Franjo Kovac won the second and final race of the DTC weekend at Red Bull Ring in Austria as his team mate and race one winner Milenko Vukovic was penalised and later black-flagged for not taking the penalty. Vukovic started from pole and claimed the lead but was given a drive-through penalty for having his … More »
Milenko Vukovic claimed his first DTC victory of 2016 in the first race of the weekend at Red Bull Ring. The Swiss driver started from pole but lost the lead to Wolf Racing driver Heiko Hammel in the first part of the race. But the Audi driver fought back to win by six seconds ahead … More »
Team Dombek with reigning champion Fredrik Lestrup are set to miss the DTC races at Red Bull Ring as they are waiting for parts following the technical issues in the previous races at Zandvoort and Oschersleben. ”We have tried everything, but we have run out of time and the parts for our turbo chargers are … More »
Swedish driver Fredrik Lestrup has taken his fourth win in the DTC Series in Race 1 in Zandvoort, taking the win in his Besaplast Racing MINI John Cooper Works by almost five seconds ahead of Wolf Racing’s Heiko Hammel, extending his points lead to 12. The two drivers qualified first and second, with Hammel passing … More »
Sweden’s Fredrik Lestrup won the second race of the day at the Sachsenring in the Besaplast Racing MINI John Cooper Works, in a close battle with the Audi of Milenko Vukovic and the MINI of Kai Jordan, with the three cars less than a second a part at the finish. Lestrup withstood race-long pressure from … More »
Wolf Racing’s Heiko Hammel won the third round of the 2016 DTC season at the Sachsenring, and takes the lead of the championship from Besaplast Racing’s Fredrik Lestrup, with the Swede finishing third in his MINI John Cooper Works, almost ten seconds behind the race winner. Hammel and qualified on pole position in the Super … More »
Swedish driver Fredrik Lestrup won the second round of the 2016 DTC series at Oschersleben in the Besaplast Racing MINI John Cooper Works, crossing the line just under a second ahead of the Wolf Racing Ford Fiesta ST of Heiko Hammel to complete a double victory at the first weekend. Lestrup had started from pole … More »
Heikko Hammel has put his Wolf Racing Ford Fiesta ST on pole position for the first race of the Deutscher Tourenwagen Cup, almost a second clear of Kai Jordan’s MINI John Cooper Works. The German lapped the Oschersleben circuit with a time of 1:39.438, 0.960 faster than Jordan, who is taking part in both the … More »
ADAC Procar Series (now DTC) squad ETH Tuning will bring its pair of Peugeot 207 Sports to the 2016 FIA European Touring Car Cup, breaking Ford’s strangehold on the category since 2014, when Ravenol Team fielded a Citroën C2 VTS for Erwin Lukas. The team will run drivers Kevin Hilgenhövel and Andeas Rinke in the … More »
Michel Nykjaer will not be returning to the TCR International Series. The Dane, whose replacement Michela Cerruti has been announced ahead of the championship’s second visit to Austria, leaves Target Competition due to budget issues with no acrimony. “I’ve been very glad to drive for Target,” said Nykjaer to TouringCarTimes. “As a private team they … More »