2018 World Touring Car Cup Explained

The 2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup (known as the FIA WTCR presented by Oscaro for sponsorship reasons)^[1] was the inaugural season of the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR). It took over from the World Touring Car Championship and adopted the TCR technical regulations. It was also the 14th overall season of the series that dates from the 2005 World Touring Car Championship. The change of name and new rules follow the declining interest in the TC1 regulations used by the World Touring Car Championship between 2014 and 2017 and the growing interest among manufacturers in the TCR touring car category.^[2]

Teams and drivers

Team	Car		Drivers	Rounds
Season entries
BRC Racing Team^[3]	Hyundai i30 N TCR	5	Norbert Michelisz	All
		30	Gabriele Tarquini	All
DG Sport Compétition^[4]	Peugeot 308 GTi TCR	7	Aurélien Comte	All
		70	Maťo Homola^[5]	All
Zengő Motorsport^[6]	CUPRA León TCR	8	Norbert Nagy	All
		66	Zsolt Szabó^[7]	All
Boutsen Ginion Racing^[8] ^[9]		9	Tom Coronel^[10]	All
		18	Tiago Monteiro^[11]	9
		55	Ma Qing Hua^[12]	7–8, 10
		63		1–6
Team Mulsanne^[13]	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	10	Gianni Morbidelli^[14]	1–5
		16	Luigi Ferrara^[15]	9–10
		31	Kevin Ceccon^[16]	6–10
		88	Fabrizio Giovanardi^[17]	1–8
M Racing-YMR^[18]	Hyundai i30 N TCR	11	Thed Björk	All
		48	Yvan Muller	All
Sébastien Loeb Racing^[19]	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	12	Robert Huff^[20]	All
		25	Mehdi Bennani^[21]	All
ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	15	James Thompson^[22]	1–5
		42	Timo Scheider^[23]	7–10
		68	Yann Ehrlacher^[24]	All
		86	Esteban Guerrieri	All
Audi Sport Team Comtoyou^[25]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	20	Denis Dupont	All
		22	Frédéric Vervisch^[26]	All
Comtoyou Racing^[27] ^[28]		21	Aurélien Panis^[29]	All
		23		All
Team Oscaro by Campos Racing^[30]	CUPRA León TCR^[31]	27	John Filippi	All
		74	Pepe Oriola^[32]	All
Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT^[33]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	52	Gordon Shedden^[34]	All
		69	Jean-Karl Vernay	All
Wildcard entries
Bas Koeten Racing^[35]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	2	Bernhard van Oranje-Nassau	4
		3	Michael Verhagen^[36]	4
PCT-IXO Models Racing Team	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	6	Rui Valente	10
Veloso Motorsport^[37]	CUPRA León TCR	13	Edgar Florindo	5
Brutal Fish Racing Team^[38]	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	17	Andrej Studenič	6
KCMG^[39]	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	19	Attila Tassi	2
		94	Kris Richard^[40]	3
Target Competition^[41]	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK2)	26	José Rodrigues	5
Teamwork Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	28	Kevin Tse	10
Audi Sport Team WRT^[42]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	33	René Rast	3
TSRT Zuver Team	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	36	Lo Kai Fung	10
Fullin Race Academy	CUPRA León TCR	44	Petr Fulín	6
Champ Motorsport^[43]	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	60	Filipe de Souza	10
		77	Lam Kam San	10
MacPro Racing Team	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	89	André Couto	10
M1RA^[44]	Hyundai i30 N TCR	99	Dániel Nagy	2

