An unprecedented 12 drivers head to the TCR Europe season finale in contention for the drivers’ champion. We take a look at each of the contenders in turn, and provide a look into their chances of becoming a first-time champion this year.

We start with 12^th in the championship, Viktor Andersson. The 22-year-old Swede heads to Barcelona with just a mathematical chance in effect, though to be in with a chance after a mixed season says enough about his strong, consistent results this year.

The MA:GP Lynk & Co driver’s season’s highlight came at Spa-Francorchamps, when he finished on the overall podium in a dramatic race in mid-May.

Three DNFs have since then blighted his championship challenge, and the fight for the Youth Best title, but he still has a chance to win both titles in Spain, though his chances are somewhat more realistic for the young drivers’ title.

What does he have to do to win the title?

In his own words when confronted with the fact he was still in contention for the overall crown: “Normally, I’d never say never, but…”.

Andersson is 70 points down, with exactly 70 points remaining, meaning the most remarkable set of circumstances needs to happen in Barcelona for Andersson to win the title.

First, he must score pole position and pick up the ten points for that – not an impossible feat, in fact he’s still tied with the most poles of the current drivers of the field (that’s two) – but after that he has to convert that pole into his first career win in the series.

Next, as he’d have to claim pole, he’ll then start from tenth for the reversed grid second race, and as he needs to score every possible point, he needs to win again. So he’d have to pass nine cars to finish on the top step of the podium for both the second time in his career, and on the same weekend.

As well as that, he’ll need all of his 11 rivals to have their worst weekends of the season, not the least of which would be points leaders Marco Butti and Eric Gené, who would need to score zero points – that’s not qualify in the top six, and finish in the top 15 in either race. That would allow the outcome to be a three-way tie at the top of the points table, which Andersson would be classed as champion as he’d have two wins, to Butti and Gené’s one.