2020 TC America Series

The 2020 TC America Series was the second season of the TC America Series. The series consisted of 3 classes: TCR, TCA, and TC. All races were 40 minutes in length with 4 per weekend; 2 for TCR & TCA cars, and 2 for TC cars.

2020 TC America Series

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2019

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2021

GT World Challenge America
Pirelli GT4 America Series
GT Sports Club America

Calendar

The final calendar was released on 12 November 2019^[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SRO America announced that the events at Virginia International Raceway and Sonoma Raceway would become tripleheader weekends to replace cancelled race events at St. Petersburg and Lime Rock Park.

Round	Circuit	Date
1	Circuit of the Americas, Elroy, Texas	7–8 March
2	Virginia International Raceway, Alton, Virginia	9–12 July
3	Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California	7–9 August
4	Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin	29–30 August
5	Circuit of the Americas, Elroy, Texas	19–20 September
6	Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway, Indiana	2–3 October

Entry list

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
TCR entries
DXDT Racing[2]	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	04	CJ Moses[2]	All
		17	Scott Smithson[3]	1–2, 4–6
		29	Olivia Askew	2, 4–6
KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR	5	Roy Block	All
		55	Tim Lewis Jr.	4, 6
Rumcastle, LLC	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR (DSG)	16	Luke Rumburg	2
New German Performance	Audi RS3 LMS TCR (DSG)	44	Tristan Herbert	2, 6
Copeland Motorsports[4]	Hyundai Veloster N TCR	51	Nikko Reger[5]	1
			Alex Papadopulos	2
		74	Tyler Maxson[4]	All
FCP Euro[6]	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	71	Michael Hurczyn[6]	1
		72	Nate Vincent[6]	1
LA Honda World Racing	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	77	Taylor Hagler	5
VVL Systems & Consulting	Audi RS3 LMS TCR (DSG)	88	Vinnie Lima	2, 6
VGMC Racing[7]	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	99	Victor Gonzalez[7]	All
TC entries
VGMC Racing[7]	Honda Civic Type-R TC	8	Ruben Iglesias[7]	All
Classic BMW	BMW M240i Racing Cup	11	Phil Bloom	1–3, 5–6
		26	Toby Grahovec	All
		27	John Rader	1
			Bryson Lew	3–6
Auto Technic Racing	BMW M240i Racing Cup	20	Rob Slonaker	1–2, 4, 6
			John Castro Dubets	5
		21	Bruce Robson	1–2
			Austen Smith	4–5
		52	Tom Capizzi	1–2, 5–6
TechSport Racing	Nissan 370Z	23	Joseph Federl	1–4
Hard Motorsport	BMW M240i Racing Cup	30	Ace Robey	3
			Vince Piemonte	5
		31	Johan Schwartz	All
		81	Steve Stremier	2
BimmerWorld Racing[8]	BMW M240i Racing Cup	36	James Clay[8]	All
		94	Chandler Hull[8]	All
LA Honda World Racing	Honda Civic Type-R TC	37	Mike LaMarra	5
		73	Mathew Pombo	5–6
FTG Racing	Mazda3 TC	70	Joey Jordan	3–6
GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	Hyundai Veloster N TC	78	Jeff Ricca	1, 5
Lone Star Racing	BMW M235i Racing Cup	48	Zane Hodgen	1
Team HMA	Honda Civic Type-R TC	93	Karl Hertel	1
Tazio Ottis Racing	Honda Civic Type-R TC	072	Tazio Ottis	3
TCA entries
Ives Motorsports	Mazda Global MX-5 Cup ND.2	07	Jose DaSilva	1
Boehm Racing	Honda Civic Si	9	Kevin Boehm	All
MTP Motorsports	Hyundai Veloster Turbo	14	Max Peichel	6
CB Motorsports	Hyundai Veloster Turbo	18	Caleb Bacon	All
		33	Matt Forbush	1–2, 4
TechSport Racing	Subaru BRZ tS	22	Joey Essma	1–2
			Kevin Anderson	5
			Eric Powell	6
		24	Damon Surzyshyn	All
		25	PJ Groenke	1–2, 4, 6
		28	Ben Bettenhausen	2, 5
			Kevin Anderson	6
Copeland Motorsports[9]	Hyundai Veloster Turbo	50	Luke Lange	2–3
		57	Tyler Gonzalez[9]	All
VGMC Racing[7]	Honda Civic Si	59	Juan Diego Hernandez[7]	1
		178	Jonathan Newcombe[7]	AllSTP
MINI JCW Team	MINI Cooper JCW	60	Tomas Mejia	All
		61	Mark Pombo	All
		62	Clay Williams	3–4
		63	Derek Jones	4
CCR Team TFB	Honda Civic Si	186	Roy Fulmer IV	2–5

