Serbian driver Nikola Miljković and Finnish driver Aku Pellinen are the latest drivers confirmed to be taking part in this year’s FIA European Touring Car Cup, both driving SEAT León Supercopas in the Single-Make Trophy class. 18-year-old Miljkovic is a graduate from Hill Climb racing, just like Dušan Borković, who drove in the ETCC last … More »
Onyx Race Engineering’s plan to enter this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship has been abandoned, due to the refusal from Ford to support the homologation of the team’s planned car, the Ford Fiesta saloon. The WTCC’s new Motorsport Director, Francois Ribeiro, confirmed to Motor Y Racing that Ford wouldn’t provide the necessary homologation for … More »
Campos Racing have had a successful test session at Valencia ahead of their 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship campaign. The team were testing their new Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 for Hugo Valente, and their SEAT León WTCC for John Filippi. The Spanish team will field five cars in this year’s WTCC, two in the … More »
Citroën’s new C-Elysée World Touring Car Championship challenger has been running at Valencia this week with Ma Qing Hua at the wheel, with the car now out of its camouflage livery and into a plain white design, sporting the logo of the team’s title sponsor for this season, Total. The team will run as Citroën … More »
The Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team began testing yesterday at the Valencia circuit ahead of their second full season in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, with drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro driving the team’s brand new Civic WTCC, built to race in the Championship’s new TC1 class. The car has been built … More »
19-year-old Pepe Oriola will be present at the World Touring Car Championship test at Valencia tomorrow as an instructor for new Campos Racing signing John Filippi. Filippi will contest the 2014 season also at the age of 19. Oriola himself hopes to announce his plans for the year shortly. Oriola has driven in the WTCC … More »
Tom Coronel has revealed the livery with which he will compete in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship with ROAL Motorsport, which is in-line with the colours he has raced since 2011 with ROAL Motorsport. The 41-year-old Dutch driver will remain with ROAL Motorsport for a fourth consecutive season, but will move from the … More »
Serbian driver Dušan Borković has been to RML’s factory in Wellingborough, UK, to try out the team’s simulator and to see the progress of the development of his new TC1 Chevrolet Cruze, with which he will compete in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship. The 29-year-old, who finished third in last year’s FIA European … More »
Returning BTCC legend Alain Menu believes he is joining a series which will be more competitive this year than the World Championship he is accustomed to. The double BTCC champion is back on the grid after 14 years away, following a spell in DTM and eight years as a factory Chevrolet driver in the World … More »
Campos Racing and Engstler Motorsport have confirmed they will run cars in the FIA World Touring Car Championship’s TC2 class this season for existing Super 2000-specification cars. The German Liqui Moly Team Engstler squad will field a pair of BMW 320 TCs for team principal Franz Engstler, and a driver still to be confirmed. “We … More »