Andy Priaulx is a driver who has featured heavily on this site; it’d be impossible to run a touring car site without him. Just look his ETCC and WTCC track record. Over the last year since I’ve been covering the DTM, I’ve got to know Andy quite well and he’d be the first to admit … More »
Andy Priaulx will leave the DTM next season and switch to the new-for-2014 United Sportscar Championship with BMW. Priaulx won three World Touring Car Championships and one European Touring Car Championship with BMW, before switching to the DTM in 2012 when the Bavarian marque returned to the series after a 20 year absence. However, success … More »
The ADAC Procar Series will reinstate a third division of competition for the 2014 championship season, with Division 3 returning in which MINI Challenge type cars will be able to compete. The German touring car series will effectively have four classes next season. The series retains its two Division 1 classes which allow cars built … More »
Current WTCC drivers’ and Yokohama teams’ champions RML have confirmed they will design and build a number of new Chevrolet Cruzes to the FIA World Touring Car Championship’s latest ‘TC1’ Super 2000 regulations for the 2014 season. The Wellingborough-based squad are unable to specify the number of cars that will be built as yet, but … More »
Equipo Petronas Fiat driver Facundo Ardusso has claimed pole position for the final round of the 2013 Argentinian Super TC 2000 Championship in San Luis, leading the Chevrolet of Agustín Canapino and his Fiat team-mate José María López. Ardusso’s best time of 2:27.454 was just 14-thousandths of a second faster than Canapino’s Chevrolet, while José … More »
SEAT Sport have revived the Eurocup series for the 2014 season, using the new SEAT León Cup Racer, which was earlier this year expected to be developed into a full-fledged touring car for the new WTCC regulations. The last Eurocup series, using the popular SEAT León Supercopa based on the Mk.II SEAT León, functioned as … More »
The first V8 Supercars Volvo S60 is scheduled for its first shakedown in the week after the season finale in Sydney on December 8th. The car will be run with Garry Rogers Motorsport’s existing Holden engine as development of the new Volvo V8 engine is still ongoing in Sweden by Polestar. There has been no … More »
Special Tuning Racing’s Tom Boardman ended the 2013 WTCC season with a pair of ninth place finishes following a tough start to the year, which saw his campaign derailed by a high speed crash at the second round of the Championship in Marrakech. The 30-year-old finished ninth in the first races at Shanghai and Macau … More »
Pepe Oriola says his career in the WTCC is hanging in the balance, with a works drive with Citroën the only way he believes he can stay in the Championship next year when new cars are introduced. The 19-year-old Spaniard took his first win of his career at Marrakech back in April, and became a … More »
French driver Hugo Valente will return to the FIA World Touring Car Championship for his first full season in the Championship next year behind the wheel of a brand new 2014-spec Chevrolet Cruze, which will be built by this year’s drivers and teams’ champions RML. The car will be run by Campos Racing, as they … More »