Canadian Touring Car Championship

Canadian Touring Car Championship
Category Touring cars
Country  Canada
Inaugural season 2007
Tire suppliers Continental Tire
Drivers' champion Quebec Roger Ledoux - Super Class
Quebec Michel Sallenbach - Touring Class
Quebec Normand Boyer - B-Spec Class
Makes' champion Japan Honda - Super Class
Japan Honda - Touring Class
Official website Canadian Touring Car Championship
CTCC at Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières in 2011

Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire is a Canadian professional touring car road racing series. In 2006, it was created based on the growth of amateur touring car racing in Canada and the pent-up demand for a professional product.

CTCC is featured in Eastern Canada’s main provinces, Ontario and Québec. Race events generally take place in the Greater Toronto Area, in the Greater Ottawa Area, in Mirabel, Montréal and Trois-Rivières. The competitor base expands reach all over Canada, but more specifically in Southern and Eastern Ontario, Québec and the United States.

Classes

B-Spec Class

The concept of B-Spec was first developed through collaboration between Honda Performance Development and Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development with the goal of creating a common set of rules that could be adopted by different racing series or sanctioning organizations. Over the past year, CTCC worked with the Sports Car Club of America and Grand-Am to solidify a set of rules that would respect both the B-Spec concept and goals of the different series. B-Spec is designed to be an entry level and affordable category and highlights one of the fastest-growing segments of the automobile business. Both Honda and Mazda revealed their new prototypes in December 2010. Since then, the Honda Fit and Mazda 2 have been joined by the Ford Fiesta and Fiat 500 at various test sessions. Other eligible cars include the Chevrolet Sonic, Kia Rio, Mini Cooper, Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris.

Like its Super and Touring Classes, the new B-Spec Class will have its own set of requirements and will feature showroom stock racing cars utilizing stock engines and chassis, fitted with a competition roll cage, racing seat and other safety equipment along with the approved Continental ExtremeContact race tires and Sunoco race fuel. Weight equalization will be used to balance performance among competing manufacturers.

The entry-level B-Spec Class introduces a compact car category with stock engine and strictly controlled modifications.

Touring Class

the Touring Class features cars with minimal modifications

Super Class

Super Class machines have powerful and heavily modified engines and advanced aerodynamics

Manufacturers

Participating automotive brands include Acura, Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Honda, Hyundai, Fiat, Ford, Mazda, MINI, Nissan, Scion, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen.

Champions

Season Category
GT Super Touring
2007 Ontario Sasha Anis Quebec Charles-Andre Bilodeau Quebec Alain Lauzière
Super Touring
2008 Ontario Nigel Krikorian Ontario Andre Rapone [1]
2009 Quebec Nick Wittmer Quebec Alain Lauzière [2]
2010 Quebec Nick Wittmer Ontario Anthony Rapone [3]
2011 Quebec Etienne Borgeat Ontario Tom Kwok [4]
Super Touring B-Spec
2012 Ontario Sasha Anis Ontario Damon Sharpe Quebec Nick Wittmer [5]
2013 Ontario Scott Nicol Ontario Damon Sharpe Quebec Karl Wittmer [6]
2014 Quebec Roger Ledoux Quebec Michel Sallenbach Quebec Normand Boyer [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fender banging highlights series". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
  2. ↑ "CCTCC : Nick Wittmer first Quebecker to win Super Touring championship". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
  3. ↑ "Nick Wittmer and Anthony Rapone Crowned 2010 Champions". Racing in Focus. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
  4. ↑ "Canadian Touring: Etienne Borgeat and Tom Kwok seal the deal". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
  5. ↑ "Canadian Touring Car champ crowned". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
  6. ↑ "CTCC: Scott Nicol Super Class Champion: Damon Sharpe defends Touring Class title". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  7. ↑ "Final 2014 CTCC This Weekend 2014 Champions are Crowned". RaceCanada.ca. August 30, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2015.

August 2012 - Canadian Touring Car Championship (www.touringcar.ca)

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