TCR / 24 August 2025
Civic Type R TCR secures championship double in Denmark
The Honda Civic Type R TCR scored its first two major championships of 2025 as Malte Ebdrup and Rene Povlsen were crowned in TCR Denmark.
Mascot Motorsport with Racegroup driver Ebdrup became champion of the Under-25s class as he extended his 100 per cent record in the division this year while Rene Povlsen wrapped up the Am category in his TPR Motorsport Civic.
The JAS Motorsport-built Civic has now won a staggering 115th major titles and looks set to add even more in the remaining months of the global racing season.
TCR Denmark
Aside from the title joy, the major story at Jyllands-Ringen was a triple win for Ebdrup's team-mate Kasper H Jensen, who moved into the lead of the championship he is aiming to win for an unprecedented sixth year in a row.
Ebdrup's pace in Race One was affected by an engine issue, forcing his team to change the unit overnight. He rebounded with second and third places overall on Sunday to match the results of TPR Motorsport's former points leader Mike Halder.
Halder did not start Saturday’s race due to a technical issue and is now third in the standings as a result heading into the final round at Padborg Park. Racegroup are now also favourites to wrap up the Teams' crown.
Mathias Dall scored his first outright podium finish in Race One while his brother and SD+ Motorsport Dall Racing team-mate Magnus Dall was victorious in the Am class for the first time in Race Three.
DM Racing's Lars Hojris, third in Am in Race 1 behind Povlsen and Dall, fortunately escaped uninjured from a high-speed incident in Race Three and did not take part in the finale.
IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge
Karl Wittmer and Louis Philippe Montour once again closed on the TCR points lead with a hard-fought fourth-place finish at Virginia International Raceway.
Starting third, Montour vaulted to second place immediately but took the lead after 40 minutes of the two-hour race as the #93 car switched to an alternate strategy, choosing not to pit under an early Full-Course Yellow period.
Following a drive-through penalty for an on-track incident with a GT4 car, Wittmer mounted a determined fightback from ninth place with 50 minutes remaining and relentlessly recovered to third, before being himself pushed wide on the final lap, dropping to fourth.
Wittmer and Montour are still third in the Drivers’ points, but have reduced the gap to the series lead from 90 points to just 30 with 700 available at the final two races.
William Tally and Tim Lewis Jr were ninth; the duo running fourth on merit, but losing out when a Full-Course Yellow period was declared shortly after their final pitstop, allowing rivals to gain ground.
British GT Championship
The battle for the GT3 Silver-Am title will go all the way to the Donington Park season finale following another podium finish by Johnny Ip and Jay Bridger.
The duo qualified the Bridger Motorsport NSX GT3 Evo 22 second in class and Ip made impressive progress during the early stages of a race that was spent largely behind the safety car to move into seventh overall and to within a second of the class lead.
A penalty for a pitstop infringement dropped Bridger out of contention for the victory, but a consistent run ensured a second-place finish that keeps Ip within touching distance of the crown.
TCR Panama
AP Racing's Sebastian Ng scored his best result of the season with second place in the second of two night races held at Autodromo Panama.
Ng had qualified seventh and endured a tough opener as he came home ninth, two spots behind Cejidsa Racing's Ivan Salerno. Salerno improved again in Race Two as he finished sixth.
TCR Eastern Europe
With the injured Giacomo Ghermandi and MM Motorsport missing, Bojan Miljkovic was the only Honda representative at the Slovakiaring as TCR Croatia joined the series for the event.
The Metago Racing Team driver qualified fourth in class and 12th overall and finished there in Race Two. He was running solidly in Saturday's opening race when a tyre issue forced him to stop on track.
