2023 TC America Series explained

The 2023 TC America Series Powered by Skip Barber Racing School was the fifth season of the TC America Series. The season began at Sonoma on March 30, and ended at Indianapolis on October 8.

Calendar

The preliminary calendar was released on July 29, 2022, featuring 14 races across seven rounds.^[1] In September, an updated schedule was released, postponing the event at Circuit of the Americas by two weeks and bringing the Road America round forward one week.^[2] An additional change was announced on October 17, moving the NOLA round from February 24–26 to April 28–30 to alleviate a clash with the Kyalami 9 Hours, as well as allowing the 2023 BoP test to be completed before the start of the season.^[3]

Round	Circuit	Date
1	Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California	March 30 – April 2
2	NOLA Motorsports Park, Avondale, Louisiana	April 28–30
3	Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas	May 19–21
4	Virginia International Raceway, Alton, Virginia	June 16–18
5	Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	August 18–20
6	Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, Florida	September 22–24
7	Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana	October 5–8

Entry list

Team	Car		Drivers	Rounds
TCX entries
Fast Track Racing^[4]	BMW M2 CS Racing	09	Maddie Aust^[5]	2–7
		21	Adam Gleason	1–5, 7
		29	Nick Roberts^[6]	3, 5
AOA Racing^[7]	BMW M2 CS Racing	14	Kenny Schmied	All
		808	Clifton Lipple	5
			Jackson Lee	7
Kaplan Racing Systems	BMW M2 CS Racing	18	Aaron Kaplan	5
Rigid Speed Company	BMW M2 CS Racing	24	Joseph Catania	All
		26	Lucas Catania	1–6
Rooster Hall Racing	BMW M2 CS Racing	44	Colin Garrett	All
Extreme Velocity Motorsports	BMW M2 CS Racing	45	Joseph Pizzuto	6
LA Honda World Racing^[8]	Honda Civic Type-R TCX	73	Kyle Loh	1–3
			William Tally	4
			Matthew Pombo	5
Ian Lacy Racing	Honda Civic Type-R TCX	93	Christopher DeFreitas	1, 4–7
VGRT^[9]	Honda Civic Type-R TCX	99	Daijiro Yoshihara	1–3, 5–7
TC entries
Skip Barber Racing School	Honda Civic Type-R TC	7	Celso Neto^[10]	All
		34	Jeremiah Burton	3–7
		42	Ken Fukuda	1
VGRT	Honda Civic Type-R TC	8	Michael Hurczyn	1–4
			Ruben Iglesias Jr.	6
		88		7
DRS	Honda Civic Type-R TC	11	Kris Valdez	1–3, 5, 7
MINI JCW Team	Mini JCW Pro TC	37	Cristian Perocarpi	All
		60	Clayton Williams	All
GenRacer / Ricca Autosport^[11]	Hyundai Elantra N TC	78	Jeff Ricca	All
	Hyundai Veloster N TC	780	Sally McNulty	All
TCA entries
LA Honda World Racing	Honda Civic Si (FC1)	07	Mario Biundo	1–3, 6–7
	Honda Civic Si (FE1)	5	Spencer Bucknum	All
Ascent Racing	Honda Civic Si (FE1)	9	Maddy Lemke	7
Rockwell Autosport Development	Hyundai Veloster Turbo TCA	15	Eric Rockwell	4
Skip Barber Racing School	Honda Civic Si (FE1)	19	Cooper Broll^[12]	All
		77	William Lambros^[13]	All
TechSport Racing^[14]	Subaru BRZ TCA	22	Devin Anderson	All
		23	Shaoyi Che	All
MINI JCW Team	Mini JCW	62	P.J. Groenke	All
		63	Landon Lewis	1, 4
			Bruce Myrehn	5, 7
		64	Alain Lauzière	1, 3
VGRT	Honda Civic Si (FC1)	88	Ruben Iglesias Jr.	1–5

