Kumho-shod TCR World Tour gains FIA status

Following a one-year hiatus, in 2024 world-level touring car racing returns to the FIA motorsport portfolio. The 2023-launched TCR World Tour gains FIA competition status in its second season and the championship, which exclusively runs on Kumho tyres, will be known as the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour for the next three years.

The inaugural Kumho FIA TCR World Tour will feature nine events on six continents, followed by the FIA TCR World Ranking Final.

Recent history of FIA world touring car racing includes WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup, which ran TCR specification cars from 2018 to 2022, and the FIA World Touring Car Championship, which existed from 2005 to 2017, using S2000 and later TC1 technical regulations. Before that, the FIA’s top touring car competitions were often held as one-off events gathering the best drivers from various national touring car series.