FIA Touring Car Commission president Alan Gow has said he does not expect to see the World Touring Car Cup relaunched as a World Touring Car Championship with manufacturer involvement. The WTCC last ran in 2017 when only Honda and Volvo were represented as manufacturer entries, with Citroen and Lada having both bowed out at … More »
The BMW that Alessandro Zanardi claimed his first first FIA World Touring Car Championship victory with is currently up for sale. The Italian drove for ROAL Motorsport BMW Team Italy-Spain in the WTCC during the 2005 season after one season in the ETCC the year before. Zanardi won the second race of the race weekend … More »
The British and World Touring Car Championships are some of the most competitive and successful touring car championships. Can you name the selected few drivers that have raced in both? It’s time for another touring car quiz and this time it’s kind of a special one. There are not many drivers that have raced both … More »
As we face another weekend of no touring car racing, it’s time for a new quiz. This time it’s about the World Touring Car Championship and the World Touring Car Cup, can you name all champions? As you might have noticed from the image above, there is a catch. We have also included the World … More »
Eurosport Events boss Francois Ribeiro expects the costs of competing in the newly-launched PURE ETCR electric touring car series to be comparable with the old WTCC TC1 budgets. The World Touring Car Championship utilised the TC1 regulations in the final years leading to its ultimate demise in 2017, with the series then morphing into the … More »
The FIA World Touring Car Championship organiser has released a tribute video to highlight the end of the Super 2000 regulation that has been used in the championship since it began in 2005, and will be replaced by TCR next year. The video features WTCC champions Yvan Muller, Gabriele Tarquini, as well as newly crowned … More »
So there we have it, the WTCC is dead. It’s 13th season was its last. Unlucky for some. And just under a week ago, at the Losail circuit in Qatar, the Super 2000 era which was launched back in 2002 with the FIA European Touring Car Championship, has now been confirmed to be formally at … More »
The new FIA World Touring Car Cup has been officially confirmed after a deal was reached to bring the World Touring Car Championship and the TCR International Series together. Approved at the latest meeting of the FIA’s World Motorsport Council in Paris, the new series will run for at least the next two years after … More »
Rob Huff is looking to repeat his multi-touring car programme in 2018, after racing across the globe this year in the WTCC, the TCR International Series, the BTCC and the CTCC. With the WTCC and TCR International Series set to merge into one single international championship in 2018, the 37-year-old believes that will provide him … More »
This Friday, everything is set for the most exhilarating season finale of the World Touring Car Championship to-date, when the short-lived TC1 era cars race under the floodlights at the Losail circuit in Qatar, as Volvo’s Thed Björk and Honda’s Norbert Michelisz go head-to-head for the 2017 drivers’ title. No matter what happens, we’re guaranteed … More »