2021 Pure ETCR Championship

The 2021 Pure ETCR Championship was the inaugural season of Pure ETCR, a touring car series for electric cars. It started on 18 June and featured cars from three manufacturers racing at five different locations.^[1] Swedish driver Mattias Ekström was crowned champion of the season, while Cupra won the manufacturer's championship.^[2]

2021 Pure ETCR

Drivers' Champion: Mattias Ekström
Manufacturers' Champion: Zengo Motorsport

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Race format

Because only six cars are ready for the first season (two for each team), the twelve drivers are randomly drawn into two groups ("Pool A" and "Pool B") for each race weekend. Throughout the weekend, a driver never directly faces a driver from the other pool. Points are collected in a series of short races and the driver with the most points will be the overall winner, called "king of the weekend".

The first two rounds are short races with two or three cars (called "battles"): Round 1 consists of four battles (two per pool) of three randomly drawn drivers each. In each pool, the two winners of each round 1 battle face each other in round 2, so do the two runner-ups and the two third-place drivers, for a total of six battles of 2 cars. Points are award in both rounds.

Round 3 are time trials to determine the grid for the final. No points are awarded in this round. Round 4 are the "superfinals" where the six cars from each pool race against each other.^[3]

Teams and drivers

Three teams are participate in the first season, each developing a different car.^[4]

Team	Car	No	Drivers	Rounds	Ref.
Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai Veloster N ETCR[5]	3	Tom Chilton	All	[6]
		8	Augusto Farfus	All	[6]
		27	John Filippi	All	[6]
		69	Jean-Karl Vernay	All	[6]
Cupra X Zengő Motorsport	Cupra e-Racer[7]	5	Mattias Ekström	All	[8]
		28	Jordi Gené	All	[8]
		96	Mikel Azcona	All	[9]
		99	Dániel Nagy	All	[10]
Romeo Ferraris - M1RA	Alfa Romeo Giulia ETCR[11]	6	Oliver Webb	1–3, 5	[12]
		13	Rodrigo Baptista	All	[13]
		15	Philipp Eng	3–5	[14]
		16	Luigi Ferrara	4	[15]
		25	Luca Filippi	All	[16]
		88	Stefano Coletti	1–2	[17]

Calendar

The calendar for the inaugural season featuring five races across Europe and Asia was revealed in February 2021.^[1]

Round	Circuit	Date
1	ACI Vallelunga Circuit	18–20 June
2	MotorLand Aragón (National Layout)	9–11 July
3	Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix	6–8 August
4	Hungaroring	20–22 August
5	Circuit Pau-Arnos	15–17 October
Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
C	Inje Speedium	16–17 October

Results and standings

Results

Round	Circuit/Location	Pool A Winner	Pool B Winner	Overall Winner	Winning Team	Winning Car
1	ACI Vallelunga Circuit	Mikel Azcona	Jean-Karl Vernay	Mikel Azcona	Cupra X Zengő Motorsport	Cupra e-Racer
2	MotorLand Aragón	Augusto Farfus	Mattias Ekström	Mattias Ekström	Cupra X Zengő Motorsport	Cupra e-Racer
3	Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix	Luca Filippi	Philipp Eng	Philipp Eng	Romeo Ferraris - M1RA	Alfa Romeo Giulia ETCR
4	Hungaroring	Philipp Eng	Mikel Azcona	Mikel Azcona	Cupra X Zengő Motorsport	Cupra e-Racer
5	Circuit Pau-Arnos	Augusto Farfus	Jean-Karl Vernay	Jean-Karl Vernay	Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai Veloster N ETCR

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Round 1	15	10	4
Round 2	12	6
Round 3	no points
Superfinal	50	42	35	27	20	15

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver ITA ESP DEN HUN FRA Points 1 Mattias Ekström 3 1 3 3 8 320 2 Jean-Karl Vernay 2 4 4 4 1 316 3 Mikel Azcona 1 10 6 1 3 300 4 Jordi Gené 4 6 5 6 7 260 5 Rodrigo Baptista 6 3 9 5 6 248 6 Augusto Farfus 11 2 8 11 2 224 7 Luca Filippi 5 11 2 12 4 218 8 Dániel Nagy 9 9 10 8 10 178 9 Oliver Webb 8 5 7 9 177 10 John Filippi 7 8 11 7 11 177 11 Philipp Eng 1 2 12 159 12 Tom Chilton 12 7 12 10 5 145 13 Luigi Ferrara 9 36 14 Stefano Coletti 10 12 22

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Other points position Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C)

Manufacturers' championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	Points
1	Cupra X Zengő Motorsport	646
2	Romeo Ferraris - M1RA	579
3	Hyundai Motorsport N	578

References

1. "Five-star schedule revealed for inaugural PURE ETCR season". pure-etcr.com. 2021-02-01.
2. "Ekstrom crowned PURE ETCR champion as Vernay wins ultra-dramatic finale". autosport.com. 2021-10-17.
3. "PURE ETCR's world debut set to electrify Vallelunga". pure-etcr.com. 2021-06-17.
4. "New electric series ETCR set for first demo race in 2020". motorsport.com. 2020-05-27.
5. "Hyundai Motorsport set to go electric". Hyundai. 2018-08-06.
6. "Hyundai names Fab Four for PURE ETCR campaign". pure-etcr.com. 2021-04-27.
7. "SEAT Unveils Cupra e-Racer; E TCR Platform Launched". Archived from the original on 2018-04-21.
8. "Cupra confirm Mattias Ekström and Jordi Gené for inaugural PURE ETCR season". touringcartimes.com. 2020-02-20.
9. "Mikel Azcona confirmed for ETCR with Cupra". touringcartimes.com. 2021-02-22. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22.
10. "Dániel Nagy completes Cupra line-up for inaugural season". touringcartimes.com. 2021-06-15. Archived from the original on 2021-06-15.
11. "Romeo Ferraris announce Alfa Romeo Giulia ETCR project". touringcartimes.com. 2019-12-06.
12. "Oli Webb joins Romeo Ferraris for PURE ETCR season". pure-etcr.com. 2021-06-03.
13. "Rodrigo Baptista joins Romeo Ferraris for 2021 PURE ETCR season". pure-etcr.com. 2021-05-27.
14. "Philipp Eng to make PURE ETCR debut in Denmark with Romeo Ferraris-M1RA". pure-etcr.com. 2021-07-19. Archived from the original on 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
15. "Luigi Ferrara to make PURE ETCR debut with Romeo Ferraris-M1RA". pure-etcr.com. 2021-08-18.
16. "Italian ace Luca Filippi joins PURE ETCR with Romeo Ferraris". pure-etcr.com. 2021-05-04. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
17. "Stefano Coletti to race stunning new Giulia ETCR in PURE ETCR for Romeo Ferraris". pure-etcr.com. 2021-03-19.

External links

• Official website