On 15 July 2014, Lotti revealed further details on the TCR series. On the same day it was announced that the TCR series will award a Drivers' Championship title and a Teams' Championship title. The number of teams will be limited to eight and the number of competitors to twenty-four. It was also announced that the series will run alongside
Formula One at selected events. On 21 July 2014, more details about the series became available: the race weekend format will be structured like the WTCC, with two free practice sessions and a two part qualifying session, followed by two races on Sunday. The first event would take place in
Italy in March, but when a provisional calendar for the
2015 season was released on 31 October, it became clear that the first event will take place at the
Sepang International Circuit on 29 March. Lotti confirmed the technical principles of the
SEAT León Cup Racer, which is also set to be adopted in the Single-Make Trophy category of the European Touring Car Cup in
2015, will be used by the TCR Series. On 29 July 2014, former WTCC driver
Pepe Oriola said in an interview with TouringCarTimes that he hopes to compete in the new series, because he was set to drive for the
Onyx Race Engineering team in the
2014 WTCC season with their new
Ford Fiesta TC1 car for the last part of the season, before the project was abandoned with no support for homologation from
Ford. On 15 September 2014, the TCR organisation announced the first cars, teams, regulations and events of its inaugural season in
2015.
Target Competition became the first team to confirm entry in the series and will run
SEAT León Eurocup cars in 2015.
Onyx Race Engineering has also confirmed they are developing the
Ford Focus for the championship. A week later
Paolo Coloni Racing announced plans to enter the championship in 2015. Team principal
Paolo Coloni, son of
F1-team founder
Enzo Coloni, is known for its accomplishments in the
GP2 Series in
2005 and in
2009 to
2012. The team will confirm at a later date their planned car and driver line-up. On 31 October 2014, a provisional calendar for its inaugural season was released. On 13 February
Jordi Oriola announced he will be driving a
Target Competition SEAT at
Valencia and
Monza and
Mikhail Grachev was confirmed on 17 February at
Engstler Motorsport. In the end of February and in March almost half of all the drivers were confirmed, but just one week from the first round in
Sepang Onyx Race Engineering,
Paolo Coloni Racing and
Proteam Racing have not confirmed a single driver. On 20 March the TCR International Series organisation announced the first TV deals for the inaugural season. On 29 May 2015,
David Sonenscher announces the
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