Kiwi Jono Lester traded GT for touring cars this weekend with an FIA WTCR test with Alfa Romeo Team Mulsanne, at the wheel of a Giulietta TCR at Italy’s Vallelunga circuit. It was the first taste of front-wheel-drive FR machinery for 29-year old Lester, who has successfully established himself as a professional GT driver in […]
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The company behind the TCR touring car format has revealed details about its ‘E TCR’ concept for electric touring cars. WSC Technology, which is a subsidiary of the WSC Group that developed TCR, announced last Friday it had launched the E TCR concept for cars powered only by electric motors. SEAT’s Cupra performance brand showcased […]
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Volvo factory squad Polestar Cyan Racing will join the World Touring Car Championship from 2016, fielding a pair of S60 Polestar TC1s as the Swedish manufacturer returns to the series full-time after four years away. Volvo Polestar Racing has dabbled in the WTCC before, running their C30, developed for the Swedish Touring Car Championship, at […]
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Sebastien Loeb produced a classy drive to stay out of trouble in race two of the opening World Touring Car Championship round to take victory ahead of Jose Maria Lopez, while Tiago Monteiro secured Honda’s first podium of the new season. Loeb took the lead from Ma Qing Hua in a furious opening two laps […]
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LADA has released the first official image of its new World Touring Car Championship entry, the Vesta WTCC, as it looks to build on its recent successes this season. The Russian manufacturer announced plans to replace the existing Granta model last year with an all-new saloon, the Vesta, which had partly been developed with the […]
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Lada racer Rob Huff scored a dramatic seventh victory in Macau after heartbreak for Tiago Monteiro in an unpredictable 2014 World Touring Car Championship finale. Briton Huff was engaged in a ferocious three-car fight for the lead with Monteiro and Yvan Muller for much of the race. Two laps before the scheduled finish, Portuguese ex-Formula […]
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Jose Maria Lopez says it is in an honour to become the first Argentinian since the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio to win an FIA world championship title after wrapping up the World Touring Car Championship in Japan. Though his title win was considered something of a foregone conclusion with four races of the season remaining […]
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After numerous titles on the World Rally stages over the last decade, Citroen can now call itself world champions on the track as well now after comfortably wrapping up the 2014 WTCC title in Shanghai at its first attempt. Having made the switch to touring car competition in 2014 with the C-Elysee, Citroen has emerged […]
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LADA is finally a winner in the World Touring Car Championship, six years on from its debut, after controlling the pace at Goldenport Park to lead from pole position. The British driver was starting from a reverse grid pole position for the second round in succession, but while he was denied victory by Jose Maria […]
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