Baltic Touring Car Championship

Baltic Touring Car Championship
CategoryTouring cars
CountryBaltic States
Inaugural season2000
Tyre suppliersHankook
Drivers' champion BGT PRO Karolis Stasiukynas

BMW 325 Ricards Subeckis

BTC1 Maris Bulans

BTC2 Simo Lind

BTC3 Tomas Jatkevicius

BTC4 Henrikas Statkus

BGT AM Jyrki Jonkkari

V1600 Ragnar Simuland
Teams' championJurmala/Papas Saciksu komanda
Official websitehttp://www.batcc.eu
Current season

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 2025 there are class entries for GT classes, Touring car classes(up to 1600ccm, up to 2000ccm, up to 3000ccm and up to 4000ccm), V1600 and mono classes BMW 325 CUP and BMW Turbo Cup. Teams and driversparticipate in sprint races 15-20 min long or in 2h Endurance race.

Races are held in race tracks in Baltic States and Finland. Audru ring in Estonia, Bikernieki in Latvia, Nemuno Ziedas in Lithuania, Tor Poznan in Poland 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 cars.

For 2021 season for the first time The Nations Cup and the Team standings were introduced. Lithuania won in 2024, followed by Latvia and Estonia.

Racing classes

The following shows the key specifications issues for each class. Baltic Touring Cars category have two 15-20 min races per event. While Nankang 2h Endurance Academy Championship has one 2 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.

Calendar 2024

  1. Nemuno Žiedas, Stateta Bro Grand Prix, May 3-4
  2. Biķernieki Complex Sports Base, DeWALT Grand Prix, June 6-7
  3. Audru Ring, Parnu Summer Race, July 3-5
  4. Nemuno Žiedas, Kaunas Grand Prix, July 26-27
  5. Biķernieki Complex Sports Base, Riga Summer Race, August 29-31
  6. Tor Poznań, Season Finale, September 19-21

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
2024 Karolis Stasiukynas Jyrki Jonkkari Not held Ricards Subeckis Jurmala/Papas saciksu komanda

Circuits used

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