Global touring car star Jean-Karl Vernay will race the brand-new Romeo Ferraris-built Alfa Romeo Giulia ETCR in PURE ETCR. The 32-year old from Villeurbanne, France, is the third major touring car champion to confirm participation in PURE ETCR following the news earlier this year of Mattias Ekström and Jordi Gené as CUPRA Racing’s line-up. Vernay’s…
The battery that will power all PURE ETCR competitors has been successfully integrated into an electric touring car for the first time, and we’re going to show you some of the process. We joined Hyundai Motorsport earlier this month as they visited Williams Advanced Engineering’s headquarters in the UK for integration of the ETCR battery…
PURE ETCR is the ‘perfect laboratory’ for developing high-performance tyres for the electric vehicle market, according to series founding partner and official tyre supplier Goodyear. In episode three of PURE Talk presented by Goodyear, the organisation’s Director, Motorsport EMEA, Ben Crawley, and its PURE ETCR Event Leader, Sebastian Trinks, lift the lid on why the…
PURE ETCR is proud to welcome legendary avant-garde watchmaker TAG Heuer on-board as a series founding partner and its official timekeeper. This new and exciting partnership provides the ground-breaking platform of the world’s first all-electric, multi-brand touring car championship on which TAG Heuer can showcase its technologies in a way that mirrors its own DNA.…
When Jac Nellemann arrived at Anderstorp in June 1976 for his debut weekend in Formula 1, little could he have known that 44 years later his involvement in the sport would play a part in the beginning of a new era in touring-car racing. Now, the CEO of the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix is preparing…
The bespoke tyre that will be used in PURE ETCR – the world’s first all-electric, multi-brand touring car championship – has been revealed today by Goodyear. The all-weather Eagle F1 SuperSport race tyre, which began testing this week at Alès, France, draws on Goodyear’s extensive and wide-ranging involvement in motorsport to provide a product tailored…
Introducing PURE Talk; a brand-new series of podcasts hosted by ‘The voice of Touring Car Racing’, Martin Haven, and featuring the key figures and drivers from the world’s first multi-make, all-electric touring car series; PURE ETCR. Having commentated on FIA World Touring Car racing for 15 years, Haven’s knowledge of the sport, his broadcast expertise…
PURE ETCR, the world’s first all-electric multi-manufacturer touring car championship, has sparked excitement with a revised calendar that will bring a new era of motor racing to some of Europe’s traditional motorsport heartlands. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced manufacturers and engineering companies to suspend the construction of racing cars and also created international travel restrictions…
For the first time, fans can go behind-the-scenes at CUPRA Racing to see how the brand-new CUPRA e-Racer, which will compete in the inaugural PURE ETCR season in 2020, is put together. This video released by CUPRA Racing goes under the skin of the all-new fully-electric racer, which produces upto 500kW from its power unit…
Leading touring car team PWR Racing are keeping a close eye on developments in PURE ETCR as they seek to make their mark on electric motorsport in the future. The Swedish squad, who have claimed the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship title for the past two seasons with Robert Dahlgren, stepped up to global competition for…