TCR World and life

35 have shown the way, while other drivers have risen to the challenge and shown great spirit, such as touring car favourite Tom Coronel, who invested in a high-quality rig complete with its own smoke machine for if (or when?) he crashes. While his TCR results haven’t been anything to write home about, the Dutch star has been able to take the fight to some almighty motorsport stars in other sim racing series, such as Fernando Alonso, Steve Soper, Jenson Button and Emanuele Pirro. Sadly, or you could also say thankfully, real-life has begun to stop ‘play’ – with life slowly starting to return to normal – and with real racing back underway, drivers’ have become less available to participate in the sim series, with the entry lists having dwindled somewhat in recent weeks. It’s been a thrilling few months – with various TCR series having adapted to sim racing. The TCR Australia championship has been the most recent to launch its own series, running two events at the classic Albert Park and Mount Panorama circuits, with wins taken by Ben Bargwanna, son of Supercars Championship veteran Jason, Luke King, and TCR Australia front-runner Dylan O’Keefe. The TCR Eastern Europe series has also launched a strong and aggressively contested series, with Polish driver Bartosz Groszek winning four races from six, while Czech drivers Tomás Koreny and Bartek Mirecki scored one victory apiece. Both these series will go ahead until the mid of August. The TCR Europe SIM Racing series just has one round to go, with Dániel Nagy on course for the series title with six wins from the first twelve races, while the battle for second is a hotly contested affair between fellow Hungarian Bence Boldizs, Belgium’s Gilles Magnus, and the two Clairet brothers, Jimmy & Teddy.