2020 TCR Denmark Touring Car Series

The 2020 TCR Denmark Touring Car Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 HC Container TCR Denmark Touring Car Series) was the inaugural season of the TCR Denmark Touring Car Series.^[1] The season started on the 18/19 April at Jyllandsringen and concluded on the 10/11 October at Padborg Park.^[2]

2020 TCR Denmark Touring Car Series

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Calendar

Five events were set to take place in Denmark. Two of the former rounds were scheduled to be supporting the STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship.^[3]

Each round consisted of three 15-minute and 1-lap races, the starting order for the first race was based on the results from qualifying while the second race utilised a reversed grid of the top eight cars from qualifying. The third and final race had its grid decided by the most points gathered from the first two races.^[4]

The 2020 calendar was announced on 17 December 2019 with the addition of a round supporting the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix announced on 19 February 2020.^[2][5][6]

The opening round of the season was then moved to 2–3 May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[7] Round 2 of the championship, that was due to take place in Aarhus, supporting the Classic Race Aarhus event, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 2021.^[8]

On 1 May 2020, a new, preliminary, calendar was released featuring a double header round at Jyllandsringen.^[9]

Round	Race	Circuit	Location	Date	Supporting
1	1	Jyllandsringen	Silkeborg	20–21 June	F4 Danish Championship Yokohama Supercup Yokohama 1600 Challenge Legend Car Cup
	2
	3
2	4	Jyllandsringen	Silkeborg	5–6 September
	5
	6
	7
	8
3	9	Ring Djursland	Ballerup	26–27 September	F4 Danish Championship
	10
	11
4	12	Padborg Park	Padborg	10–11 October	F4 Danish Championship
	13
	14
5	15	Jyllandsringen	Silkeborg	23–25 October	F4 Danish Championship
	16
	17
Source:[2][6][9][10]

Test days

The official test days for the season were announced on 16 January 2020. The announced dates were the 1, 2 and 16 April at Jyllandsringen. These also served as the series' media days for photos and interviews for the drivers and team to take place. These were later postponed to 9–10 June.^[11][12]

Teams and drivers

Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Ref. Carlsen Motorsport Peugeot 308 TCR 4 Michael Carlsen DSG All [13] Insight Racing Peugeot 308 TCR 5 Johnny Vejlebo DSG All [14] Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR 9 Jacob Mathiassen All [15] Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR 10 Kristian Sætheren A 1, 5 [16] Massive Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 6 Kasper Jensen All [17][18] 88 Kenn Bach DSG All [19][20][21] Madbull Racing CUPRA León TCR 7 Kim Lund DSG All [22] Meteor Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 8 Allan Kristensen DSG 1–2, 5 [23] 41 René Povlsen DSG All [23] LM Racing Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 11 Nicolai Sylvest A All [24] 23 Jan Magnussen All [25] Team Sally Racing CUPRA León TCR 12 Peter Obel 5 [26] TPR Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8) 16 Casper Elgaard 2–3, 5 [27] Markussen Racing Peugeot 308 TCR 18 Michael Markussen All [28] Peugeot Sport Denmark 32 Michelle Gatting 1 [29] Andersen Motorsport Hyundai i30 N TCR 19 Martin Andersen All [30] Lindhard Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 67 Jonas Lindhard DSG A All [31]

Icon Class DSG Cars with DSG Gearboxes A Am/U23/Drivers below 23

Summary

• LM Racing, run by Lars Mogensen, will compete in the championship using two Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR cars for ex-Formula One and Corvette Racing driver Jan Magnussen and 2019 ADAC GT Masters driver Nicolai Sylvest.^[25][24]
• Massive Motorsport will compete in the championship entering DS3 Cup Denmark driver Kenn Bach and Three-time Danish Thundersport Championship winner Kasper Jensen. Casper Elgaard, who was originally scheduled to enter the series with the team, announced on 28 January that he has left the team. Bach will drive an FK8 Honda Civic Type R previously driven by Josh Files for KCMG while Jensen's car is not yet confirmed.^{[19][20][32][17][21][33]}
• A pair of ex-Kristoffersson Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI TCRs will be entered by 2019 Yokohama SuperCup Denmark champion Rene Povlsen and runner-up Allan Kristensen. The team for which the two drivers will compete is yet to be confirmed.^[23]
• Insight Racing will enter an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR for Norwegian driver Kristian Sætheren, who competed in the 2019 TCR Scandinavia Series for the team and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR for British GT driver Jacob Mathiassen. Johnny Vejlebo will also compete in the championship for Insight in a Peugeot 308 TCR, driving in the Trofeo Championship.^[16][15][14]
• TPR Motorsport will compete in the championship using a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR with 2019 Danish Thundersport Championship driver and team owner Toni Persic driving the car. Casper Elgaard was later confirmed to drive for team after leaving Massive Motorsport, alongside Daniel Träger in a pair of Honda Civic Type R TCR cars.^[34][27]
• Two-time Danish Touringcar Champion Michael Carlsen will compete in the championship in a Peugeot 308 TCR.^[13]
• Danish Yokohama Super Cup driver Mikael Kildevæld will compete in the championship in a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR for his team, Kildevæld Racing.^[35]
• Danish Thundersport Championship driver Michael Markussen will compete in the championship in a Peugeot 308 TCR for his team, Markussen Racing. Michelle Gatting will guest star alongside Markussen in the opening round.^[28][29]
• Kim Lund will compete in the championship in an ex-PWR CUPRA León TCR driving in the Trophy Championship for Madbull Racing.^[22]
• Jonas Lindhard will compete in the championship in a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR driving for his family team, Lindhard Motorsport.^[31]
• Martin Andersen will compete in the championship in a Hyundai i30 N TCR driving for his own team, Andersen Motorsport.^[30]

