José María López leaves the European leg of the season with an extended lead in the championship over team-mate Yvan Muller after his fifth victory of the season at the Circuito Vila Real, while Ma Qing Hua made it a double celebration for the French marque converting his race two pole into his second career … More »
Citroën Racing have been fined 1,000 EUR for a dangerous release in qualifying of Yvan Muller’s car, when his C-Elysée WTCC was released from the pits in Q1 with the cooling fan still attached which when knocked loose caused a red flag. The team were investigated for the incident and a fine was deemed the … More »
Citroën Racing’s José María López took his fourth pole position of the 2015 WTCC season at Vila Real by over half a second ahead of team-mate Sébastien Loeb. López’s pole came in a qualifying session strewn with controversy, with Citroën also locking out the front row for race two, with Yvan Muller and Ma Qing … More »
Four-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller will make his debut in the FIA World Rallycross Championship for Albatec Racing on September 4th-6th at the French round of the championship at Lohéac , driving the team’s Peugeot 208 RX as team-mate to Jérôme Grosset-Janin. The 45-year-old has already tested the car in Faleyras, and will test the … More »
Citroën’s Yvan Muller was fastest in Free Practice 1 on Saturday at the Circuito Vila Real, leading team-mate José María López in a session which was red flagged with nine seconds to go when ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Chilton and Honda’s Gabriele Tarquini came together at the first chicane. The times were closer than yesterday’s first … More »
Citroën’s José María López was fastest of all in the first testing session at the Vila Real circuit in Portugal, over eight-tenths of a second faster than the Zengo Honda of Norbert Michelisz. The championship leader clocked a best lap around the newest circuit on the WTCC calendar of 2:01.455 in his C-Elysée, in a … More »
Rob Huff is hoping to convert his strong form at street circuits into success this weekend at the WTCC’s newest street track, the Circuito Vila Real. Huff is most known for his seven-race winning record at Macau, but the 35-year-old Briton has also won at the Circuito da Boavista in Porto in 2011 with Chevrolet. … More »
Castrol Honda Racing Team’s Tiago Monteiro heads to the Circuito de Vila Real this weekend as the only Portuguese driver in the race, following the ASN FPAK’s decision to not allow Manuel Pedro Fernandes to take part, but it will also be the former Formula 1 driver’s first experience of the circuit, the fourth different … More »
TouringCarTimes celebrates its 20th anniversary today, marking 20 years of the fastest touring car news online since 1995. Join us as we take a look back with drivers, series directors and the journalists behind the site on one of the oldest motorsport websites in the world. A snapshot of the 2015 touring car scene of … More »
John Cleland – 1989 and 1995 BTCC Champion “I’ve kind of always been aware of it for different reasons, but to have dedicated touring car media coverage is great. I’ve been aware of it all the time I’ve been racing and now, 20 years later we’ve got the same kind of stuff and there’s still the … More »