The only female World Touring Car Championship driver to date, María de Villota, has died at the age of 33 in a hotel in the Spanish city of Seville. The de Villota family posted this message on social networking site Facebook today, translated by AUTOSPORT: “Dear friends: Maria has left us. “She had to go … More »
Touring car stars Alain Menu, Rickard Rydell, Nicola Larini, Steve Soper, Tim Harvey, Jorg Müller, Duncan Huisman, Julian Bailey and Emanuele Pirro will take part in the Volkswagen Scirocco R China Masters Challenge at the 60th running of the Macau Grand Prix, as part of the many events taking place alongside the WTCC season finale. … More »
34 cars will compete in the finale of the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship, a record for the Championship, with the addition of Jo Merszei and Masaki Kano in two of Liqui Moly Team Engstler’s normally aspirated BMW 320sis. The all-time record of 35 cars came from the first round of the 2006 season, … More »
Macanese driver André Couto will race at the Macau finale of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, as he has done in every season so far, driving the third SEAT León WTCC of Campos Racing. The 36-year-old, who races full-time in the Japanese Super GT championship for Lexus, will drive the #30 SEAT León alongside … More »
China Dragon Racing team will expand from two to four cars for the FIA World Touring Car Championship finale at Macau. The Hong Kong based team will run Chevrolet cars for drivers Célio Alves Dias, Lam Kan San, Ng Kim Veng and Filipe de Souza. Ng Kim Veng and Filipe de Souza raced for the … More »
Krenek Motorsport’s Petr Fulín led the way in the first one hour test session for the FIA European Touring Car Cup season finale at his home track of Brno. Fulín finishead ahead of his Czech team-mate Michal Matĕjovský and title rival Mat’o Homola in the test. Fulín’s best lap was over six-tenths of a second … More »
RMG BMW’s Andy Priaulx said a vibration halted his charge at Zandvoort, following his switch to option tyres. The triple WTCC champion qualified 15th at the Dutch circuit and appeared to be making good headway in the race until he made his second stop for the option Hankook rubber. However, A vibration on his BMW … More »
Silverstone-based bamboo-engineering will focus on the World Touring Car Championship for 2014, running a pair of brand new RML-designed Chevrolet Cruzes in the Championship and closing down its GP3 programme. The British squad are set to win their first Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy title this season, and with James Nash in contention for a position as … More »
France and Belgium are set to be back on the FIA World Touring Car Championship calendar for the 2014 season, whilst Italy and Portugal are set to depart, with the number of rounds in Western Europe maintained at six. The official calendar is set to be unveiled later this week, but information circulating the paddock … More »
Agustín Canapino won the ninth Super TC 2000 race of 2013 at General Roca. The Equipo YPF Chevrolet driver won the race just eight tenths ahead of Nestor Girolami in second place and just below four seconds ahead of Mariano Werner. Leonel Pernía made it four different manufacturers in the top four positions in his … More »