Archive for the ‘Touring cars’ Category
Tomas Engström’s Honda Racing lost Thed Björk to Flash Engineering in the beginning of the year but the team have now confirmed that they will continue as a two car team for 2009. Tomas Engström will occupy one seat and the other is still up for grabs. According to TouringCarTimes they are still considering a [...]
Indy Car driver Danica Patrick and NASCAR driver Casey Mears will be racing in the Grand-Am Rolex Dayton 24 Hours for Childress-Howard Motorsport at the end of January. The two drivers will join Andy Wallace and Rob Finlay in the Pontiac Crawford. Danica Patrick raced for the team in the 2006 event (but then under [...]
The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Champion Thed Björk has joined Flash Engineering – a seat that became vacant when triple champion Richard Göransson left the squad to join West Coast Racing. Björk will partner team owner and 1996 and 1997 STCC champion Jan “Flash” Nilsson in the team’s two BMW 320si’s. “I’m extremely happy to [...]
Team Sunshine.co.uk has announced that they will run a two-car effort in the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship. The team will be run by Tech-Speed Motorsport and will run two ex-John Guest Honda Integras with Martyn Bell and Paul O’Neill behind the wheels. “We are pleased to announce that a deal has been [...]
BMW Dealer Team UK will join SEAT on the British Touring Car Championship side-lines during the 2009 season. The team’s sponsor Accident Exchange will drop out for 2009 but hints on returning for 2010. “Experts are telling us that the current economic downturn is going to be a long-term issue and we feel that it [...]
Robby Gordon Motorsports has announced that the one-car team will race a Toyota in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup. The move will be made before the Daytona 500 where the team has a guaranteed entry. “We are excited to be partnering with Toyota in NASCAR in 2009. After watching their progress last season, we decided [...]
Swedish energy company E-ON have announced together with Brovallen Motorsport that they will enter the Swedish Touring Car Championship with two LPG fuelled Volkswagen Sciroccos. The two cars will be driven by three time STCC champion Fredrik Ekblom and former ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup driver Patrik Olsson. “The purpose of the entry is to show [...]
The FIA World Touring Car Championship will change its qualifying system in 2009 to something along the lines for the F1 way of doing things. There will be a 30 minute session split into two part: Q1 and Q2. All competitors will take part in the twenty minute Q1 part and at the end of [...]
Touringcartimes are reporting that three times Swedish Touring Car champion Richard Göransson will leave Flash Engineering to rejoin his old team WestCoast Racing driving a BMW 320si in an attack for a historic fourth championship title. Team mate to Göransson will be Robin Rudholm, who will stay for his fourth consecutive season with the team. [...]
We’ve come far into the winter season now (at least in the Northern parts of the world) and most championships have come to an end already. There are still racing going on though and here are a few of the race winners from this weekend. Formula BMW World Final – Mexico City 1. Alexander Rossi [...]
