2021 TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship

The 2021 TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship (known for commercial reasons as the Allied Petroleum TCR New Zealand Championship) will be the inaugural season of the TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship.

2021 New Zealand Touring Car Championship Logo

Teams and drivers

All teams are based and registered in New Zealand.

Team	Car	No	Drivers	Ref
Racer Products[1]	Hyundai i30 N TCR	5	Gene Rollinson
Paddon Rallysport		20	Hayden Paddon	[2]
Jaden Ransley Racing		53	Jaden Ransley	[3]
TrackTec Racing[4]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	7	Chris van der Drift	[5]
		26	Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes	[6]
		51	Greg Murphy	[7]
Evolution Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	23	Jordan Michels	[8]
M-Developments	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	79	Paul Radisich	[9]

Race calendar

The 2020 calendar was announced on April 30, 2019. It was also announced that the summer scheduled (labelled the Sprint Championship) was scheduled to be followed by an endurance series later on in the year.^[10] The series was later rescheduled for the second half of 2020,^[11] then for March 2021 with three rounds.^[12]

Round	Circuit	Date
1	Highlands Motorsport Park	23-24 April

Results

Summary

Round	Race	Circuit	Pole position	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	1	Highlands Motorsport Park	Hayden Paddon	Chris van der Drift	TrackTec Racing
	2			Chris van der Drift	TrackTec Racing
	3			Hayden Paddon	Paddon Rallysport

Standings

Pos.	Driver	No.	HIG			Points
1	Chris van der Drift	7	1	1	5	199
2	Jordan Michels	23	5	7	3	147
3	Lochlainn Fitzgerald-Symes	26	4	8	4	147
4	Gene Rollinson	5	2	2	Ret	134
5	Hayden Paddon	20	Ret	4	1	129
6	Greg Murphy	51	3	3	Ret	120
7	Jaden Ransley	53	Ret	5	2	115
8	Paul Radisich	79	6	6	Ret	94
Pos.	Driver	No.	HIG			Points

References

1. "First Hyundai I30 N TCR Arrives In New Zealand". 30 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "WRC winner Hayden Paddon confirms TCR New Zealand tilt". 20 November 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. "Ransley joins TCRNZ". Motorsport NZ. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
4. "First Audi RS 3 LMS Confirmed For TCR New Zealand Series". 29 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. "Van der Drift set for TCRNZ". Motorsport NZ. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
6. "Track Tec Racing completes three-car TCR New Zealand line-up". TouringCarTimes. 15 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
7. "Murphy set for TCRNZ". Speedcafe. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
8. "Jordan Michels Commits To TCR New Zealand Campaign". 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
9. "Radisich set for TCRNZ". Speedcafe. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
10. "TCR NEW ZEALAND REVEAL AMBITIOUS DUAL SPRINT AND ENDURANCE CALENDARS". 19 July 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
11. "TCR New Zealand announce revised and extended calendar". TouringCarTimes.com. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
12. "Amended TCR New Zealand calendar down to three events". TouringCarTimes.com. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.

External links

• Official website of the TCR New Zealand Touring Car Championship