Canadian Touring Car Championship

Canadian Touring Car Championship

Category	Touring cars
Country	Canada
Inaugural season	2007
Tire suppliers	Continental Tire
Drivers' champion	Ian Crerar - Grand Touring Class Roger Ledoux - Super Class Alain Lauzière - Touring Class
Makes' champion	Porsche - Grand Touring Class Subaru - Super Class MINI - Touring Class
Official website	Canadian Touring Car Championship

CTCC at Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières in 2011

Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire 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 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.

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 Crerar	Roger Ledoux	Alain Lauzière	[8]

Current CTCC Tracks

Track	City	Province	Length	Turns	Layout
Calabogie Motorsports Park	Greater Madawaska 45°18′10″N 76°40′20″W / 45.30278°N 76.67222°W	Ontario	5.05 km	20
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park	Bowmanville 44°03′00″N 78°40′40″W / 44.05000°N 78.67778°W	Ontario	3.957 km	10
Circuit ICAR	Mirabel 45°40′56″N 74°01′38″W / 45.682269°N 74.027229°W	Quebec	2.8 km
Circuit Trois-Rivières	Trois-Rivières 46°20′51″N 72°33′31″W / 46.3475°N 72.558611°W	Quebec	2.462 km	10
Shannonville Motorsport Park	Shannonville 44°13′31″N 77°09′36″W / 44.2254°N 77.1600°W	Ontario	4.03 km	14

Former CTCC Tracks

Track	City	Province	Length	Turns	Layout
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	Montreal 45°30′2.08″N 73°31′20.86″W / 45.5005778°N 73.5224611°W	Quebec	4.36 km	14
Circuit Mont-Tremblant	Mont-Tremblant 46°11′16″N 74°36′36″W / 46.187707°N 74.609936°W	Quebec	4.26 km	17
Honda Indy Toronto Exhibition Place	Toronto 43°38′02″N 79°24′45″W / 43.633952°N 79.412512°W	Ontario	2.824 km	11

See also

• World Touring Car Championship
• British Touring Car Championship
• Pirelli World Challenge
• Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge

References

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. 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.

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

External links

• CTCC - Canadian Touring Car Championship official website
• ASN Canada FIA
• Interview with John Bondar - President of Canadian Touring Car Championship