Results and standings

Rnd.		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	DSG winner	U23 winner
1	R1	Jyllandsringen	Kasper Jensen	Kasper Jensen	Kasper Jensen	Massive Motorsport	René Povlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R2			Nicolai Sylvest	Nicolai Sylvest	LM Racing	René Povlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R3			Nicolai Sylvest	Kasper Jensen	Massive Motorsport	René Povlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
2	R1	Jyllandsringen		Casper Elgaard1		TPR Motorsport	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R2		Casper Elgaard1	Martin Andersen	Casper Elgaard	TPR Motorsport	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R3			Martin Andersen	Martin Andersen	Andersen Motorsport	René Povlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R4		Jan Magnussen	Kasper Jensen	Casper Elgaard	TPR Motorsport	Kenn Bach	Nicolai Sylvest
	R5			Jacob Mathiassen	Jacob Mathiassen	Insight Racing	René Povlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R6			Casper Elgaard	Casper Elgaard	TPR Motorsport	Johnny Vejlebo	Nicolai Sylvest
3	R1	Ring Djursland		Jan Magnussen2		LM Racing	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R2		Jan Magnussen	Martin Andersen	Martin Andersen	Andersen Motorsport	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R3			Nicolai Sylvest	Jan Magnussen	LM Racing	Kim Lund	Nicolai Sylvest
–	R1	Padborg Park	Event cancelled
	R2
	R3
4	R1	Jyllandsringen	Kasper Jensen	Kasper Jensen	Kasper Jensen	Massive Motorsport	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest
	R2			Casper Elgaard	Jacob Mathiassen	Insight Racing	Allan Kristensen	Kristian Sætheren
	R3			Kasper Jensen	Kasper Jensen	Massive Motorsport	Michael Carlsen	Nicolai Sylvest

¹ – Original race 1 was replaced by a qualifying session for the then Race 1, and normal points were awarded.

² – Original race 1 was replaced by a qualifying session for the then Race 1, and normal points were awarded.

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th
Race	25	20	17	15	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver JYL1 JYL2 DJU JYL3 Pts. 1 Kasper Jensen 1 3 1 2 2 4 3 3 2 6 3 2 1 4 1 290 2 Martin Andersen 2 6 4 3 3 1 4 11 5 2 1 4 7 2 5 245 3 Nicolai Sylvest 5 1 2 5 6 3 6 4 6 4 4 3 2 8 4 231 4 Jan Magnussen 3 4 NC 7 Ret 5 2 Ret 4 1 2 1 3 3 2 215 5 Jacob Mathiassen 7 2 3 4 4 7 7 1 13 3 12 DNS 6 1 8 200 6 Michael Markussen 4 5 5 8 5 2 5 2 3 5 5 10 4 5 Ret 195 7 Casper Elgaard 1 1 8 1 5 1 7 Ret Ret 15 6 3 167 8 René Povlsen 8 7 7 10 8 9 Ret 6 8 9 11 9 16 12 9 124 9 Michael Carlsen 13 9 8 6 DSQ 12 11 10 11 8 6 6 8 13 7 124 10 Kenn Bach 10 Ret 10† 11 7 6 8 Ret 10 11 8 7 11 15 DNS 102 11 Jonas Lindhard 12 11 9 9 11 13 12 7 12 10 9 8 10 14 DNS 100 12 Johnny Vejlebo 14† Ret DNS 12 10 10 9 8 7 13 10 DSQ 9 11 11 100 13 Allan Kristensen 9 Ret DNS 14 9 11 10 9 9 13 9 10 78 14 Kristian Sætheren 6 8 6 5 7 6 70 15 Kim Lund Johansen 11 10 Ret 13 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 12 7 5 14 10 Ret 63 16 Michelle Gatting 15† Ret DNS 3 - Peter Obel 12 16 12 - Pos. Driver JYL1 JYL2 DJU JYL3 Pts.

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' championship

Pos.	Team	JYL1			JYL2						DJU			PAD		JYL3			Pts.
1	LM Racing	3	1	2															90
		5	4	NC
2	Massive Motorsport	1	3	1															83
		10	Ret	10†
3	Insight Racing	6	2	3															82
		7	8	6
4	Andersen Motorsport	2	6	4															47
5	Markussen Racing	4	5	5															41
6	Meteor Racing	8	7	7															41
		9	Ret	DNS
7	Carlsen Motorsport	13	9	8															24
8	Lindhard Motorsport	12	11	9															22
9	Madbull Racing	11	10	Ret															15
10	Peugeot Sport Denmark	15†	Ret	DNS															3
Pos.	Driver	JYL1			JYL2						DJU			PAD		JYL3			Pts.

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.