TCR Asia Series roars back in sprint and endurance formats

After a 4-year break due to Covid, TCR Asia is set to return with not one, but two, Pan-Asian championships. 

The TCR Asia Series, first established in 2015 at the birth of the TCR category, will make its long-awaited return, with a five-event calendar running to its usual format of two sprint races per weekend. 

The first two will take place at Sepang, the circuit which previously hosted the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix; the Series will then move to Buriram in Thailand before heading off to China with two events taking place in the Yangtze River Delta area at Zhejiang and at Shanghai International Circuit, the home of F1 in China, the Shanghai International Circuit. 

The titles on offer will be for Overall Drivers, Cup Drivers (Amateur) and the recently announced TCR Gen 1 Cup for older cars.

2024 TCR Asia - calendar

20/21April – Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia

4/5 May – Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia

22/23 June – Buriram International Circuit, Thailand

13/14 July – Zhejiang International Circuit, China

7/8 September – Shanghai International Circuit, China

At the same time the new TCR Asia Endurance will kick off on 21st March at Sepang as part of the Sepang 12-hour race, this will be followed by a 4-hour race in Ningbo, China before finishing as part of the Shanghai 8-hour race. More details will be released about this in due course.

2024 TCR Asia Endurance - calendar

14/16 March – 12H Sepang International Circuit

TBC – 4H Ningbo Speed Park

4/6 October – 8H Shanghai International Circuit

“I am really pleased that we can finally get back to TCR racing in Asia. We have been constantly monitoring the situation over the past few years and we feel that this is the right time to get things going again. I have received a lot of interest, and a certain amount of pressure, from teams and drivers since Macau last November, and that encouraged me to push ahead to make this happen. Now that we can formally announce this, I expect things to move forward positively.” said Series Director, David Sonenscher.

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