James Thompson will have a teammate in Monza and Japan

N.Technology will run a second car at two FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) events this season: Monza in Italy and the Japanese rounds in Okayama.

Japanese driver Yukinori Taniguchi will join James Thompson to drive the second Honda Accord Euro R Super 2000, developed in collaboration with JAS Motorsport.

The eagerly awaited BMW ALMS seats will be hotly contested among the drivers and it seems to be a hard fought affair to be one of four drivers to pilot the ALMS BMW M3.

Muller took race 1 for BMW

Jorg Muller of BMW Team Germany and Alain Menu for Chevrolet claimed a win apiece after two breathtaking races at Brands Hatch. The German drivers has become the eleventh different driver to step on the highest podium after the first 14 rounds of the season. As for Menu, this was his second win of the season and his third in the WTCC at Brands Hatch in three years.

Alain Menu took his third win at Brands Hatch in three years

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Schnieder won out over the changing weather to take the win

Bernd Schneider (Genuine Parts AMG Mercedes C-Class) won the seventh
round of the 2008 DTM at the Nurburgring. After 43 laps in changeable
weather conditions, Schneider -- starting sixth - crossed the finish
line 5.7sec ahead of Paul Di Resta (AMG Mercedes C-Class) who had
qualified 12th. Jamie Green (Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class) in
third and Gary Paffett with last year's stern AMG Mercedes C-Class
completed the quadruple success for the AMG Mercedes C-Class.

Audi's race was lost after poor tyre choices

Ingolstadt/Nürburg – With a fifth-place finish Audi driver Timo Scheider defended his overall lead in the DTM. However, a tyre choice that failed to work out deprived Audi of a possible fourth victory of the season in the Eifel.

Oulton Park saw its fair share of incidents

Oulton Park race 1 - Plato controls it from the front
Jason Plato won the first of today's three HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Oulton Park circuit in Cheshire.

Plato led away from pole position in his SEAT Leon TDI but team mate and fellow front row qualifying Darren Turner was passed by a fast starting Tom Chilton from third on the grid.

Farfus scored his second pole of the season

Augusto Farfus managed to beat Alain Menu to pole position in the qualifying at Brands Hatch, but he had to set a new lap record to do it.

Augusto Farfus managed to beat Alain Menu to pole position in the qualifying at Brands Hatch, but he had to set a new lap record to do it. With a time of 1:32.794 he shattered the track record for Super 2000 cars by two and a half tenths of a second and claimed his second pole of the season after Pau. However Menu’s second position was only 0.002 seconds behind him.

Alain Menu missed pole by 0.002 seconds

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Tom Kristensen took his first pole of 2008

Ingolstadt/Nürburgring – Seven races, five pole positions: The qualifying performance of the new Audi A4 in the DTM remains impressive. At the Nürburgring, Le Mans record winner Tom Kristensen secured the best spot on the grid. Mike Rockenfeller at the wheel of his A4 from last year in second place caused a huge surprise. A total of three Audi A4 DTM cars will be starting to the race from the top grid positions on Sunday at 5:35 p.m.

Paul di Resta could have improved had the red flag not been shown

Gary Paffett (stern AMG Mercedes C-Class) will start Sunday's seventh round of the 2008 DTM at the Nurburgring with his last year's C-Class from the second row. In heavy rain, Paffett set a time of 1m38.649 and qualified fourth fastest.

Plato secured pole over his teammate

For the second consecutive event, SEAT’s Jason Plato and Darren Turner completed a qualifying lock-out and will start the first of tomorrow’s three HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at Oulton Park from the front row of the grid.

The HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship has released its full official 2009 calendar today (Saturday 26th July). Dates for the ten BTCC race weekends were released earlier this month and now the venues have been confirmed.

Representatives of the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) met the British media today in London for the Brands Hatch press conference, with President of the FIA Touring Car Commission Jonathan Ashman confirming the championship's plan to use biofuel next year.

