Airwaves BMW switches to Ford
The Airwaves BMW team will switch to Ford Focuses for the 2011 BTCC season, purchasing the three cars built by Arena Motorsport and will run with the new Mountune developed NGTC-spec engine.
The Airwaves BMW team will switch to Ford Focuses for the 2011 BTCC season, purchasing the three cars built by Arena Motorsport and will run with the new Mountune developed NGTC-spec engine.
Gordon Shedden collected his BRDC Silver Star award at the BRDC Annual Awards ceremony at the Savoy Hotel last night.
Brazilian Stock Car star Cacá Bueno is still hopeful of driving in the WTCC next season, despite the planned entry with Honda collapsing.
The BTCC waves farewell to the Vauxhall Astra coupe in 2011, as Boulevard Team Racing sell the venerable race car which dominated the championship earlier in the decade.
Paul di Resta secured his first ever DTM title after a three way Mercedes title fight. We caught up with the Scotsman after he had been crowned DTM 2010 champion in Shanghai, China.
Any one of three Mercedes drivers can clinch the DTM title 2010 but the two main protagonists, Bruno Spengler and Paul Di Resta have been the nearly men of the series over the last few years.
Proteam goes into the final round of the World Touring Car Championship leading both the independent drivers’ standings with Sergio Hernàndez, and the teams.
The appeal against the decision to allow the BMW Team RBM team to run with sequential gearboxes at Japan will be heard this Friday.
The WTCC will now not be visiting Argentina in 2011, with Zolder added back on the calendar. A number of other changes for next year’s WTCC have also been announced.
Andy Priaulx has taken his first pole position since Macau 2006 at Okayama, with team-mate Farfus second and Rob Huff third – but controversy is stirring as BMW switch to six-speed sequential gearboxes for the first time.