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WORLD AND LIFE
TCR 2016
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The second season of the TCR
International Series may have
ended in the same way as the first
– Stefano Comini leaving Macau
with the Drivers’ title – but 2016
was very different to 2015 in many
ways. For starters, the Teams’ title
went to Craft-Bamboo Lukoil (not
Leopard Racing, the team of the
winning driver) and the SEAT León,
not the Volkswagen Golf, won the
new-for-2016 Model of the Year
award.
Once again, the calendar consisted
of 11 race meetings – 22 races in
all. There were again three events
that supported Formula One
meetings, at Bahrain, Singapore and
Sepang, but the TCR International
Series also played a supporting role
to the FIA World Endurance
Championship at Spa and the GT
Open series at Estoril.
In all there were 11 different race
winners, with several of those
drivers contesting a limited number
of races. Two of them, Roberto
Colciago and Tiago Monteiro, won
races at their only International
Series appearance of the year, while
Aku Pellinen and Kevin Gleason
were victorious despite only
contesting six and ten races
respectively. Two drivers – Pepe
Oriola and Mikhail Grachev – shared
the honour of winning the most
races during the year with four
victories apiece.
Belicchi’s Alfa Romeo and
Grachev’s Honda run abreast
Stefano Comini
chases Pepe Oriola
The new TCR Asia
champion Andy Yan