Teams running the Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship will not run at the additional 30kg of ballast as reported last month, but an increase of just 10kg to their original base weight after a review by the Touring Car Commission.
LADA Sport has confirmed James Thompson as their driver in two races of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship.
John Waterman, Alain Menu’s race engineer of five years, is heading over to Australia to lead the development of Dick Johnson Racing’s 2013 Car of the Future in the V8 Supercars Championship.
TouringCarTimes interviewed Volvo Motorsport boss Derek Crabb regarding the plans and the future for Volvo in touring car racing.
Tom Chilton and James Nash will race for Arena Motorsport in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship in the team’s Ford Focus touring cars.
Former works SEAT driver Jordi Gené tested the new SEAT Sport developed 1.6 litre turbocharged SEAT León at Valencia today, after Gabriele Tarquini was unable to make the test because of heavy snow in Italy.
Alex MacDowall is going to test for Motorbase Performance at Brands Hatch on Wednesday in order to evaluate plans for the BTCC and WTCC.
Pepe Oriola is going to continue for SUNRED Engineering in the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship.
Yvan Muller, Rob Huff and Rickard Rydell have begun testing at Valencia ahead of the opening round of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship next month at Monza, with Chevrolet sporting their revised livery.
WTCC promoter Marcello Lotti has expressed his happiness at Honda’s announcement to compete in the World Touring Car Championship as an official manufacturer entry for the first time.