Following the announcement that Honda have split with Gabriele Tarquini, speculation is mounting that 2012 WTCC champion Rob Huff could make a surprise switch from Lada to the Japanese marque for the 2016 season. The 35-year-old recently drove for Honda’s technical partner JAS Motorsport at the final round of the TCR International Series in Macau, … More »
With the 2016 World Touring Car Championship due to start in Russia, provisionally, at the end of March, if not, then in France in April, we’re still piecing together the driver line-ups for next year, with Honda and Lada the last of the factory teams to announce their plans, while the privateers continue to work … More »
The surprise news ahead of 2016 is here, Honda have confirmed that Gabriele Tarquini will not be behind the wheel of one of their Civic WTCCs in the 2016 World Touring Car Championship season. On the one hand, it’s good to see them making a shake-up in their driver line-up. Of course in Hungary, no … More »
Polestar Cyan Racing have confirmed that Thed Björk and Fredrik Ekblom will be the team’s two drivers for their return to the World Touring Car Championship next season, driving the new Volvo S60 Polestar TC1. Björk, who has raced once in the WTCC at Shanghai in 2013, and Ekblom, who drove six WTCC races for … More »
Argentinian Super TC 2000 Championship championship contender Néstor Girolami has signed for the Schin Racing Team to compete in next year’s Stock Car Brazil championship, which may signal the end of plans to join the World Touring Car Championship next season. The reigning Super TC 2000 champion was strongly championed by WTCC promoter Francois Ribeiro … More »
Krenek Motorsport has confirmed Petr Fulín and Christ-Johannes Schreiber for the 2016 European Touring Car Cup. ”Christ-Johannes is known to me since he started in the Clio Cup Bohemia and I am very happy to have him in my team. He has developed very well over the last years. In the Clio Cup field he … More »
Nika Racing International unveiled new colours for their Honda Civic at an event in Stockholm, Sweden, yesterday where they stated their intentions to be on the grid for the 2016 FIA World Touring Car Championship. “We are delighted with this addition on the sponsorship side and would like to welcome them both. The preparation and … More »
Polestar Cyan Racing have confirmed that Robert Dahlgren will join the team’s Scandinavian Touring Car Championship programme for 2016, paving the way for 2015 drivers Thed Björk and Fredrik Ekblom to join their new World Touring Car Championship operation in 2016. Dahlgren, who has been part of Polestar Cyan Racing’s development programme in 2015 in … More »
Over the weekend, the top drivers in a number of touring car disciplines have collected their championship trophies or other special honours, with José María López picking up his second FIA World Drivers’ trophy at the FIA Gala, and three-time WTCC champion Andy Priaulx picking up a special award from BMW. Eurosport Events hosted its … More »
The deputy director of Citroën Racing’s World Touring Car and Rally Championship programmes Xavier Mestelan Pinon will leave the brand next season to take up a new role as head of DS Performance. Mestelan Pinon masterminded Citroën’s all-conquering WTCC challenger the C-Elysée WTCC, which has won 38 of the last 47 races in the championship. … More »