Baltic Touring Car Championship
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| Category | Touring cars |
|---|---|
| Country | Baltic States |
| Inaugural season | 2000 |
| Tyre suppliers | Hankook |
| Drivers' champion |  BGT PRO Karolis Stasiukynas
 V1600 Ragnar Simuland |
| Teams' champion | Jurmala/Papas Saciksu komanda |
| Official website | http://www.batcc.eu |
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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
[edit]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
[edit]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
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Nemuno Žiedas, Stateta Bro Grand Prix, May 3-4
Biķernieki Complex Sports Base, DeWALT Grand Prix, June 6-7
Audru Ring, Parnu Summer Race, July 3-5- Nemuno Žiedas, Kaunas Grand Prix, July 26-27
- Biķernieki Complex Sports Base, Riga Summer Race, August 29-31
Tor Poznań, Season Finale, September 19-21
Champions
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| Season | GT PRO Champion | GT AM Champion | TCR Champion | BMW 325 CUP Champion | TCR Endurance Champion | BEC Champion |
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| 2020 |  Vilnis Batraks
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Edvinas Einikis
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Cancelled | Matiss Mezaks
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Cancelled | Cancelled |
| 2021 | Sim Racer
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Laurynas Kriksciunas
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Valters Zviedris
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Karolis Jovaisa
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Noker Racing Team
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RD Signs
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| 2022 | Thomas Kangro
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Kastytis Volbekas
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Ivars Vallers
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Valters Zviedris
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 Black Rose Racing
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Porsche Baltic GT3
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| 2023 | Ignas Jomantas
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 Drew Holland
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Darius Zitlinskas
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 Leo Messenger
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Jurmala - Optibet Racing
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Hmobile by AMG Customer Racing
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| 2024 | Karolis Stasiukynas
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Jyrki Jonkkari
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Not held | Ricards Subeckis
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Jurmala/Papas saciksu komanda
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