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LADA Sport confirms James Thompson

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LADA Sport has officially confirmed James Thompson as their driver in two races of the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship.
“We have also a pre-agreement with him for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 in the case that LADA Sport will decide in favour of a WTCC works programme after these two exploratory events,” said LADA Sport programme manager Viktor Shapovalov.

The Brit is going to take part in the races at Hungaroring and Estoril in the new LADA Granta Sport.
“The agreement we have with him includes all the testing we will do in 2012 to develop the WTCC Granta,” said Shapovalov.

Thompson took part in the 2009 WTCC for LADA , before joining Hartmann Honda for the DTC in 2010 and Volvo Polestar Racing for STCC in 2011.
“I’m really pleased to have this deal. They have a brand new racing structure at LADA Sport and this gives me a lot of confidence that this can go somewhere,” said Thompson.

The LADA Sport team is set to start testing Granta model in April.