2014 TM Master Cup season

The 2014 TM Master Cup season is the current season of the TM Master Cup series.

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Preseason changes
The grid for full-time teams increased from fourteen to eighteen teams. Lenard International, DeGarmo-Delgado Enterprises, Melrose Racing Team, Maximus Racing, Velocity Motorsports, and the returning Team Saar USA joined the grid, while the defunct Star Nemoto Racing and F.P.O., Inc. did not return. As a result, the number of Independent's Trophy and Promoter's Option entries for each race decreased to four and three, respectively. The Promoter's Option cap would later be raised to five after Velocity Motorsports did not enter the European tour races. Late in the season, tracks with available pit road capacity saw up to eight Promoter's Options entered for the race.

For the Karjala Grand Prix, fourty-six cars will be permitted to start the race, the largest field size for a stock car series in many years. This was repeated for the series' return to Chicago Motor Speedway, when 46 pit stalls were allocated.

The controversial Grand Prix of Gravis City joined the calendar as the series' fourth special event. The Grand Prix was preceded by two special qualifying races; the Independent's Trophy Dash, featuring all Independent's Trophy entrants, with the top four advancing to the race; and a Last Chance Qualifying race between remaining IT entrants, third cars, and Promoter's Options, with the top six qualifying for the race. For the returning special events at Karjala, Indianapolis, and Decatur, qualifying races have been eliminated in favor of several rounds of standard timed qualifying sessions.

Schedule
A 25-race race schedule was announced, an increase from the 19-22 race schedule in recent years and the most since 2003. These new events include the series' return to Germany and Chicago, and new events in Gravis City and Argentina.


 * The blue boxes represent a road/street course race.

Regular Entrants
The following teams are entered for all races in the 2014 season. Entries in yellow represent a team's third car, which is only entered as a Promoter's Option or at Special Events.


 * Entries in yellow represent a team's third car.

Promoter's Option Entrants
The following cars are not affiliated with a full-time or Independent's Trophy team, and will only start races with the Promoter's Option.

Special Event Entrants
The following cars entered Special Events only.


 * Zavala's entry in the Round of Decatur is technically not a Matthews entry, though the car he is using is the car he drives for them.

Points System
The TM Master Cup Series point system remains the same as previous years.


 * 5 bonus points goes to the race's polesitter
 * 5 bonus points goes to the driver who leads the most laps in the race.
 * Points are doubled at Karjala, Indianapolis, and Gravis City.