2017 WTCC drivers’ champion Thed Björk made a massive leap forward in the championship after doubling his number of victories this season over a single weekend at Ningbo, but BRC’s Gabriele Tarquini remains on top after a consistent weekend for the 2009 champion. Björk took both pole positions and victories in Race 1 and 3, … More »
There was no stopping YMR driver Thed Björk who topped the first free practice session of the FIA WTCR weekend at Ningbo, beating Hyundai colleague Norbert Michelisz by close to a second in a session that was red-flagged twice. “We didn’t do any laps in the dry here last year, so it’s like the first … More »
Rank outsider Tom Chilton has vowed to ‘go for it’ in the battle for the BTCC title at Brands Hatch. The Motorbase driver would need to produce the greatest comeback of all time on Finals Day to secure the title, with a gap of 64 points to current leader Colin Turkington and just 67 left … More »
Renault Sport repeated the 1-2 from Saturday with Facundo Ardusso and Leonel Pernía winning the Super TC 2000 feature race at Termas de Río Hondo. Matías Rossi completed the podium for Toyota Gazoo Racing Argentina. Ardusso claimed the lead from pole at the start of the race in front of Pernía, Canapino and Rossi, a … More »
Ma Qing Hua will take over from Belgian driver Benjamin Lessennes for the Chinese rounds of the World Touring Car Cup at Ningbo and Wuhan in China. The 30-year-old Chinese driver last raced a touring car at the Guia Race of Macau last year, then driving a Sébastien Loeb Racing Citroen C-Elysée WTCC, but also … More »
The Geely-owned Lynk & Co brand has released a teaser video for a new touring car programme that is set to be a progression of the Polestar Cyan Racing one that competed in the World Touring Car Championship. The video shows a racing car based on the Lynk & Co 03, a new C-segment saloon … More »
Autodis by THX racing’s Stefano Comini set the fastest time in the opening TCR Europe practice session at Assen, as Honda and Hyundai teams locked out nine of the top ten positions. Comini took his Honda Civic Type R FK8 to a time of 1:44.915, putting himself nearly five-tenths of a second quicker than the … More »
STCC championship winning squad PWR Racing hope to make a move onto the world stage in 2019, with the Swedish squad evaluating a move into the WTCR – World Touring Car Cup in 2019 with its Cupra TCRs. The relatively young team was launched in 2012 and began racing in the Swedish touring car breakaway … More »
Former WTCC race winner Peter Terting will compete in the remaining rounds of the 2018 TCR Europe Series season, starting with Assen this weekend. The 34-year-old ex-SEAT driver will compete in a Hyundai i30 N TCR run by the Autodis Racing by Piro Sports team, and will take the place of Cedric Piro – who … More »
Chevrolet YPF driver Agustín Canapino took the Super TC 2000 feature race win in Oberá ahead of Renault Sport’s Leonel Pernía and Toyota Gazoo Racing Argentina’s Matías Rossi to complete a perfect weekend after claiming the qualifying race victory yesterday. The standing start saw Rossi challenge Canapino on the outside into turn one, but the … More »