After one year without, Portugal’s Tiago Monteiro will have a home event in the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship season, with the Circuito de Vila Real hosting a round of the WTCC for the first time on July 12th next year, subject to confirmation by the WMSC. As confirmed on Saturday, the Vila Real … More »
Volvo Polestar Racing driver Robert Dahlgren’s last race in the V8 Supercars Championship will be next month’s season finale at Sydney Olympic Park, with the team choosing a different direction for the 2015 season, with their driver line-up to be confirmed at a later date. The Swedish driver’s best result of the season came at … More »
Engstler Motorsport will leave the FIA World Touring Car Championship after eight years and join the new TC3 International Series and TC3 Asia Series next season, with the team planning to run Liqui Moly branded Volkswagen Golfs based on the SEAT León Eurocup platform in the new championships. The German team, which won the 2011 … More »
British driver Tom Chilton hopes to continue in the FIA World Touring Car Championship next season, and hopes to continue working with RML and ROAL Motorsport in the WTCC, developing and racing the Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 in 2015. The 29-year-old finished eighth in the drivers’ standings this season, taking an outright victory from pole … More »
The racing season wasn’t over at the DTM finale in Hockenheim four weeks ago for some drivers. BMW’s Augusto Farfus and Marco Wittmann and Audi’s Edoardo Mortara were at the Macau GT Cup, which was held this weekend as part of the busy motor racing agenda in the difficult Guia Circuit. Farfus and Wittmann raced … More »
Proteam Racing’s Mehdi Bennani was eliminated from race one and from the remainder of the Macau Grand Prix after a last lap collision with the TC2T class Campos SEAT of Henry Kwong, who has been excluded from the race by the stewards. The Moroccan has vented his frustration at the wild card entries which he … More »
Lada Sport’s Rob Huff took another victory at the Guia Race of Macau, extending the four-wheeled record to seven in the final WTCC race at the circuit, and is now looking forward to campaigning the new ORECA-developed Lada Vesta in next year’s championship Huff started from third on the grid and was up to second … More »
Citroën’s José María López leaves the final race of the season having won ten from 23 races, and with a Guia Race Macau Grand Prix victory trophy after leading all the way through race one, and has declared the 2014 WTCC season his best ever championship. The 31-year-old took pole position and led the way … More »
Lada Sport’s Rob Huff scored a second win for the Russian manufacturer in the final FIA World Touring Car Championship race at Macau, finishing ahead of former Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller, capitalising on a mechanical issue for Honda’s Tiago Monteiro in the closing stages of a dramatic race. Tiago Monteiro had a great start from … More »
Citroën Total WTCC’s José María López dominated in Macau, winning the Guia Race at his first time at the track ahead of the Zengõ Motorsport Honda of Norbert Michelisz, who moves ahead of Tiago Monteiro up to fourth in the championship standings. There was a scare for Michelisz on the formation lap as his Honda … More »