Team and driver changes

• As the new WTCR regulations do not allow factory teams, Polestar Cyan Racing will not take part in the new series. Thus Nick Catsburg and Néstor Girolami left the team with Girolami returning to Super TC 2000 Championship^[45] and Catsburg joining BMW to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Development driver Yvan Muller, who competed as one-off entry last season, formed Yvan Muller Racing with 2017 WTCC champion Thed Björk with the team using the Hyundai i30 N TCR for the season.
• Norbert Michelisz left Honda Racing Team JAS to join BRC Racing Team in the second Hyundai i30 N TCR. He'll be joined by Gabriele Tarquini, who had competed with the team in the 2017 TCR International Series in the final two rounds of the season.
• Sébastien Loeb Racing will enter two Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR cars for the 2018 season for Robert Huff, who raced the previous season for ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport in WTCC and Leopard Racing Team WRT in partial TCR International Series campaign, and Mehdi Bennani. With the decision to sign Huff and keep Bennani 2017 WTCC Trophy winner Tom Chilton left the team to compete in the British Touring Car Championship with Motorbase Performance. Chilton had participated in both WTCC and BTCC in 2017 before announcing that he would be competing in BTCC only.^[46]
• After competing in the final two races of the 2017 TCR International Series season, TCR BeNeLux regular Denis Dupont would make his full-time début with Comtoyou Racing. He will be partnered by Aurélien Panis, who made appearances in both WTCC with Zengő Motorsport and TCR International Series with Boutsen Ginion Racing. The team later announced that they would expand to 4 cars adding Frédéric Vervisch and Nathanaël Berthon. In accordance with team size regulations, Vervisch and Dupont will enter under the entry Audi Sport Team Comtoyou, scoring separately from Comtoyou Racing. With these announcements double TCR International Series overall winner Stefano Comini left the team.
• Boutsen Ginion Racing will switch to the new Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) for the 2018 season. Former Honda Racing Team JAS driver Tiago Monteiro will drive one of the cars. He will drive alongside Tom Coronel joining from ROAL Motorsport. On 26 March Benjamin Lessennes, the 2017 TCR BeNeLux Touring Car Championship winner with the team, was announced as replacement for Monteiro for the first rounds of the season as Monteiro was not medically cleared. Lessennes was already signed as the team's test and developmental driver prior to the decision.
• ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport entered three Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) for Esteban Guerrieri, who comes from Honda Racing Team JAS, Yann Ehrlacher, who moves from RC Motorsport, and at selected races for James Thompson, who last raced for Lada Sport in the 2015 World Touring Car Championship. Guerrieri and Ehrlacher are nominated by the team to score points in the teams' championship.
• Craft-Bamboo Racing will move to TCR Europe for 2018 with a two-car entry with the car which will they run is yet to be announced. Pepe Oriola moved to Campos Racing, while James Nash returned to the British Touring Car Championship with BTC Norlin Racing.^[47]
• W Racing Team (competing under the guise of Leopard Racing Team WRT), will switch from Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR to Audi RS 3 LMS TCR competing under the Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Racing banner for sponsorship reasons. 2017 TCR International Series drivers' winner Jean-Karl Vernay and Gordon Shedden, who has competed for the team in Dubai, will drive the two cars. 2017 DTM champion René Rast will make one-off appearance for the team (as Audi Sport Team WRT) at the Nordschleife as wildcard entrant
• M1RA, the 2017 TCR International Series teams' champions, will move to the TCR Europe Series replacing the Honda Civic Type R TCR for Hyundai i30 TCR. Dániel Nagy will drive one of the cars, moving from Zengő Motorsport. Attila Tassi, who finished as runner-up in the drivers' standings, will leave the team becoming JAS Motorsport's test driver and will drive a Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) in TCR Europe Series for KCMG.^[48] Both Nagy and Tassi made one-off appearances as wildcard entrants in Hungary.
• DG Sport Compétition switched from Opel Astra TCR to Peugeot 308 TCR and retained Maťo Homola and Aurélien Comte.
• Romeo Ferraris signed Fabrizio Giovanardi, who returns to full-time competition after last competing in the 2014 British Touring Car Championship, and Gianni Morbidelli, who competed for WestCoast Racing in the 2017 TCR International Series season. With these announcements Dušan Borković and Davit Kajaia will leave the team with Borković set to drive in the TCR Europe Series for Target Competition.^[49]
• After competing with Sébastien Loeb Racing in 2017, John Filippi returned to his previous team Campos Racing driving a Cupra León TCR.^[30]

Calendar

The 2018 championship was contested over thirty rounds in Europe, Africa and East Asia.

A provisional calendar was released in December 2017.^[50] In March 2018 an additional round in China was added at the Wuhan Street Circuit.

