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.
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.. Maximum 6 cylinder engines are allowed in class BTC2.
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, LM GTE, GT3 cars.

TCR

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

Baltic Endurance Championship

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, LM GTE, GT3 cars;
GT AM – series production cars with front mounted engines and SRO GT4 cars;
TCR – TCR cars.
D - Diesel cars.

Champions

SeasonBaltic GT ChampionTCR ChampionBTC 2 ChampionBTC 1 ChampionSuper 1600 ChampionNational Class ChampionBEC Champion
1999 Indrek Sepp
2000 Indrek Sepp Martin Merisaar
2001 Arnis Jursevskis Martin Merisaar
2002 Aivis Ohtla Jānis Vorobjovs
2003 Girts Krüzmanis Robertas Kupčikas
2004 Girts Krüzmanis Marius Milevskis
2005 Indrek Sepp Madis Kasemets Jānis Kārkliņš
2006 Antti-Veikko Pakalen Mindaugas Neliubsys Normunds Šubeckis
2007 Egons Lapins Lauris Vidžis Agris Petrovskis
2008 Egons Lapins Karolis Doleba Uldis Timaks
2009 Marcis Birkens Roland Feodorov Vitālijs Kalmi
2010 Marcis Birkens Andres Hall Kristaps Mietulis
2011 Uldis Timaks Raul Karu Didzis Pope
2012 Vitālijs Kalmi Mantas Neverdauskas Igors Zubkovs
2013 Artjoms Kočlamazašvili Nikolay Zhuravlev Lauris Vīgants
2014 Eidmantas Nekrošius Jānis Ciekals Viktors Vasiļjevs
2015 Dainius Matijošaitis Andrius Jasonauskas Edvinas Mardosas Kristaps Mietulis Garijs Rožkalns Rotoma Racing
2016 Saulius Beržis Alvydas Malakauskas Julius Skirmantas Mārtiņs Sesks Jānis Vanks RIMO Racing
2017 Pavel Shchapov Ernesta Globyte Andrey Yushin Steven Puust Jānis Vanks Skuba Dream
2018 Marko Rantanen Ernesta Globyte Peeter Peek Dmitry Savateev Jānis Vanks GSR Motorsport
2019 Raivo Tamm Dziugas Tovilavicius Jyrki Jonkkari Marius Miskunas Richardas MartinkevičiusNo class Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team

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