Don’t like Honda’s BTCC contender? Try its 380bhp Civic WTCC
Last week Honda announced their 2014 BTCC contender, which moves from the championship-winning Civic hatchback to an all-new Civic Tourer – that’s right a…
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2015 Honda Civic Type R preview (w/VIDEO)
As Honda demonstrate the latest Civic Type R around its Tochigi Test Track they’ve revealed a few more details about the new range of…
Yvan Muller will join Sébastien Loeb at Citroen (w/VIDEO)
Three-time World Touring Car Champion, Yvan Muller, will join Citroën’s WTCC campaign for 2014 and 2015 as team mate to WRC superstar Sébastien Loeb….
Sébastien Loeb’s WTCC Citroën breaks cover (w/VIDEO)
If the shape looks a little unfamiliar, this is the new Citroën C-Elysée – a saloon produced primarily for the Chinese market based on…
Citroën enters World Touring Cars with Sébastien Loeb
Citroën is turning its attention to touring car racing in 2014, and who better to lead its campaign than its star rally driver Sébastien…
SEAT builds a fast and ‘very happy’ Leon Cup Racer (w/VIDEO)
Described as ‘the ultimate embodiment of SEAT’s racing DNA’, the Leon Cup Racer is a 325bhp 2.0-litre race car designed for sprint and endurance…
Seat launches new Leon Cup Racer at GTI Treffen 2013
The annual GTI Treffen gathering in Wörthersee, is the venue where Volkswagen Group’s four major brands (VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda) usually wheel out…
BTCC announces a record entry list for 2013
Thirty-two cars will take part in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) in 2013, twenty-six of those in NGTC-spec. The grid includes 13 different…
WTCC: ‘Huffy’ becomes World Champion at Macau
Well it wasn’t quite the way it had been scripted but nevertheless, Rob Huff, wrote himself into motorsport history yesterday morning by clinching the World Touring Car Championship crown on a debris-strewn Macau circuit.
Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi drives a golden BMW M3 DTM at the 40th anniversary of BMW M event
This is such a great story isn’t it? Alex Zanardi, former F1 driver and CART champion, who tragically lost his legs in a crash at Lausitzring in 2001, goes on to become a double Paralympics gold medallist at the London 2012 games.
Honda’s WTCC programme on target to deliver the next Civic Type R (w/VIDEO)
Last month at the Paris Motor Show, Honda announced that a new Type R was on its way for European customers, with the simple aim of becoming the fastest front-wheel-drive car around the 12.9 mile Nürburgring.
Their approach to achieving this goal is through racing, specifically competing in the FIA World Touring Car Championships with drivers Tiago Montiero and Fabrizio Giovanardi. And the brand new car they are developing for the series, is due to make its debut on 20th October, at the Suzuka rounds of this year’s championship.
Honda’s next Civic Type R aims for Renault’s Megane RS Nürburgring lap record
Honda has some lofty ambitions for its next Civic Type R. Having remained a mostly sub-200bhp hatchback since it arrived on these shores back in 2001, the Type R is ready to rise above its humble origins and shoot for class honours.
In a tweet this morning, Honda UK announced a new Type R was on its way and “..it’s going to be fast!”