	Race	Race Name	Circuit	Date	Supporting
1	1	AFRIQUIA Race of Morocco		7 April	stand-alone event
	2			8 April
	3
2	4	Race of Hungary	Hungaroring	28 April	stand-alone event
	5			29 April
	6
3	7	Race of Germany	Nürburgring Nordschleife	10 May	Nürburgring 24 Hours
	8			12 May
	9
4	10	Race of the Netherlands	Circuit Zandvoort	20 May	TCR Europe Series TCR Benelux Touring Car Championship TCR Swiss Trophy
	11			21 May
	12
5	13	Race of Portugal	Circuito Internacional de Vila Real	23 June	Campeonato Nacional de Velocidade Turismos
	14			24 June
	15
6	16	Race of Slovakia^[51]	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	14 July	2018 European Truck Racing Championship
	17
	18			15 July
7	19	Race of China – Ningbo	Ningbo International Circuit	29 September	China Touring Car Championship TCR China Touring Car Championship
	20			30 September
	21
8	22	Race of China – Wuhan^[52]	Wuhan Street Circuit	6 October	China Touring Car Championship China Endurance Championship China Racing Truck Championship
	23			7 October
	24
9	25	JVCKENWOOD Race of Japan	Suzuka Circuit	27 October	Super Formula Championship
	26			28 October
	27
10	28	Guia Race of Macau	Guia Circuit, Macau	17 November	FIA F3 World Cup FIA GT World Cup Macau Touring Car Cup
	29			18 November
	30

Rule changes

Sporting regulations

• With titles for drivers and teams only the new series will receive "World Cup" rather than "World Championship" status. Manufacturers will be able to develop cars for competition that are then sold to privateer entrants and will also be allowed to provide ongoing support and development to those teams.^[2]
• The WTCR series will be capped at 26 entries with up to two wildcards nominated by the organizers at each race weekend. The entry cap will be in place for all races except for Macau where six wildcards were nominated. All Teams will have to enter a minimum two cars with an entry fee of 150,000 Euro.^[53]
• The weekend format was also changed. Now there are three races per weekend instead of two with the first race being held on Saturdays with its own 30-minute qualifying session right after the two Free Practice sessions. On Sundays there is going to be another qualifying session to determine the grid for Race 3, while Race 2's starting grid will have the Top 10 drivers from the session in reverse order.^[54]
• The tires will be supplied by Yokohama and the fuel by Panta.^[55]

Results

Race	Race Name	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Report
1	Race of Morocco	Thed Björk	Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team	Report
2			Jean-Karl Vernay	Jean-Karl Vernay	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT
3		Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team
4	Race of Hungary	Norbert Michelisz	Esteban Guerrieri	Yann Ehrlacher	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Report
5			Dániel Nagy	Robert Huff	Sébastien Loeb Racing
6		Norbert Michelisz	Yann Ehrlacher	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team
7	Race of Germany	Thed Björk	Norbert Michelisz	Yvan Muller	M Racing-YMR	Report
8			Norbert Michelisz	Esteban Guerrieri	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport
9		Thed Björk	Frédéric Vervisch	Thed Björk	M Racing-YMR
10	Race of the Netherlands	Robert Huff	Yann Ehrlacher	Yann Ehrlacher	ALL-INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport	Report
11		Jean-Karl Vernay	Aurélien Comte	DG Sport Compétition
12	nowrap	Jean-Karl Vernay	nowrap	Jean-Karl Vernay	nowrap		Jean-Karl Vernay	nowrap	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT
13	Race of Portugal	Robert Huff	Gabriele Tarquini	Yvan Muller	M Racing-YMR	Report
14			Thed Björk	Maťo Homola	DG Sport Compétition
15		Thed Björk	Thed Björk	Thed Björk	M Racing-YMR
16	Race of Slovakia	Gabriele Tarquini	Pepe Oriola	Pepe Oriola	Team Oscaro by Campos Racing	Report
17			Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team
18		Norbert Michelisz	Norbert Michelisz	Norbert Michelisz	BRC Racing Team
19	Race of China – Ningbo	Thed Björk	Thed Björk	Thed Björk	M Racing-YMR	Report
20			Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	M Racing-YMR
21		Thed Björk	Thed Björk	Thed Björk	M Racing-YMR
22	Race of China – Wuhan	Jean-Karl Vernay	Jean-Karl Vernay	Jean-Karl Vernay	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT	Report
23			Mehdi Bennani	Mehdi Bennani	Sébastien Loeb Racing
24		Gordon Shedden	Frédéric Vervisch	Gordon Shedden	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT
25	Race of Japan	Aurélien Comte	Kevin Ceccon	Kevin Ceccon	Team Mulsanne	Report
26			Pepe Oriola	Robert Huff	Sébastien Loeb Racing
27		Kevin Ceccon	Gabriele Tarquini	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team
28	Guia Race of Macau	Robert Huff	Robert Huff	Jean-Karl Vernay	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT	Report
29			Robert Huff	Frédéric Vervisch	Audi Sport Team Comtoyou
30		Robert Huff	Yann Ehrlacher	Esteban Guerrieri	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Championship points were awarded on the results of each race at each event as follows:

Position^[56]	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Race 1	27	20	17	14	12	10	8	6	4	2
Second Qualifying	5	4	3	2	1
Race 2	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Race 3	30	23	19	16	13	10	7	4	2	1

(key)

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center"
valign=middle		valign=middle	Driver	MAR			HUN			GER			NLD			PRT			SVK			NIN			WUH			JPN			MAC			valign=middle
1	Gabriele Tarquini	1	19†	1^1	6	4	1^2	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	19	18	4	9	2^3	3	1	Ret	4	Ret	2^4	17	NC	13	8	5	1^2	4	Ret	10	306
2	Yvan Muller	11	9	2^2	4	3	3	1	4	3^4	Ret	24†	Ret	1	2	11	12	3	Ret^4	7	1	Ret	15	9	Ret	3	10	21†	2	3	4	303
3	Esteban Guerrieri	6	8	14	2	5	22^3	Ret	1	8	6	7	4^5	2	Ret	13	Ret	8	Ret^3	2	3	Ret^3	7	13	4^5	4	Ret	18	6	5	1^2	267
4		Ret	7	5^3	3	6	2^1	4	5	Ret^3	Ret	23	22†	Ret	5	3^2	23†	6	1^1	Ret	11	5^2	Ret	14	14	11	3	9	5	Ret	3^3	246
5	Jean-Karl Vernay	4	1	9	8	10	10	5	7	7	5	Ret	1^1	5	4	10	2	NC	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	1	5	15^4	6	14	10	1	Ret	22†^4	245
6	Pepe Oriola	18†	3	10	16	Ret	19	8	2	6	23†	4	10	3	3	4^4	1	4	8	13	9	7	2	4	6	10	2	19	7	Ret	6	245
7	Thed Björk	2	5	3^4	9	12	9	2	Ret	1^1	14	16	15	Ret	10	1^1	13	10	4	1	7	1^1	12	Ret	10	Ret	12	8	11	Ret	8	242
8	Robert Huff	3	18	7	5	1	8	3	Ret	Ret	3	8	2^2	Ret	DNS	DNS	19	Ret	13	6	5	6^5	14	10	Ret	23	1	6	3	24	2^1	242
9	Frédéric Vervisch	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	17	18	Ret	3	2^2	Ret	9	3^4	10	17	6	Ret	7	3	3	6	4	4	6	2^2	9	11	7	12	1	13	228
10	Yann Ehrlacher	7	4	4^5	1	Ret	4^4	19	6	Ret^5	1	2	6	Ret	7	7^5	6	9	14	8	18†	19	18	15	12	Ret	9	Ret^4	14	6	5^5	204
11	Aurélien Comte	8	Ret	DNS	17	16	13	18	13	15	2	1	7	6	Ret	DNS	4	13	2^2	16	Ret	16	5	2	Ret	2	7	2^3	20	12	16	191
12	Mehdi Bennani	9	2	6	10	7	17	13	10	9	8	5	8	Ret	DNS	DNS	21	Ret	Ret	5	2	10	13	1	9	5	8	4^5	15	10	Ret	155
13	Gordon Shedden	5	11	18†	18	15	12	7	18	13	4	6	5^3	9	6	17†	17	15	Ret	14	14	13	3	Ret	1^1	18	18	16	Ret	14	Ret	122
14	Kevin Ceccon																16	11	6	12	12	14	6	11	8	1	6	3^1	Ret	4	7	102
15	Nathanaël Berthon	12	15	Ret	11	14	16	20	8	5	9	15	11	8	Ret	Ret	10	12	Ret	Ret	8	8	8	3	5	12	17	20†	18	7	9	79
16	Denis Dupont	13	DNS	DNS	22	21	21	12	11	12	11	11	12	Ret	Ret	14	8	17	15†	9	4	3	10	8	3^3	16	13	Ret	22	15	15	69
17	Aurélien Panis	Ret	14	16	15	20	Ret	11	12	11	10	Ret	13	16†	8	9	9	Ret	10	10	10	9	9	7	11	13	4	5	16	9	Ret	55