Note: A car marked with ^STP is entered only for the St. Petersburg makeup races at Sonoma.

Race results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Round		Circuit	Pole position	TCR Winners	TC Winners	TCA Winners
1	R1	Austin	No. 51 Copeland Motorsports	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 36 BimmerWorld Racing	No. 61 MINI JCW Team
			Nikko Reger	Tyler Maxson	James Clay	Mark Pombo
	R2			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 23 TechSport Racing	No. 60 MINI JCW Team
				Tyler Maxson	Joseph Federl	Tomas Mejia
2	R1	Virginia	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 31 Hard Motorsport	No. 60 MINI JCW Team
			Tyler Maxson	Tyler Maxson	Johan Schwartz	Tomas Mejia
	R2			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 31 Hard Motorsport	No. 61 MINI JCW Team
				Tyler Maxson	Johan Schwartz	Mark Pombo
	R3			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 26 Classic BMW	No. 57 Copeland Motorsports
				Tyler Maxson	Toby Grahovec	Tyler Gonzalez
3	R1	Sonoma	No. 99 VGMC Racing	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 36 BimmerWorld Racing	No. 57 Copeland Motorsports
			Victor Gonzalez	Tyler Maxson	James Clay	Tyler Gonzalez
	R2			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 31 Hard Motorsport	No. 61 MINI JCW Team
				Tyler Maxson	Johan Schwartz	Mark Pombo
	R3			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	did not participate	No. 57 Copeland Motorsports
				Tyler Maxson		Tyler Gonzalez
4	R1	Road America	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 36 BimmerWorld Racing	No. 9 Boehm Racing
			Tyler Maxson	Tyler Maxson	James Clay	Kevin Boehm
	R2			No. 17 DXDT Racing	No. 36 BimmerWorld Racing	No. 9 Boehm Racing
				Scott Smithson	James Clay	Kevin Boehm
	R3			No. 17 DXDT Racing	No. 26 Classic BMW	No. 9 Boehm Racing[N 1]
				Scott Smithson	Toby Grahovec	Kevin Boehm[N 1]
5	R1	Austin	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 26 Classic BMW	No. 9 Boehm Racing
			Tyler Maxson	Tyler Maxson	Toby Grahovec	Kevin Boehm
	R2			No. 74 Copeland Motorsports	No. 20 Auto Technic Racing	No. 9 Boehm Racing
				Tyler Maxson	John Castro Dubets	Kevin Boehm
	R3			17 DXDT Racing	did not participate	No. 62 MINI JCW Team
				Scott Smithson		Matt Pombo
6	R1	Indianapolis	No. 17 DXDT Racing	No. 44 New German Performance	No. 73 LA Honda World Racing	No. 9 Boehm Racing
			Scott Smithson	Tristan Herbert	Mathew Pombo	Kevin Boehm
	R2			No. 99 VCMG Racing	No. 73 LA Honda World Racing	No. 22 TechSport Racing
				Victor Gonzalez	Mathew Pombo	Eric Powell

Championship standings

Scoring system

Championship points are awarded for the first ten position in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Driver's championships

