“In 20 years every car will be electric, but right now we can feel like pioneers by driving electric.” That was the opinion of Bertrand Piccard, one of the world’s leading environmentalists, after he climbed behind the wheel of the Hyundai Veloster N ETCR and lapped one of the world’s greatest street circuits. In Episode…
Inje Speedium, part the larger Inje Auto Theme Park, has the honour of hosting the final round of PURE ETCR’s inaugural season and so is certain to be where the champion receives their silverware as the year’s star performer. Designed by Alan Wilson, the man behind Ningbo International Circuit, Barber Motorsports Park and many other…
PURE ETCR, the world’s first all-electric, multi-brand touring car championship, is delighted to announce a major new broadcast partnership with Japan’s leading dedicated sports broadcaster, J Sports Corporation. J Sports’ four channels and its on-demand service reach over 6.5 million homes in Japan and broadcast more than 5,000 hours of elite sport every year. Renowned…
The Alfa Romeo Giulia ETCR by Romeo Ferraris has completed its battery-integration process and is now fitted with the full ETCR technical kit. The Giulia ETCR, which is built by Romeo Ferraris at their headquarters at Opera near Milan, will compete in the inaugural season of PURE ETCR this year with former IndyCar racer Stefano…
PURE ETCR, the world’s first all-electric, multi-brand touring car championship will be broadcast into more than 13 million homes across Africa in 2021 thanks to a major new agreement with StarTimes Group. StarTimes Group is the leading digital television operator in Africa, serving the continent’s population with subsidiaries in 37 countries. With 13 million subscribers…
Hyundai Motorsport and CUPRA Racing continued their pre-season testing this week at Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi. Each manufacturer, who will contest the inaugural PURE ETCR season this year, focused on set-up work to optimise both handling and performance. Jordi Gené, who gave the CUPRA e-Racer its first test in full ETCR specification at MotorLand Aragón…
CUPRA Racing have finalised their line-up for the inaugural season of PURE ETCR by announcing today that WTCR race winner Mikel Azcona will join Mattias Ekström and Jordi Gene at the team. The 24-year-old Spaniard has been a race-winner in the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup for the past two seasons in CUPRA…
PURE ETCR is delighted to announce that the world’s first all-electric multi-brand touring car championship will be broadcast free-to-air in New Zealand in 2021 on Three. Three, part of Discovery Group, is the home of motorsport on TV for New Zealand’s five-million population, screening action from across the spectrum every week, from Monster Trucks to…
The specification of PURE ETCR’s all-weather tyre has been finalised by Goodyear. The series founding partner and official tyre supplier has spent several months analysing the performance of the Eagle F1 SuperSport race tyre since it first hit the racetrack in August. With the assistance of PURE ETCR promoter Eurosport Events and ETCR concept creator…
Motorsport fans in Poland will be able to enjoy live free-to-air coverage of all PURE ETCR events in 2021 thanks to a brand-new broadcast agreement with Metro TV. Metro TV is one of Poland’s most-popular channels showing films, documentaries and lifestyle programmes and will, from next year, beam the nail-biting action of PURE ETCR’s Battle…