Rickard Rydell likely to leave STCC
2011 STCC champion and 2012 runner-up Rickard Rydell says that he is most likely not going to take part in the championship next year.
2011 STCC champion and 2012 runner-up Rickard Rydell says that he is most likely not going to take part in the championship next year.
Volkswagen has declared their ambition to take part in the new STCC – Racing Elite League from 2014 after the merger with TTA.
The BMW teams have got their weight set to the lowest possible ahead of the penultimate race of the season, 1140 kilos. A weight the BMW teams say is impossible to reach.
The latest list of compensation weights for the WTCC has been released, with BMW dropping to the minimum possible compensation level along with Ford, whilst Chevrolet remains at the top.
Hong Kong-based team China Dragon Racing will enter two Chevrolet Lacettis for the Shanghai round of the WTCC in addition to their scheduled appearance at Macau, bringing the entry up to 28 cars.
Special Tuning Racing with slim down to just one car at the next round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship in Shanghai. Tom Boardman will be the only entry for the team, which hopes to be back up to two cars for the Macau finale.
Colin Turkington will make his WTCC return next weekend at Shanghai a year after his last professional race, this time in a Chevrolet Cruze, run by West Surrey Racing under the Aviva-Cofco banner.
SEAT León Supercópa France points leader Hugo Valente will make his WTCC debut with SURNED Engineering at Shanghai, taking over the SR León 1.6T previously driven by Tiago Monteiro and Hiroki Yoshimoto this season.
2012 Hong Kong Touring Car S2000-class champion Eric Kwong Hoi Fung will line-up on the grid at the Shanghai International Circuit in a normally aspirated Chevrolet Cruze LT run by Look Fong Racing Team.
Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden Team Principal Nicklas Karlsson and Volkswagen Press Manager Markus Thomasfolk are glad the two series are getting back together in 2013.