, 1 TCR International Series, 6 European Touring Car Championships or Cups, 1 TCR European Cup, 6 British Touring Car Championships, 4 Scandinavian Touring Car Championships, 2 Italian Touring Car Championships, 1 Spanish Touring Car Championship and a huge amount of touring car races worldwide.
At Barcelona the series’ promoter, Eurosport Events, also announced that the eighth race meeting of the series will take place in China, on Wuhan’s street circuit on 6/7 October.