Martin Tomczyk won last year's race at the Nurburgring

Good memories of last year’s victory
Demanding track challenges driver and technology
Unsettled weather frequently brings surprises in the Eifel

Ingolstadt – Martin Tomczyk returns to the Nürburgring, the scene of a perfect weekend for the Audi factory driver last year, with fond memories. This year the race only starts at 5:35 p.m. and is broadcast live on German television on "Das Erste".

Audi will hope to keep their Championship lead at the Nurburgring

Ingolstadt – Podium lock-out on debut at Hockenheim, one-two finish at Oschersleben, and now the first four finishing positions at Zandvoort: The new Audi A4 is clearly the car to beat in the 2008 DTM. Audi also wants to demonstrate this in no uncertain terms to the spectators at the Nürburgring on 27 July.

§ Because of the live broadcast of the Tour de France's final weekend, the qualifying for the seventh race of the 2008 DTM at the Nurburgring this coming weekend will start only at 18:48 h instead of 13:28 h; Sunday's race will begin at 17:35 h instead of 14:00 h. German channel ARD will broadcast qualifying and race live.

Yvan Muller will be laden by 70 Kilos

In Estoril SEAT Sport's Gabriele Tarquini was the first driver to receive the maximum 70-kg success ballast. But after remaining scoreless in Portugal the championship leader will go down to 58, leaving to his team-mate and closer chaser Yvan Muller the dubious honour to carry the maximum ballast. Another SEAT Sport man - Rickard Rydell, currently third in the points - will be laden by 68 extra kilos, with BMW's Andy Priaulx and Chevrolet's Nicola Larini the only other drivers to carry 50 or more kilos of ballast.

Alain Menu has a good record at Brands Hatch from his BTCC days

- Route To Brands Hatch, UK
- Tarquini Leads By One Point
- A Field Of 28 With Beirao And Biter

Route To Brands Hatch, UK

The 13th and 14th rounds of the FIA WTCC will take place next week at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit, located some 30 km South East of London. It is the third consecutive year the championship visits the racetrack.

No. 44 Wittmer leads No. 42 Cunningham at Mid-Ohio.

LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 20, 2008) – Montreal’s Kuno Wittmer earned his third win of the season in Round Seven of the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car Championship at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. RealTime Racing teammate Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee , Wis. , finished second followed by rookie Jim Daniels, of Germantown , Tenn.

No. 42 Acura TSX of Mid-Ohio polesitter Peter Cunningham

LEXINGTON, Ohio (July 19, 2008) – Peter Cunningham, of Milwaukee, Wis., went more than two seasons without a pole position, but he took his second SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge Touring Car pole in-a-row Saturday in preparation for Sunday’s Round Seven race, part of the Acura Sports Car Challenge/Honda Indy 200 weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Teammate Kuno Wittmer, of Montreal , will start second.

Mat Jackson continued his 2008 form by taking out race 3

Race 1
Jason Plato has won the first of today’s three HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds at the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk.

Plato led all the way from pole position to rack up the 41st race win of his BTCC career. Team-mate Darren Turner followed him throughout to finish second and give SEAT’s turbo-diesel Leon TDI model its first 1-2 result in the BTCC. Turner also set a new lap record of 1m11.711s.

Rydell took his first WTCC win and helped Seat to a great weekend

RACE 1

Rickard Rydell led from the first corner in his SEAT León TDI to win the first race in Estoril, which was also his first victory of the season.

The start was extremely competitive as the front four drivers all fought for the lead. Rydell kept a cool head as he found he had the pace over pole sitter Chevrolet’s Nicola Larini into the first corner. Robert Huff came up the outside to challenge for second position but made contact with Jordi Gené’s SEAT, which pushed the Chevrolet driver down to sixth.

