Tiago Monteiro set the benchmark in Free Practice 1 in his Honda Civic WTCC at the Beijing Goldenport circuit. Just like in the test session, the Portuguese driver improved his lap time late in the 30 minutes session, demoting José María López’s Citroën C-Elysée to second just before the end. Ma Qing Hua completed the … More »
Tiago Monteiro emerged fastest in a damp test session at Beijing, China. The Portuguese driver set the pace just under the flag in his Honda Civic, three tenths ahead of championship leader José María López’s Citroën C-Elysée WTCC. Rob Huff made sure there were three different manufacturers in the top three by putting his Lada … More »
Lada Sport has confirmed Mikhail Kozlovskiy to continue for them in the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship. The 24-year-old is going to start his third WTCC season for Lada next year and is going to drive alongside already confirmed team mates James Thompson and Rob Huff. Kozlovskiy is going to be behind the wheel … More »
34-year-old Hong Kong driver Michael Soong will make his FIA World Touring Car Championship return this weekend with Campos Racing, competing in the Spanish team’s SEAT León WTCC in the TC2T class as team-mate to Corsican John Filippi. Soong made his WTCC debut at Macau last season, competing in the 34 car bumper grid for … More »
The China Touring Car Championship resumes this weekend for the sixth time this season, the first of two weekends this year where the Championship will joing the FIA World Touring Car Championship on the bill, and Changan Ford FRD Team head to the track with a comfortable lead in the drivers’ and manufacturers’ standings. The … More »
The FIA International Court of Appeal has rejected Dušan Borković’s appeal on his exclusion from the second WTCC race in Argentina. The Campos Racing driver was excluded from eighth place in the second race at Termas de Río Hondo after failing the post-race ride height check. The team appealed the exclusion, believing that it was … More »
The inaugural season of the HSCC Super Touring Car Championship went down to the wire, with both title contenders involved in dramas at the final round. Having previously been run as the successful Super Touring Trophy – a non points scoring series – in 2013, the HSCC awarded the series championship status for 2014, while … More »
Pepe Oriola will make a one-off return to the grid of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the season finale at Macau, driving for Campos Racing in one of the team’s SEAT León 1.6Ts in the TC2T class. The car is the same car Oriola drove up until the mid-way point of last season, … More »
Gabriele Tarquini admits that Honda will struggle to win a race in the 2014 season against the might of Citroën, and that the JAS Motorsport team which run the Honda factory programme in the FIA World Touruing Car Championship, are already turning their attention to the 2015 season, following recent tests at the Nürburgring, which … More »
Finnish driver Aku Pellinen has withdrawn from the final round of the FIA European Touring Car Cup, which takes place next weekend at the Pergusa circuit on the Italian island of Sicily, even though the 21-year-old currently leads the Single-Make Trophy classification by five points. The Finn has explained the reason for his withdrawal is … More »