Provisional entry list for 2014 WTCC season

The entry list with all confirmations so far for the FIA World Touring Championship season has been revealed, with the deadline for entries closing last Friday, with 19 full season entries as the Championship introduces all-new regulations for 2014.

The new generation of Super 2000 cars, which compete in what will be called the TC1 class, will have 16 full season entries, with three cars from Citroën, four from Honda, three from Lada and six from Chevrolet, the latter run independently and built by RML.

A fourth Citroën C-Elysée will run at Moscow, Spa-Francorchamps, Shanghai, Macau and one other round for Ma Qing Hua.

Onyx Race Engineering, a new team run by former Arena Motorsport team principal Mike Earle, announced a five-year programme at the beginning of January which has been in development since mid-2013, but it’s understood the team’s cars will not be ready to take part until the latter half of the season at best.

The TC2 class, where the Yokohama Trophy will be fought, has just three entries confirmed for the full year, with Campos Racing fielding a SEAT León WTCC for John Filippi, and Liqui Moly Team Engstler fielding a pair of cars for Franz Engstler, the oldest driver in the field at 52, and another driver to be confirmed shortly.

19 cars is a slight drop from the 23 that entered the 2013 season, but is more than the aspirational target of former WTCC General Manager Marcello Lotti, whose target was to have 16 new cars on the grid in the first year for the new regulations.

2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship Entry List (Provisional)

No – Driver – Team Name – Car – Class
1 – Yvan Muller – Citroën Racing – Citroën C-Elysée – TC1
9 – Sébastien Loeb – Citroën Racing – Citroën C-Elysée – TC1
37 – José María López – Citroën Racing – Citroën C-Elysée – TC1
33 – Ma Qing Hua* – Citroën Racing – Citroën C-Elysée – TC1
2 – Gabriele Tarquini – Honda Racing Team JAS – Honda Civic WTCC – TC1
18 – Tiago Monteiro – Honda Racing Team JAS – Honda Civic WTCC – TC1
5 – Norbert Michelisz – Zengõ Motorsport – Honda Civic WTCC – TC1
25 – Mehdi Bennani – Proteam Racing – Honda Civic WTCC – TC1
11 – James Thompson – LADA Sport Lukoil – Lada Granta Sport – TC1
12 – Rob Huff – LADA Sport Lukoil – Lada Granta Sport – TC1
14 – Mikhail Kozlovskiy – LADA Sport Lukoil – Lada Granta Sport – TC1
7 – Hugo Valente – Campos Racing – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
98 – Dušan Borković – Campos Racing – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
3 – Tom Chilton – ROAL Motorsport – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
4 – Tom Coronel – ROAL Motorsport – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
10 – Gianni Morbidelli – Münnich Motorsport – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
77 – René Münnich – Münnich Motorsport – Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 – TC1
6 – Franz Engstler – Liqui Moly Team Engstler – BMW 320 TC – TC2
TBC – TBC – Liqui Moly Team Engstler – BMW 320 TC – TC2
27 – John Filippi – Campos Racing – SEAT León WTCC – TC2

* Partial season only, competing in five rounds