One-and-a-half month after the 2025 season kicked off in Mexico, the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour lands in Europe for a streak of three race meetings in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo receives the series in the upcoming weekend, with the TCR Spain championship sharing the bill.
Just like in Mexico, the event features the three-race format with the top ten reversed grid for Race 2 based on Race 1 results, while the grid for Race 3 is determined by the sum of points scored in the qualifying and the first pair of races.
After claiming pole position and two wins at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in his GOAT Racing Honda Civic, Esteban Guerrieri leads the standings on 95 points, 12 clear of Thed Björk who had won the first race in Mexico at the wheel of his Cyan Racing-run Lynk & Co 03. Björk’s teammates Santiago Urrutia and Yann Ehrlacher follow in third and fourth positions with gaps of 26 and 35 points, with the Frenchman tied with his countryman Aurélien Comte and his SP Compétition CUPRA Leon VZ.
The BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse is eager to recover after the disappointing results of the Mexican event, where the three Hyundai Elantra cars of the reigning champion Norbert Michelisz, Mikel Azcona and Néstor Girolami suffered from a lack of speed because of the altitude.
In the Teams’ championship, Lynk & Co Cyan Racing leads GOAT Racing by 21 points.
Entry list
Schedule (Live streaming)
Friday - Practice 1, 14:30
Friday - Practice 2, 17:00
Saturday - Qualifying, 11:15
Saturday - Race 1, 16:50 (30 minutes + 1 lap)
Sunday - Race 2, 10:40 (30 minutes + 1 lap)
Sunday - Race 3, 15:30 (30 minutes + 1 lap)
All times CEST
Where to watch the 2025 Kumho FIA TCR World Tour
The 2025 Kumho FIA TCR World Tour benefits from a global video coverage, streamed live on the internet or aired by TV channels.
Worldwide Live Streaming @ TCR TV (geoblock: China, Hungary, South Korea, Latin America)
TV broadcasters
Eurosport (Pan-Europe - highlights); Sport TV/Sky 228 and MS Motor TV/Sky 229 (Italy); AMC Sport TV (Hungary); TyC Sports (Argentina); Bandeirantes (Brazil); VTV (Uruguay); Disney Channel (Latin America); Fox Sports (Mexico); Stan Sport (Australia); 2M (Morocco); Bili Bili/China Tik Tok (China and Macau); SpoTV (Pan-Asia).
Picture: WSC archive
