2016 TCR Trophy Europe explained

The 2016 TCR Trophy Europe was the first season of the TCR Trophy Europe.

Calendar and results

The 2016 schedule was announced on 26 February 2016.^[1] The calendar includes rounds from the Russian, Italian, Benelux, German and Portuguese TCR series.

	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Points	Second driver	Points	Third driver	Points	Supporting
1	Smolensk Ring, Safonovo, Russia	14–15 May	Aleksey Dudukalo	198	Dmitry Bragin	196	Nikolay Karamyshev	188	Russian Circuit Racing Series
2	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico, Italy	12 June	Romy Dall'Antonia Samuele Piccin	24	Imerio Brigliadori Vincenzo Montalbano	23	Alberto Viberti	20	Italian Touring Car Championship
3	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands	15–17 July	Stéphane Lémeret Norbert Michelisz	84	Kévin Balthazar Vincent Radermecker	68	Romain de Leval Alexis van de Poele	56	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship
4	Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany	6–7 August	Josh Files	43	Antti Buri	25	Mike Halder	22	ADAC GT Masters ADAC Formula 4 Championship ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship
5	Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium	19–20 August	Pierre-Yves Corthals Frédéric Caprasse	130	Denis Dupont Sam Dejonghe	83	Vincent Radermecker Olivier Cartelle	68	24 Hours of Zolder TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship
6	Circuito de Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	11 September	Pierre-Yves Corthals Frédéric Caprasse	45	Antti Buri	41	Francisco Abreu Manuel Gião	24	Campeonato Nacional de Velocidade Turismos
7	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany	1–2 October	Steve Kirsch	43	Dennis Strandberg	40	Josh Files	30	ADAC GT Masters ADAC Formula 4 Championship Formula Renault 2.0 NEC ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship

Championship standings

Only the best four results count towards the championship. The race classification is given by the aggregate points classification of the round.

valign=middle valign=middle Driver SMO MIS ZAN NÜR ZOL JER HOC valign=middle 1 Pierre-Yves Corthals 13^17 7^15 1^130 1^45 6^12 64 2 Frédéric Caprasse 1^130 1^45 50 3 Antti Buri 2^25 2^41 (9^8) 36 4 Josh Files 1^43 (3^30) 25 5 Stéphane Lémeret 1^84 (4^56) 25 6 Steve Kirsch (8^13) 1^43 25 7 Romy Dall'Antonia Samuele Piccin 1^24 25 7 Norbert Michelisz 1^84 25 7 Aleksey Dudukalo 1^198 25 11 Vincent Radermecker 2^68 12^6 (3^68) 18 12 Sam Dejonghe Denis Dupont 4^56 2^83 18 14 Dmitry Bragin 2^196 18 14 Imerio Brigliadori Vincenzo Montalbano 2^23 18 14 Dennis Strandberg 2^40 18 14 Kévin Balthazar 2^68 18 19 Romain de Leval Alexis van de Poele 3^64 (4^37) 15 21 Olivier Cartelle 3^68 15 21 Francisco Abreu Manuel Gião 3^24 15 21 Nikolay Karamyshev 3^188 15 21 Alberto Viberti 3^21 15 21 Mike Halder 3^22 15 27 Marco Costamagna 4^12 12 27 Matt Neal 4^56 12 27 Ronny Jost 4^15 12 27 César Machado Rafael Lobato 4^21 12 27 Jordi Oriola 4^22 12 27 Roman Golikov 4^168 12 34 Francisco Mora 9^31 5^18 12 35 Ronnie Latinne Maxime Potty 5^55 (5^52) 10 37 Irek Minnakhmetov 5^166 10 37 Luigi Bamonte 5^9 10 37 Harald Proczyk 5^14 10 37 Mario Dablander 5^20 10 41 Benjamin Leuchter 6^18 (8^10) 8 42 Didier van Dalen Amaury Richard (10^32) 6^52 8 44 Lev Tolkachev 6^164 8 44 Daniele Cappellari Fabio Fabiani Daniele Verrocchio 6^8 8 44 Ghislain Cordeel Jeffrey van Hooydonk 6^53 8 44 Francisco Carvalho Nuno Batista 6^18 8 52 José Rodrigues 9^31 7^18 8 53 Edouard Mondron Guillaume Mondron (9^36) 7^42 6 55 Kai Jordan 7^13 6 55 Pavel Yashin 7^162 6 55 Olivier Hart Loris Hezemans 7^43 6 59 Renaud Kuppens Benjamin Lessennes 8^38 10^24 4 61 Marat Sharapov 8^72 4 61 Gustavo Moura 8^12 4 63 Pascal Eberle 9^11 2 63 Lukas Niedertscheider 9^8 2 65 Jürgen Schmarl 10^10 1 valign=middle valign=middle Driver SMO MIS ZAN NÜR ZOL JER HOC valign=middle

^1 – Number of points earned in weekend

Notes and References

1. News: Six rounds to form the TCR Trophy Europe. tcr-series.com. 26 February 2016.