The STCC questionare is out now. There are many questions regarding the future such as: “How important is it for you to reinstate pitstops, standing or rolling start, a night race, a longer race of one hour,” and so on. One question is also focused at the rumours of STCC switching to V8 rules. “How … More »
The Swedish Touring Car Championship will conduct a similair investigation that FIA ran regarding the future of F1. Fans will get the chance to have their opinion brought to the STCC organisators on how they want the championship to develop. “I think it´s very important that we get a picture of what the audience really … More »
Peugeot Denmark will take part in the five final meetings of the 2005 FIA World Touring Car Championship with one Peugeot 407 car; it has been announced today by Peugeot Sport. The programme will be run by the Peugeot Sport Engineering team, the same that last year took part in some rounds of the FIA … More »
Jens Edman and Eric Helary are currently at Magny-Cours testing the new Peugeot 407. The 407 is a sister car to Johan Stureson´s 407 which he is racing in the STCC. This car is intended to be run in the WTCC, but as we earlier reported it will not be a 100% factory effort. Jens … More »
Michelin lost the contract to supply all WTCC cars with tyres. Instead Yokohama will take over the contract from 2006. “Following an invitation to tender the FIA has appointed the Yokohama Rubber Company to supply the control tyre for the 2006 FIA World Touring Car Championship,” said an FIA statement. The contract starts with the … More »
Jean-Pierre Nicolas from Peugeot Sport has confirmed that there will be no official Peugeot team in the WTCC. The french manufacturer will on the other hand support national teams like Peugeot Sport Engineering Denmark. “We want to concentrate our efforts on the LeMans programme, so there will be no works touring car team. But we … More »
SEAT Sport’s new SEAT León WTCC has completed its first real test at the beginning of last week in Almeria. Jordi Gené and Rickard Rydell shared driving duties for three days. “The testing session was extremely positive,” commented Jaime Puig, SEAT Sport director. “The car confirmed entirely the potential of the new chassis, which we … More »
In view of the FIA World Touring Car Championship first non-European event of the season, which will take place on Sunday, 26th June, the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed of Puebla Amozoc was inaugurated today, before the Governor of the state of Puebla, a number of other personalities and a large group of media. The Governor … More »
Ford will not be at the coming WTCC round in Mexico. Since the cars would be away for more than six weeks because of the race, Ford have decided to develop the cars further in Europe instead. Ford´s European motorsport boss, Jost Capito, said to Autosport: “We do not have two sets of everything, so … More »
Colciago will lose ten grid position for the next race due to his incident with Gené in Race 1; Plato received a similar penalty due to his collision with Thompson in Race 2; as for the incident between Farfus and Zanardi in Race 2, the Brazilian youngster will also lose ten positions on the grid … More »