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Shanghai Lisheng Racing Co. Ltd. promoter of the successful
China Touring Car Championship has launched a TCR China
series that will begin in 2017. The announcement was made
today at the Auto Sport Industry Expo at Shanghai.
The new series is the 15th that has adopted the TCR
regulations at International, Regional and National level
around the world. It will be held over five race meetings,
with two of the five run in conjunction with the TCR Asia
series and one with the TCR International Series. A
non-championship invitational event will be held at Macau.
TCR promoter Marcello Lotti commented:
“I am thrilled by
the fact that a TCR China series will kick off next year. I am
especially grateful to Shanghai Lisheng Racing for being able
to give concrete form to the idea that together we have
pursued over the last two years. The fact that such a
successful promoter has decided to join the ever-increasing
TCR family makes us extremely proud! This is also very
important for the brands that have developed TCR racing cars,
because the series will offer them a new tool to exploit
China’s huge automotive market.
”
2017 TCR China series
7 May – Ordos International Circuit
6 August – Zhejiang International Circuit, Shaoxing (with TCR Asia)
27 August – Shanghai International Circuit (with TCR Asia)
8 October – Zhejiang International Circuit (with TCR International)
19 November – Macau (non-championship invitational race)
31 December – Guangdong International Circuit, Zhaoqing
Launch of the TCR China
The new championship will be held over five events
From left:
Xia Qing
(CEO Shanghai
Lisheng Racing),
Yue Pan (co-founder
Zehjiang International
Circuit), Marcello Lotti,
David Huang
(CEO TCR China)