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photo from the Hockenheim round of TCR Europe in 2025, showing Eric Gene's red, black, and white Cupra Leon VZ TCR leading Teddy Clairet's black Audi RS 3 LMS TCR Gen 2 in the rain

photo from the Vallelunga round of TCR European Endurance in 2025, showing a yellow, red, and white Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR leading a red, white, and black Audi RS 3 LMS TCR and a yellow, black, and green Cupra Leon TCR

photo from the final round of TCR Mexico in 2025 held at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, showing a field of cars navigating the stadium section of the circuit. leading the way in the foreground is a teal Cupra Leon VZ TCR

photo from the Barcelona round of TCR Spain in 2025, showing Adam Shepherd's red, black, and green Cupra Leon VZ TCR and Sten Dorian Piirimagi's white, black, and red Honda Civic Type-R TCR FL5 racing side-by-side through the second corner. several other cars are also visible in the background

Up next in the 2025 season updates:

🇪🇺 TCR Europe
🇮🇹 🇸🇰 TCR European Endurance
🇲🇽 TCR Mexico
🇪🇸 TCR Spain
🇪🇸 ❄️ TCR Spain Winter Series

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Usually whenever I try and lay out plans like this things immediately fall apart, so hopefully that doesn't happen this time 🙃

It'll make the site less fancy looking and much more basic, but I think it would be rewarding to actually make it myself (in its current form it was all basically drag and drop with no coding)

Plus it would save me a little bit of money, which wouldn't hurt!

The short-term goal now is to bring everything up-to-date as of the end of 2025, then put updates on pause to focus on rebuilding the site with Neocities in the longer-term

Due to my distinctly lacking coding ability it'll probably take me a while to do that, but I think it's a worthwhile change

photo of Andy Liang's pink and orange #69 Hyundai Elantra N TCR chasing Diego Moran's blue, white, and grey #023 Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR at Sepang during the 2025 TCR Asia season

photo of Jordan Cox's white and green #233 Peugeot 308 P51 TCR, followed by Santiago Urrutia's blue #112 Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR and Iain MacDougall's red, yellow, and silver #22 Audi RS 3 LMS TCR during the 2025 TCR World Tour & TCR Australia round at The Bend

photo of Malte Ebdrup's red, yellow, and black #24 Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR closely following Mike Halder's orange and black #77 Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR at Ring Djursland during the 2025 TCR Denmark season

photo of Martin Kadlečík's dark grey and fluorescent yellow #301 Audi RS 3 LMS TCR Gen 2 on track during the 2025 TCR Eastern Europe round at Autodrom Most. also visible in the background is Giacomo Ghermandi's pink and white #3 Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR, and Adam Kout's light blue and bright red #68 Hyundai Elantra N TCR 2024

The first site additions of 2026 cover a few more 2025 season updates:

🇨🇳 🇲🇾 🇰🇷 TCR Asia
🇦🇺 TCR Australia
🇩🇰 TCR Denmark
🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇭🇺 TCR Eastern Europe

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photo of a group of cars, led by a bright green and black Cupra Leon TCR, entering the first corner at Snetterton during a round of the 2025 Britcar Endurance Championship

photo of a group of NXT Gen Cup cars in a close battle mid-corner

photo of Enzo Hallman's orange and white #7 LRT NXT1 Mini about to cross the finish line in first place in the third race of the 2025 NXT Gen Cup Swedish Junior Championship

Now that the 2025 season is all but finished, it's time to start updating each series section on the site!

In this first batch we have:

🇬🇧 Britcar Endurance Championship (TCR Class)
🇩🇪 NXT Gen Cup
🇸🇪 NXT Gen Cup - Swedish Junior Championship

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2025 BTCC Season Preview — Touring Car Archive A comprehensive team-by-team rundown of every competitor in the 2025 British Touring Car Championship ahead of the new season

The 2025 British Touring Car Championship kicks off this weekend, so here's a guide to what's new for this year, all the teams, and all the drivers!

