Campos Racing driver Fernando Monje will not take part in the Macau season finale of the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship, reducing the Spanish team’s entry to just one car at present for Frenchman Hugo Valente. The 20-year-old has cited family reasons for his absence from the season finale. The 2012 FIA European Touring … More »
Yukinori Taniguchi will defend his 17 point lead in the Eurosport Asia Trophy at Macau, driving for his third different team in three races by joining Nika Racing for the season finale in the Special Administrative Region of China. Taniguchi joined Wiechers-Sport as a stand-in for Fredy Barth at his home race in Suzuka, driving … More »
The BMW 320 TCs and SEAT León WTCCs will get compensation weight increases of 30kg and 10kg respectively for the final round of the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship at Macau, with Chevrolet and Honda remaining on the maximum weight. The Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T remains the reference car taking into account performances in the … More »
17-year-old Aiden Moffat plans to enter next year’s British Touring Car Championship with the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) specification Chevrolet Cruze built by RML and IP Tech Race Engineering. The Scottish driver took part in the Knockhill round of the BTCC this season, driving for Finesse Motorsport in their S2000-specificiation Chevrolet, before finishing off … More »
37-year-old Serbian driver Milovan Vesnić plans to enter next year’s FIA European Touring Car Cup with a BMW 320si, run by ASK Sport Auto Vesnić. The former Renault Clio V6 Cup competitor and 2013 FIA Central European Zone Trophy
The German Münnich Motorsport team have confirmed they will run a reduced programme in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season, with a target of returning in full force in 2015. The team’s announcement follows the news today that driver Rob Huff will be joining Lada next year. The 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship winning … More »
Honda celebrated a best-possible 1-2-3 finish for the second time this year in race two at the Shanghai International Circuit, in what will be the penultimate race for the current generation of regulations, with Tiago Monteiro leading Gabriele Tarquini and Norbert Michelisz. In the tricky conditions of race one, Tarquini finished as the best placed … More »
Tom Chilton’s charge for second in this year’s WTCC was given a helping hand thanks to a last minute pass on team-mate Yvan Muller at the Shanghai International Circuit, in a race which was shortened due to damp and ‘smoggy’ conditions The race was reduced to ten green flag laps due to the tricky conditions … More »
2012 champion Rob Huff will join James Thompson and Mikhail Kozlovskiy at Lada behind the wheel of a new-for-2014 Lada Granta next season. The 33-year-old will return to a manufacturer drive after one year racing for the independent Münnich Motorsport team in the WTCC, after Chevrolet left the Championship at the end of 2012 with … More »
The RML team have secured their sixth front row lock-out of the 2013 WTCC season in Shanghai, with Yvan Muller taking his seventh pole position of the season. Already the drivers’ champions, the team can secure the Yokohama Teams’ Trophy this weekend. Muller set his pole position lap without a tow, despite the perceived advantage … More »