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Rickard Rydell and Chevrolet Team Sweden is aiming to take part in the opening rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship with the team’s new Chevrolet Cruzes.

Honda’s Takanobu Ito has formally announced Honda’s intention to enter the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship with the European Honda Civic.

Honda are targeting a return to the WTCC in 2013, and hope to be out as soon as this year at Suzuka with a Honda Civic, which will be prepared by Italian Honda specialists JAS Motorsport.

TouringCarTimes readers voted for Rob Huff as the best driver on the grid in the 2011 season. The British driver took one in four votes to finish ahead of Hungarian rising star Norbert Michelisz and Hong Kong’s Darryl O’Young.

The WTCC’s second planned visit to Argentina may already be over after a revised schedule is published by the FIA with the event replaced with one in April.

Ford have commissioned Mountune Racing to provide a Global Racing Engine for Arena Motorsport and Chang’an Ford FRD Motorsports in the 2012 WTCC and CTCC seasons respectively, with both teams planning to field three car teams.

Arena International Motorsport shook down their Super 2000 specification Ford Focus, equipped with a Ford 1.6 litre turbocharged engine before Christmas in preparation for their entry in the 2012 World Touring Car Championship season.

TMS, the team which ran the works LADA team in the 2009 World Touring Car Championship plan to enter the Hungarian and Portuguese rounds of next year’s WTCC with the LADA Granta Sport.

Swiss driver Fredy Barth wants to return for a third season in the WTCC for 2012, and wants to shake off the bad memories of the 2011 season, which ended with a high impact crash on the streets of Macau.