RML’s Chevrolet Cruzes have locked out the top six positions in qualifying for the penultimate round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Shanghai, with Yvan Muller taking pole position ahead of team-mate Tom Chilton. With just time for one run in Q2, Muller’s time of 1:53.486 obliterated the lap record set by Alain … More »
This year’s already confirmed WTCC champion Yvan Muller was fastest of all in the second practice session at the Shanghai International Circuit, finishing ahead of this year’s STCC champion Thed Björk, who again impressed in the Volvo C30 of Volvo Polestar Racing. Pepe Oriola, in his repaired Chevrolet run by the Tuenti Racing Team, after … More »
Several teams are sporting new liveries at the Shanghai International Circuit this weekend for the latest round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. The most notable of all is bamboo-engineering’s, with the British independent team ditching their blue and grey scheme for a very Chinese red and yellow thanks to a new title sponsorship … More »
RML’s Yvan Muller was fastest in the first test session at the Shanghai International Circuit in China. Muller’s best time of 1:55.642 was just over a second down on the qualifying record set last year by his then Chevrolet team-mate Alain Menu. Muller set his improved time late in the session to end the session … More »
Rickard Rydell is looking forward to his one-off return this weekend with Nika Racing at the Shanghai International Circuit, a track where neither he nor the team has raced before. The 2011 STCC champion will take part in his first World Touring Car Championship race since Monza in March 2012, and his first since the … More »
Proteam Racing will run the fourth new Honda Civic in 2014 with 30-year-old Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani staying with the team next season. The Italian team has been in the Championship since 2005, and until now has always competed with the BMW brand. Bennani is the top placed non-Chevrolet equipped driver in the Yokohama Drivers’ … More »
Japanese driver Yukinori Taniguchi will be back at the next round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Shanghai, in a last minute deal to drive the third SEAT León of Campos Racing. Taniguchi was convinced to make a return to the WTCC after over a year and a half away by Wiechers-Sport for … More »
Honda Racing Team JAS team have confirmed that Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro will be retained by the team in 2014, as the team enter their second year in the World Touring Car Championship with an all-new car next season. Tarquini and Monteiro, who have been team-mates on-and-off since the Portuguese driver first joined the … More »
2012 World Champion Rob Huff will team up with Rob Holland for the Nürburgring round of the VLN Endurance Championship, driving Rotek Racing’s Audi TTRS Special on October 26th. The four hour race takes place on the Nürburgring Nordschleife track, the famous 14 mile course through Germany’s Eifel Mountains. The two will battle in the … More »
Mark Winterbottom and Steven Richards won the first Bathurst 1000km race for the Ford Performance Racing team, holding off the Triple Eight Holden of Jamie Whincup in an epic finish which saw up to five cars within a shot of the win with ten laps to go. The #5 Ford had worked their way ahead … More »