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Next weekend, the second season of the TCR Asia will kick-off in Korea. The
days ahead the season-opener are, as always, intense and we feel and live the
anxiety and the excitement for this new beginning.
The TCR Asia had a very good start last year and in many ways, launching the
new series together with the TCR International Series, and sharing a number
of events, made our life easier.
In 2016, our second season, we still are in a start-up setting. We’ll have to
face a number of challenges, from racing on our own to the fact that not all
manufacturers have reached the same level of ‘readiness’ in the products they
offer to their customers. But the prospects are really great: there is a good
momentum, TCR is attracting more and more interest from teams and drivers.
We foresee a field of at least 15 cars (representing four brands) as from round
2 and we’ll have five great events in four different countries. Together with
the GT Asia, we can offer the fans an exciting race programme and we have a
strong media package, focusing on TV and social media.
But, most of all, what makes us confident is the extraordinary potential that
TCR racing entails. The TCR concept is growing steadily at global level and the
market place is just starting to realize the potential of it. This is having
already an immediate impact on the quality level of teams and drivers, and of
the entire show. TCR offers great opportunities especially to young drivers:
they have a platform that can bring them to a professional career, from local
to global, and for only a fraction of what they would need to invest to
pursue their dreams in single-seater formulae.
I am convinced that in TCR, young drivers will find more support and more
opportunities, and that in a competition technically so close, it is driver
talent that will make the difference.
What TCR entails for young drivers is probably the aspect that pleases me
most when I look at the future, and if there is a thing that I would like to
tell to young guns is “time to join is now”, as those who’ll do it will be ahead
of the queue!
David Sonenscher
TCR Asia Promoter
Editor in chief
Fabio Ravaioli
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Editors
Alfredo Filippone
Mark James
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Photography
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Contributors
Elías Domingo, Edd Ellison,
Sean Henshelwood, Natasha Mark,
Vadim Nishikev, Salvatore Tarantino,
Koen Wijckmans
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2016World and life