The 2025 Kumho FIA TCR World Tour season is about to kick off in Mexico Metropolis on the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez this weekend
The occasion options the three-race format that was final utilized in 2023 when the World Tour visited Australia. This season, this format shall be used once more in three different occasions, in Spain, South Korea and Australia.
The formation of the grids for the primary two races relies, as typical, on the Qualifying outcomes, with the highest ten reversed for Race 2, whereas the grid for Race 3 is decided by the sum of factors scored in Qualifying, Race 1, and Race 2.
Norbert Michelisz, the winner of two consecutive World Tour titles, defends his crown nonetheless on the wheel of his Hyundai Elantra N, run by BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse, which additionally fields two different automobiles for Mikel Azcona and Néstor Girolami.
Final yr’s vice-champion, Thed Björk, leads the Lynk & Co Cyan Racing workforce, which consists of the confirmed quartet of drivers: Yann Ehrlacher, Ma Qing Hua, and Santiago Urrutia. Their mission is to retain the Groups’ title and add the Drivers’ title as nicely.
GOAT Racing rides the crest of a wave following a 1-2-3 end within the 2024 season finale at Macau. The Spanish outfit has picked two Argentines to drive the Honda Civic Kind R FL5 automobiles: the confirmed Esteban Guerrieri and Ignacio Montenegro, the winner of final yr’s FIA Motorsport Video games.
France-based SP Compétition has stepped up from TCR Europe to hitch the World Tour with two CUPRA Leon VZ automobiles, pushed by a pair of Frenchmen: John Filippi and Aurélien Comte.
The entry record for the season opener includes 24 automobiles, together with world sequence regulars and TCR México rivals, who will compte in a standalone class, exterior of the World Tour classification.
A number of native groups have entered a couple of driver per automobile, as they do of their nationwide occasions. These groups should nominate upfront which driver takes half in Qualifying and which driver competes in every race.
The TCR México pack is led by brothers Julio and Rodrigo Rejón, who collectively turned the sequence’ first-ever champions final yr. They race CUPRA Leon VZ automobiles run by the ProRally Moms workforce.
Gerardo Nieto is predicted to be their strongest competitor; he has gained two of the three races within the season’s first occasion and can share the RE Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS with Pablo Pérez de Lara and Horia Traian Chirigut. One other bold workforce is Orea Ross Racing, which runs a Hyundai Elantra N for Andrés Orea, Jerónimo Guzmán, and Todd Sloan, a front-running automobile in TCR México endurance races.
