Liqui Moly Team Engstler have confirmed that they expect to leave the FIA World Touring Car Championship after eight years in the Championship at the end of this year, after securing the Yokohama Trophy for TC2 specification (older Super 2000) cars this year with team principal/driver Franz Engstler. With TC2 not eligible to compete from … More »
Mehdi Bennani scored an emotional maiden win in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, also giving the new Honda Civic WTCC its first win. The Moroccan was crying after the flag, and got emotional several times as the podium ceremony unfolded. “This is a fantastic feeling – I think I may be dreaming,” said Bennani. … More »
Mehdi Bennani took his maiden win in the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Shanghai. The Moroccan started from pole position and took a dominant lights to win flag, marking Honda’s first win this season. Bennani came home ahead of stablemate Tiago Monteiro, making it a 1-2 for Honda, with José María López on the … More »
This weekend the seventh round of the 2014 China Touring Car Championship takes place at the Shanghai International Circuit, again supporting the FIA World Touring Car Championship. With Jiang Tengyi now classed as the winner of the last round in Beijing, albeit following post race stewards decisions, the Shanghai VW 333 Racing team is reinvigorated … More »
The FIA World Touring Car Championship stops in Shanghai this weekend, after visiting the Chinese capital last week at Goldenport Park. With three events left and 165 points up for grabs, José María López enters the weekend with a 66-point margin over Citroën team-mate Yvan Muller. The Argentinian knows that if that gap goes up … More »
The one-race format which had been proposed for the FIA World Touring Car Championship’s first time at the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit has been revised, with the formal set-up for the event to be confirmed by the WMSC on October 30th. WTCC Motorsport Manager Francois Ribeiro confirmed to AUTOSPORT that the proposed single race format … More »
The FIA World Touring Car Championship rolls into Beijing for the first time this weekend, as the final third of the season gets underway, with everyone chasing Citroën, and José María López leading the standings ahead of four-time champion Yvan Muller. With the first half of the season taking place at a rapid pace with … More »
Russian oil giant LUKOIL has now left the FIA World Touring Car Championship as of this weekend’s round in Beijing, following Lada Sport’s deal with the rival state-owned Rosneft company ahead of the 2015 season. LUKOIL joined the WTCC in 2011, backing two of SUNRED Engineering’s León 1.6Ts for Gabriele Tarquini and Aleksei Dudukalo, with … More »
Qualifying for the forthcoming round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship will take place on Sunday morning due to a logistics-driven change to the timetable, with the usual Friday test session taking place on Saturday. Due to the late arrival of the Championship’s cars and assets from Argentina, the more compact than usual schedule … More »
Lada is going to unveil a new FIA World Touring Car Championship concept based on the Lada Vesta at the Moscow International Motor Show. “The visitors of the Moscow Motor Show will have a chance to see the new Lada Vesta racecar that has been designed for competition in the FIA World Touring Car Championship,” … More »