Chevrolet, BMW and SEAT will again carry the maximum weight at the Salzburgring as the World Touring Car Championship makes its first appearance there next weekend, with the weights for the SUNRED León and Ford Focus also unchanged from Hungary.
A round-up of all of the penalties from Saturday at the FIA World Touring Car Championship round at the Slovakiaring.
Ford took their first points of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship season last weekend in Marrakech, Ford’s first since the 1987 WTCC. We have a little look back of the US marque’s history in the WTCC.
Chevrolet recorded their best ever WTCC weekend at Marrakech this weekend with two 1-2-3 victories. Alain Menu claimed the honors in the first race after starting from pole position.
Arena Motorsport scored their first ever WTCC points in the past weekend’s races at Marrakech. Tom Chilton was first of the two drivers to score points with seventh in the first race.
The third meeting of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship takes place in Morocco, around the streets of Marrakech, which will be hosting a WTCC race for only the third time.
Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden’s Rickard Rydell hopes to make more appearances in this year’s WTCC after his currently planned one-off race at Monza, but the Swede’s primary focus is on defending his STCC crown in 2012.
SUNRED Engineering are targeting success in two of the FIA Touring Car classes this year, with Pepe Oriola and Andrea Barlesi spearheading their attack in the WTCC independents’ trophy and Fernando Monje in the ETCC.
Two-time British Touring Car champion John Cleland will be assisting the stewards at selected rounds of the WTCC this season, including the opening round this weekend at Monza in a new role created in order to guide the stewards and offer a racing driver’s perspective.
Tom Boardman is not going to take part in the FIA World Touring Car Championship premiere at Monza this weekend for Special Tuning Racing.