The four independently-run Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs entered in this year’s World Touring Car Championship will start the season in Morocco slightly lighter than originally planned, due to dispensation granted by the FIA. The French manufacturer’s cars all started last season with 80kg of compensation weight due to being the winning manufacturer model of the 2015 … More »
Rob Huff will miss Free Practice 1 and possibly Free Practice 2 after his Citroën C-Elysée WTCC failed Friday night’s scrutineering checks in Marrakech. The 2012 champion will miss all of Saturday morning’s running in the newly lengthened 45-minute sessions, with Friday testing having been dropped for 2017. The second practice session is due to … More »
15 cars will take to the track for the first round of the 2017 World Touring Car Championship in Morocco this weekend, as new team RC Motorsport continue work on fielding a driver in their second Lada Vesta from the next round at Monza. The championship will field its lowest grid to-date with just 15 … More »
British driver Rob Huff feels he has the best chance of winning the World Touring Car Championship drivers’ title since 2012, as he heads to Marrakech equipped with the championship winning car of the last two years, and expects to upset the order. After being dropped by Honda over the off-season, the 37-year-old has found … More »
With Citroën Racing gone and with José María López and Yvan Muller moving on to other programmes, last year’s third and fourth-placed drivers Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz both share the same goal for 2017, to win the WTCC drivers’ championship for Honda. Tiago Monteiro and Norbert Michelisz have stayed on with the Japanese marque … More »
Polestar Cyan Racing head to Morocco this weekend with high expectations, as the Swedish manufacturer heads into its second full season in the WTCC intent on winning the title against Honda and a host of privateer Citroëns. After what’s believed to be the most intense off-season testing programmes since Citroën joined the championship in 2014, … More »
Josh Files will return for the 2017 TCR Germany series to defend his title, now facing a record entry of 42 cars for its second season. The 26-year-old TCR Germany and now TCR Middle East series champion, will drive one of Target Competition’s three Honda Civic TCRs this season, paired up with Jürgen Schmarl and … More »
2012 World Touring Car Championship drivers’ champion Rob Huff will race for Shanghai VW 333 Racing in this year’s China Touring Car Championship, in addition to his programme with Münnich Motorsport in the WTCC. Rob Huff took part in two rounds of last year’s CTCC with BAIC as part of his attempts to qualify for … More »
Norbert Michelisz has celebrated the birth of his daughter, who was born as his new race team project, M1RA, took to the track on Friday in Georgia – with the team putting both cars in the top five in its first qualifying session. The WTCC star’s daughter was born during the two-hour test session on … More »
17-year-old Hungarian Attila Tassi has qualified on the front row for the first race of the 2017 TCR International Series at the Rustavi circuit in Georgia, and will start the first race behind local driver Davit Kajaia for the team which was amongst the last to finalise its plans to be on the grid this … More »