Jaap van Lagen stays on at Lada Sport for Moscow Dutch driver Jaap van Lagen will be back behind the wheel of the Lada Vesta WTCC for the next round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, which takes place at the Russian manufacturer’s home race at the Moscow Raceway in two weeks. As team … More »
The TCR International Series stops in Italy at the Temple of Speed in Monza. Home of the Italian Grand Prix, the circuit is iconic and highly appreciated by several drivers. The series heads to the track located near Milan with Stefano Comini again in the lead, as the Target Competition driver enters his home race. … More »
Campos Racing’s Hugo Valente was the only driver to receive a penalty of any kind after the WTCC’s debut at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, when the French driver added insult to injury when he collected a 1,000 EUR fine after abandoning his car after crashing out on lap two. The 22-year-old had lost time at the … More »
Despite engine problems forcing the team to work all night to work on their Vesta WTCCs, further compounded by additional technical issues in the warm-up, both Rob Huff and Jaap van Lagen scored vital points for Lada Sport Rosneft on race day at the Nürburgring. Although the first race lasted less than a lap for … More »
Championship leader José María López put on two sterling performances at the Nürburgring Nordschleife to claim his fourth win from eight races in the 2015 WTCC season, winning the first race from pole position, while going from tenth to second in race two at a track it was argued it was impossible to pass. The … More »
Yvan Muller won the second race at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, finishing just over a tenth of a second ahead of Citroën team-mate José María López, with the top four covered by a second in a dramatic last few corners battle. Muller made a strong start from fifth on the grid in his Citroën C-Elysée and … More »
Münnich Motorsport’s Sabine Schmitz is looking forward today’s races, where the 46-year-old Nordschleife expert will start from the back half of the field for both races in the Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1. Schmitz qualified 15th, but will start 11th for race one courtesy of a number of engine change penalties, and says she has been … More »
ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Chilton was fastest in the warm-up session as the teams prepared for WTCC’s first event at the iconic track, though the times over ten seconds slower than those seen in qualifying. The warm-up was the first in the WTCC since the 2013 season finale at Macau, with warm ups having been dropped … More »
Campos Racing’s Hugo Valente continues his giant killing form in the WTCC, taking the fight to Citroën in the small privateer Spanish-run Chevrolet RML Cruze. Valente qualified in second position at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, having achieved the same feat two weeks ago in Hungary, and says that pole was certainly a possibility. “Campos and RML … More »
Hungaroring race winner Norbert Michelisz qualified in fourth position for the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the best placed of the Hondas and one of two non-Citroën equipped drivers to break up the French manufacturers at the front of the grid for the first race. Along with Campos Racing’s Hugo Valente, Michelisz quickly emerged as the only other … More »