After a successful inaugural season finishing third team in the TCR class of Pirelli World Challenge, FCP Euro is setting its sights on vying for the re-branded TC America Championship in 2019.
The team will again compete with their 2018 Volkswagen Golf GTI cars with Michael Hurczyn, and 2018 TCR class Rookie of the Year, Nate Vincent, behind the wheel in their second season of professional touring car racing. FCP Euro has upgraded the cars to full TCR specs, with sequential gearboxes.
“We think we have the team and the talent to run up front, we simply didn’t have the car last year,” stated Vincent.
Michael Hurczyn added: “The TCR Cup for DSG cars was necessary because the gap to the cars with sequential gearboxes is just too vast, but we want to compete at the front and show that we can fight for overall wins.”
FCP Euro’s CEO, Scott Drozd, is also excited to see what 2019 will bring. “In 2018, we kicked off our first year of professional motorsports, grew really strong relationships with our partners and we grew our e-commerce business by over 50% year-over-year in revenue. In typical FCP Euro fashion, our plan for 2019 is already shaping up to be even stronger.”