Archive for the ‘WTCC’ Category
The second World Touring Car Championship race at Pau turned out to be eventful. The pre-race bickering about turbo pressures, rev-limits and disqualifications got overshadowed by total carnage on the lovely streets of Pau. After a couple of wrecks on the first lap the safety car turned out of the pitlane to race leader Franz [...]
The 2008 Spanish SEAT Leon Supercopa champion Tom Boardman has signed for the 2009 World Touring Car Championship with the Spanish team SUNRED Engineering Development. He will run a petrol-fuelled SEAT Leon and will have the experienced Tom Coronel as team mate. Boardman ran two WTCC races for SUNRED at Estoril, a prize for winning [...]
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 [...]
Last year Philipp Eng won the Formula BMW World Final. The prize for the win is a test with the BMW Sauber Formula 1 team. The 18 year old Austrian will now claim his prize during the 2008 Formula BMW World Final at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City this weekend. Eng has this [...]
Chevrolet will dump the Chevrolet Lacetti model in favour of the new Chevrolet Cruze for their 2009 WTCC campaign. Here are some photos of the new S2000 car: It’s looking quite good, isn’t it?
