Canadian Touring Car Championship

Canadian Touring Car Championship
Category	Touring cars
Country	Canada
Inaugural season	2007
Tire suppliers	Pirelli
Drivers' champion	Parker Thompson - GT Sport; Gary Kwok - TCR
Makes' champion	Audi - GT Sport; Honda - TCR
Official website	Canadian Touring Car Championship

Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) is a Canadian professional touring car road racing series. In 2006, it was created based on the growth of amateur touring car racing in Canada and the pent-up demand for a professional product.

CTCC at Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières in 2011

CTCC is featured in Eastern Canada's main provinces, Ontario and Québec. Race events generally take place in the Greater Toronto Area, in the Greater Ottawa Area, in Mirabel, Montréal and Trois-Rivières. The competitor base expands reach all over Canada, but more specifically in Southern and Eastern Ontario, Québec and the United States.

Classes

B-Spec Class

The concept of B-Spec was first developed through collaboration between Honda Performance Development and Mazdaspeed Motorsports Development with the goal of creating a common set of rules that could be adopted by different racing series or sanctioning organizations. Over the past year, CTCC worked with the Sports Car Club of America and Grand-Am to solidify a set of rules that would respect both the B-Spec concept and goals of the different series. B-Spec is designed to be an entry level and affordable category and highlights one of the fastest-growing segments of the automobile business. Both Honda and Mazda revealed their new prototypes in December 2010. Since then, the Honda Fit and Mazda 2 have been joined by the Ford Fiesta and Fiat 500 at various test sessions. Other eligible cars include the Chevrolet Sonic, Kia Rio, Mini Cooper, Nissan Versa and Toyota Yaris.

Like its Super and Touring Classes, the new B-Spec Class will have its own set of requirements and will feature showroom stock racing cars utilizing stock engines and chassis, fitted with a competition roll cage, racing seat and other safety equipment along with the approved Continental ExtremeContact race tires and Sunoco race fuel. Weight equalization will be used to balance performance among competing manufacturers.

The entry-level B-Spec Class introduces a compact car category with stock engine and strictly controlled modifications.

Following the 2014 CTCC season, in which there were 4 full time cars at the start of the year, the series decided to drop the class for 2015. Replacing the class for that year would be the return of the GT class.

Touring Class

The Touring Class features cars with minimal modifications

Super Class

Super Class machines have powerful and heavily modified engines and advanced aerodynamics

Grand Touring Class

The Grand Touring Class previously appeared only in CTCC's inaugural season in 2007, but rejoined the series in 2015 and includes marques such as Mustang, BMW, Nissan and Porsche.

Manufacturers

Participating automotive brands include Acura, Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Honda, Hyundai, Fiat, Ford, Mazda, MINI, Nissan, Scion, Subaru, Toyota and Volkswagen.

Champions

Season	Category
	GT	Super	Touring
2007	Sasha Anis	Charles-Andre Bilodeau	Alain Lauzière
	Super		Touring
2008	Nigel Krikorian		Andre Rapone		[1]
2009	Nick Wittmer		Alain Lauzière		[2]
2010	Nick Wittmer		Anthony Rapone		[3]
2011	Etienne Borgeat		Tom Kwok		[4]
	Super		Touring	B-Spec
2012	Sasha Anis		Damon Sharpe	Nick Wittmer	[5]
2013	Scott Nicol		Damon Sharpe	Karl Wittmer	[6]
2014	Roger Ledoux		Michel Sallenbach	Normand Boyer	[7]
	Grand Touring		Super	Touring
2015	Ian Stanley Crerar		Roger Ledoux	Alain Lauzière	[8]
2016	Chris Sahakian		Eric Hochgeschurz	Michel Sallenbach	[9]
	GT Sport		Super	Touring
2017	Bob Attrell		Eric Hochgeschurz	Michel Sallenbach	[10]
	GT Cup	GT Sport	Super	Touring
2018	Bob Attrell	Ethan Simioni	Marc Raymond	Shawn Little	[11]
	GT Sport		TCR
2019	Parker Thompson		Gary Kwok		[12]

