2025 TCR World Tour season kicks off in Mexico

The 2025 Kumho Fia TCR World Tour season is scheduled to start in Mexico City at the Brothers Rodríguez this weekend this weekend

The event presents the three -run format that was last used in 2023 when the world tour visited Australia. This season, this format will be used again in three other events, in Spain, South Korea and Australia.

The formation of the grids for the first two races is based, as usual, on the classification results, with the top ten respected for race 2, while the grid for race 3 is determined by the sum of points noted in the qualification, race 1 and race 2.

Norbert Michelisz, the winner of two consecutive titles of the world tour, defends his crown still at the wheel of his Hyundai Elantra N, directed by BRC Hyundai n Squadra Cors, which also walks two other cars for Mikel Azcona and Nestor.

Last year’s vice champion, Thed Björk, leads the Lynk & Coan racing team, which consists of the confirmed quartet of the drivers: Yann Ehrlacher, Ma Qing Hua and Santiago Urrutia. Its mission is to retain the title of the teams and add the title of the drivers as well.

The goat races mounted the crest of a wave after a 1-2-3 end in the final of the 2024 season in Macao. The Spanish outfit has chosen two Argentines to drive the Honda Civic Type R FL5 cars: the confirmed Esteban Guerrieri and Ignacio Montenegro, the winner of the FIA ​​Motorsport Games last year.

SP Compérition, based in France, has increased from TCR Europe to join the world tour with two Cupra Leon Vz cars, driven by a couple of French: John Filippi and Aurélien Comte.

The entrance list for the starter of the season includes 24 cars, including regular customers of the global series and the competitors of TCR Mexico, which will be compatted in an independent class, outside the classification of the world tour.

Several local teams have entered more than one driver by car, as they do in their national events. These teams must name in advance which pilot participates in the qualification and which driver competes in each race.

The TCR Mexico Pack is directed by the brothers Julio and Rodrigo Rejón, who together became the champions of the first victim of the series last year. Cupra VZ runs to the cars led by the Mothers team proraically.

Gerardo Nieto is expected to be his strongest competitor; He has won two of the three races in the first event of the season and will share the Re Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS with Pablo Pérez de Lara and Horia Trian Chirigut. Another ambitious team is Orea Ross Racing, who runs a Hyundai Elantra N for Andrés Orea, Jerónimo Guzmán and Todd Sloan, a frontline car in the TCR resistance races of TCR Mexico.