Franz Engstler is comfortably leading the Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy, as the FIA World Touring Car Championship is approaching the start of the final leg of the season. The German has driven BMW cars ever since 2000, when he won the German Touring Car Challenge at the wheel of a BMW 320i. With the regulation changes … More »
The format has been changed for the FIA World Touring Car Championship season finale on the legendary street circuit Macau. Testing has been moved from Thursday afternoon to Thursday morning. The first free practice session has been moved as well, from Friday morning to Thursday afternoon, with FP2 and qualifying taking place as usual on … More »
Former World Touring Car Championship and current British Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu will head to Argentina this weekend for the return of the Argentinian Super TC 2000’s mini-endurance event, the Buenos Aires 200km, where he’ll partner Franco Vivian at the works Equipo Chevrolet YPF squad. Alain Menu has been a mainstay of the … More »
Former WTCC boss Marcello Lotti has been confirmed to be behind the newly announced TC3 International Series and has revealed further details about it. ”This new concept has come about as a direct result of the experiences faced by the different national touring car championships. There is a strong demand for competitive cars that can … More »
The RML built Chevrolet Cruze cars of the FIA World Touring Car Championship will be 20kg heavier for the forthcoming round at Termas de Río Hondo in Argentina. The Chevrolet cars are the only make to have their compensation weight changed, after reducing the performance gap to the works Citroën cars to 0.5 seconds during … More »
Current World Touring Car Championship leader José María López has already shown himself to be the rookie of the year, leading the points at the mid-way point of the season. At the next round of the series, he will be the experienced, local driver. He won there on his debut last year with the unfancied … More »
2012 WTCC champion Rob Huff has expressed interest in getting a full time V8 Supercars drive for next season. “I have always said if I could get a full time drive out there I would go. If I could get a full time drive I know I would do a good job,” said Huff to … More »
…said the great philosopher Groucho Marx. Through a somewhat odd approach, with an email press release sent to everyone under the sun this Thursday, the new-for-2015 TC3 International Series came to light. We spent of an evening of digging around trying to find out as much as we can, as after all, it’s not the … More »
Every racing fan loves watching cars battling it out on track and thrilling the crowds in a race, before that moment, however, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, sometimes things we didn’t even suspect were happening. TouringCarTimes.com writer Pietro Casillo spent a weekend with ALL-INKL.com Münnich Motorsport team at the most … More »
The FIA World Motor Sport Council has approved the request of Eurosport Events to replace the WTCC race weekend at Sonoma for Beijing. “We had to face a logistic challenge and after consulting WTCC stake holders, we went through all possible scenarios, including date change or air freight, but we came to the conclusion that … More »