Larini made it onto the podium in Estoril

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Timo Scheider's crew work on his car on the way to second

Ingolstadt/Zandvoort – Audi showed a dominant performance at the sixth DTM round at Zandvoort and, like last year, celebrated a one-two-three-four victory in the Netherlands. It was the new Audi A4 DTM’s best result so far and Audi’s 45th victory in the DTM. One day before his 30th birthday, title defender Mattias Ekström celebrated his second exploit of the season, after winning the season opener at Hockenheim. Following the twelfth DTM triumph of his career, the two-time champion is now the best Audi driver in DTM history.

Spengler was the highest place Mercedes driver

Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class) finished fifth in the sixth round of the 2008 DTM in Zandvoort, Netherlands and was the best Mercedes-Benz driver. After 38 laps, he came home 21.9sec behind winner Mattias Ekstrom (Audi).

Ingolstadt/Zandvoort – The DTM continually attracts actor Moritz Bleibtreu ("Knockin’ on Heavens Door", Run Lola run", "Munich"). This time, the 36-year-old film star visited Audi during the horsepower spectacle in the Dutch North Sea dunes at Zandvoort. The occasion afforded him an opportunity many can merely dream of: a ride in the racing taxi in demanding conditions in the rain.

Mattias Ekstrom took pole for Audi

Ingolstadt/Zandvoort – The qualifying at the sixth DTM race weekend at Zandvoort was marked by nail-biting suspense when as many as three Audi drivers fiercely fought for the pole position. In the end, Mattias Ekström prevailed as the front runner with a lead of more than two tenths of a second, thus setting a new track record on the Dutch dune circuit. Timo Scheider and Tom Kristensen completed the trio on the top grid positions.

Jamie Green (Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class), the winner of the Norisring race two weeks ago, was also the fastest C-Class driver in today's qualifying for Sunday's sixth round of the 2008 DTM in Zandvoort. Green qualified fourth with a time of 1m31.600 whilst Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class), the Norisring pole sitter, will line fifth on the grid with a 1m31.709. Paul Di Resta (AMG Mercedes C-Class) was seventh fastest with a 1m31.815.

Seat are on the front row, alongside Chevrolet

In the heat of the Saturday afternoon sunshine the Chevrolet and SEAT cars dominated qualifying.

It was closely fought between the two manufacturers with the BMW cars trailing close behind. Chevrolet's Nicola Larini, whose last pole position was at this circuit in the 2003 European Touring Car Championship, took the top spot of the grid by 0.150 seconds. The Italian driver dominated the last fifteen minutes of qualifying and even improved his time, therefore completing two laps that would have been good enough for pole, the best being 1:47.325.

Larini takes his first pole in 5 years of competition

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Audi tend to do well at Zandvoort

Ingolstadt – If there is one track on which Audi feels particularly at home then it is Zandvoort. Audi won three of the last four DTM races on the circuit around the sand dunes on the North Sea coast of Holland. Last year Audi even filled the top-four positions. The anticipation for the sixth race of the 2008 DTM season is correspondingly great in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.

Audi won in 2007 at Zandvoort

Ingolstadt – Summer, sun, sand and almost 80,000 spectators, but also sand on the track, an extremely demanding track layout and correspondingly meticulous technical preparation dominate the impressions of Zandvoort. At a glance all the interesting facts about the mid-point of the season marked by the sixth race of the eleven round DTM season.

Oliver Jarvis will make his Zandvoort debut when the DTM visits the venue

Ingolstadt – Oliver Jarvis has never competed in the DTM at Zandvoort. Nevertheless, a trophy he won only ten months ago at a race around the circuit in the dunes is displayed in his trophy cabinet. The Briton loves the circuit on the North Sea coast. The sixth round of the 2008 DTM season is broadcast live on "Das Erste” in German television on Sunday from 12:45 a.m.

Marrakech, Morocco will join the 2009 WTCC Season

The FIA World Touring Car Championship will expand to Africa in 2009. With the addition of a race meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, the world championship is now set to visit four continents next year: Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.

Chevrolet are excited to be racing on the African continent

Chevrolet welcomed today’s announcement that the 2009 World Touring Car Championship will visit the streets of Marrakech, in central Morocco. The announcement was made in the presence of high Moroccan dignitaries.