The future is clearly electric, or part-electric, as three major touring car championships have confirmed their future plans in this space in just the past few months. This weekend, the new ETCR project from World Sporting Consulting (WSC), the creators of the world-dominating TCR (Touring Car Racer) concept, was formally given a 2020 launch date … More »
The new Cupra e-Racer, which will be part of the first all-electric touring car series due to debut in 2020, has completed its first public demonstration runs by ex-WTCC driver Jordi Gene. The car, which is rear-wheel drive and generates the equivalent of 680bhp, completed a series of laps around the Circuit de Catalunya in … More »
TCR promoters WSC Technology today confirmed the first all-electric multi-brand touring car series, ETCR, which is due to make its debut in 2020. Head of WSC, Marcello Lotti, presented the new series concept during the official launch at the Circuit de Catalunya, where the final round of the TCR Europe series season takes place later … More »
M1RA driver Dániel Nagy believes a strong weekend in Barcelona this weekend is key to securing a second season with the team in the 2019 TCR Europe series. Hungarian Nagy endured a luckless two seasons in a Honda Civic TC1 in the World Touring Car Championship in 2016 and 2017 before making the switch back … More »
Cyan Racing has confirmed that it will make the move into the FIA World Touring Car Cup with the new Lynk & Co 03 TCR car for the 2019 season. The Geely-owned brand released a teaser video a month ago of a new touring car programme alongside Cyan Racing, with the promise that more information … More »
Former Macau Grand Prix winner André Couto heads a total of six wild card drivers who will join the grid for the final rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Cup on the challenging Macau streets next month. Couto has been nominated by the TCR China promoter – at the invitation of WTCR promoter Eurosport … More »
Tiago Monteiro has been cleared to make his long-awaited return to competition in the penultimate rounds of the World Touring Car Cup at Suzuka later this month. The Portuguese racer has been out of action for more than twelve months following a high-speed accident during testing in Barcelona in September 2017; an incident that robbed … More »
The World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) grid is set to be bolstered even further next year, with a number of multiple champions linked to joining the already superstar-status grid, with three-time World champion Andy Priaulx and three-time British champion Colin Turkington set to join the fold. With the 2018 season already featuring some of the … More »
Thed Björk battled his way to being the best of the four Hyundai drivers in today’s first race at Wuhan to finishing 12th, a far cry from the two poles and double victory the reigning WTCC champion scored a week ago at Ningbo, and the Swede expects it’s possible they’ll be behind before the season … More »
Esteban Guerrieri has called for a re-evaluation of the how the running order is decided the for the top five shootout (Q3), as the Münnich Motorsport driver believes it unfairly hampers the faster driver. Guerrieri now officially has the qualifying lap record at Wuhan after setting a time of 1:50.150 in the second segment, in … More »