The SEAT León WTCC and the BMW 320 TC will be able to run at the minimum base weight of 1,130kg for the next race in Japan, whilst Honda get a 10kg increase for their home race, after setting the fastest laps in both of the races at Sonoma Raceway last weekend. The BMW teams … More »
Citroën showed the new C-Elysée World Touring Car Championship challenger in public for the first time today at the Frankfurt Auto Show. Sébastien Loeb and Yvan Muller, the two so far confirmed drivers for Citroën next year, unveiled the car at the show. The French manufacturer is evaluating the option to run a third C-Elysée … More »
Newly crowned manufacturers’ champions Honda plan to take the fight to Citroën in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship with four new cars, with two Civics run by the works JAS outfit and another two by privateer teams. The Japanese marque took their second win of the season at Sonoma Raceway this weekend with Gabriele … More »
Nika Racing’s Michel Nykjaer is satisfied with his weekend at the Sonoma Raceway, despite dropping to third in the drivers’ standings after being forced to start from the back of the grid after a bizarre technical infringement, which the team had tried in vain to protest against on race day morning. The Danish driver, along … More »
RML’s Tom Chilton has celebrated his first win in the WTCC at Sonoma, starting from pole position in the team’s Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T, and hopes to be on the grid, perhaps with RML, in the 2014 season. The 28-year-old turned his first pole position on Saturday into a first win on Sunday, holding off team-mate … More »
Castrol Honda Racing Team JAS driver Gabriele Tarquini has moved up to second place in the drivers’ standings after taking his second win of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season at Sonoma Raceway. The 51-year-old Italian cruised to victory in race two, starting from the outside of the front-row alongside Mehdi Bennani’s BMW, which … More »
Zengõ Motorsport’s Norbert Michelisz set his best time of the weekend in the morning warm up at Sonoma Raceway ahead of the Lada Granta of James Thompson. The Hungarian driver was the only driver in the 1:45s in the 15 minute session at the California circuit, just under half a second faster than the Lada … More »
Tom Chilton has ended RML team-mate Yvan Muller’s run of pole positions in the WTCC at Sonoma Raceway by taking his first career pole position in the USA with a last gasp lap. Chilton left it to his final run to deprive his team-mate, who was fastest in FP2 and in the first segment of … More »
Rotek Racing will not be on the grid this weekend at Sonoma Raceway, as was originally planned, with their ex-Arena Motorsport Ford Focuses, but the US team which also has a base at the Nürburgring hasn’t ruled out appearing in one of the remaining rounds in Asia later this year. Rotek Racing purchased two of … More »
The LADA Sport Lukoil team will compete for the first time at the Sonoma Raceway this weekend, with both drivers James Thompson and Mikhail Kozlovskiy also yet to experience the California circuit. With the USA only added to the calendar last year, the Russian team has never been to the circuit before, nor has two-time … More »