New liveries on display in Shanghai

Several teams are sporting new liveries at the Shanghai International Circuit this weekend for the latest round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.

The most notable of all is bamboo-engineering’s, with the British independent team ditching their blue and grey scheme for a very Chinese red and yellow thanks to a new title sponsorship deal for Shanghai and Macau.

Nika Racing haven’t so much changed their black and white livery, as added new sponsors. The Swedish team now fields a Swedish driver for the first time this season, with the return of WTCC veteran and former BTCC and STCC champion Rickard Rydell.

Back in the WTCC for the first time since Macau 2011 are Volvo, with Thed Björk driving the C30 for Volvo Polestar Racing in their typical plain blue livery.

Yukinori Taniguchi hasn’t just changed livery, he’s changed his entire team and car since the last round. The Japanese driver now races the SEAT León WTCC of Campos Racing, which features the livery of team-mate Fernando Monje’s car as it’s the same car the Spaniard raced earlier in the season.

Stefano D’Aste, as usual, didn’t opt to change the livery of the car, but his race suit.