The entry list with all confirmations so far for the FIA World Touring Championship season has been revealed, with the deadline for entries closing last Friday, with 19 full season entries as the Championship introduces all-new regulations for 2014. The new generation of Super 2000 cars, which compete in what will be called the TC1 … More »
Wiechers-Sport is not going to take part in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship but is aiming to be back for 2015. ”It is with a heavy heart that we will not show up for the season start of the WTCC for the first time in nine years,” said Dominik Greiner, Team Manager. The … More »
The Alfa Romeo 4C coupé has been selected as the safety car for the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship season. The Alfa Romeo becomes the first official safety car since 2012, when the Chevrolet Camaro performed the duty in the US marque’s final season in the Championship. Last year, a variety of cars performed … More »
Swedish team Nika Racing is still working on a programme to continue to compete in the FIA World Touring Car Championship in the 2014 season. The team was jointly leading the Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy with Michel Nykjaer in 2013, and was third in the overall drivers’ standings, before replacing him for the final three rounds … More »
2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship Yokohama Trophy champion James Nash will not defend his title this season, with his team-mate and Trophy runner-up Alex MacDowall also moving on, with both drivers set to move to GT racing this year. 28-year-old Nash secured the Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy title with bamboo-engineering in only his second WTCC … More »
LADA Sport Lukoil race engineer Marco Calovolo believes that Lada have gained a lot from their returning full season in the FIA World Touring Car Championship in 2013, and hopes that data gathered in the last part of the year will help James Thompson and Rob Huff challenge for victories in 2014. Calovolo has worked … More »
The 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship will see the introduction of fixed testing sessions at 11 of the 12 rounds, which will take place on the Friday ahead of the weekend, and will drop the early morning 15 minute warm up sessions from Sunday. The only exceptions will be at the Moscow and Macau … More »
Lada Sport Lukoil is going to field three cars in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship for James Thompson, Rob Huff and Mikhail Kozlovskiy. The team is currently building the new TC1 specification Lada Granta Sport cars, but the technical regulations are not the only new thing the team is facing this season. A … More »
The first round of the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship at Morocco has been put back to the weekend of the 12th-13th April, which means it will now be back-to-back with the Championship’s first event in France in five years just a week later. The first round of the Championship at the Circuit Moulay … More »
Honda Racing Team JAS have shaken down their brand new Honda Civic in Italy, and will conduct their first official test with the new Super 2000 2014 car, built to race in the TC1 class, next week at Ciudad del Motor de Aragón. Gabriele Tarquini, who will again be paired with Tiago Monteiro for the … More »