2021 TCR China Touring Car Championship explained

The 2021 TCR China season is the fifth season of the TCR's Chinese Touring Car Championship.

Teams and drivers

Team	Car		Drivers	Class	Rounds
HuffSport TM	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	3	Yang Xi	A Ch Am	1–4
HuffSport TM	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	15	Ken Tian	A Ch Am	1–2
Team MG XPower	MG 6 X-Power TCR	7	Yan Chuang	A Ch Am	1–4
		18	Zhendong Zhang	A Ch	All
		20	Rodolfo Ávila	A Ch	All
		88	Martin Cao	A Ch	All
		91	Yao Li	A Ch	5–6
Elegant Racing Team	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	10	Mai Yi Bo	A Ch Am	2–4
326 MMK Racing Team	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	11	Liu Zi Chen	A Ch Am	All
		51	Yifan Wu	A Ch Am	All
		777	Czheng Wan Cheng	A Ch	1
ZZRT	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	16	Ruan Cun Fan	A Ch Am	1–4
Z.Speed	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	17	Yang Xiao Wei	A Ch Am	1–4
	CUPRA León TCR	66	Chen Ze Xun	A Ch Am	1–2
	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	77	Samuel Qiu	A Ch Am	1–4
	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	87	Li Chuan	A Ch Am	5–6
AHRT Autohome Racing Team	MG 6 X-Power TCR	71	Zhiyi Zhang	Ch Am	3–4
		100	Qi Liang	Ch Am	2, 5–6
		601	Wang Tao	Ch Am	All
		818	Qi Lin	Ch Am	1
Guest entries
SAIC Volkswagen 333 Team	Volkswagen Lamando CTCC	4	Gao Hua Yang		3–6
		22	Xiaole He		2–6
		26	Sun Chao		2
		63	Nathan Lu Wenhu		2, 5–6
		92	Zhu Yuan Jie		2–4
		171	Jiang Tengyi		3–6

The revised calendar was announced on 30 April 2021.^[1]

		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Am Cup winner	Supporting
1	1	Shanghai International Circuit	9 May	Cao Hong Wei	Czheng Wan Cheng	Yang Xi	326 MMK Racing Team	Yang Xiao Wei	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia GT Super Sprint Challenge
1	2	Shanghai International Circuit	9 May		Yang Xi	Czheng Wan Cheng	HuffSport TM	Yang Xi	Porsche Carrera Cup Asia GT Super Sprint Challenge
2	3	Shanghai International Circuit	11–12 September	Rodolfo Ávila	Rodolfo Ávila	Liu Zi Chen	326 MMK Racing Team	Liu Zi Chen
2	4	Shanghai International Circuit	11–12 September		Zhendong Zhang	Martin Cao	Team MG XPower	Yang Xiao Wei
3	5	Zhuzhou International Circuit	23 October	Jiang Tengyi	Jiang Tengyi	Jiang Tengyi	SAIC Volkswagen 333 Team
3	6	Zhuzhou International Circuit	23 October		Jiang Tengyi	Martin Cao	Team MG XPower
4	7	Zhuzhou International Circuit	24 October	Jiang Tengyi	Jiang Tengyi	Jiang Tengyi	SAIC Volkswagen 333 Team
4	8	Zhuzhou International Circuit	24 October		Jiang Tengyi	Jiang Tengyi	SAIC Volkswagen 333 Team
5	9	Shanghai Tianma Circuit	6 November	Jiang Tengyi	Martin Cao	Zhendong Zhang	Team MG XPower
5	10	Shanghai Tianma Circuit	6 November		Jiang Tengyi	Zhendong Zhang	Team MG XPower
6	11	Shanghai Tianma Circuit	7 November	Jiang Tengyi	Nathan Lu Wenhu	Martin Cao	Team MG XPower
6	12	Shanghai Tianma Circuit	7 November		Nathan Lu Wenhu	Rodolfo Ávila	Team MG XPower

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valign=middle		valign=middle	Driver	SHA1	SHA2	ZHZ1	ZHZ2	TIA1	TIA2	valign=middle
1	Yang Xi	6	3						40
2	Zheng Wan Cheng	4³	6						40
3	Zhendong Zhang	Ret²	4						22
4	Yifan Wu	7	8						20
5	Yang Xiao Wei	5	12						19
6	Ken Tian	8⁵	9						17
7	Rodolfo Ávila	Ret	5						15
8	Wang Tao	9⁴	10						14
9	Qi Lin	Ret	7						10
10	Yan Chuang	11	11						6
11	Chen Ze Xun	10	14						6
12	Martin Cao	Ret¹	DNS						5
13	Samuel Qiu	12	13						2
14	Ruan Cun Fan	Ret	Ret						0
Drivers ineligible to score points
-	Ma Qing Hua	1	1						-
-	Jason Zhang	2	2						-
-	Sunny Wong	3	15						-
valign=middle		valign=middle	Driver	SHA1	SHA2	ZHZ1	ZHZ2	TIA1	TIA2	valign=middle

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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valign=middle	valign=middle	Team	SHA1	SHA2	ZHZ1	ZHZ2	TIA1	TIA2	valign=middle
valign=middle	valign=middle	Team	SHA1	SHA2	ZHZ1	ZHZ2	TIA1	TIA2	valign=middle

Web site: TCR Asia、TCR China双双发布2021新赛历. Chinese. TCR Asia and TCR China both release new 2021 calendar . 30 April 2021. tcrchina.com. 12 May 2021.