LADA Sport Lukoil have complete a two day test session at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, at the Togliatti-based team’s development partner ORECA’s home circuit, with drivers James Thompson and Rob Huff behind the wheel. The Russian team is heading into its second full season this year since their FIA World Touring Car Championship return … More »
2009 British Touring Car champion Colin Turkington believes West Surrey Racing’s new BWM 125i challenger is a much improved package as the team run the car for the second time this season. The team tested at Brands Hatch earlier in the week, with all three drivers setting competitive times in the upgraded Next Generation Touring … More »
The 2014 Lada Granta, which will be campaigned this season by LADA Sport Lukoil for James Thompson, Rob Huff and Mikhail Kozlovskiy, has been unveiled at the Russian team’s French operations base at Magny-Cours. The car is built to the all-new Super 2000 2014 regulations, and will compete in the TC1 class in this year’s … More »
Münnich Motorsport have been confirmed as the final two owners of RML’s new Chevrolet Cruzes for the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship season. Team principal René Münnich and two-time International Superstars Series champion Gianni Morbidelli will drive the cars. The team will go into their second season, after running three SEAT León WTCCs last … More »
Honda Racing Team JAS has revealed the livery with which the new Honda Civic will compete with in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship season, and also confirms it will continue to have Castrol as a title sponsor in the team’s second full season. The car, which will again be driven by 2009 champion … More »
The Argentinian Super TC 2000 Championship has now confirmed the events which will make up their 2014 calendar, after so far having previously only confirmed the dates on which they will take place. The season will begin on March 23rd at Rafaela in Santa Fe, and conclude, as usual, at the Potrero de Los Funes … More »
Bamboo Engineering will compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship during its sabbatical season from the WTCC, fielding the #99 Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE for former drivers Darryl O’Young and Alex MacDowall, who will be joined by Fernando Rees. The team will compete in the GTE Pro class for experienced drivers, and tested last … More »
Chinese driver Ma Qing Hua will join Yvan Muller, Sébastien Loeb and José María López, driving the team’s fourth C-Elysée WTCC car at Moscow, Spa-Francorchamps, Shanghai and Macau and an as-yet undecided fifth race in the team’s first FIA World Touring Car Championship season. The addition of Ma means the team has drivers from three … More »
Münnich Motorsport driver and team manager Marc Basseng will return to GT racing for 2014, competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series for Belgian Audi Club WRT, where he will be joined by 2013 WTCC Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy champion James Nash. Basseng won the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship, then sharing a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 … More »
Bamboo Engineering has announced it will be taking a sabbatical from the 2014 World Touring Car Championship. Richard Coleman, Bamboo Engineering’s Chief Executive officer issued the following statement about the decision: “Regretfully we won’t be competing in the WTCC this season. “It was too difficult for us to raise the required budget to compete at … More »