The reigning Argentinian Super TC 2000 champion Néstor Girolami will join Lada Sport Rosneft tomorrow for a test at the Hungaroring. The Argentinian visited his first race in the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the weekend, and hopes to follow in the footsteps of José María López and find a drive in the championship … More »
Zengő Motorsport’s Ferenc Ficza won the first race of the FIA European Touring Car Cup on Sunday, while Dusan Borkovic won the second race in an identical SEAT León Cup Racer, both driving for Hungarian teams at the Hungaroring circuit, and share the lead of the standings heading to the next round. The first race … More »
Norbert Michelisz scored his second home win today in front of an adoring crowd of fans at the Hungaroring, ending Citroën Total WTCC’s 2015 winning streak, also assuming the lead of the Yokohama Independents’ Trophy. The 30-year-old had qualified on pole position for race two courtesy of the top ten reversed grid, and launched off … More »
Reigning champion José María López has continued to extend his points lead in the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship after a win and a sixth at the Hungaroring. The Citroën driver recovered from a slip-up in qualifying to take the lead into Turn 1 at the start of the first race, passing the Campos … More »
Zengő Motorsport’s Norbert Michelisz claimed victory at his home race for the second time in his career, also taking his fourth win in the WTCC with a lights-to-flag display in front of a packed home crowd at the Hungaroring. Most of the drama of the race was reserved for the start, with John Filippi bogging … More »
Citroën’s Yvan Muller will start tomorrow’s first race from pole position in the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC, preventing team-mate José María López’s five-race run of pole positions from getting past what’s now a joint record, with Muller achieving the same feat with RML in 2013. Before López, the last driver to score pole position was ROAL … More »
Norbert Michelisz will start from provisional pole position from the reversed grid second race tomorrow at the Hungaroring, the the 30-year-old Hungarian, who already attracted a strong crowd just to qualifying today, knows he has his best shot yet of scoring his first win since Suzuka 2013. MIchelisz was just tenth fastest at the end … More »
Citroën’s Ma Qing Hua missed out on his chance to try and qualify on pole position at the Hungaroring despite making the top five shootout due to a short turnaround time between the sessions, which meant the team were unable to prepare his car for his allotted time slot. Ma had set the first fastest … More »
Serbian driver Dusan Borkovic finished the free practice session for the FIA European Touring Car Cup race in Hungary in first position, setting a last lap flyer in drying conditions to finish ahead of the identical SEAT León Cup Racer of Mat’o Homola, while Krenek Motorsport’s Petr Fulín sat out of the 30-minute session. Borkovic … More »
Citroën Racing’s José María López was again fastest in the second and final practice session at the Hungaroring, though by less of a margin than in the first session, now just over half a second quicker than the Hondas of Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro. The top spot changed hands between three drivers during the … More »