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First pics: Volvo ready for WTCC premiere

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Volvo Polestar Racing heads to Brazil this weekend for their first race in their first full season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
“Volvo has given us a sound mission to evaluate the championship, meaning that we are initially not focusing on results but rather on preparing a base that we could build upon for 2012. We have got an exciting and rewarding challenge ahead of us,” said Christian Dahl, Managing Director of Polestar Racing.

Former Swedish Touring Car Championship driver Robert Dahlgren is going to drive the Volvo C30 DRIVe during the season and the Swede is keen to get going.

“I am very much looking forward to the season start. The first race of the year is by no means going to be easy, especially with the high level of competition and the fact that we are new to the championship. But we have got a solid programme and we are ready,” said Dahlgren.

The team is going to start the season with the normally aspirated 2.0 five cylinder engine before switching to a new 1.6 four cylinder turbo engine later in the season.

“We are starting the season with our current two litre engine, before later in the year switching to an all-new 1.6 turbo engine, based on a completely new Volvo engine family. We are currently working flat out with the new engine and we are confident of our progress,” said Dahl.

The S2000 Volvo C30 is going to feature the Polestar Racing blue color, also featured on the Volvo C30 concept road car, as shown in the picture above.