Katsumasa Chiyo and his Nissan GT-R Nismo outran Audi and Aston Martin, making two dramatic passes within a 30-second stretch on the second-to-last lap, to the win at the Bathurst 12 Hour race in Bathurst, Australia. The winning Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Global Athlete Team of Chiyo, Wolfgang Riep and Florian Strauss completed 269 laps […]
Citroen Racing will swell to a four-car World Touring Car Championship team this year after confirming Ma Qing Hua will race with the manufacturer full-time in 2015. The former F1 test driver made a handful of appearances in the firm’s dominant C-Elysee last season to help promote the brand in his native China, but went […]
Nissan has officially unveiled the car that will herald its return to the Le Mans 24 Hours and premier sportscar competition, the front-engined, front-wheel drive GT-R LM Nismo. Unveiled for the first time during a commercial for the Super Bowl XLIX in the United States, the GT-R LM Nismo lives up to speculation and Nissan’s […]
Tom Chilton will undertake four days of testing in Spain nextb week in ROAL’s Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1. Tom Chilton will continue his chase of FIA World Touring Car Championship success after re-signing for ROAL Motorsport for the 2015 season. The British ace, a race winner in last year’s WTCC, will undertake four days of […]
Team Black Falcon’s 2015 motorsport season has kicked off with a bang as the team completely dominated the 24 Hours of Dubai this weekend at the Dubai Autodrome, taking the overall victory and a 1-2 in the Porsche Cup Class. The weekend started off smoothly for the #2 Black Falcon Mercedes (Buurman/Haupt/AlFaisal/Webb), which set the […]
Not content with just finishing third in the World Touring Car Championship in his debut season, Sebastien Loeb is getting even more heavily involved in the series next year – by running his own customer team of C-Elysees. Loeb will continue to drive for the factory squad, partnered once more by Jose Maria Lopez and […]
Sebastien Loeb says racecraft and refining setups are the main areas he needs to improve for his 2015 World Touring Car Championship campaign.The nine-time World Rally champion focused entirely on circuit racing for the first time with his 2014 Citroen program. He had previously interspersed sports car races – including a full 2013 FIA GT season […]
Nine-time Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen will retire from racing at the end of the month. The 47-year-old Dane, one of the greatest endurance racers of all time, said Wednesday that his last race will be the Six Hours of Sao Paulo in Brazil on Nov. 30. “I have crossed the finish line. I […]
There will be five Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs on the grid in the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship season, with 2014 champion José María López, four-time WTCC champion Yvan Muller, and nine-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb staying in the three factory cars. Sébastien Loeb Racing will join the Championship and will run a two-car satellite […]
Toyota delivered another perfect result in Shanghai on Sunday, scoring their second successive one-two finish to extend their lead over Audi in the 2014 World Endurance Championship. Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi followed up their win in Fuji two weeks earlier to post their fourth victory of the season in the No8 car, taking their […]
Newly-crowned World Touring Car Champion José Maria ‘Pechito’ López has signed up to compete at the 2014 Race Of Champions, to be held at the Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados on December 13-14. López sealed the WTCC title with a dominant win in the first race at Japan’s Suzuka circuit on Sunday. The result rounds […]
BMW 335i driver Johan Fourie wrapped up the 2014 Bridgestone Production Car championship with a flag to flag victory in the series’ first of two races at Zwartkops on November 1– dashing Michael Stephen’s hopes of retaining his crown and taking an unprecedented fourth class A title in a row. In a supreme irony, matters […]
The highly-popular Macau Guia Race will host the final round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship this year. The entry list for the event has been announced, and features a season-best of 23 cars for the championship. After his absence from the Race of Japan, Ma Quing Hua will be back at the wheel […]
José María López took the 2014 World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) title with victory in race one at Suzuka, as Citroën team-mate Yvan Muller retired from the race with a left-rear puncture whilst running in second. Argentine López led the entire race from start to finish to secure his maiden title in the WTCC […]
When Christian Fittipaldi captured the International Formula 3000 title in 1991 at the age of 20, he didn’t realize he would have to wait 23 years until he would win another major championship. Throughout his career, the Brazilian enjoyed many major accomplishments. He raced three years in Formula One, was second place overall and earned […]
– The Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs recorded a magnificent one-two-three-four in Shanghai, as José María López won race one ahead of Ma Qing Hua, Yvan Muller and Sébastien Loeb. This unprecedented clean sweep ensured Citroën became Manufacturers’ World Champion. – This is the first international championship that Citroën has won on the track, after five Cross […]
The FIA World Touring Car Championship stops in Shanghai this weekend, after visiting the Chinese capital last week at Goldenport Park.With three events left and 165 points up for grabs, José María López enters the weekend with a 66-point margin over Citroën team-mate Yvan Muller. The Argentinian knows that if that gap goes up up […]
A long and action-packed day began with qualifying. The sun was shining, but the track was still cold and slippery. In Q1, Ma Qing Hua’s programme was disrupted when the red flag was brought out, and the Chinese driver could only manage 14th place. José María López and Yvan Muller then clocked the best times […]
• Kelvin van der Linde and René Rast clinch title in Audi R8 • Audi duo win three races and finish among the points in all 15 races so far • Following two 24-hour victories, Rast crowns perfect season with ADAC GT Masters title The 2014 ADAC GT Masters champions are Kelvin van der Linde […]
Chinese racer Ma Qing Hua will return to the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in China this weekend for Citroën, as he races at his two home events in Beijing and Shanghai.Ma had earlier this year been confirmed to race at European events at the Moscow Raceway and Spa-Francorchamps, as well as Asian events Shanghai […]
