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After 13 rounds that has produced ten different winners and a season of ultra-close touring car racing, it all comes down to the final two races at Snetterton on Sunday 23rd October to decide who will be crowned 2022 TCR UK Champion.
With a maximum of 88 points on offer: six from qualifying, 40 winning and one for setting the fastest lap in each race, seven drivers go into the weekend mathematically capable of claiming the title.
Sunday’s touring car action live links will be available on the TCR UK website.
Up until August’s two rounds at Donington Park – where the TCR UK finalé has taken place for the past four seasons – drivers were able to drop their two lowest points scores. However, regulations dictate that the option to drop rounds does not apply at the final meeting, which means that Sunday will witness a straight shoot-out for the title.
And it couldn’t be closer, with Chris Smiley (Restart Racing Honda Civic Type R FK7) and Isaac Smith (Race Car Consultants Volkswagen Golf GTi) jointly topping the championship table with an equal score of 315 points. Between them, only Smiley – who has just been nominated to represent the UK in the Touring Car category of this month’s FIA Motorsport Games – has claimed a race win, an accolade he achieved in the opening round held at Oulton Park in April, whereas Smith’s points tally has been achieved by a consistent run of podium finishes.
Lying third in the title hunt, twenty-six points behind the leading pair, is Adam Shepherd (Area Motorsport Hyundai i30). Having endured a challenging first half of the season, Shepherd then found his form, taking a long-overdue victory at Donington Park on August Bank Holiday Monday.
In fourth, just four points further back, is last year’s TCR UK runner-up Bruce Winfield (Area Motorsport CUPRA). Winfield was another who took time to get up to speed in a car that was new to him and scored his first and only win…
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