SP Compétition returns for the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour with a race-winning line-up. Last year’s frontrunner Aurélien Comte will be driving again one of the team’s two CUPRA Leon VZ cars and will be joined by former TCR champion Jean-Karl Vernay.
Comte claimed three victories last year in an impressive first season in the TCR World Tour with the team run by racer-turned-team owner Sylvain Pussier, and he will be looking for more success with the CUPRA in his second year.
The 37-year-old has extensive experience in TCR, having raced in the category as early as 2017, when he won the TCR Europe Trophy at the Adria circuit. The same year, the TCR International Series title was awarded to the driver who will be his new teammate, Jean-Karl Vernay.
Vernay returns after four years away from front-wheel drive TCR competition, having previously been a regular race winner at international level with Volkswagen, Audi, and a Romeo Ferraris-built Alfa Romeo in 2020. The year after he drove for Hyundai in his final full season of TCR competition.
His last TCR race was the ADAC 24 Hours at the Nürburgring in 2022, the same year he raced for Hyundai Motorsport in the ETCR. The 38-year-old from Lyon, France, will bolster the all-French team’s driver line-up as it looks to fight for more wins in the competitive field which will grace the Misano circuit this weekend.
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