Race results

Bold indicates overall winner

Round		Circuit	Pole position	TCX Winners	TC Winners	TCA Winners
1	1	Sonoma	#99 VGRT	#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#22 TechSport Racing
			Daijiro Yoshihara	Colin Garrett	Jeff Ricca	Devin Anderson
	R2			#73 LA Honda World Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#22 TechSport Racing
				Kyle Loh	Jeff Ricca	Devin Anderson
2	1	NOLA	#73 LA Honda World Racing	#73 LA Honda World Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#5 LA Honda World Racing
			Kyle Loh	Kyle Loh	Jeff Ricca	Spencer Bucknum
	R2			#73 LA Honda World Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#5 LA Honda World Racing
				Kyle Loh	Jeff Ricca	Spencer Bucknum
3	1	Austin	#99 VGRT	#26 Rigid Speed Company	#60 MINI JCW Team	#22 TechSport Racing
			Daijiro Yoshihara	Lucas Catania	Clayton Williams	Devin Anderson
	R2			#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#60 MINI JCW Team	#77 Skip Barber Racing School
				Colin Garrett	Clayton Williams	William Lambros
4	1	Virginia	#26 Rigid Speed Company	#09 Fast Track Racing	#60 MINI JCW Team	#22 TechSport Racing
			Lucas Catania	Maddie Aust	Clayton Williams	Devin Anderson
	R2			#09 Fast Track Racing	#60 MINI JCW Team	#62 MINI JCW Team
				Maddie Aust	Clayton Williams	P.J. Groenke
5	1	Road America	#73 LA Honda World Racing	#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#5 LA Honda World Racing
			Matthew Pombo	Colin Garrett	Jeff Ricca	Spencer Bucknum
	R2			#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#60 MINI JCW Team	#22 TechSport Racing
				Colin Garrett	Clayton Williams	Devin Anderson
6	1	Sebring	#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#5 LA Honda World Racing
			Colin Garrett	Colin Garrett	Jeff Ricca	Spencer Bucknum
	R2			#44 Rooster Hall Racing	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#22 TechSport Racing
				Colin Garrett	Jeff Ricca	Devin Anderson
7	1	Indianapolis	#99 VGRT	#99 VGRT	#78 GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	#77 Skip Barber Racing School
			Daijiro Yoshihara	Daijiro Yoshihara	Jeff Ricca	William Lambros
	R2			#99 VGRT	#7 Skip Barber Racing School	#5 LA Honda World Racing
				Daijiro Yoshihara	Celso Neto	Spencer Bucknum

Championship standings

Scoring systemChampionship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Drivers' championship