Pos. Driver Team AUS1 VIR SON ELK AUS2 IMS Points TCR 1 Tyler Maxson Copeland Motorsports 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ret 4 1 1 5 Ret Ret 297 2 Victor Gonzalez VGMC Racing 28 5 13 2 2 2 2 3 3 12 2 5 3 3 3 1 230 3 Scott Smithson DXDT Racing 5 7 2 3 3 2 1 1 2 6 1 Ret 183 4 Roy Block KMW Motorsports w/ TMR Engineering Ret 6 7 4 4 3 21 2 13 21 3 3 2 2 Ret 3 182 5 CJ Moses DXDT Racing 6 8 6 8 6 4 3 4 5 3 6 7 7 4 2 4 158 6 Olivia Askew DXDT Racing 5 7 7 4 Ret 5 6 5 6 4 5 92 7 Tristan Herbert New German Performance 3 5 1 2 68 8 Nikko Reger Copeland Motorsports 2 2 36 9 Nate Vincent FCP Euro 3 3 30 10 Michael Hurczyn FCP Euro 4 4 24 11 Taylor Hagler LA Honda World Racing 4 4 24 12 Vinnie Lima VVL Systems & Consulting 9 9 5 6 24 13 Luke Rumberg Rumcastle, LLC 4 6 20 14 Tim Lewis Jr. KMW Motorsports w/ TMR Engineering Ret 2 Ret Ret 18 15 Alex Papadopulos Copeland Motorsports Ret 19 5 11 TC 1 James Clay BimmerWorld Racing 7 11 11 11 10 5 5 6 4 8 9 9 235 2 Toby Grahovec Classic BMW 8 10 10 12 8 Ret 7 7 7 7 8 10 201 3 Johan Schwartz Hard Motorsport 9 12 8 10 9 6 4 8 6 Ret 13 15 180 4 Chandler Hull BimmerWorld Racing 10 13 12 30 12 9 8 9 5 Ret 14 13 109 5 Tom Capizzi Auto Technic Racing 12 14 14 15 14 8 9 10 10 10 Ret 17 89 6 Joseph Federl TechSport Racing Ret 9 16 14 13 10 11 22 DNS DNS 63 7 Phil Bloom Classic BMW 16 15 15 13 11 Ret DNS 11 11 63 8 Rob Slonaker Auto Technic Racing 14 17 17 16 15 11 10 12 9 11 56 9 Bryson Lew Classic BMW 7 6 11 8 Ret 26 14 54 10 Austen Smith Auto Technic Racing 14 11 9 12 12 43 11 John Castro Dubets Auto Technic Racing 10 8 40 12 Jeff Ricca GenRacer/Ricca Autosport 11 Ret 15 31 14 13 Zane Hodgen Lone Star Racing 13 16 10 14 Joey Jordan FTG Racing Ret Ret DNS 23 18 Ret 30 9 15 Ruben Inglesias VGMC Racing 19 20 30 31 28 13 12 Ret 16 Ret 18 20 8 16 Bruce Robson Auto Technic Racing 15 18 Ret 18 16 Ret DNS 7 17 Steve Stremier Hard Motorsport 18 17 6 18 Tazio Ottis Tazio Ottis Racing 12 Ret 4 19 Matthew Pombo LA Honda World Racing 16 16 4 20 Ace Robey Hard Motorsport 14 13 2 21 Vince Piemonte Hard Motorsport 17 19 1 22 Mike LaMarra LA Honda World Racing 25 18 0 23 Karl Hertel Team HMA 17 31 0 24 John Rader Classic BMW 18 19 0 TCA 1 Kevin Boehm Boehm Racing 23 22 22 23 20 18 17 6 15 13 12 19 21 10 245 2 Tomas Mejia MINI JCW Team 22 21 19 22 18 17 15 12 17 14 13 22 27 11 214 3 Tyler Gonzalez Copeland Motorsports 20 27 21 21 17 15 16 5 Ret Ret DSQ 20 22 9 180 4 Mark Pombo MINI JCW Team 21 25 20 20 19 16 14 11 Ret 22 17 23 29 8 177 5 Jonathan Newcombe VGMC Racing 27 32 28 28 23 20 19 8 23 15 14 24 23 Ret 98 6 Caleb Bacon CB Motorsports DSQ 28 24 Ret 30 21 20 9 19 17 Ret 21 26 12 87 7 Damon Surzyshyn TechSport Racing Ret Ret Ret Ret 25 23 Ret 10 20 18 15 Ret 24 13 60 8 Clay Williams MINI JCW Team 19 18 7 Ret 20 16 51 9 PJ Groenke TechSport Racing Ret 23 27 26 29 16 24 Ret 43 10 Joey Essma TechSport Racing Ret 24 23 25 27 30 11 Matt Forbush CB Motorsports 25 30 29 27 26 21 19 Ret 28 12 Matt Pombo MINI JCW Team 7 25 13 Roy Fulmer IV CCR Team TFB 25 Ret 21 22 21 24 14 Luke Lange Copeland Motorsports 26 24 22 Ret DNS 22 15 Juan Diego Hernandez VGMC Racing 24 26 18 16 Derek Jones MINI JCW Team 18 DNS DNS 12 17 Ben Bettenhausen TechSport Racing Ret 29 24 Ret 28 15 11 18 Jose DaSilva Ives Motorsports 26 28 8 19 Kevin Anderson TechSport Racing Ret 25 14 4 Pos. Driver Team AUS1 VIR SON ELK AUS2 IMS Points

