The TCR Europe series has unveiled a 13-car entry list for the 2024 season, featuring new cars, new drivers and a returning champion ahead of the first round at Vallelunga in Italy.
Where last year’s championship was dominated by Audi drivers, this year only one of the second-generation RS3s remains on the grid, being raced by Italian Nicola Baldan with the returning Comtoyou Racing team.
There is a raft of entrants using the very latest TCR machinery. The new Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR, first introduced last year, will be the car of choice for no less than six entrants this year, being run by both ALM Motorsport and GOAT Racing with three cars each.
Estonian outfit ALM Motorsport will continue to run promising youngster Ruben Volt, 18, who last year scored two victories in a year when he also took part in the full TCR Italy season.
ALM will also run 2023 TCR South America champion Ignacio Montenegro, 19, who has enjoyed considerable success in his native Argentina in the past two seasons, and has now moved to Europe to continue his career and already won the TCR Spain Pre-season series.
At just 21, Hungarian Levente Losonczy is the oldest driver in ALM’s line-up and like Volt, moves over from TCR Italy to TCR Europe in 2024. Last year, he was on the podium in the Italian season opener at Imola and eventually finished 13th overall in the drivers’ championship.
New team GOAT Racing will enter three new Hondas, with Dušan Borković leading the line-up. The Serbian racer won in a Hyundai last year before withdrawing in protest at the pace of the leading Audis, but the series’ fifth most experienced driver still returns for a fifth season.
Team owner Rubén Fernández will also drive one of the team’s Hondas, with brother Felipe in the other car. Rubén and Felipe have both previously proven themselves as race winners in the competitive TCR Italy series.
Five brand new CUPRA Leon VZ TCR cars will be on the grid, courtesy of SP Compétition and Monlau Motorsport.
French outfit SP Compétition, run by Sylvain Pussier, will run CUPRAs for Aurélien Comte and Giovanni Scamardi, both also switching from the Italian series. Comte made a one-off appearance in the series last year but was a regular in 2019, where he twice finished second.
Belgian racer Scamardi, 29, switches to the series and will get to grips with a new car, having only previously raced Hyundai TCR machinery.
The other CUPRA team, Spain-based Monlau Motorsport, has a formidable line-up headed up 2022 champion Franco Girolami. The Argentine, who was also runner-up in the year before, last year won the TCR Italy title and returns to Europe hungry for a third title-winning year.
Spaniard Eric Gené, 17, the son of experienced touring car star Jordi, moves to the series having just finished runner-up in the TCR Spain Pre-season series. Macedonian racer Viktor Davidovski continues in TCR Europe, switching to Monlau.
Swede Viktor Andersson enters the series for a second season in his father’s MA:GP team, again running a Lynk & Co 03 car.
For the first time in the series’ history, dating back to 2018, there is no Hyundai representation on the grid.
Practice and qualifying take place on Friday, before Race one at 18:05 CEST (17:05 BST) on Saturday, followed by race two at 15:15 CEST (14:15 BST) on Sunday.
2024 TCR Europe entry list
| Driver | No. | Team | Car |
 Aurélien Comte |
7 | SP Compétition | CUPRA Leon VZ TCR |
 Nicola Baldan |
8 | Baldan Group by Comtoyou | Audi RS3 LMS TCR II |
 Viktor Andersson |
10 | MA:GP | Lynk & Co 03 TCR |
 Rubén Fernández Gil |
11 | GOAT Racing | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
| Felipe Fernández Gil |
19 | GOAT Racing | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
| Eric Gené |
21 | Monlau Motorsport | CUPRA Leon VZ TCR |
 Ignacio Montenegro |
23 | ALM Motorsport | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
 Ruben Volt |
27 | ALM Motorsport | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
 Giovanni Scamardi |
34 | SP Compétition | CUPRA Leon VZ TCR |
 Dušan Borković |
62 | GOAT Racing | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
 Levente Losonczy |
64 | ALM Motorsport | Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR |
| Franco Girolami |
72 | Monlau Motorsport | CUPRA Leon VZ TCR |
 Viktor Davidovski |
110 | Monlau Motorsport | CUPRA Leon VZ TCR |