Volvo Polestar Racing will return to the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the next round in Shanghai for just one race, fielding their Super 2000 specification Volvo C30 1.6T for current Scandinavian Touring Car Champion Thed Björk. The Swedish manufacturer last competed in the WTCC in 2011, running the full season as an evaluation … More »
The FIA World Touring Car Championship heads to Suzuka this weekend for the third time, which sees Honda arrive having already won this year’s manufacturers’ title, and Yvan Muller all set, barring disaster, to secure a record-breaking fourth drivers’ title with RML. Last season saw Chevrolet’s Alain Menu continue to build his late season championship … More »
Two more Macanese drivers have been added to the line-up for the final three rounds of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship, and will compete against compatriots Jerónimo Badaraco, Ng Kin Veng & Filipe de Souza for the inaugural WTCC Asia Trophy. Mak Ka Lok will race for RPM Racing in a BMW 320si E90, … More »
SEAT has ruled out a return to the World Touring Car Championship in the immediate future, and instead will place its focus on single-make series, possibly a new SEAT León Supercopa championship with the new León Cup Racer, which was debuted earlier this year at the Salzburgring. The prototype León Cup Racer, built to the … More »
The World Touring Car Championship’s most recent race winner José María ‘Pechito’ López would love the opportunity to race in the WTCC in 2014 should an opportunity arise, after stunning the field with victory in the ageing BMW at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit last weekend. The 30-year-old Argentinian, whose one-race deal to race … More »
Photos from Yvan Muller’s recent test with Citroën Racing’s new World Touring Car Championship challenger, the C-Elysée.
Citroën Racing have today announced that three-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller will race for the team alongside nine-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb in the 2014 season, at the wheel at one of the team’s all new C-Elysée cars. After a successful test with the team last week, the Frenchman, who is a sure bet to … More »
Citroën Racing has just released a new video, showing Yvan Muller testing the new WTCC Citroën C-Elysée which took place last week just before the race weekend in Argentina. “It’s terrific: a real thoroughbred. I think we should be able to do great things with it,” said Muller in the video. Citroën has not yet … More »
30-year-old José María López made a debut above all expectations in his home race in Argentina, winning the second race with the Wiechers-Sport BMW securing the team’s third ever victory and taking only the second win for a BMW car in the 2013 season. The Argentinian driver who first got to drive the Super 2000 … More »