Yvan Muller has confirmed this season will be his last in the WTCC, with the four-time champion stepping back to focus on his family and his own racing team, but says he doesn’t see himself stopping from racing entirely. Muller, a 36-time race winner in the British Touring Car Championship between 1998 and 2005 before … More »
The Lada cars will have 50kg less compensation weight in the FIA World Touring Car Championship races at Shanghai International Raceway next weekend compared to the previous round in Japan. The change comes as the compensation weights are calculated based on the performances of the previous three rounds, with the Russian round now out of … More »
Honda’s decision on whether or not they will continue to compete in the WTCC from next season onwards is due soon they say, but the Japanese marque also report the signs are good following a strong result in Japan, when they scored a 1-2-3 result in Race 1 with full weight onboard. Honda are yet … More »
The two Sébastien Loeb Racing team-mates Mehdi Bennani and Tom Chilton made it into the third and final part of qualifying as they battled for the independents’ pole position point, as the two go head-to-head for this year’s title. Bennani qualified third, and took the independents’ pole position point and now has 24 point lead … More »
Néstor Girolami makes his WTCC return this weekend with Polestar Cyan Racing, driving the #81 Volvo S60 in Motegi and has set himself realistic targets after 14 months away from the wheel in the championship. Girolami, who went on to win a tightly contested Argentinian Super TC 2000 Championship last year before switching to the … More »
A field of 19 TC1 cars completed a pair of short three-lap shakedown runs at Twin Ring Motegi in Japan on Friday evening, in lieu of the traditional test session as part of the championship’s cost reduction measures. The shakedown run has replaced the 30-minute test session, often referred to as “FP0” for the flyaway … More »
The ninth weekend of the 2016 World Touring Car Championship this weekend at Twin Ring Motegi, the circuit which hosted its first WTCC round last season and delivered two exciting races with wins for Citroën’s José María López and Honda’s Tiago Monteiro. It was also last year at Motegi that the TC1-spec Honda Civic scored … More »
Two-time Argentinian Super TC 2000 champion Néstor Girolami will make his third race appearance in the World Touring Car Championship on September 4th, taking over the second Volvo S60 of Polestar Cyan Racing at Twin Ring Motegi, Japan. Girolami joined Polestar Cyan Racing for a day’s testing at Termas de Río Hondo in Argentina following … More »
Two-time Argentinian Super TC 2000 champion Néstor Girolami could make his third career appearance in the World Touring Car Championship later this season after a successful test at Termas de Río Hondo last week. The Swedish factory team remained at the track one day for the day after the race in Argentina, allow the local … More »
The penultimate round of the World Touring Car Championship in Thailand at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram looks set to be cancelled due to issues with the promoter of the race. ”During WTCC Race of Argentina at Termas de Rio Hondo last week, we informed the FIA and the teams about a difficulty with … More »