Castrol Honda’s Gabriele Tarquini topped the first practice session for the World Touring Car Championship at Twin Ring Motegi, leading the independent Honda Civic of Norbert Michelisz by over half a second, with championship leader José María López third for Citroën. Tarquini’s time of 1:57.146 kept the Italian at the top of the time sheets, … More »
The Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team head to the Twin Ring Motegi this weekend, the home race of the Japanese marque, not least of all since Honda built the circuit in 1997, and hope to have closed the gap to Citroën following a major test programme during the off season. Following on from a … More »
Lada Sport Rosneft driver Nicky Catsburg is the only one of the team’s drivers who has prior experience at Motegi ahead of this weekend’s round of the World Touring Car Championship there, while the team’s new driver Nicolas Lapierre will also be learning the ropes, adapting to touring car racing and the front-wheel drive Vesta … More »
Following the sale of Polestar’s performance vehicle division to Volvo Cars, the racing arm of the company has confirmed it is changing its name to Cyan Racing. “We are returning to the very core of our passion: motorsport. The new name represents our cyan-blue colour which carries a proud heritage of Swedish motorsport on race … More »
Team Top Run has confirmed entry in the TCR International Series races in Singapore with their new TCR specification Subaru WRX following a successful test in Italy. Top Run test drivers Roberto Russo and Gian Maria Gabbiani were joined by former Italian F3 champion and WTCC driver Luca Rangoni at the test on the Franciacorta … More »
Rene Münnich will be back at WestCoast Racing for the next two races of the year in a Honda Civic TCR car. The German, who already raced in the early rounds of the series for the Swedish team, will be on track at Singapore and Buriram, the next two rounds of the championship. The German … More »
Citroën Racing head into the final four rounds of the 2015 World Touring Car Championship season poised to wrap-up the manufacturers’ and drivers’ titles for 2015 in quick fashion for a second consecutive year. Although the team’s race cars have been in transit to Japan since the last round in Vila Real, Portugal in mid-July, … More »
Audi Sport Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters driver Timo Scheider will participate at round 10 of the World Rallycross Championship in Barcelona later this month. The twice DTM champion will drive an Audi S3 from Münnich Motorsport, owned by René Münnich, a WRX driver himself, and owner of the namesake team in the WTCC. Scheider will meet on … More »
In a sport which is primarily about speed on the track, one of the BTCC’s newest outfits is moving just as swiftly off the circuit. Power Maxed Racing had a quick birth, and in their short life have already made a big impression on the series. The upward curve has been steep, following the purchase … More »
RML Group, the Wellingborough-based touring car “power house” return in a key capacity to the British Touring Car Championship from 2016, replacing GPRM Ltd. as the specified chassis and suspension builder for all of the cars in the championship,, and says that this is a key part in the former Chevrolet manufacturer squad’s future strategy. … More »