TCR / 15 September 2025

Double Danish title success for Civic Type R TCR

The Honda Civic Type R TCR achieved a double championship success last weekend as Malte Ebdrup and Mascot Motorsport with Racegroup secured the TCR Denmark Drivers' and Teams' titles.

There were additional overall podium finishes and class wins for JAS Motorsport-built racing cars across the world too.

 

TCR Denmark

Malte Ebdrup became the youngest champion in series history with a double victory at Padborg Park, triumphing as the season-long battle between the recently-crowned Under-25s title winner and his team-mate Kasper H Jensen reached its climax.

Jensen took pole position from Ebdrup by 0.003 seconds but was beaten by his team-mate off the line in Race One and had to follow Ebdrup to the flag.

Jensen then made a sensational start to lead at the first corner from fifth on the Race Two grid, but did not finish after an attempted pass by Ebdrup resulted in contact that put the five-time champion's Civic into the gravel and out of the race.

Ebdrup received a time penalty for the incident, but still won the race, which was enough to secure the title; the fifth of 2025 for the Civic Type R TCR and its 118th in total.

Jensen secured second in the standings as he won Race Three from Ebdrup, who was victorious the Under-25s class in all three races.

DM Racing's Jan Magnussen was third twice and second in Race Two to remarkably complete a sensational season for the Civic Type R TCR in which it took every one of the 63 podium finishes available.

Magnus Dall won the Am class in Race Three while his SD+ Motorsport/Dall Racing team-mate Mathias Dall was third overall in Race Two.

 

Kumho FIA TCR World Tour

GOAT Racing secured a double podium finish as the series resumed at The Bend, Australia.

Esteban Guerrieri made up a spot on Race Two's partially-reversed grid to move into second place, which the Argentinian held for the remainder. He was chased home by team-mate Ignacio Montenegro.

Montenegro had finished fourth in Race One, but a penalty for contact dropped him to seventh, one spot ahead of Guerrieri, who remains second in the points.

Brad Harris finished third of the TCR Australia competitors on the road in Race One, but his Harris Motorsports-run Exclusive Switchboards Civic fell to fourth in the order due to a time penalty incurred for a false start. He was sixth in Race Two.

 

TCR Italy

Michal Bartoszuk scored a dominant double win in the Rookie category at Mugello and closed to within 10 points of the class lead with one round to go.

The MM Motorsport driver's best race came on Sunday as he ran third overall until the penultimate lap. There he lost one spot and was then shoved wide at the race's final corner and ceded several other spots.

He retained the Rookie win - his fourth of the season - in seventh overall, having also won the class on Saturday.

Team-mate Marco Pellegrini scored a strong ninth-place finish in Race One, which also gave him third in the Masters category. He ran second in class in Race Two until pitting with two laps to go and dropping out of contention.

 

TCR Asia

Diego Moran returned to the series at Inje, South Korea, and was cruelly denied a third victory of the season.

The Ecuadorian driver qualified third, but stalled at the start of Saturday's race and dropped to the back of the field. He recovered to fifth by the finish.

He then won Race Two with a commanding drive, but incurred a time penalty for a false start that dropped the DM23 Ecuador Racing Civic to fourth.

 

Italian GT

Nova Race ended the Endurance season with a podium finish in the Am class at Mugello.

Luca Magnoni and Paolo Rocca had started down in sixth place in the category and 16th overall, but drove brilliantly across the three-hour race to take the runner-up spot in Am and 12th overall.

Their team-mates Rodolfo Massaro, Francesco de Luca and Filippo Berto staged a similar charge through the overall order, finishing ninth outright and sixth in the Pro-Am category.