18	Mat'o Homola	Ret	12	13	20	NC	20	14	14	16	18	18	16	12	1	5	14	16	11	17	16	18	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	20	15	10	17	12	48
19	Benjamin Lessennes	15	Ret	17	14	8	5^5	10	Ret	4	19	12	Ret	7	Ret	8	20	DSQ	DSQ													48
20	Dániel Nagy				7	2	6																									36
21	James Thompson	14	6	8	12	NC	7	22	DSQ	19	12	3	9	Ret	DNS	DNS																36
22	Timo Scheider																			11	19	11	19	Ret	Ret	19	16	13	8	2	Ret	24
23	Tom Coronel	21†	10	12	Ret	19	Ret	9	9	10	7	14	Ret	Ret	15	Ret	7	DSQ	DSQ	15	15	17	Ret	Ret	17†	17	19	14	13	16	14	24
24	Fabrizio Giovanardi	19	13	19†	23†	23	Ret	15	Ret	14	22†	Ret	DNS	11	11	Ret	5	14	7	18	13	Ret	Ret	16	Ret							19
25	Norbert Nagy	16	16	15	Ret	11	11	21	17	17	17	20	17	14	13	Ret	11	2	Ret	Ret	20†	15	NC	Ret	16	22	21	17	23	23	20	18
26	John Filippi	10	17	11	NC	13	Ret	16	Ret	20	15	10	14	Ret	12	16†	18	5	Ret^5	Ret	Ret	20†	16	Ret	DNS	20	22†	12	Ret	11	23†	14
27	Petr Fulín																15	20	5													13
28	René Rast							6	Ret	DNS																						10
29	Luigi Ferrara																									14	23†	NC	9	8	Ret	8
30	Ma Qing Hua																			19	17	DNS	11	12	7				Ret	13	11	7
31	Zsolt Szabó	17	Ret	Ret	21	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS	16	17	Ret	15	Ret	DNS	24†	19	9	Ret	Ret	21†	20	17	Ret	21	Ret	DNS	DNQ	22	24†	4
32	Tiago Monteiro																									15	15	11				0
33	Edgar Florindo													13	14	12																0
34	Andrej Studenič																22	18	12													0
35	Gianni Morbidelli	20†	Ret	Ret	Ret	22	14	Ret	15	Ret	13	13	21	Ret	DNS	DNS																0
36	Attila Tassi				19	18	15																									0
37	José Rodrigues													Ret	16	15†																0
38	Kris Richard							17	16	18																						0
39	Kevin Tse																												Ret	18	17	0
40	Filipe de Souza																												17	19	19	0
41	André Couto																												21	20	18	0
42											21	21	19																			0
43	Lo Kai Fung																												19	21	21	0
44	Michael Verhagen										20	22	20																			0
	Lam Kam San																												DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	0
	Rui Valente																												DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	0
valign=middle		valign=middle	Driver	MAR			HUN			GER			NLD			PRT			SVK			NIN			WUH			JPN			MAC			valign=middle

