A new team to the TCR International Series will become the primary Honda squad in the championship this year, with Hungarian star Norbert Michelisz putting his name behind the programme which will be run by former B3 Racing team manager Dávid Bári. The B3 Racing team has closed down over the winter, with drivers Dusan … More »
Dutch driver Tom Coronel will race in this year’s TCR Benelux series, pairing up with 2016 champion Stéphane Lémeret in a Boutsen-Ginion Racing Honda Civic TCR. Coronel drove in selected rounds last year’s championship for Bas Koeten Racing, but this year he’ll contest almost the full season, bar one clash, with the Zolder round now … More »
Hugo Valente has made the switch from the World Touring Car Championship to the TCR International Series for 2017, joining the UK and Hong Kong-based Craft-Bamboo Racing squad alongside 2016 series runner-up James Nash and 2015 runner-up Pepe Oriola. Valente leaves the WTCC after four years, after last season having secured a factory drive with … More »
2012 champion Rob Huff again topped the time sheets in the afternoon test session at Monza in his Münnich Motorsport Citroën, finishing just under three-tenths of a second ahead of the rival Citroën of Mehdi Bennani, while WTCC newcomer Yann Ehrlacher was third fastest for RC Lada. The 37-year-old was on top of the time … More »
Daniel Nagy will continue to drive for Zengö Motorsport in the 2017 World Touring Car Championship. The 18-year-old will be team-mate to Aurélien Panis, the son of ex-Formula 1 driver Olivier Panis, with the duo driving two independent Honda Civic WTCC race cars. “I am really emotional right now because I only recently received the … More »
There will be two Argentinians on the grid for at least five events of the 2017 World Touring Car Championship season, after Campos Racing have confirmed that Esteban Guerrieri will return to race for them this season in their Chevrolet Cruze. Guerrieri starred in his one-off outing in a ballast-free RML-built Cruze at Termas de … More »
The nephew of four-time WTCC drivers’ champion Yvan Muller, Yann Ehrlacher, will race in this year’s championship in an ex-Lada Sport Vesta WTCC, run by the French team RC Motorsport. The team have been testing the car, bought from the now defunct Lada Sport team, at their base in Magny-Cours today ahead of a planned … More »
Tom Coronel will be back in the 2017 World Touring Car Championship for a seventh consecutive season with ROAL Motorsport. The Dutchman becomes the first confirmed Chevrolet driver for the 2017 season and will drive the same RML Cruze TC1 that he drove last year. The announcement of Coronel’s 2017 WTCC programme runs under the … More »
Four-time WTCC drivers’ champion Yvan Muller has been signed by Polestar Cyan Racing as their development driver and senior advisor for this season. Muller announced his retirement from full-time racing in the WTCC at the end of last year after three seasons with Citroën and 11 years in the championship, but was quickly seen back … More »
Grégoire Demoustier will leave the World Touring Car championship after two seasons, and instead contest a number of programmes during 2017, racing in World Rallycross, French & European GT4 as well as the TCR International Series. The 26-year-old Frenchman has raced for the last two years in the WTCC, first for Craft-Bamboo Racing in a … More »