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photo of the 2024 TCR Asia field racing into the first corner at Sepang

photo of part of the 2024 TCR Denmark field racing in the wet at Rudskogen

photo of Franco Girolami and Aurélien Comte battling in their Cupra Leon VZs at Spa during the 2024 TCR Europe season

photo of the 2024 TCR Spain field racing into the first corner at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, during the final round of the season

4️⃣ more 2024 season updates tonight:

🇲🇾 🇹🇭 🇲🇴 TCR Asia
🇩🇰 TCR Denmark
🇪🇺 TCR Europe
🇪🇸 TCR Spain

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Photo taken during the finale of the FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup in 2024, with Ignacio Montenegro's white and light blue Team Argentina Honda Civic Type-R (FL5) leading the way.

Photo taken during one of the Bathurst races in the 2024 TCR Australia season. The photo shows Ben Bargwanna (dark blue livery) and Jordan Cox (white and green livery) door-to-door in their Peugeot 308 (P51) TCRs, heading into Griffins Bend.

Photo taken during the Salzburgring round of TCR Eastern Europe in 2024, showing four cars closely following one another through a corner. Žarko Knego leads the way in his multi-coloured Hyundai Elantra N, ahead of Adam Kout in his factory-liveried Elantra, René Kircher's black Honda Civic Type-R (FK7), and Maťo Homola in another factory-liveried Elantra.

Photo taken at the start of a race during the 2024 TCR Taiwan season, at the Lihpao Racing Park circuit. The field is closely bunched together heading into the first corner, lead by Wu Yizhan (white with blue and red Honda Civic Type-R FL5) and Shi Shiwei (white and pink Honda Civic Type-R FK7).

Continuing on from last night, more championships/events updated as of the end of 2024!

🌍 FIA Motorsport Games Touring Car Cup
🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Supercars Endurance Series (TCR class)
🇦🇺 TCR Australia
🇭🇺 🇦🇹 🇸🇰 🇨🇿 TCR Eastern Europe
🇯🇵 TCR Japan
🇹🇼 TCR Taiwan
🇬🇧 TCR UK

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photo of a white, black, and red Cupra Leon TCR on track at Donington Park competing in the British Endurance Championship

photo of a red, black, and white Audi RS 3 LMS TCR Gen 2 and a Cupra Leon TCR at night competing in a round of the TCR European Endurance Series

photo of a black and bright green Cupra Leon Competicion TCR competing in the TCR Mexico series

photo taken on the grid prior to the start of the final round of the TCR Mexico Endurance series. the TCR cars are all lined up and the photo is taken from behind the line of cars, and angled looking down the line. in the foreground is a Hyundai Elantra N TCR in a light blue and orange livery.

A small late night site update, with 4 championships now updated to the end of the 2024 season:

🇬🇧 British Endurance Championship (touring car class)
🇪🇺 TCR European Endurance
🇲🇽 TCR Mexico
🇲🇽 TCR Mexico Endurance

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Backmarker Appreciation No.3: Peugeot 307 BTC-T (BTCC) — Touring Car Archive Peugeot has enjoyed plenty of success in touring car racing; except for in the BTCC. After a difficult start to the BTC-T regs, was this the car to finally bring them success? I’ll give you two guesse...

What happens if you combine a prolific Formula 1 designer, a convicted drug smuggler team boss, and a manufacturer that's never won a BTCC race?

You get the Peugeot 307; one of the more forgotten cars of the BTCC's modern era.

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To have achieved that level of success - primarily in an especially competitive era of the championship - is quite remarkable, and we can only hope this isn't quite the end of his BTCC career just yet...

Photo of Colin Turkington racing his orange RAC sponsored S2000-spec BMW 320si during the 2009 British Touring Car Championship season.

With the news that Colin Turkington won't race in the BTCC in 2025, it's worth appreciating the numbers behind his immense success:

Race Starts: 569
Races Finished: 91.21%
Top 10s: 448
Top 5s: 295
Podiums: 192
Race Wins: 72
Pole Positions: 31
Fastest Laps: 75
Drivers' Titles: 4

#motorsport #BTCC

What Could’ve Been No.2: The Lost Super Tourers — Touring Car Archive With so many manfuacturers building touring cars in the 1990s, you’d be forgiven for thinking they all made it onto the track; but plenty didn’t! From Mercedes-Benz to Hyundai, and everything in-betwe...

All eras of racing have cancelled or rumoured cars that never raced, but did you know there were a whole host of them during the Super Touring era?

Here's a tour of the most interesting cases of lost Super Tourers: from Mercedes-Benz to Hyundai, via Lancia 👀

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