The German motorsport magazine “Motorsport Aktuell” published a provisional DTM 2006 calendar today. The series kicks off as usual and ends as usual at Hockenheim. New countries for 2006 are France, Spain, UK and Italy. Le Mans is placed on the 24th of September contrary to the information we published yesterday that it was to … More »
Dan Eaves, Jason Plato and Rob Collard were the winners of today´s (Sunday) final three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races of 2005 at Brands Hatch, Kent but the driver of the day was undoubtedly Matt Neal who for the first time in his career finally became crowned BTCC Champion. Neal´s family-run Team Halfords … More »
An updated 2006 calendar has been released. There are no major changes from the initial release. A few dates have been changed. Though the Helsinki street race has been removed from the calendar and is sheduled for premiere in 2007 instead. Monaco could be added in 2007 at the same time as the F1-race will … More »
A provisional WTCC schedule for 2006 was released a couple of days ago. There are many new things from this season. The number of races have increased from ten to twelve. But the current shape of the provisional schedule will most likely change shortly. Autosport revealed that WTCC is trying to get one round at … More »
Tom Chilton won twice and Jason Plato once in today’s (Sunday) three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at Snetterton, Norfolk. In the title race, a pair of third place finishes helped Matt Neal increase his championship lead over closest challenger Yvan Muller. Likewise, Vauxhall has moved further clear of SEAT in the chase … More »
SEAT Sport UK’s Jason Plato says he will “take great pleasure” in defeating the Team Halfords Hondas of Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship leaders Matt Neal and Dan Eaves at Oulton Park tomorrow (Sunday) after beating them to pole position in today’s qualifying session. Plato, the 2001 champion, set a best time of one … More »
An historic three wins in a day at Thruxton today (Sunday) have catapulted Dan Eaves into the lead of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. With Eaves’ team-mate Matt Neal, the leader before Thruxton, finishing in the top four in all three races, their Team Halfords squad has extended its lead in the Teams’ … More »
Another great year of touring car racing has come to an end and it’s time to have a look at the most read news of 2022 on TouringCarTimes. 2022 marks the 27th year of TouringCarTimes covering the top touring car championships throughout the world, so join us as we take a look what interested you … More »
The World Touring Car Cup has become one of the most successful touring car championships in just the space of two years, but already there are a few cracks forming, with Hyundai Motorsport team director Andrea Adamo threatening to leave the championship last week due to uncertainty over the series’ direction, and he’s not the … More »
Manfred Stohl’s team STARD has unveiled their Kia Cee’d TCR at the Circuit Jules Tacheny at Mettet, with Kia the latest brand to join the TCR fold. The top specification version of the car, aimed for TCR, will be priced at 122,000 EUR, with a cheaper Cup version available at under 100,000 EUR. STARD aims … More »