Driver Team SON NOL AUS VIR ELK SEB IMS Points TCX 1 Colin Garrett Rooster Hall Racing 1 3 3 2 2 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 285 2 Lucas Catania Rigid Speed Company 2 2 4 3 1 20 6 3 2 2 2 2 188 3 Maddie Aust Fast Track Racing 5 5 3 2 1 1 Ret DNS 3 5 6 7 148 4 Daijiro Yoshihara VGRT Ret DNS 2 6 22 6 5 7 6 23 4 4 1 1 145 5 Kenny Schmied AOA Racing 6 12 21 Ret 24 4 18 5 4 3 5 6 8 3 120 6 Adam Gleason Fast Track Racing 4 4 20 4 4 13 2 9 Ret DNS 3 5 105 7 Joseph Catania Rigid Speed Company 5 6 11 DNS 6 5 3 6 5 5 6 8 103 8 Kyle Loh LA Honda World Racing 3 1 1 1 5 3 90 9 Christopher DeFreitas Ian Lacy Racing 23 19 7 8 11 9 10 7 9 6 60 10 Nick Roberts Fast Track Racing 7 9 20 4 28 11 Joseph Pizzuto Extreme Velocity Motorsports 7 3 21 12 Aaron Kaplan Kaplan Racing Systems 3 22 19 13 Jackson Lee AOA Racing 20 4 18 14 William Tally LA Honda World Racing 21 4 14 15 Clifton Lipple AOA Racing 24 8 10 Matthew Pombo LA Honda World Racing Ret DNS 0 TC 1 Clayton Williams MINI JCW Team 8 7 9 9 8 7 8 10 21 6 9 10 12 9 258 2 Jeff Ricca GenRacer / Ricca Autosport 7 5 6 7 22 22 7 7 8 9 4 10 249 3 Celso Neto Skip Barber Racing School 13 9 7 8 9 10 10 11 9 11 11 13 Ret 8 197 4 Cristian Perocarpi MINI JCW Team 9 10 8 Ret 11 8 11 14 8 10 19 11 5 Ret 170 5 Sally McNulty GenRacer / Ricca Autosport 11 Ret 10 10 14 11 9 12 10 12 12 12 13 11 149 6 Jeremiah Burton Skip Barber Racing School 13 12 12 13 12 13 13 18 10 13 96 7 Kris Valdez DRS 12 14 12 11 12 19 13 14 7 12 91 8 Michael Hurczyn VGRT 10 8 Ret DNS 10 Ret 42 9 Ruben Iglesias Jr. VGRT Ret DNS 11 14 6 Ken Fukuda Skip Barber Racing School DNS DNS 0 TCA 1 Spencer Bucknum LA Honda World Racing 15 13 13 12 17 15 Ret 16 14 16 14 15 15 15 266 2 Devin Anderson TechSport Racing 14 11 22 14 15 21 13 17 15 15 18 14 16 16 253 3 William Lambros Skip Barber Racing School 18 18 14 13 16 14 15 Ret 18 18 15 16 14 17 207 4 Shaoyi Che TechSport Racing 16 15 16 15 19 DNS 14 18 17 17 16 Ret 17 19 158 5 P.J. Groenke MINI JCW Team 17 16 15 Ret 18 Ret 20 15 16 24 17 17 18 18 147 6 Cooper Broll Skip Barber Racing School 21 21 18 18 23 17 17 20 23 20 21 22 78 7 Ruben Iglesias Jr. VGRT 20 20 17 16 16 19 22 21 66 8 Mario Biundo LA Honda World Racing 19 17 19 17 21 16 22 20 65 9 Bruce Myrehn MINI JCW Team 19 19 19 21 32 11 Alain Lauzière MINI JCW Team 22 23 20 18 21 12 Eric Rockwell Rockwell Autosport Development 19 21 14 13 Landon Lewis MINI JCW Team 24 22 3 Maddy Lemke Ascent Racing Ret Ret 0 Driver Team SON NOL AUS VIR ELK SEB IMS Points

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes and References

1. News: CoTA Returns, NOLA To Kick Off 2023 SRO America Calendar. July 29, 2022. Dailysportscar. R.J.. O'Connell. March 30, 2023.
2. News: Road America, VIR Clash Avoided in Revised 2023 Calendar. September 26, 2022. Sportscar365. John Dagys Media. John. Dagys. March 30, 2023.
3. News: SRO Motorsports America Shifts Calendar, New Orleans Moved To April. October 17, 2022. Dailysportscar. R.J.. O'Connell. March 30, 2023.
4. News: Newcomer Adam Gleason Takes Over TCX Title-Winning BMW M2 For Fast Track Racing in 2023 TC America Sports Car Season. March 23, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. March 30, 2023.
5. News: A Taste of Touring Cars is Back at NOLA Motorsports Park. April 21, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. April 29, 2023.
6. News: Fast Track Racing Brings Four BMW Sports Cars to COTA for Big SRO America Doubleheader Weekend at Legendary Track. May 18, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. June 6, 2023.
7. News: Preview: TC America Powered by Skip Barber at Sonoma. March 24, 2023. SRO America. Racer. March 30, 2023.
8. News: L.A. Honda World Racing Announces Driver Lineup for SRO TC America Racing Series. March 10, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. March 30, 2023.
9. News: Drift and Pikes Peak champ Yoshihara enters TC America. March 13, 2023. Racer Staff. Racer. March 30, 2023.
10. News: Neto joins Skip Barber TC lineup for 2023. February 14, 2023. Skip Barber Racing School. Racer. March 30, 2023.
11. News: RICCA AUTOSPORT ANNOUNCES MULTI-CAR TC AMERICA ENDEAVOR WITH RICCA AND MCNULTY. January 2, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. March 30, 2023.
12. News: Broll joins Skip Barber TC America race team. March 29, 2023. Skip Barber Racing School. Racer. March 30, 2023.
13. News: Lambros joins Skip Barber TC America team. December 24, 2022. Industry. Racer. March 30, 2023.
14. News: TechSport Racing Dives Into 2023 in TC America and GR86 Cup. January 11, 2023. TC America. SRO Motorsports Group America. March 30, 2023.