Teams' championship

(key)

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center"
valign=middle		valign=middle	Team	MAR			HUN			GER			NLD			PRT			SVK			NIN			WUH			JPN			MAC			valign=middle
1	M Racing-YMR	11	9	2^2	4	3	3	1	4	3^4	Ret	24†	Ret	1	2	11	12	3	Ret^4	7	1	Ret	15	9	Ret	3	10	21	2	3	4	562
	2	5	3^4	9	12	9	2	Ret	1^1	14	16	15	Ret	10	1^1	13	10	4	1	7	1^1	12	Ret	10	Ret	12	8	11	Ret	8
2	BRC Racing Team	1	19†	1^1	6	4	1^2	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	19	18	4	9	2^3	3	1	Ret	4	Ret	2^4	17	Ret	13	8	5	1^2	4	Ret	10	559
	Ret	7	5^3	3	6	2^1	4	5	Ret^3	Ret	23	22†	Ret	5	3^2	23†	6	1^1	Ret	11	5^2	Ret	14	14	11	3	9	5	Ret	3^3
3		7	4	4^5	1	Ret	4^4	19	6	Ret^5	1	2	6	Ret	7	7^5	6	9	14	8	18†	19	18	15	12	Ret	9	Ret^4	14	6	5^5
	6	8	14	2	5	22^3	Ret	1	8	6	7	4^5	2	Ret	13	Ret	8	Ret^3	2	3	Ret^3	7	13	4^5	4	DNS	18	6	5	1^2
4	align=left rowspan=2	Sébastien Loeb Racing	3	18	7	5	1	8	3	Ret	Ret	3	8	2^2	Ret	DNS	DNS	19	Ret	13	6	5	6^5	14	10	Ret	23†	1	6	3	24	2^1	412
	9	2	6	10	7	17	13	10	9	8	5	8	Ret	DNS	DNS	21	Ret	Ret	5	2	10	13	1	9	5	8	4^5	15	10	Ret
5	align=left rowspan=2 nowrap	Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team WRT	4	1	9	8	10	10	5	7	7	5	Ret	1^1	5	4	10	2	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	1	5	15^4	6	14	10	1	Ret	22†^4	381
	5	11	18†	18	15	12	7	18	13	4	6	5^3	9	6	17	17	15	Ret	14	14	13	3	Ret	1^1	18	18	16	Ret	14	Ret
6	align=left rowspan=2	Audi Sport Team Comtoyou	Ret	Ret	Ret	13	17	18	Ret	3	2^2	Ret	9	3^4	10	17	6	Ret	7	3	3	6	4	4	6	2^2	9	11	7	12	1	13	300
	13	DNS	DNS	22	21	21	12	11	12	11	11	12	Ret	Ret	14	8	17	15†	9	4	3	10	8	3^3	16	13	Ret	22	15	15
7	Team Oscaro by Campos Racing	18†	3	10	16	Ret	19	8	2	6	23†	4	10	3	3	4^4	1	4	8	13	9	7	2	4	6	10	2	19	7	Ret	6	272
	10	17	11	Ret	13	Ret	16	Ret	20	15	10	14	Ret	12	16	18	5	Ret^5	Ret	Ret	20	16	Ret	DNS	20	22	12	Ret	11	23†
8	align=left rowspan=2	DG Sport Compétition	8	Ret	DNS	17	16	13	18	13	15	2	1	7	6	Ret	DNS	4	13	2^2	16	Ret	16	5	2	Ret	2	7	2^3	20	12	16	242
	Ret	12	13	20	NC	20	14	14	16	18	18	16	12	1	5	14	16	11	17	16	18	Ret	Ret	Ret	7	20	15	10	17	12
9	Comtoyou Racing	12	15	Ret	11	14	16	20	8	5	9	15	11	8	Ret	Ret	10	12	Ret	Ret	8	8	8	3	5	12	17	20†	18	7	9	144
	Ret	14	16	15	20	Ret	11	12	11	10	Ret	13	16†	8	9	9	Ret	10	10	10	9	9	7	11	13	4	5	16	9	Ret
10	Team Mulsanne	19	13	19†	23†	23	Ret	15	Ret	14	22†	Ret	DNS	11	11	Ret	5	14	7	18	13	Ret	Ret	16	Ret	14	23†	NC	9	8	Ret	142
	20†	Ret	Ret	Ret	22	14	Ret	15	Ret	13	13	21	Ret	DNS	DNS	16	11	6	12	12	14	6	11	8	1	6	3^1	Ret	4	7
11	Boutsen Ginion Racing	15	Ret	17	14	8	5^5	10	Ret	4	19	12	Ret	7	Ret	8	20	DSQ	DSQ	19	17	DNS	11	12	7	15	15	11	Ret	13	11	86
	21†	10	12	Ret	19	Ret	9	9	10	7	14	Ret	Ret	15	Ret	7	DSQ	DSQ	15	15	17	Ret	Ret	17	17	19	14	13	16	14
12	Zengo Motorsport	17	Ret	Ret	21	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS	16	17	Ret	Ret	21	DNS	Ret	19	9	Ret	Ret	21	20	17	Ret	21	Ret	DNS	DNQ	22	24†	29
	16	16	15	Ret	11	11	21	17	17	17	20	17	14	13	Ret	11	2	Ret	Ret	20	15	Ret	Ret	16	22	21	17	23	23	20
Wildcard teams entries ineligible to score points
	M1RA				7	2	6																									36
	Fullin Race Academy																15	20	5													13
	Audi Sport Team WRT							6	Ret	DNS																						10
	Veloso Motorsport													13	14	12																0
	Brutal Fish Racing Team																22	18	12													0
	KCMG				19	18	15																									0
							17	16	18
	Target Competition													Ret	16	15																0
	Teamwork Motorsport																												Ret	18	17	0
	Champ Motorsport																												17	19	19	0
																												DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
	MacPro Racing Team																												21	20	18	0
	Bas Koeten Racing										21	21	19																			0
										20	22	20
	TSRT Zuver Team																												19	21	21	0
	PCT–IXO Models Racing Team																												DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	0
valign=middle		valign=middle	Team	MAR			HUN			GER			NLD			PRT			SVK			NIN			WUH			JPN			MAC			valign=middle

