Baltic Touring Car Championship

The Baltic Touring Car Championship or BaTCC is a touring car racing series held each year in the Baltic states. The championship is regulated by a board containing two representatives each from the automobile associations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Eligible cars for the championship have often changed over recent years. In 2019 there are class entries for TCR, BTC1, BTC2, Baltic GT AM, Baltic GT PRO.

Baltic Touring Car Championship
CategoryTouring cars
CountryBaltic States
Inaugural season2000
Tyre suppliersHankook
Drivers' champion TCR Dziugas Tovilavicius

BGT PRO Raivo Tamm

BTC1 Marius Miskunas

BTC 2 Jyrki Jonkkari

BGT AM Roberts Rode
Teams' champion Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team
Official websitehttp://www.batcc.eu
Current season

Races are held in race tracks in Baltic States and Finland. Auto24ring in Estonia, Biķernieki in Latvia, Nemuno Ziedas in Lithuania and Botniaring in Finland.

The race day format features two races per round, with standing starts for Legends and Touring cars and rolling start for GT and TCR cars. There were a total of five rounds in 2019, with two rounds each at Riga and Parnu and one in Botniaring.

BaTCC championship is held together with Baltic Endurance Championship or BEC 6H. Teams participate in 6 hour endurance races in different racing categories.

Racing classes

The following shows the key specifications issues for each class. BTC and TCR category have two 10 lap races per event. While BEC Championship has one 6 hour race per event.

BTC

BTC1 cars with engine capacity from 1798cm3 to 2800cm3.

BTC2 cars with engine capacity from 2800cm3 to 4000cm3. Class BTC2 maximum engine capacity is allowed 4500cm3 which includes all the ratios of the Technical Regulations. (Example: 2000cm3 bi-turbo engine has a ratio 1,7 which means actual engine capacity would equal 3400 cm3). Maximum 6 cylinder engines are allowed in class BTC2.

BTC cars in action

BGT AM or Baltic GT AM class is meant for series production cars with front mounted engines and SRO GT4 cars, maximum allowed engine capacity is 5200 cm³. Air restrictor for turbo cars.

BGT PRO or Baltic GT PRO class is series production cars and non series production cars (with tubular frame bodywork, or semi-tubular bodywork, or monocoque bodywork), LM GTE, GT3 cars.

TCR

TCR BaTCC at Botniaring, Round 2 Finland.

TCR BaTCC is an official TCR series consisting of five rounds, two races in each round.

Baltic Endurance Championship

BEC Start of the race at DeWALT GP in Riga, May 2019

A2000 Racing cars with engine capacity up to 2000 cm3

A3000 Racing cars with engine capacity up to 3000 cm3

A3000+ Racing cars with engine capacity over 3000 cm3

GT PRO – series production cars and non series production cars (with tubular frame bodywork, or semi-tubular bodywork, or monocoque bodywork), LM GTE, GT3 cars;

GT AM – series production cars with front mounted engines and SRO GT4 cars;

TCR – TCR cars.

D - Diesel cars.

Champions

Season Baltic GT Champion TCR Champion BTC 2 Champion BTC 1 Champion Super 1600 Champion National Class Champion BEC Champion
1999 Indrek Sepp (S2000)
2000 Indrek Sepp (B2000) Martin Merisaar
2001 Arnis Jursevskis (B2000) Martin Merisaar
2002 Aivis Ohtla (B2000) Jānis Vorobjovs
2003 Girts Krüzmanis (B2000) Robertas Kupčikas
2004 Girts Krüzmanis (B2000) Marius Milevskis
2005 Indrek Sepp (S2000) Madis Kasemets Jānis Kārkliņš
2006 Antti-Veikko Pakalen (S2000) Mindaugas Neliubsys Normunds Šubeckis
2007 Egons Lapins (B2000) Lauris Vidžis Agris Petrovskis
2008 Egons Lapins (Superproduction) Karolis Doleba Uldis Timaks
2009 Marcis Birkens (Superproduction) Roland Feodorov Vitālijs Kalmi
2010 Marcis Birkens (Superproduction) Andres Hall Kristaps Mietulis
2011 Uldis Timaks (Superproduction) Raul Karu Didzis Pope
2012 Vitālijs Kalmi (GT Open) Mantas Neverdauskas Igors Zubkovs
2013 Artjoms Kočlamazašvili (GT Open) Nikolay Zhuravlev Lauris Vīgants
2014 Eidmantas Nekrošius (GT Open) Jānis Ciekals Viktors Vasiļjevs
2015 Dainius Matijošaitis (GT Open) Andrius Jasonauskas Edvinas Mardosas Kristaps Mietulis Garijs Rožkalns Rotoma Racing (BMW M3)
2016 Saulius Beržis (GT Open) Alvydas Malakauskas Julius Skirmantas Mārtiņs Sesks Jānis Vanks RIMO Racing (BMW 330D)
2017 Pavel Shchapov (GT Open) Ernesta Globyte Andrey Yushin Steven Puust Jānis Vanks Skuba Dream (Porsche GT3)
2018 Marko Rantanen (GT Open) Ernesta Globyte Peeter Peek Dmitry Savateev Jānis Vanks GSR Motorsport (VW Golf GTI TCR)
2019 Raivo Tamm (GT Open) Dziugas Tovilavicius Jyrki Jonkkari Marius Miskunas Richardas Martinkevičius No class Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team (Porsche GT3 CUP)

Circuits used

References

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