ROAL Motorsport have completed a full two-day test at the Adria Raceway with drivers Tom Chilton and Tom Coronel ahead of the 2014 WTCC season, completing over 500km between them. The test was Tom Chilton’s second with the new Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 car, while it was Tom Coronel’s first test and effective shakedown with … More »
Nika Racing will campaign a Honda Civic WTCC in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship’s TC2 class, with the Swedish team parting with the Chevrolet marque for the first time since 2007. The team will run the #99 Honda Civic for Yukinori Taniguchi in the Yokohama Trophy, though the Japanese driver will miss selected … More »
Hungarian touring car outfit Team Unicorse will return to the FIA European Touring Car Cup after a one year absence, running an Alfa Romeo 156 S2000 for 29-year-old Norbert Kiss this season. The car, developed by Italian team N.Technology for the works Alfa Romeo European Touring Car Championship & early WTCC programme back in 2004, … More »
Aytaç Biter and Mikhail Grachev are the first two drivers confirmed to compete in the TC2T class in this year’s FIA European Touring Car Cup, driving for Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport and Proteam Racing respectively. 48-year-old Biter has competed in the 2010, 2012 and 2013 seasons of the ETCC, all with Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport, and will … More »
Czech driver Petr Fulín will be back for the 2014 FIA European Touring Car Cup season, defending his Super 2000 drivers’ title with Krenek Motorsport in a BMW 320si. Fulín will again team up with Michal Matĕjovský at the squad and will fight for the TC2 title in the S2000 class. The 37-year-old won the … More »
Japanese driver Yukinori Taniguchi will make a full-time return to the FIA World Touring Car Championship this season, driving for the Swedish Nika Racing team in the new TC2 category for older S2000 2013 specification cars. Taniguchi drove during the final part of 2010 and for the full 2011 season with bamboo-engineering, before leaving the … More »
New ROAL Motorsport driver Tom Chilton was impressed with the new Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 after testing last Friday at Valencia. The 29-year-old will get another two-day test with the car on Sunday, where he will be joined by team-mate Tom Coronel. Chilton had 120km worth of running in the new car, after a rear-wing … More »
ROAL Motorsport are happy with progress after a shortened test with the new Chevrolet RML Cruze at Valencia last week with Tom Chilton. The team had less running than they hoped due to an issue with the rear-wing of the new car, which only just completed its shakedown the previous week. Chilton was able do … More »
The Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team have released a video from last week’s test at Valencia, with the new Civic WTCC testing in its full livery for the first time. The team’s drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro were second and third fastest in the test behind Citroën’s Sébastien Loeb, with the new TC1 … More »
The Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T, SEAT León WTCC, SEAT León TDI and BMW 320 TC have all had their waivers renewed by the FIA Touring Car Committee to compete in the TC2 class in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship. The legacy Super 2000 cars used between 2011-2013 have a number of performance balancing waivers … More »