Current CTCC Tracks

Track	City	Province	Length	Turns
Calabogie Motorsports Park	Greater Madawaska 45°18′10″N 76°40′20″W	Ontario	5.05 km	20
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park	Bowmanville 44°03′00″N 78°40′40″W	Ontario	3.957 km	10
Circuit ICAR	Mirabel 45.682269°N 74.027229°W / 45.682269; -74.027229 (Circuit ICAR)	Quebec	2.8 km
Circuit Trois-Rivières	Trois-Rivières 46.3475°N 72.558611°W / 46.3475; -72.558611 (Circuit Trois-Rivières)	Quebec	2.462 km	10
Shannonville Motorsport Park	Shannonville 44.2254°N 77.1600°W / 44.2254; -77.1600 (Shannonville Motorsport Park)	Ontario	4.03 km	14

Former CTCC Tracks

Track	City	Province	Length	Turns
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal 45°30′2.08″N 73°31′20.86″W	Quebec	4.36 km	14
Circuit Mont-Tremblant	Mont-Tremblant 46.187707°N 74.609936°W / 46.187707; -74.609936 (Circuit Mont-Tremblant)	Quebec	4.26 km	17
Honda Indy Toronto Exhibition Place	Toronto 43.633952°N 79.412512°W / 43.633952; -79.412512 (Honda Indy Toronto)	Ontario	2.824 km	11

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References

"Fender banging highlights series". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
"CCTCC : Nick Wittmer first Quebecker to win Super Touring championship". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
"Nick Wittmer and Anthony Rapone Crowned 2010 Champions". Racing in Focus. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
"Canadian Touring: Etienne Borgeat and Tom Kwok seal the deal". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
"Canadian Touring Car champ crowned". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
"CTCC: Scott Nicol Super Class Champion: Damon Sharpe defends Touring Class title". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
"Final 2014 CTCC This Weekend 2014 Champions are Crowned". RaceCanada.ca. August 30, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
"CTCC celebrates the season by recognizing its champions". insidetracknews.com. December 7, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
McDonald, Norris (October 31, 2016). "Racing Roundup: F1 - who's on third? Jimmie Johnson wins race but 22 NASCAR fans injured by impatient driver; Canadian Touring Car Championship, Nissan Micra Cup honour champions; news, views on other racing". The Toronto Star. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
"CTCC crowns its 2017 champions at ICAR". Canadian Touring Car Championship. October 1, 2017.
"Champions Crowned at ICAR". Canadian Touring Car Championship. October 1, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
Wang, Sean (August 26, 2019). "Tight championship battles on track as the 2019 CTCC presented by Pirelli wraps up at CTMP". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved June 25, 2020.

August 2012 - Canadian Touring Car Championship (www.touringcar.ca)

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[1] "Fender banging highlights series". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[2] "CCTCC : Nick Wittmer first Quebecker to win Super Touring championship". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[3] "Nick Wittmer and Anthony Rapone Crowned 2010 Champions". Racing in Focus. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[4] "Canadian Touring: Etienne Borgeat and Tom Kwok seal the deal". Auto123.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[5] "Canadian Touring Car champ crowned". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2013-09-03.

[6] "CTCC: Scott Nicol Super Class Champion: Damon Sharpe defends Touring Class title". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved 2013-09-09.

[7] "Final 2014 CTCC This Weekend 2014 Champions are Crowned". RaceCanada.ca. August 30, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2015.

[8] "CTCC celebrates the season by recognizing its champions". insidetracknews.com. December 7, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2016.

[9] McDonald, Norris (October 31, 2016). "Racing Roundup: F1 - who's on third? Jimmie Johnson wins race but 22 NASCAR fans injured by impatient driver; Canadian Touring Car Championship, Nissan Micra Cup honour champions; news, views on other racing". The Toronto Star. Retrieved June 25, 2020.

[10] "CTCC crowns its 2017 champions at ICAR". Canadian Touring Car Championship. October 1, 2017.

[11] "Champions Crowned at ICAR". Canadian Touring Car Championship. October 1, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

[12] Wang, Sean (August 26, 2019). "Tight championship battles on track as the 2019 CTCC presented by Pirelli wraps up at CTMP". Inside Track Motorsport News. Retrieved June 25, 2020.