Five drivers from three different teams, fielding an Audi R8, Porsche 911 and BMW Z4 will still be battling it out for the Super Sports Car League title at the ADAC GT Masters finale in Hockenheim on the weekend of 3rd-5th October. Championship leaders Kelvin van der Linde (18, South Africa) and René Rast (27, […]
– In its very first season in track racing, Citroën Total already has a mathematical chance of securing the World Manufacturers’ Championship title. The continent-hopping World Touring Car Championship is gearing up for a trip to China. This is an important moment for Citroën, which has operated in the country for over 20 years in […]
Although most of the insiders had predicted Citroen’s domination in this year’s WTCC, not many of them had indicated the Jose Maria Lopez as the favourite for the drivers’ championship.The Argentine driver had already impressed in the first half of the season, leading the standings from the opening race at Marrakech. However, by pocketing a […]
The two Johannesburg brothers and Dainfern College students who are making big names for themselves in motor sport, Kelvin (18) and Sheldon (15) van der Linde, recorded yet another historic milestone for this talented motor racing family last weekend (August 30 and 31) when they both took the lead in their respective circuit racing championships […]
Kelvin van der Linde (ZA) has regained the lead in the overall standings after the sixth race weekend of the ADAC GT Masters at the Nürburgring (D). The Van der Linde, overall winner of the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup in 2013, finished in sixth place alongside his team-mate René Rast (D) in the Audi R8 […]
Flying Lizard Motorsports endured another difficult TUDOR United SportsCar Championship race at Virginia International Raceway again facing on-track contact and mechanical and tire challenges during the two hour and forty five minute race.Spencer Pumpelly started the No. 35 PR Newswire / UBM Tech / eSilicon Audi R8 LMS car in place of team principal Seth […]
Jason Zheng Zhi Qiang and Kenneth Look took a 1-2 finish for the privateer G Racing team during the fifth round of 2014 China Touring Car Championship at the Korean International Circuit, with Martin Zie completing the podium in his Changan Ford FRD Focus. The CTCC Committee allowed three cars from the Shanghai VW Polo […]
As part of a series called “My Big Break,” All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their careers. Leena Gade is the race engineer for Audi Sport. She oversees the mechanics and engineers, and she’s on the […]
Sebastien Loeb says the close competition and combative approach will make him a stronger touring car driver as he turns attentions to 2015.Sebastien Loeb has admitted defeat in his hopes of winning the World Touring Car Championship in his first season after slipping almost 100 points adrift of team-mate Jose Maria Lopez. The rallying legend […]
Jose Maria Lopez has taken a potentially pivotal stride towards the 2014 World Touring Car Championship title at his first attempt after producing a perfect maximum score in ideal surroundings around the Termas de Rio Hondo. Under immense pressure to perform on his return to Argentinian soil having established himself as the driver to beat […]
– José-María López achieved a clean sweep at his home meeting in Argentina, with two race wins and one pole position. – Yvan Muller, Pechito’s fiercest rival for the World Championship, secured two podium spots, while Sébastien Loeb finished 4th and 6th. – López’s maximum points haul puts him 60 points clear of Muller in […]
Andy Meyrick drove a series of impeccable stints to help ensure a solid finish for the Bentley Continental GT3 in Bentley’s first return to 24-hour racing since winning Le Mans in 2003. Andy, Guy Smith and Steven Kane had a difficult race but managed to overcome bad luck to cross the line ninth in the […]
he 2014 World Touring Car Championship resumes with Jose Maria Lopez taking a 44 point advantage to his home round at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, scene of his eye-catching series debut last season. Recruited by the privateer Weichers-Sport team to drive its BMW on his home soil, Lopez – who had been racing […]
It was the result everybody would have secretly dreamt of, but eventually it also became reality: the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT has won the Total 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, offering Audi its third success in four years in the world’s most prestigious GT race, which, in its 90th anniversary, proved to be worth of […]
After seven rounds in Europe, the FIA WTCC crosses the Atlantic for a meeting at the Termas de Río Hondo circuit in Argentina • José-María López, who leads the World Championship standings, will be given a hero’s welcome by his home crowd • Sébastien Loeb, who has won Rally Argentina on eight occasions, will perhaps […]
In less than one month, the Race of Argentina will welcome … an Argentine as provisional leader of the FIA WTCC standings. After the end of the European part of the season, José María López went home for a few days before taking a well-deserved break and met with the Argentine press to whom he […]
BMW’s Maxime Martin has dominated a hugely dramatic race at the Moscow Raceway to record his first ever DTM victory as defending champion Mike Rockenfeller failed to finish. The RMG-driver, already having claimed a maiden pole-position in his rookie DTM season yesterday, made the perfect getaway from the word go and continued to march away […]
Dragon Motor Racing will also field one entry in the opening round of the Pirtek Enduro Cup, the Wilson Security Sandown 500 in September. The three wildcard entries add to the full-time grid which sits at 25 this season following the return of three racing entitlement contracts at the end of 2013, taking the grid […]
Unanimously considered the most beautiful circuit in the world, Spa-Francorchamps will host the last European leg of the FIA WTCC 2014. Of the twelve races held so far this season, Citroën C-Elysée WTCCs have won eleven, thanks to their four drivers: José-María López, Sébastien Loeb, Yvan Muller and Ma Qing Hua. In its début season in […]
Ma Qinghua, driving a Citroen, made history on Sunday by becoming the first-ever Chinese driver to win a race of a FIA World Championship.Ma won the 16-lap Race 2 of the World Touring Car Championship in Moscow. “When I crossed the finish line of race two, it was history for my country and also for […]