World Touring Car Cup

World Touring Car Cup (1993–1995)

In 1993, with the high popularity of the Supertouring category, the FIA hosted the FIA World Touring Car Cup — an annual event for touring car drivers hailing from national championships all over the world. The 1993 race at Monza was won by New Zealand's Paul Radisich, at the wheel of a Ford Mondeo ahead of Nicola Larini's Alfa Romeo 155, with no manufacturer title awarded. The race was run for two more years, (won by Paul Radisich again in 1994 at Donington Park in a Ford Mondeo, manufacturer title went to BMW, and Frank Biela in 1995 at Paul Ricard in an Audi A4 Quattro, and manufacturer title went to Audi). A similar event was planned for 1996 at the A1 Ring, Austria, but was cancelled due to a low number of provisional entries (10 cars). It was never brought back thereafter.

World Touring Car Championship (2005–2017)

World Touring Car Cup (2018–present)

On 6 December 2017, during the FIA's World Motorsport Council in Paris, it was approved the formation of the new World Touring Car Cup starting from 2018. The new series would utilize the TCR rules, which have been in use in numerous national and international touring car racing series, including TCR International Series. Cars would now have to conform to the new FIA WTCR regulations. As a result of the formation of the WTC Cup both the WTCC in its current format and the TCR International Series would be discontinued immediately.^[3]

Current scoring system

Currently, all FIA WTCR races are awarded equal points.

During the World Touring Car Cup era (1993-1995), points were awarded to top 20 finishers as follows:

World Touring Car Cup (1993–1995)

Drivers Driver Total 1 Paul Radisich 2 2 Emanuele Pirro 1 Frank Biela 1

Manufacturers Constructor Total 1 Audi 2 Ford 2

Cars Car Total 1 Audi A4 Quattro 2 Ford Mondeo 2