We look back at the key numbers from a sensational year in the TCR Europe series.

Victories

Nine different drivers won the 12 races of the 2025 TCR Europe season, with only three drivers able to repeat a victory during the course of the campaign. Fittingly, two of those were drivers found themselves tied on points at the top of the standings at the end of the year, Teddy Clairet and Jenson Brickley, while the other was the resurgent Ruben Volt.

Four different TCR manufacturers took wins during the season, with Audi Sport customer racing taking the most wins with four for its RS 3 LMS. There were three wins for CUPRA Racing’s championship-winning Leon VZ TCR, and also three wins for JAS Motorsport’ Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR, and finally two wins for Hyundai Motorsport Customer Racing’s Elantra N TCR.

Pole positions

There were five different pole position drivers during the six events, with Volt the only driver to take two poles at both Misano and Barcelona in his ALM Motorsport-run Honda. The other poles were taken by Jimmy Clairet in Portimão, Felipe Fernández at Spa-Francorchamps, Marco Butti at Hockenheimring, and Eric Gené at the Red Bull Ring.

Most positions gained.

A wild stat, this looks at the drivers who made the most movement up the grid, comparing grid positions with their finishing position. While this stat naturally rewards drivers who have troubles in qualifying, but make good pushes through the grid during the races.

The driver at the top of this table is newcomer Filippo Barberi, with the young Italian progressing 44 places in races over the course of the season (about 3.7 positions gained in each race), with Diamond Trophy champion Victor Fernández close behind with 40 moves.

The driver who gained the most positions in one race was Teddy Clairet, who came through from 19^th to finish sixth in the second race at the Hockenheimring, climbing an incredible 13 positions in just one race.

In fact Teddy Clairet and title rival Brickley feature fairly highly on the total overtakes table, making 38 and 28 places over the course of the year respectively. Reflective of some great charges in reversed grid races, but both drivers also had some difficult qualifying sessions – with Clairet starting well outside of the top ten in Germany and Austria,  while eventual champion Brickley qualified in 16^th at both Spa and Hockenheim.

On the flip side, the driver that lost the most positions during the season was Eric Gené, a strong qualifier and even pole-sitter, he totalled up a loss of 17 positions during the season (so only about 1.4 per race).

Best average finishing position

The driver with the best average finishing position was Jacopo Cimenes. The rookie Italian only took part in three events, and only started four races after his car was heavily damaged in both of the first races of the weekends at the Red Bull Ring at Misano.

So with two finishes from four starts, his average is across a much smaller set of data points, but nevertheless, when he did finish, or indeed start a race, the newcomer had an incredible finishing record, finishing in third on his debut at Misano, and following this up with a sixth-place finish in Race 2, giving him an average finishing position of 4.5.

In second place, and the highest of the drivers entered for the full season was Teddy Clairet, the driver who finished tied at the top of the points table with an average finishing position of 5.0, with his team-mate and brother Jimmy third on 5.2. Not surprisingly, eventual champion Jenson Brickley was not far behind on 5.6.

The naughty step

The stewards had a relatively busy season, though with up to 26 cars competing at a time this was to be expected. There were 76 stewards’ decisions filed throughout the course of the year, an average of 13 per race weekend, but it was very much the exciting finale in Barcelona that lifted that average with 29 decisions alone, though primarily these were for track limits infractions during the two races.

Over the whole season, there were just 17 penalties for race collisions, five driving standards issues (safety car overtakes, passing off-track etc.), 22 in-race track limits penalties, two start procedure violations, and only one technical exclusion, coming right at the end of the year in the final race when Volt lost second place due to non-performance advantage gaining technicality, providing some post-race excitement in which Brickley’s championship-winning margin of one point was reduced to a deadheat tie break.

Of the full-season competitors, only one driver made it through the whole year without picking up any penalty: that’s any collision, any driving standards warning, even a single track limits penalty, and that was Jimmy Clairet.