Marcello Lotti confident that TCR UK will be a success

Marcello Lotti, the head of TCR promoters WSC Ltd, declared that he is confident that the TCR UK series will be a success at a meeting with teams in the UK earlier this week.

“TCR UK will be a success in exactly the same way as we are seeing in series such as TCR Germany,” said Lotti.

“The UK, Italy and Germany are the three countries with the strongest Touring Car DNA and so I am confident that TCR UK will become the latest TCR success story. I enjoyed meeting the teams and discussing with them how they would like to proceed with certain aspects of the championship; the debate over testing was a great example of how we can work together with the teams to reduce their budgets.”

It was announced during the meeting with the teams that a not yet disclosed number of planned test sessions were cancelled to reduce costs and that the planned Media Day on March 6th was postponed. The reason for the cancellation was stated to be that:

”A number of teams then expressed a wish that the Media Day be postponed as they were still finalising cars, drivers or sponsors and so would welcome the extra time this would allow.”

Also announced during the meeting was that the winning driver and team of the 2018 season would receive free entries to the 2019 season.

A DSG Trophy will be formed for the 2018 season for cars that use the DSG transmission, such as the Audi RS 3 LMS, SEAT León TCR and Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR, with the prize being an upgrade to sequential transmission, worth around 20.000€ according to the TCR UK organisation.