European Touring Car Cup

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Category Touring cars Inaugural season 2005 Official website fiaetcc.com/		Country Europe Drivers' champion Kris Richard

The FIA European Touring Car Cup is an annual touring car racing event, which has been held at various locations across Europe since 2005. Unlike in previous years where it was a one-off event, for 2010 the series is a three round event.

History

It was created when the European Touring Car Championship finished at the end of 2004, being superseded by the World Touring Car Championship.

The cars that are eligible are those complying with the FIA Super 2000, Super 2000 Diesel, Super Production and Super 1600 technical regulations. The Drivers must either have competed in a minimum of 50% of their own National Championships; been designated by their ASN (National Sporting Authority) and who have not taken part in the FIA WTCC with a Manufacturer’s team or belong to a country in which there is no national Championship and been designated by their ASN. In 2012 the Single Make Trophy was introduced for cars such as SEAT León Supercopa and Renault Clio Cup. From the 2013 season Diesel engines and the Super Production regulations were outlawed and thus only petrol engined Super 2000 (in 2014 the older 1.6 turbocharged Super 2000 spec cars were also allowed), SEAT León Supercopa (replaced in 2015 by the new SEAT León Cup Racer) and Super 1600 cars are allowed.

Further changes were made in 2015 and will come in effect from the 2016 season - the Single Make Trophy (renamed TCN-2) and Super 2000 (TC2 & TC2T) classes were merged into single category, while Super 1600 was retained as a standalone category. In January 2016 it was revealed the new branding of the series with the introduction of new logo.

The event is organised by Eurosport Events, which also organises the World Touring Car Championship and European Rally Championship. The races are occasionally broadcast live or via 30 minute highlights on Eurosport.

Event format

Saturday: two 30-minute practice sessions; one 30-minute qualifying session

Sunday: one 15-minute warm-up session; two back-to-back 50 km races

The grid of Race 2 is determined by Race 1 results, with top-8 in reverse order

In 2010 the event format will change from a one-off event to four separate events over the year.

Point scoring system

In each class - Super 2000 and Super 1600 points are awarded in each of the two races in the following way:

1st 10 points; 2nd 8 points; 3rd 6 points; 4th 5 points; 5th 4 points; 6th 3 points; 7th 2 points; 8th 1 point

Titles

The points scored count towards the following trophies (as of 2016):

FIA Drivers’ European Touring Car Cup Super 2000

FIA Drivers’ European Touring Car Cup Super 1600