Notes and References

1. News: It's go for OSCARO as Series Presenting Partner of WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup. fiawtcr.com. 27 February 2018. 10 April 2018. 3 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191203235034/https://www.fiawtcr.com/its-go-for-oscaro-as-series-presenting-partner-of-wtcr-fia-world-touring-car-cup/. dead.
2. News: WTCC change to TCR regulations approved by FIA. Speedcafe. 7 December 2017. 8 December 2017.
3. Web site: Gabriele Tarquini and Norbert Michelisz confirmed at Hyundai team. TouringCarTimes. 30 January 2018. 30 January 2018. Neil. Hudson.
4. News: DG Sport confirm Aurélien Comte in Peugeot 308 TCR in 2018 » TouringCars.Net. Abbott. Andrew. 13 March 2018. TouringCars.Net. 13 March 2018. en-US.
5. News: Mat'o Homola remains with DG Sport for Peugeot WTCR assault » TouringCars.Net. Abbott. Andrew. 15 March 2018. TouringCars.Net. 15 March 2018. en-US.
6. News: Zengő Motorsport signs Norbert Nagy for WTCR programme. 26 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 26 March 2018.
7. News: Zengő Motorsport announce Zsolt Szabó as second WTCR driver. 2018-03-28. TouringCars.Net. 2018-04-10. en-US.
8. Web site: Boutsen Ginion Racing confirm two Honda Civics for 2018 WTCR. TouringCarTimes. 29 January 2018. 29 January 2018. Neil. Hudson.
9. Web site: Tiago Monteiro and Tom Coronel's 2018 colours on show at Zandvoort. TouringCarTimes. 13 March 2018. 13 March 2018.
10. News: Tom Coronel confirms Honda WTCR programme. 20 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 20 February 2018. en-US.
11. News: Tiago Monteiro and Esteban Guerrieri confirmed as Honda WTCR drivers - TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2018. en-US.
12. News: Ma Qing Hua replaces Ben Lessennes at Boutsen Ginion Racing - TouringCarTimes. 18 September 2018. TouringcarTimes. 18 September 2018. en-US.
13. Web site: Romeo Ferraris confirms Alfa Romeo programme. TouringCarTimes. 5 February 2018. 5 February 2018.
14. News: Gianni Morbidelli to partner Fabrizio Giovanardi at Team Mulsanne. 23 March 2018. TouringCars.Net. 23 March 2018. en-US.
15. News: Luigi Ferrara confirmed to replace Fabrizio Giovanardi at Romeo Ferraris - TouringCarTimes. 23 October 2018. TouringCarTimes. 23 October 2018. en-US.
16. News: Kevin Ceccon to complete season with Team Mulsanne. 5 September 2018. TouringCarTimes. 5 September 2018.
17. News: Fabrizio Giovanardi back in an Alfa Romeo for the 2018 World Touring Car Cup - TouringCarTimes. 19 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 19 March 2018. en-US.
18. News: Yvan Muller and Thed Björk to race YMR Hyundais in the 2018 WTCR - TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 9 February 2018. en-US.
19. News: Rob Huff joins Mehdi Bennani as SLR switch to Volkswagens - TouringCarTimes. 2 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 2 February 2018. en-US.
20. Web site: Livery for Rob Huff's Sébastien Loeb Racing Volkswagen revealed. TouringCarTimes. 9 March 2018. 9 March 2018. Neil. Hudson.
21. Web site: Mehdi Bennani's new Sébastien Loeb Racing Volkswagen also revealed. TouringCarTimes. 9 March 2018. 9 March 2018. Neil. Hudson.
22. News: James Thompson joins Münnich Motorsport - TouringCarTimes. 2018-03-28. TouringCarTimes. 2018-03-28. en-US.
23. News: Timo Scheider to complete the WTCR season with Münnich Motorsport. 10 September 2018. TouringCarTimes. 10 September 2018.
24. News: Yann Ehrlacher joins Münnich Motorsport for 2018 WTCR campaign - TouringCarTimes. 4 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 4 March 2018. en-US.
25. Web site: WTCR Race of Morocco entry list. FIA WTCR. 7 April 2018. 10 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025749/https://fiawtcr-cdn.fixweb.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/WTCR-Race-of-Morocco-entry-list-V3.pdf. 11 April 2018. dead. dmy-all.
