Volvo will continue to have a motorsport presence in Sweden, after confirming it will enter the Swedish GT championship with their ex-STCC specification S60, with Prince Carl Philip Bernadotte confirmed as the team’s driver. The Swedish GT has opened up its technical regulations to allow the Solution-F cars which were used from 2013-2016 in the … More »
The saying is “anything can happen in Macau?”. And this year, pretty much everything did. The Guia Race of Macau was memorable for a plethora of reasons. The preamble Politics played a strong role in the build-up to the weekend, which had become quite clear as the format of the event had somewhat changed in … More »
WTCC stalwart and 2009 champion Gabriele Tarquini finds himself facing involuntary redundancy for the second time in 12 months, after Lada Sport pulled the plug on their 2017 campaign, despite having re-signed both the Italian and team-mate Nicky Catsburg for next year Tarquini heads to Losail, Qatar this week not knowing whether this race will … More »
Tiago Monteiro won the Guia Race by finishing the second TCR International Series ahead of Leopard Racing’s Jean-Karl Vernay and Craft-Bamboo’s Pepe Oriola. The Honda driver felt he had unfinished business with Macau, and is glad to finally have won around the streets of the former Portuguese colony. “I felt like I had some unfinished … More »
Although all the words of Pepe Oriola were all about supporting his team-mate James Nash in his bid for the championship this weekend, it seems more like the 22-year-old Spaniard has not given up hope in overhauling the 33-point gap, after the two made contact at the start of practice, and were baffled by each … More »
With 35 cars entered for this weekend’s Macau Grand Prix, there are some extra cars and paint jobs on display for the Guia Race 2.0T. We’ll quickly run them down. Above is Alex Hui’s Teamwork Motorsport Citroën C-Elysée. Hui and team-mate Sunny Wong are running under the Suncity Group Racing banner in their China Touring … More »
Robert Dahlgren will take the seat of the second Volvo S60 Polestar TC1 in the FIA World Touring Car Championship finale for Polestar Cyan Racing next week. The Swede, who finished second in the 2016 STCC, raced for the team in Portugal and Argentina before resuming testing in between races. ”To put the work into … More »
WestCoast Racing have announced in a joint event with their sponsor Acronis they will switch to another manufacturer next year, as the Swedish outfit commits again to the TCR International Series. Sportpromotion, who had partnered WCR so far in the programme, will instead focus on promoting TCR Scandinavia. “We are looking for another manufacturer, which … More »
The TCR International Series season finale will take place at the iconic Circuito da Guia in Macau this weekend. Adding to the usual spectacular nature of the track, the show will be even more exciting as up to four drivers are in with a chance of winning the championship title. The season has been so … More »
The Russian Circuit Racing Series (RCRS) has welcomed Lada’s entry into their championship in 2017, with the Russian marque developing a pair of Lada Vesta TCRs for their touring car class, known as TCR Russia, and two more Vestas with 1.6T engines in their super production class. Lada announced last week they would end their … More »