Tom Coronel will return for his 11th season in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and his fifth consecutive year with Aldo Preo and Roberto Ravaglia’s ROAL Motorsport team in 2015, behind the wheel of the team’s Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1, now with increased backing from logisitics firm DHL. Coronel, the best placed Chevrolet driver … More »
Chinese driver Ma Qing Hua will compete in every round of the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship, joining José María López, Yvan Muller and Sébastien Loeb at the factory squad. Ma, who had previously been linked with driving a second car entered by the privateer Sébastien Loeb Racing squad, will now instead continue with … More »
Milan-based team JAS Motorsport have shaken down their TCR-specification Honda Civic at a private test, ahead of the first season of competition for the new TCR International Series. JAS Motorsport are supporting a customer programme of three cars in this year’s Series for the Swedish-headquartered WestCoast Racing team, with more cars to follow during the … More »
Corsican driver John Filippi will stay in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for a second season, now moving up from the defunct TC2T class, where he raced a SEAT León WTCC last year for the Spanish Campos Racing squad, to a new Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1, understood to be one of three cars that … More »
The new independent Citröen team for 2015, Sébastien Loeb Racing, have revealed the livery for new signing Mehdi Bennani’s car at a shakedown test today. The Moroccan driver joins the team from Proteam Racing, where he’s raced since 2011, bringing over the white, red and green livery that he has raced in recent years, bearing … More »
Teams and drivers from the British Touring Car Championship could be competing in this year’s Macau Grand Prix weekend, which would see them tackle the Chinese special administrative region’s circuit, instead of the expected TCR International Series event. “The bosses at Macau have been in touch with TOCA. They are looking at various options, and … More »
FIA World Touring Car Championship team Münnich Motorsport is going to field two self-developed Audi S3 cars in the FIA World Rallycross Championship this year. “World RX will be our main programme this year. We will use this year to learn and then we want to fight for the title in 2016,” said team owner … More »
Lada Sport Rosneft look set to miss the preamble for the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship season, with the Russian marque falling behind schedule to prepare their three all-new Vesta WTCCs for the season. In a consecutive year where the Russian manufacturer has charged itself with the task of developing three new cars for … More »
Lada Sport will continue its technical partnership with the Italian Hexathron Racing Systems company, whose CEO Marco Calovolo also acts as the team’s technical director and race engineer for driver James Thompson in 2015, alongside its development partners ORECA for the development of the new Vesta, which will start testing next week. Hexathron and Calovolo … More »
The national promoters of a number of countries planning to launch series using the TCR technical blueprint met this week in Barcelona during a two-day workshop to work out a common strategy for the future, in a meeting chaired by the TCR International Series promoter (WSC) CEO Marcello Lotti, and Motorsport Asia’s CEO David Sonenscher, … More »