Citroën factory driver Yvan Muller has pulled out a 31-point gap over Honda’s Tiago Monteiro in China, even though the two drivers went in the weekend tied for second in the standings. The Honda driver had a nightmare of a weekend at the Formula 1 grade circuit, while Muller took the second best haul of … More »
The DG Sport Opel squad won the second race of the weekend at Colmarberg, with Fred Caprasse winning from fourth on the grid at the Luxembourg circuit, balancing out the points lead that Honda’s Stéphane Lémeret built up after his Race 1 victory. Caprasse won the race just ahead of Maxime Potty’s Team WRT Volkswagen, … More »
Citroën’s José María López put on a showcase performance in the second race of the weekend in China, winning the race from pole by over 11 seconds ahead of team-mate Yvan Muller, while third for the privateer Citroën of Mehdi Bennani was enough for the Moroccan to seal the independents’ trophy. López’s main challenge was … More »
Robert Dahlgren came 0.927 seconds from claiming his first ever STCC title after fighting his way from eighth to second in the last race of 2016. ”I just needed one more lap and things would have gone my way. But the race was 20 laps and I lost too much time in the beginning of … More »
The Canadian Touring Car Championship has said they could open up their sporting regulations to allow TCR class cars to compete as early as next season, as well GT4 class cars, with their 2017 calendar due to be released soon. The championship which competes in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario is looking at … More »
Richard Göransson has won his fifth STCC drivers’ title in the final race of the season, while it was Dacia’s Mattias Andersson who took his first win of the year at Knutstorp, fighting a late charge from title hopeful Robert Dahlgren who narrowly missed out on his first championship. Andersson had started from the reversed … More »
Citroën Racing have secured their third consecutive manufacturers’ title in the World Touring Car Championship following qualifying, with José María López’s seventh pole position of the season securing them more than enough points to put the title mathematically out of reach for Honda. Although a foregone conclusion, Citroën have had to wait longer than usual … More »
Lada Sport’s Nicky Catsburg was at his most competitive in qualifying at Shanghai since the Moscow Raceway, where he had taken his first victory three months ago. Catsburg’s improved pace came thanks in part to the change of compensation weight, which see Lada running at base weight after their sensational Russia performance was dropped off … More »
Cai Yue took victory on his China Touring Car Championship debut in the Super Cup 2.0T class, finishing ahead of the two BAIC Senova D60s of David Zhu and Juan Carlos Zhu. Cai took the lead from pole-sitter Juan Carlos Zhu in the early phase of the race and went on to take a comfortable … More »
Honda have taken their sixth MAC3 victory of the 2016 WTCC season, as Citroën had to forfeit their run with Mehdi Bennani’s Citroën C-Elysée WTCC failing to make the start. The three Ladas went first and set a time of 3:49.398, before the Hondas set off and recorded a time three-tenths of a second faster … More »