2019

In 2018 the TCR International Series merged with the World Touring Car Championship, which meant the Series where M1RA was the reigning champion ceased to exist. Simultaneously, the TCR Europe Series was reborn as an individual championship, where the M1RA team continued their journey. They set out with new cars and new drivers. The new Hyundai i30 N TCR was driven by Dániel Nagy, who arrived from the World Championship. Alongside Nagy, TCR Ibérico champion Fransisco Mora, TCR Italy champion Nicola Baldan, and Norbert Michelisz all raced the team’s second car across the course of the year.

Before the start of the Europe Series, M1RA made its debut as a wild card team at the WTCR Hungaroring weekend, and Dániel Nagy drove his Hyundai to second place in the second race between two world champions, Rob Huff and Yvan Muller. This result made him the best wild card driver of the whole season in WTCR, and he then stood on the podium twice in France at the season opener of the TCR Europe series. After this, Hyundai was regularly penalised with weight penalties, increases in ride height and with engine power reductions as part of the Balance of Performance system. Therefore, just scoring points at Zandvoort and Spa-Francorchamps was an achievement.

At the Hungaroring, M1RA repeated its double victory of 2017. Mora won the second race, beating his Hungarian team-mate. Unfortuantely, the Portuguese driver was unable to complete the season, however, in Assen the team was successful with just a single car and celebrated the first victory of Nagy’s career in an international race. In Monza, Nicola Baldan joined the team just a couple of months after suffering a serious racing injury, but he didn’t pick up any points. M1RA entered the TCR Italy championship race at Vallelunga, where Baldan came in sixth.

For the TCR Europe season closer in Spain, Michelisz joined to help out Nagy, who was mathematically still in contention for the drivers’ championship title. They both stood on the podium in Barcelona, and Nagy finished the championship in fifth place after some extremely tough competition. M1RA finished fourth in the teams’ standings, and the Hungarian National Auto Sport Association rewarded M1RA with the best team award once again.