Sébastien Loeb took his first pole position in the World Touring Car Championship at Paul Ricard, producing a stunning third sector time at the circuit to lead an all Citroën top four at the French manufacturer’s home circuit ahead of Yvan Muller, José María López and Ma Qing Hua. Ma Qing Hua had set the … More »
Citroën’s Ma Qing Hua topped the time sheets in the second and final practice session on Saturday at the circuit Paul Ricard ahead of three Chevrolets, with Grégoire Demoustier second for Craft-Bamboo leading ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Coronel and Campos Racing’s Hugo Valente. In a session where it appeared many were holding their cards close to … More »
Honda’s Gabriele Tarquini was fastest of all in a closely contested Friday practice session at Paul Ricard, deposing Citroën’s Ma Qing Hua from the top of the time sheets with just minutes remaining, while Honda team-mate Tiago Monteiro was third fastest, with Honda showing increased pace over last week in the first test. After their … More »
The latest compensation weight calculations see Honda and Chevrolet both reduce the amount of ballast they carry at this weekend’s race at Paul Ricard, while Lada achieves a key landmark in being awarded ballast on a performance basis for the first time in the WTCC. Unsurprisingly, the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC is still the reference model … More »
Lada Sport Rosneft driver Rob Huff has said that 60kg of compensation weight doesn’t mean as much under the new TC1 technical format as the previous TC2T rules, and believes the compensation weight should be increased to at least 80kg. The race-by-race compensation weight is designed to close the performance gap between the different models … More »
24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 class winner Nicolas Lapierre will become the latest driver to test a Lada Sport Rosneft Vesta TC1, when he joins the team’s current three drivers for a test following next weekend’s race at the Paul Ricard circuit. Lapierre has been invited to the test the team’s Lada Vesta WTCC … More »
Citroën Racing took another podium lockout at the Slovakiaring, as drivers Sébastien Loeb, José María López and Yvan Muller charged through from eighth, ninth and tenth on the grid to be in the top three spots after just four laps in race two, with Loeb crossing the line first to take his fourth career WTCC … More »
Yvan Muller took his fourth win of the 2015 World Touring Car Championship season at the Slovkiaring, leading a perfect 1-2-3 for Citroën, and in doing so closes the points gap to team-mate José María López to 27 in a race which saw an abnormally high level of attrition. The first retirement was effectively Craft-Bamboo … More »
Nicky Catsburg and Jaap van Lagen put their Lada Vesta WTCCs in the top ten at the Slovakiaring, with Catsburg breaking into the top five shootout on his second race weekend in the World Touring Car Championship, while van Lagen qualified a strategic tenth and in doing so secures pole position for race two. “Moscow … More »
Zengő Motorsport driver Norbert Michelisz threw his Honda Civic WTCC off the track in the final sector in the second free practice session on a lap in which he was providing live commentary for the television broadcast, but says it wasn’t the multi-tasking that caused the off. The Hungarian driver was talking through the lap … More »