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 1317 715 1130 145 612 64 2 Frédéric Caprasse 1130 145 50 3 Antti Buri 225 241 (98) 36 4 Josh Files 143 (330) 25 5 Stéphane Lémeret 184 (456) 25 6 Steve Kirsch (813) 143 25 7 Romy Dall'Antonia Samuele Piccin 124 25 7 Norbert Michelisz 184 25 7 Aleksey Dudukalo 1198 25 11 Vincent Radermecker 268 126 (368) 18 12 Sam Dejonghe Denis Dupont 456 283 18 14 Dmitry Bragin 2196 18 14 Imerio Brigliadori Vincenzo Montalbano 223 18 14 Dennis Strandberg 240 18 14 Kévin Balthazar 268 18 19 Romain de Leval Alexis van de Poele 364 (437) 15 21 Olivier Cartelle 368 15 21 Francisco Abreu Manuel Gião 324 15 21 Nikolay Karamyshev 3188 15 21 Alberto Viberti 321 15 21 Mike Halder 322 15 27 Marco Costamagna 412 12 27 Matt Neal 456 12 27 Ronny Jost 415 12 27 César Machado Rafael Lobato 421 12 27 Jordi Oriola 422 12 27 Roman Golikov 4168 12 34 Francisco Mora 931 518 12 35 Ronnie Latinne Maxime Potty 555 (552) 10 37 Irek Minnakhmetov 5166 10 37 Luigi Bamonte 59 10 37 Harald Proczyk 514 10 37 Mario Dablander 520 10 41 Benjamin Leuchter 618 (810) 8 42 Didier van Dalen Amaury Richard (1032) 652 8 44 Lev Tolkachev 6164 8 44 Daniele Cappellari Fabio Fabiani Daniele Verrocchio 68 8 44 Ghislain Cordeel Jeffrey van Hooydonk 653 8 44 Francisco Carvalho Nuno Batista 618 8 52 José Rodrigues 931 718 8 53 Edouard Mondron Guillaume Mondron (936) 742 6 55 Kai Jordan 713 6 55 Pavel Yashin 7162 6 55 Olivier Hart Loris Hezemans 743 6 59 Renaud Kuppens Benjamin Lessennes 838 1024 4 61 Marat Sharapov 872 4 61 Gustavo Moura 812 4 63 Pascal Eberle 911 2 63 Lukas Niedertscheider 98 2 65 Jürgen Schmarl 1010 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.