José María López clocked the best lap time of the day in the final session of the official FIA World Touring Car Championship day in Vallelunga, Italy. The Argentinian posted a 1:37.123 despite a green track after showers hit the track for most of the day. Fellow Citroën Racing driver Yvan Muller was second after … More »
The World Touring Car Championship has revealed the entry list for the 2016 season at a press launch at the Vallelunga circuit in Italy, which features 20 cars for the 12th season of the championship. Two-time manufacturers’ champions Citroën will field five cars in total, three of them with privateer team Sébastien Loeb Racing. Honda … More »
Sébastien Loeb Racing’s Mehdi Bennani finished the Vallelunga test fastest of all in his Citroën C-Elysée WTCC, just over three-tenths of a second faster than the Polestar Volvo S60 of Thed Björk, with Bennani’s new SLR team-mate Tom Chilton completing the top three. The five hour afternoon test was held behind the red flag due … More »
Two-time champion José María López was fastest of all in the first half of the day in Vallelunga, driving the new liveried Citroën C-Elysée WTCC. There are nine cars taking part in the first day of testing, with Honda having brought one updated Civic WTCC with all three drivers Norbert Michelisz, Tiago Monteiro and Rob … More »
The Castrol Honda Racing Team presented their 2016 livery today in Vallelunga, where the first official test of the season is taking place. The Civic WTCC’s paint scheme continues with the colours of title sponsor Castrol, applied in a new design for 2016, The car has was presented in the pit lane in Vallelunga, where … More »
Sébastien Loeb Racing have revealed the livery for new signing Grégoire Demoustier, with all three drivers sharing similar designs but different colour schemes as the team expands to a three car programme for 2016. Demoustier has joined the team from Craft-Bamboo Racing, bringing with him anti-theft firm Eurodatacar, but instead will run with a predominantly … More »
Tom Chilton presented his new livery for the 2016 season, which will see him switch to Sébastien Loeb Racing. The Brit’s livery looks much like a revised version of his team-mate Mehdi Bennani’s, with the green replaced by light blue, while still keeping the red, white and grey elements typical of the nine-time World Rally … More »
Following the announcement from 1998 BTCC champion and 2011 STCC champion Rickard Rydell’s retirement announcement two weeks ago, TouringCarTimes has spoken to a few of Rydell’s colleagues and opponents from his successful tin-top career, which began in the BTCC in 1994 racing the famous Volvo 850 estate, and ended at Paul Ricard last year, with … More »
Polestar Cyan Racing are at the Knutstorp circuit today shaking down the Volvo Polestar S60 TC1 ahead the World Touring Car Championship’s first general test at Vallelunga next week. 2012 TTA Series champion Fredrik Ekblom is on duty while last year’s STCC champion and team-mate Thed Björk is at a drivers’ workshop event in Megève, … More »
Richard Göransson has signed to drive for Polestar Cyan Racing in the 2016 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season, with the Volvo team altering its plans from two Volvo S60s to three for the upcoming year. Göransson, a four-time STCC champion and 39-time race winner, will move across from Team Tidö and their Saab 9-3 to … More »