26. News: Comtoyou Racing expand to four cars, add Frédéric Vervisch and Nathanaël Berton - TouringCarTimes. 15 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 15 February 2018. en-US.
27. Web site: Denis Dupont is the first driver confirmed for the 2018 WTCR. TouringCarTimes. 17 January 2018. 17 January 2018. Neil. Hudson.
28. Web site: Aurélien Panis' 2018 Comtoyou Racing Audi livery revealed. TouringCarTimes. 19 February 2018. 19 February 2018. Neil. Hudson.
29. Web site: Aurélien Panis signs WTCR deal with Comtoyou. TouringCarTimes. 18 January 2018. 18 January 2018. Neil. Hudson.
30. Web site: John Filippi to race a Campos Cupra TCR in the 2018 WTCR. 1 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 1 March 2018.
31. Web site: CUPRA TCR HOME. 6 March 2018. cupraofficial.com. 19 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180320043812/https://www.cupraofficial.com/en/cars/cupra-tcr/technical-data. 20 March 2018. dead.
32. News: Pepe Oriola returns to the world stage with Campos Cupra drive - TouringCarTimes. 2 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 2 March 2018. en-US.
33. Web site: Team WRT unveil 2018 Leopard and Lukoil-backed Audis. 22 March 2018. TouringCarTimes. 22 March 2018.
34. News: Jean-Karl Vernay and Gordon Shedden lead Team WRT Audi assault on 2018 WTCR - TouringCarTimes. 15 February 2018. TouringCarTimes. 15 February 2018. en-US.
35. News: Prince Bernhard van Oranje to join WTCR grid for Zandvoort round. 30 April 2018. TouringCarTimes. 30 April 2018.
36. News: Michael Verhagen confirmed as second wild card for Zandvoort. 11 May 2018. TouringCarTimes. 11 May 2018.
37. News: Edgar Florindo is the first wild card confirmed for Vila Real - TouringCarTimes. 2018-05-23. TouringCarTimes. 2018-05-23. en-US.
38. Web site: Petr Fulín and Andrej Studenič announced as wildcard drivers for Slovakia. 4 July 2018. TouringCarTimes. 4 July 2018.
39. News: Attila Tassi confirmed for home race in Hungary as second wild card in WTCR - TouringCarTimes. 2018-04-11. TouringCarTimes. 2018-04-11. en-US.
40. News: Kris Richard secures Nordschleife wild card drive. 2 May 2018. TouringCarTimes. 2 May 2018.
41. News: José Rodrigues confirmed as second wild card for Vila Real. 1 June 2018. TouringCarTimes. 1 June 2018.
42. News: DTM champion René Rast to make WTCR guest entry. 2018-04-12. TouringCars.Net. 2018-04-12. en-US.
43. Web site: André Couto heads Macau wild card entrants. 18 October 2018. TouringCarTimes. 18 October 2018.
44. Web site: Daniel Nagy is the first wild card in the WTCR in a M1RA Hyundai. 11 April 2018. TouringCarTimes. 11 April 2018.
45. News: Néstor Girolami returns to Super TC 2000 with Peugeot - TouringCarTimes. 22 December 2017. TouringCarTimes. 18 January 2018. en-US.
46. News: Motorbase confirms Tom Chilton for 2018 - TouringCarTimes. 20 December 2017. TouringCarTimes. 18 January 2018. en-US.
47. News: Top SEAT TCR squad Craft-Bamboo decides against 2018 WTCR - Autosport. 9 February 2018. Autosport. 10 February 2018. en-US.
48. News: Michelisz után a csapata is Hyundaira vált. Gergely. Koroknai. 8 March 2018. hu.
49. News: Dušan Borković confirms TCR Europe campaign in 2018. 14 March 2018. TouringCars.Net. 15 March 2018. en-US.
50. News: Inaugural WTCR calendar announced, Suzuka added. 22 December 2017. Motorsport.com. 22 December 2017. en-US.
51. Web site: Slovakia confirmed as Argentina replacement. 7 June 2018.
52. Web site: WTCR Race of China - Wuhan Timetable.
53. News: WTCR explains 26-car limit and entry fee hike for inaugural season - TouringCarTimes. 2017-12-08. TouringCarTimes. 2017-12-22. en-US.
54. News: Three races per weekend confirmed for the 2018 WTCR - TouringCarTimes. 2017-12-07. TouringCarTimes. 2018-05-02. en-US.
55. News: FIA announces Yokohama and Panta as official WTCR suppliers. 2018-02-03. Eurosport. 2018-02-07. en-US.
56. Web site: WTCR rules in short. fiawtcr.com. 10 April 2018. 4 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134725/https://www.fiawtcr.com/sporting/. dead.