First pics: Volvo ready for WTCC premiere
Volvo Polestar Racing heads to Brazil this weekend for their first race in their first full season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
Volvo Polestar Racing heads to Brazil this weekend for their first race in their first full season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
The 2011 WTCC season starts this weekend at the Brazilian circuit of Curitiba. TouringCarTimes previews the 2011 championship, with a look at the first significant rules changes in the championship’s short history.
The 46-year-old Urs Sonderegger is going to make an emotionally loaded debut in the FIA World Touring Car Championship this season for Wiechers-Sport.
The new design for the Volvo team Polestar Racing in the FIA World Touring Car Championship 2011 has been revealed in a poster for the premiere race at Curitiba, Brazil.
The FIA World Touring Car Championship and US Touring Car Championship organizers have announced that the winner of the 2011 Nitto USTCC is going to get a free test with Proteam Racing.
A total of 22 drivers are entered for the championship from sixteen different countries in cars from four different manufacturers: BMW, Chevrolet, SEAT and Volvo.
According to Autosport the Japanese manufacturer is going to decide before this months end whether to enter the championship in 2012.
FIA World Touring Car Championship promotor Marcello Lotti met with USTCC director Ali Arsham for negotiations on a future co-operation.
Bamboo Engineering will compete in their second full WTCC season alongside a BTCC campaign in 2011, as well as a possible venture in GT1, all with Chevrolet cars.
The entry list for the 2011 FIA World Touring Car Championship is now available, with 21 cars entered for the opening round at Brazil.