Jaap van Lagen has been surprised by the late change to replace him with Nicolas Lapierre for the final four rounds of this year’s World Touring Car Championship, and will miss the team and the championship. Van Lagen had a late call-up himself, replacing James Thompson from the Nurburgring round back in May. The team … More »
Nicolas Lapierre will replace Dutch driver Jaap van Lagen for the final four rounds of the World Touring Car Championship at Lada Sport Rosneft, becoming the sixth different driver to compete for the Russian manufacturer this season. The 31-year-old French driver tested the team’s Vesta WTCC at the Paul Ricard circuit following the seventh round … More »
RML will be the next supplier of the stock standard chassis components to the British Touring Car Championship, replacing GPRM over the next two seasons. The multiple touring car title-winning outfit will start supplying the stock chassis components from the 2016 season, with the current five-year cycle with GPRM finishing at the end of this … More »
FIA European Touring Car Cup Single-Make Trophy points leader Dusan Borkovic is preparing for the final run of races in the 2015 ETCC after an extended mid-season break. The Serbian, who drove in the opening round of the WTCC for Proteam before switching to an ETCC programme with the Hungarian B3 Racing team, has an … More »
The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters is looking at its calendar options for next year, with two possible new destinations gaining momentum: the Jarama circuit in Spain and Porto in Portugal. At the recent WTCC race in Vila Real, Paulo Campos, a Director at FPAK (the Portuguese national motorsport authority) confirmed that the Eurosport-organised championship wasn’t the … More »
The latest calculation by the FIA for compensation weight for the next round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship in September will see Honda and Lada both drop back to base weight, 60kgs lighter than the championship leading Citroëns, while the Chevrolet RML Cruzes will drop to 10kg. The Citroëns have run with maximum … More »
With TouringCarTimes celebrating its 20th birthday this month, there are few better drivers than Alain Menu to assess how the British Touring Car Championship shaped up when the site launched and how it looks now. The ever-popular Swiss took two titles during the series’ Super Touring heyday, and returned after a 14-year absence last season to drive for the … More »
Pfister Racing are planning to enter a Citroën C2 Super 1600 in the FIA European Touring Car Cup, in a bid to replicate the French manufacturer’s success in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. The German team, led by Single Make Trophy driver Andreas Pfister, already use a C2 in the ADAC Procar Series, and … More »
The HSCC Super Touring Challenge returns this weekend at the Silverstone Classic, with a 42-strong grid preparing to take on the “home of British motorsport” at the series’ blue riband event. Heading the field will be Stewart Whyte in the Honda Accord that he has taken to the top step in three of the four … More »
Lada Sport Rosneft celebrated having all three cars in the points of the first WTCC race at Vila Real in Portugal. The second race however saw two of their cars with heavy damage, meaning a change in plans for testing ahead of the coming race in Japan. The Russian manufacturer claimed positions eight, nine and … More »