Unlike team-mate Gabriele Tarquini’s weekend, Nicky Catsburg’s was one to forget at Qatar, with the Dutch driver fighting at the back of the pack after an incident-packed weekend at the Losail International Circuit. After qualifying down in 11th with an unknown set-up issue, the 28-year-old was running well at the start of the opening race … More »
The Polestar Cyan Racing squad ended the 2016 at the front, after Thed Björk, fresh from his win last time out in China, put the S60 Polestar on the front row for the main race at the Losail circuit in Qatar, and followed it up with second place between the Citroëns of Mehdi Bennani and … More »
Gabriele Tarquini scored his second career win for Lada Sport at the Losail circuit, the first for the Vesta in dry conditions after the Russian manufacturer dominated at their home race in the rain earlier this year, adding that it was a shame that Lada head office has decided to call time on their WTCC … More »
Hungary’s Norbert Michelisz missed out by just one point on finishing third in the 2016 WTCC drivers’ championship, and to be the best-placed of the three factory Hondas, despite a strong run to fourth in the main race behind triple champion José María López. Michelisz said the race was one of the best races of … More »
Hugo Valente said he’d already planned to leave Lada at the end of this season, and that the WTCC race in Qatar is likely be his last, with no professional drives available to the Frenchman. Valente showed strong pace in free practice at the Losail circuit before suspension failure in qualifying resigned him to 12th … More »
The two Citroëns of José María López and Yvan Muller and the Polestar Volvo of Thed Björk all lost time in the last sector on their runs in the final part of qualifying, with the drivers believing that the track conditions had changed significantly during the delay while the Honda of Norbert Michelisz was recovered … More »
Mehdi Bennani has taken his first outright pole position in the World Touring Car Championship at the Losail circuit in Qatar, and the first for Sébastien Loeb Racing, after outperforming the two factory Citroëns of José María López and Yvan Muller in the one-lap shootout. “Pechito” produced a record breaking lap in the first part … More »
New measures are in-place at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar to discourage breaching track limits, after the AstroTurf areas were cut back for the MotoGP event last year, offering the WTCC drivers the more opportunity to run wide and gain an advantage. The FIA therefore placed tyre stacks at the exits of a number … More »
Yvan Muller will end his 11 year career in the World Touring Car Championship this weekend at Citroën, with the four-time champion admitting he had offers on the table for 2017, but felt this was the right time to stop racing. The 47-year-old is on course to finish second in the drivers’ championship this weekend … More »
Citroën Racing’s José María López was fastest of all in the first practice session of his final weekend in the WTCC for Citroën, leading the way by the best part of a second ahead of Lada’s Hugo Valente. Polestar Cyan Racing’s Robert Dahlgren had set the first benchmark in the session in his Volvo S60, … More »