2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship
The 2018 ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship will be the third season of touring car racing to be run by the German-based sanctioning body ADAC to the TCR regulations. The series will run predominantly in ADAC's home nation Germany. As a support category to the ADAC GT Masters series, the championship will also take in races in the neighbouring nations of Austria, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Josh Files will be the defending Drivers' champion, while Target Competition will the defending Teams' champions. Teams and drivers Team and driver changes Former ADAC Procar champions YACO Racing will enter the series with a single Audi RS3 LMS TCR for Simon Reicher, who moves from Certainty Racing Team. Wolf-Power Racing will switch from SEAT León TCR to Renault Mégane TCR for the 2018 season. Engstler Motorsport will retain Luca Engstler and Floran Thoma. In addition the team will increase to five cars during the entire season signing Théo Coicaud, Justin Häußermann and Niko Kankkunen. German footballer Max Kruse will set up his own team Max Kruse Racing, fielding a single Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR for Benjamin Leuchter, who returns to the series after missing out the 2017 season. Reigning double