Robert Dahlgren headed to STCC at Falkenberg in the championship lead but left it a full 47 points behind his team-mate and title rival Richard Göransson who won both races. “I am thoroughly disappointed to have two non-finishes that were beyond my control. It feels even worse as I really felt we had the potential … More »
Robert Dahlgren got a major blow to his title chances in the first STCC race at Falkenberg where he was taken out from second place by SEAT driver Emma Kimiläinen. ”You can’t even overtake there. She must have misjudged the situation completely,” said Dahlgren. Dahlgren started fourth but was in second place coming into the … More »
Dutch driver Jaap van Lagen returned to the wheel of one of Lada Sport’s Vesta WTCCs at the team’s French base in Magny-Cours yesterday to help the Russian manufacturer with development testing during the mid-season break. Van Lagen competed in five rounds for the team last year, starting at the Nürburgring Nordschleife in May and … More »
Tiago Monteiro, who won the most recent WTCC race in Portugal, is going to carry the WTCC Art Car livery in the TCR Benelux Series races at Zandvoort, racing a Boutsen Ginion Racing prepared Honda Civic TCR with Jean-Louis Dauger. The livery won the fan vote at the Goodwood Festival of Speed where it competed … More »
Vila Real and Marrakech race winner Tom Coronel will try his hand in the Argentinian Super TC 2000 Championship a week before the next round of the World Touring Car Championship in Argentina, driving for Escuderia FE, sharing one of the team’s Peugeot 408s with Luciano Farroni in the championship’s endurance event. The Dutch driver … More »
Rumours in the paddock have been circling for some weeks that two-time champion José María López will leave the World Touring Car Championship at the end of this season. Although no rumours have surfaced publicly to-date, this afternoon, former WTCC presenter and current member of the WEC broadcasting team, Ben Constanduros, published this to his … More »
ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Coronel racked up his second win of the 2016 World Touring Car Championship in Vila Real, also on a street circuit, and says after winning on the “most difficult circuit on our calendar”, he will be aiming for a record third win in a year at his second home in Japan. Coronel’s … More »
Honda driver in the World Touring Car Championship Norbert Michelisz will participate in the TCR Benelux Series taking place in the Netherlands next month. The Hungarian, who has been promoted to a works drive with the WTCC outfit this season, will compete at the wheel of a Honda Civic TCR run by Boutsen Ginion Racing. … More »
Tiago Monteiro took his second win of the season at his home race at Vila Real in Portugal in front of a passionate home crowd, and grabs back second in the drivers’ championship heading into the mid-season break. The Honda driver led the race throughout from pole position in the Honda Civic ahead of the … More »
Citroën’s Yvan Muller has his best shot of victory of the 2016 WTCC season in Vila Real tomorrow starting on the front row alongside the Honda of Tiago Monteiro, but the Frenchman says it’ll all be down to the start as there are no overtaking opportunities at the street circuit, although Honda’s Rob Huff, starting … More »