Tuenti Racing Team driver Pepe Oriola is set to switch to a third car run by RML from the next round of the World Touring Car Championship, according to reports in the Spanish media. The 18-year-old was runner-up in last year’s Yokohama Trophy, and took his first career victory earlier this season at Marrakech, becoming … More »
Yvan Muller took his fourth pole position in the 2013 WTCC season at Moscow as the rain started to fall, and now moves clear as the all-time pole position record holder on the Championship. The Frenchman was able to outpace Tom Coronel’s BMW, who had looked set to threaten the two RML Chevrolets in qualifying, … More »
WTCC rookie Nikolay Karamyshev has lost all of his times from qualifying and will drop to the back of the grid for tomorrow’s races for missing the scrutineering bay when called. The Russian driver is making his Championship debut for Campos Racing this weekend behind the wheel of the team’s SEAT León WTCC, and had … More »
The BMW of Dutchman Tom Coronel was fastest in the first practice session on Saturday at the Moscow Raceway, ahead of the last two years’ champions Rob Huff and Yvan Muller. Coronel’s best time of 1:43.574 was just over a tenth of a second fastest than the Münnich Motorsport SEAT León of Huff with Yvan … More »
The LADA Sport Lukoil team will compete on home soil for the first time in their World Touring Car Championship history this weekend as the WTCC heads to the Moscow Raceway for the first time. The team will again field their two Lada Granta WTCCs for Mikhail Kozlovskiy and British driver James Thompson at the … More »
The SEAT León WTCC will be the only car that gets a weight adjustment for the forthcoming round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Moscow, with Lada, BMW, Chevrolet and Honda remaining on the same ballast levels as Salzburg. The SEAT León was carrying 20kg of compensation weight at Salzburg, which put the … More »
bamboo-engineering’s Alex MacDowall hopes to bounce back in his Championship challenge next weekend at the Moscow Raceway, after losing out last time out Salzburg as one of the drivers penalised after the controversial qualifying session. The 22-year-old started as the highest placed driver that had been penalised by the stewards for going too slowly in … More »
Reigning FIA ETCC Super Production class champion Nikolay Karamyshev will race for Campos Racing in the next two rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Moscow and Porto. Karamyshev will take over the car driven by French driver Hugo Valente for the next two rounds before Valente returns for the fly-away portion of … More »
On Saturday we saw one of the most surreal qualifying sessions in motorsport at the fifth round of this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship, and then it was followed up with an equally bizarre handing down of penalties which effectively put ten of the Championship’s front-runners at the back of the pack. Why did … More »
bamboo-engineering driver James Nash’s first overall win and second place in race one at Salzburg were also replicated in the Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy, which allows him to extend his lead over new closest rival Michel Nykjaer. Nykjaer won race one and Nash race two, which meant the two picked up the same points in terms … More »