Twenty-six drivers and seven brands in Germany

The provisional entry list for the 2018 ADAC TCR Germany includes twenty-six drivers at the wheel of cars from seven different brands: Audi, Cupra, Honda, Opel, Peugeot, Renault and Volkswagen.
With the switch of the 2016 and 2017 champion Josh Files to the TCR Europe Series, last year’s vice-champion Mike Halder will start as the top-seed in the series’ opening event at Oschersleben on 14/15 April. Halder has switched to the Team Honda ADAC Sachsen and will drive a new Civic FK7 run by Fugel Motorsport.
Among his stronger competitors are the 2018 TCR Middle East Champion Luca Engstler (Liqui Moly Team Engstler Volkswagen Golf GTI) and his teammate Florian Thoma, Niels Langeveld (Racing One Audi RS3 LMS), Harald Proczyk (HP Racing Opel Astra) and Benjamin Leucheter (Max Kruse Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI).
New to the series are three French models: two Vuković Motorsport-built Renault Mégane cars in the hands of Alex Morgan (Wolf-Power Racing) and Franjo Kovač (Besagroup Racing Team) and one Peugeot 308 driven by Lukas Niedertscheider.

Twenty-tree drivers took part in today’s official testing at Oschersleben. Thoma (1:32.275) and Engstler (1:32.462) topped the combined timesheet, while guest driver Petr Fulín (Vekra Racing Team Cupra – 1:32.492), Max Hesse (Prosport Performance Audi RS3 LMS – 1:32.920) and Proczyk (1:32.938) were the fastest behind them.