WTCR News

Mike and Michelle Halder have confirmed that they are targeting a graduation to the FIA World Touring Car Cup in 2021, racing a pair of Honda Civic Type-R cars for their family outfit Team Halder.

The start of the 2021 FIA World Touring Car Cup season has been delayed by three weeks and the season opening event changed to the Nürburgring Nordschleife in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Klim Gavrilov and the VRC Team look set to fly the flag for Russia in the 2021 FIA World Touring Car Cup.

Honda has revealed it will field an unchanged driver line-up for the 2021 FIA World Touring Car Cup, retaining Esteban Guerrieri, Néstor Girolami, Tiago Monteiro and Attila Tassi for the forthcoming season.

Sporting format changes for the 2021 FIA World Touring Car Cup were confirmed at an online meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council last night, including provision for a new award for female drivers.

After a tricky start to the year, Santiago Urrutia has blossomed into one of the most exciting drivers on the FIA WTCR grid. However, this latest chapter of his career very nearly didn't materialise at all.

Despite his 'privateer underdog' billing, Jean-Karl Vernay never let the odds stack against him this year, and has been rewarded with a place in the top three of the overall drivers' standings.

In the second race of the day at Motorland Aragón, Yann Ehrlacher became the youngest ever World Touring Car champion; the first driver to achieve such a feat while still in his twenties.