# Baltic Touring Car Championship

The Baltic Touring Car Championship or BaTCC is a touring car racing series held each year in the Baltic states. The championship is regulated by a board containing two representatives each from the automobile associations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Eligible cars for the championship have often changed over recent years. In 2022 there are class entries for TCR, GT classes, Touring car classes(up to 1600ccm, up to 2000ccm, up to 3000ccm and up to 4000ccm), V1600 and mono class BMW 325 CUP. BaTCC championship is held together with Baltic Endurance Championship or BEC 6H. Teams participate in 6 hour endurance races in different racing categories. The minor league for BEC 6H is the Nankang Endurance Academy 2 hour race for less powerful cars.
Races are held in race tracks in Baltic States and Finland. Audru ring in Estonia, Bikernieki in Latvia, Nemuno Ziedas in Lithuania and Botniaring in Finland.
The race day format features two races per round, with standing starts BMW 325 CUP and Touring cars and rolling start for GT and TCR cars.
For 2021 season for the first time The Nations Cup and the Team standings were introduced.

## Racing classes

The following shows the key specifications issues for each class. BTC and TCR category have two 15-20 min races per event. While BEC Championship has one 6 hour race per event.

### BTC

BTC1 cars with engine capacity from up to 1600cm3.
BTC2 cars with engine capacity up to 2000cm3.
BTC3 cars with engine capacity up to 3000cm3.
BTC4 cars with engine capacity up to 4000cm3. Class BTC4 maximum engine capacity is allowed 4000cm3 which includes all the ratios of the Technical Regulations. (Example: 2000cm3 bi-turbo engine has a ratio 1,7 which means actual engine capacity would equal 3400 cm3).
BGT AM or Baltic GT AM class is meant for series production cars with front mounted engines and SRO GT4 cars. Air restrictor for turbo cars.
BGT PRO or Baltic GT PRO class is series production cars and non series production cars (with tubular frame bodywork, or semi-tubular bodywork, or monocoque bodywork), LM GTE, GT3 cars.

### TCR

TCR BaTCC is an official TCR series consisting of four rounds, two races in each round.

### Baltic Endurance Championship

A2000 Racing cars with engine capacity up to 2000 cm3
A3000 Racing cars with engine capacity up to 3000 cm3
A3000+ Racing cars with engine capacity over 3000 cm3
GT PRO – series production cars and non series production cars (with tubular frame bodywork, or semi-tubular bodywork, or monocoque bodywork), LM GTE, GT3 cars;
GT AM – series production cars with front mounted engines and SRO GT4 cars;
911 – Porsche GT3 Cup cars;
TCR – TCR cars.

## Calendar 2024

* Audru Ring, Season Opener, May 3-5
* Biķernieki Complex Sports Base, DeWALT Grand Prix, June 14-16
* Nemuno Žiedas, Kaunas Grand Prix, July 6-7
* Audru Ring, Parnu Summer Race, Aug 16-18
* Tor Poznań, Season Finale, September 20-22

## Champions

| Season | Baltic GT Champion | TCR Champion | BTC 2 Champion | BTC 1 Champion | Super 1600 Champion | National Class Champion | BEC Champion |
| 1999 | Indrek Sepp (S2000) | | | | | | |
| 2000 | Indrek Sepp (B2000) | | | | Martin Merisaar | | |
| 2001 | Arnis Jursevskis (B2000) | | | | Martin Merisaar | | |
| 2002 | Aivis Ohtla (B2000) | | | | Jānis Vorobjovs | | |
| 2003 | Girts Krüzmanis (B2000) | | | | Robertas Kupčikas | | |
| 2004 | Girts Krüzmanis (B2000) | | | | Marius Milevskis | | |
| 2005 | Indrek Sepp (S2000) | | | | Madis Kasemets | Jānis Kārkliņš | |
| 2006 | Antti-Veikko Pakalen (S2000) | | | | Mindaugas Neliubsys | Normunds Šubeckis | |
| 2007 | Egons Lapins (B2000) | | | | Lauris Vidžis | Agris Petrovskis | |
| 2008 | Egons Lapins (Superproduction) | | | | Karolis Doleba | Uldis Timaks | |
| 2009 | Marcis Birkens (Superproduction) | | | | Roland Feodorov | Vitālijs Kalmi | |
| 2010 | Marcis Birkens (Superproduction) | | | | Andres Hall | Kristaps Mietulis | |
| 2011 | Uldis Timaks (Superproduction) | | | | Raul Karu | Didzis Pope | |
| 2012 | Vitālijs Kalmi (GT Open) | | | | Mantas Neverdauskas | Igors Zubkovs | |
| 2013 | Artjoms Kočlamazašvili (GT Open) | | | | Nikolay Zhuravlev | Lauris Vīgants | |
| 2014 | Eidmantas Nekrošius (GT Open) | | | | Jānis Ciekals | Viktors Vasiļjevs | |
| 2015 | Dainius Matijošaitis (GT Open) | | Andrius Jasonauskas | Edvinas Mardosas | Kristaps Mietulis | Garijs Rožkalns | Rotoma Racing (BMW M3) |
| 2016 | Saulius Beržis (GT Open) | | Alvydas Malakauskas | Julius Skirmantas | Mārtiņs Sesks | Jānis Vanks | RIMO Racing (BMW 330D) |
| 2017 | Pavel Shchapov (GT Open) | | Ernesta Globyte | Andrey Yushin | Steven Puust | Jānis Vanks | Skuba Dream (Porsche GT3) |
| 2018 | Marko Rantanen (GT Open) | | Ernesta Globyte | Peeter Peek | Dmitry Savateev | Jānis Vanks | GSR Motorsport (VW Golf GTI TCR) |
| 2019 | Raivo Tamm (GT Open) | Dziugas Tovilavicius | Jyrki Jonkkari | Marius Miskunas | Richardas Martinkevičius | No class | Circle K milesPLUS Racing Team (Porsche GT3 CUP) |
| Season | GT PRO Champion | GT AM Champion | TCR Champion | BMW 325 CUP Champion | TCR Endurance Champion | BEC Champion |
| 2020 | Vilnis Batraks | Edvinas Einikis | Cancelled | Matiss Mezaks | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 2021 | Sim Racer | Laurynas Kriksciunas | Valters Zviedris | Karolis Jovaisa | Noker Racing Team | RD Signs |
| 2022 | Thomas Kangro | Kastytis Volbekas | Ivars Vallers | Valters Zviedris | Black Rose Racing | Porsche Baltic GT3 |
| 2023 | Ignas Jomantas | Drew Holland | Darius Zitlinskas | Leo Messenger | Jurmala - Optibet Racing | Hmobile by AMG Customer Racing |

## Circuits used

* Audru Ring
* Biķernieki Complex Sports Base
* Botniaring Racing Circuit
* Nemuno Žiedas
* Tor_Poznań