Despite only just having his car repaired for this weekend after a monster crash at Marrakech, Tom Coronel showed he was still ready to race, holding off four-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller for 14 laps at the Hungaroring on Sunday to claim fourth place, and allow Gianni Morbidelli, Tiago Monteiro and Hugo Valente to escape … More »
Citroën Total WTCC’s Yvan Muller has scored the most points in each of the last two race weekends, and has closed the gap to Argentinian team-mate José María López to just ten points going to Slovakia with his second win of 2014. Yvan Muller was the strongest through qualifying and the first race, holding a … More »
Citroën Total WTCC’s Yvan Muller has moved ahead of team-mate Sébastien Loeb and has closed in on José Maríá López with victory in race one at the Hungaroroing, with Honda’s Tiago Monteiro taking a second consecutive podium finish with third. Muller and López both got away well at the start, but the third placed Citroën … More »
Four-time champion Yvan Muller took his first pole position of the season on merit at the Hungaroring, a circuit where he has always started from pole, but isn’t complacent ahead of race day, where he believes the Citroën team could well be fighting manufacturer rivals Honda for the podium positions. After two races where the … More »
Citroën Total WTCC’s Yvan Muller has taken pole position at the Hungaroring, outpacing team-mate José María López by just 34 thousandths of a second in the single-lap shootout, and breaking his own personal qualifying lap record by almost five seconds. The three Citroëns went out and set the three fastest times right at the start … More »
Citroën Total WTCC locked out the top three positions in the final free practice session ahead of qualifying, with Yvan Muller going fastest on his final run with a time of 1:49.301, just ahead of team-mates Sébastien Loeb and José María López, with Proteam’s Mehdi Bennani the closest to them in his Honda Civic. All … More »
Citroën Total WTCC’s José María López was fastest of all in the first free practice session on Saturday, setting the best time of the weekend in the final minutes of the session, and was more than 1.2 seconds faster than team-mate Yvan Muller. On a damp track due to overnight rain, the fastest time changed … More »
Proteam Racing’s Mehdi Bennani left the first test session in Hungary second overall, just under a tenth of a second behind the works Honda of Gabriele Tarquini, and says the team can definitely feel the benefit of the 60kg compensation weight reduction that Honda, as well as Chevrolet and Lada, have been given this weekend. … More »
With the annual Silverstone Classic drawing ever closer, a whole host of historic cars, including a selection of competitors in the HSCC Super Touring Car Championship, took to the Grand Prix circuit at the event’s media and test day. As well as familiar faces on track, there were a number of ‘new’ Super Tourers out … More »
Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team’s Gabriele Tarquini was fastest of all in the first 30 minute test session at the Hungaroring, leading Proteam’s Mehdi Bennani and works Honda team-mate Tiago Monteiro, with points leader José María López the fastest of the Citroën drivers in sixth. López had gone out and set the first benchmark … More »