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The TCR Europe paddock has been hit with scandal on the final day of the season as one of the teams accused another of intellectual property theft.

On Sunday morning at Barcelona, Hyundai Motorsport customer team Target Competition put out a statement about alleged actions committed by Comtoyou Racing, an Audi Sport customer team and the series’ champion team. The statement read as below:

“During the course of the weekend of the final round of the 2022 TCR Europe season in Barcelona, Target Competition learned about the theft of a season’s worth of onboard videos, including winter testing by a competitor team.

“The engineer of the competitor Comtoyou Racing stole a Target Competition hard drive, downloaded the confidential videos of all our drivers without our permission or knowledge and then distributed them in pre-event Team Information to their team and drivers, giving them an unfair competitive advantage at the last weekend of the TCR Europe season at Barcelona.

“Furthermore, they also still possess all videos from the 2022 season which can be used to continue gaining an illegal advantage from our intellectual property going forward. This unsporting behaviour, in our opinion, should not go unpunished. Without a favourable decision, we will have to look into the legal options available to us.”

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No sympathetic behaviour of Comtoyou.