Former Chevrolet Europe Motorsport Director Eric Nève is set to return to the FIA World Touring Car Championship in the wake of Marcello Lotti’s departure to help run the series, alongside Eurosport Events’ Francois Ribeiro, who has been promoted to Motorsport Director and formally takes over Lotti’s role. Nève left the WTCC during the 2012 … More »
WTCC General Manager Marcello Lotti is understood to be no longer running the Championship as of this season. Lotti has helmed the Championship since its rebirth in 2005. The former rally co-driver took over the Italian Superturismo Championship while he was team manager at BMW at the end of the 1999 season, becoming the series’ … More »
Italian driver Stefano D’Aste has ruled out a return in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship due to the current costs of TC1, and the uncompetitive nature of TC2, and will instead race in the European GT4 series this year. The 39-year-old established his own team in 2013 and ran a single BMW 320 … More »
Onyx Race Engineering, a name known for its Formula 1 team in the 1980s, has been resurrected by former owner Mike Earle, who recently ran the Arena Motorsport team until its closure in January 2013, and will field cars in the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship season built to the new regulations. The team … More »
Serbian driver Dušan Borković will switch to the TC1 class for his FIA World Touring Car Championship debut next season, driving the fourth confirmed to-date new-specification Chevrolet Cruze, which will be run by Campos Racing alongside Hugo Valente’s car. The 29-year-old, who competed in the FIA European Touring Car Cup this year, initially in a … More »
At the launch of their 2014 WTCC and WRC programmes at Citroën Racing’s headquarters in Versailles, Team Principal Yves Matton has said that the French manufacturer is looking forward to a new chapter in the company’s history, as it adds circuit racing to its rallying pedigree. With the confirmation of the full-time three driver line-up … More »
The calendar for the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship has now been officially confirmed by the World Motor Sport Council. The 12 event calendar will begin as previously confirmed in Marrakech, Morocco on April 6th, which sees the start of the season begin later than usual to allow further time for the development of … More »
Honda has shown a first computer generated image of the new 2014 WTCC Honda Civic, built according to the new TC1 Super 2000 regulations. The cars features larger aerodynamical aids, increased power and a lowered weight, promising for lap times that are about three to five seconds faster per lap. Honda will run two factory … More »
Serbian driver Dušan Borković will join the grid of the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship, driving a SEAT León WTCC run by the NIS Petrol Racing team in the Championship’s second tier for current specification cars. The 29-year-old finished third in the S2000 classification of this year’s FIA European Touring Car Cup, driving a … More »