TCR UK has added to its cost cutting moves for 2025 by introducing a new offer for entrants looking to make a single appearance at a race weekend this season.

With a round supporting British GT and two supporting British Truck Racing (including the highlight Fireworks Night season closer at Brands Hatch) the series is moving to ensure that racers can bolster grids on a race-by-race basis.

The £1000 flat fee is designed to be attractive to TCR car owners in the UK who are unable to commit to the full season, or want a taste of a TCR UK weekend in addition to any other TCR sanctioned series that they already race in.

The championship will race with BARC for 2025, with the first round of the year at Donington Park later this month sharing the bill with the CTCRC Super Touring series, before joining British GT also at Donington as the Sportscar Championship switches its traditional Oulton Park opener for the Derbyshire circuit.

“In the current difficult financial climate, we’ve already introduced measures that help reduce costs for those looking to compete in a full season of TCR UK. We also recognise that there are competitors out there who want to take part as a one-off entry in the championship as well,” TCR UK Promoter Stewart Lines said.

“A flat fee of £1,000 secures a one-off entry for the race weekend of your choice. Added to the cost cutting measures already in place, this is the best way to find out what it’s like to be part of the paddock and atmosphere during a TCR UK weekend.”

WSC and TCR have already arranged sublicense agreements with both the 750 Motor Club and BRSCC for three series’ to run categories for TCR cars in the UK alongside TCR UK itself, with Gen 1 cars eligible to run in all events.

This comes in the wake of the announcement of a rival championship for Touring Cars which accepts TCR machinery (alongside other two litre Touring Cars.) WSC responded to that announcement by enforcing a blacklist on cars entering that championship by ensuring cars entered there would have their TCR passport revoked, rendering them ineligible for TCR competition for current or future TCR car owners.

With around 70 TCR cars in the UK, and less than half of them currently announced as fulltime entrants in any series, the battle for custom has not quite become a ‘civil war,’ but the scope for owners wanting to retain the reported residual value attached to the ‘TCR Passport’ has become quite a messy situation.