Key Colour Result Gold Race winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Excluded (EX) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Team's championships

Pos.	Team	Manufacturer	AUS1		VIR			SON			ELK			AUS2			IMS		Points
TCR
1	Copeland Motorsports	Hyundai	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1									200
2	VGMC Racing	Honda	28	5	13	2	2	2	2	3									120
3	DXDT Racing	Honda	5	7	2	3	3	4	3	4									112
4	KMW Motorsport w/ TMR Engineering	Alfa Romeo	Ret	6	7	4	4	3	21	2									91
5	FCP Euro	Volkswagen	3	3															36
6	New German Performance	Audi			3	5													25
7	Rumcastle, LLC	Volkswagen			4	6													20
8	VVL Systems & Consulting	Audi			9	9													14
TC
1	Hard Motorsport	BMW	9	12	8	10	9	6	4										138
2	BimmerWorld Racing	BMW	7	11	11	11	10	5	5										131
3	Classic BMW	BMW	8	10	10	12	8	7	6										124
4	TechSport Racing	Nissan	Ret	9	16	14	13	10	11										79
5	Auto Technic Racing	BMW	12	14	14	15	14	8	9										76
6	VGMC Racing	Honda	19	20	30	31	28	13	12										48
7	Lone Star Racing	BMW	13	16															16
8	GenRacer/Ricca Autosport	Hyundai	11	Ret															12
9	Team HMA	Honda	17	31															10
10	Tazio Ottis Racing	Honda						12	Ret										8
	FTG Racing	Mazda						Ret	Ret										0
TCA
1	MINI JCW Team	Mini	21	21	19	20	18	16	14	7									169
2	Copeland Motorsports	Hyundai	20	27	21	21	17	15	16	5									164
3	Boehm Racing	Honda	23	22	22	23	20	18	17	6									126
4	VGMC Racing	Honda	24	26	28	28	23	20	19	8									84
5	CB Motorsports	Hyundai	25	28	24	27	26	21	20	9									74
6	TechSport Racing	Subaru	Ret	23	23	25	24	23	Ret	10									61
7	CCR Team TFB	Honda			25	Ret	21	22	21										20
8	Ives Motorsports	Mazda	26	28															14
Pos.	Team	Manufacturer	AUS1		VIR			SON			ELK			AUS2			IMS		Points

Notes

1. Tyler Gonzalez in the #57 Copeland Motorsports entry took the checkered flag first, but was disqualified for a technical infringement