Augusto Farfus has said track knowledge has helped a little, after the Brazilian sailed to second position in the first race of the weekend at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in the UK, securing his first podium result since the season opener at Hockenheim over two years’ ago. Farfus made his way from fifth … More »
BRC Racing Team’s Norbert Michelisz scored his first win of the season in Race 3 at the Slovakiaring, and the Hungarian says after the mistake of writing off his title chances early-on at his home race last year, he won’t do the same again this year. The Hungarian had a difficult start to the year, … More »
Campos Racing’s Pepe Oriola has now put himself firmly in the title fight after his first victory in the World Touring Car Cup in Slovakia, now sitting sixth in the points table, just eight points behind last year’s WTCC champion Thed Björk. The 24-year-old has now scored more than half his season’s tally in just … More »
Campos Racing’s Pepe Oriola says the upturn in pace by Hyundai this weekend seems highly suspicious, comparing to two rounds ago at Zandvoort, when all four of the South Korean manufacturer’s cars failed to score a point all weekend. Equipped with new tyres in qualifying, the Hyundais went two seconds faster than practice, with Gabriele … More »
The World Touring Car Cup heads to the Slovakiaring this weekend, which last hosted a WTCC round in 2016, and is back as a last-minute stand-in for the cancelled Argentinian round of the 2018 Cup. Arguably not the World Cup event that will be on most people’s minds this weekend, the WTCR event nonetheless will … More »
Last week, we saw the most devasting incident in the World Touring Car Cup’s short history, and a crash so violent, ten cars would fail to make the restart, with three cars out for the rest of the weekend. We analyse what happened, and what the next steps are likely to be to prevent something … More »
YMR Hyundai driver Thed Björk has launched to fourth in the championship, battling back from disaster on Saturday when his car was heavily damaged in the crash instigated by the two SLR Volkswagens ahead of him. It was a weekend where few drivers scored highly. The 2017 WTCC champion scored nothing on Saturday with a … More »
Mat’o Homola has taken DG Sport Compétition’s second World Touring Car Cup victory, and the first of his career in Race 2 in Portugal, defeating four-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller, with Pepe Oriola taking his second straight podium for Campos Racing. Gordon Shedden started from pole position in the Team WRT Audi RS 3 LMS … More »
YMR’s Thed Björk hopes to be out on track on Sunday, despite being the first car to run into the two Sébastien Loeb Racing Volkswagens in the start-line crash at Vila Real which wiped out ten cars. The 2017 WTCC champion slammed into the battling pair of Volkswagens as they smashed into the Armco barrier … More »
Thed Björk says he couldn’t have caught the SLR Volkswagen Golfs in qualifying at Vila Real, but is satisfied with fifth on the grid in his YMR Hyundai i30 N TCR, where the joker lap will play a key part in today’s race. The 2017 WTCC champion set the pace through both practice sessions, but … More »