Touring Car betting is thrilling. It's a legal form of street racing and is especially popular in Britain, Scandinavia, Germany and Australia. The British Touring Car Championship has nine UK circuits and there's also a World Touring Car Championship and a European Championship ran yearly too. In fact, there are championships all over the world there are championships in Italy, Russia, Finland, Denmark, Argentina, Canada, America, China, New Zealand and the Philippines.

There are lots of different sets of rules and Touring Car betting is a great way to place bets if you love cars or the excitement of a good race. Many high-profile car manufacturers sponsor or support competitions and the racers who compete in them and the touring cars themselves are beautifully engineered and any car-fan's dream.

It's the trussed up specifications that bring these cars out of the realm of the ordinary work-a-day hatchback and in to the remit of hardcore racing machines. For example, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) is one of the finest examples of a touring car race-machine on the planet and under the four-door, casual exterior is a whole lot of purebred racing power.

V8 Supercars, is one popular touring car racing category in Australia and has drawn over 250,000 spectators, so you can probably imagine how popular some forms of Touring Car racing have become internationally. Often Touring Car championships replicate the speed of a traditional race and are relatively short in time span while other touring car races are all about endurance and can last up to 24 hours each. Placing a bet on these championships is easy and if you're new to this type of racing it's easy to research previous races and see the odds online, too!