Touring car stars to face Silverstone endurance test
Several drivers from the BTCC and WTCC past and present will head to Silverstone this weekend to take part in the Britcar 24 hour sports car race.
Several drivers from the BTCC and WTCC past and present will head to Silverstone this weekend to take part in the Britcar 24 hour sports car race.
World Touring Car Championship leader Yvan Muller was third fastest on the shakedown run for this weekend’s FIA World Rally Championship event in France.
The driver pairings for this year’s Gold Coast 600 event at Surfers Paradise has been confirmed, with the international guest drivers mainly joining the No.2 driver in each team.
The turbo boost has been lowered once again for the Volkswagen Sciroccos of the Swedish Touring Car Championship.
Chevrolet have confirmed that Yvan Muller, Rob Huff & Alain Menu will all drive for the team in 2011 with no changes to their driver line-up.
Andy Priaulx will be keeping busy in the WTCC break before Japan, as he competes this weekend at the Petit Le Mans to drive for BMW Rahal Letterman Racing.
Ford-YPF’s Gabriele Ponce De León was fastest on Tuesday’s test, as WTCC driver Gabriele Tarquini sampled the Honda Civic he’ll race at the 200km endurance event in November for the first time.
Alain Menu has once again been penalized for voluntarily dropping positions to gain pole position for the reversed grid in the second race.
Augusto Farfus was fastest from Chevrolet’s Alain Menu in the first practice session at Valencia, with team mate Andy Priaulx completing the top three.
Nobuteru Taniguchi and Masataka Yanagida have been added to the line-up for the WTCC’s last appearance at the Okayama circuit in October, increasing the field of local drivers to four.