Macau is set to host the season finale of the TCR World Tour in 2023, with the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee and WSC Group working to finalise the agreement.
The special administrative region of China has a long history of hosting World Touring Car finales, having previously been the final round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship from 2005 to 2014.
The circuit hosted the TCR International Series in 2015 and 2016, before welcoming back the WTCC in 2017 in its final season. In 2018 and 2019 it hosted races in the FIA World Touring Car Cup.
The global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 meant that for the past three years its touring car events have been restricted to national and regional races.
The Circuito da Guia had for some time been linked with a slot on the TCR World Tour calendar. The finale is set to take place on 16 – 19 November, less than one week after the series races at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia.
Macau’s Motor Sports Authority, the AAMC, the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee and WSC Group, the TCR World Tour promoter, are working on finalising the agreement.
“We would be very proud to add Macau to the already impressing list of famous circuits that will host the inaugural season of the KUMHO TCR World Tour,” said WSC President Marcello Lotti.
“Personally speaking, I’m excited by the possibility of working again with AAMC and the Macau Grand Prix Organising Committee that have proved to be very professional in organising this event and have enthusiastically supported TCR from the very beginning.”