Rob Huff secured his first World Touring Car Championship qualifying pole in more than three years as Honda locked out the top three positions in Morocco.Huff was second of the five pole position shootout runners to take to the track, but he strung together an exemplary lap of the Circuit...

James Thompson will once again race for the Munnich Motorsport World Touring Car Championship team next month, standing in for team owner and driver Rene Munnich in Marrakech.The Briton was called up by the squad for the second round of the season at the Slovakia Ring earlier this month, with...

James Thompson says he would "love to" make further World Touring Car Championship outings this year after his first appearance in the championship in almost a year last weekend.The two-time British Touring Car champion drove in the WTCC for the first time since splitting from Lada during the third round...

James Thompson will return to the World Touring Car Championship next weekend at the Slovakiaring after agreeing to stand in for Rene Munnich in a Chevrolet Cruze.Thompson, who won the British Touring Car Championship in 2002 and '04, has been drafted in to replace team owner Munnich at his eponymous...

Lada Sport has confirmed Dutchman Jaap van Lagen will race for its World Touring Car Championship team at the Nurburgring, replacing the departed James Thompson.It was revealed on Tuesday that Thompson had left the team. Complications following dental surgery had initially been cited as the reason he did not start...

Double British Touring Car champion James Thompson has parted company with the Lada Sport World Touring Car Championship team with immediate effect, according to sources close to the team.Thompson withdrew from last weekend's Hungaroring round of the WTCC after qualifying, citing complications following dental treatment.A team spokesperson would neither confirm...

James Thompson has withdrawn from the Hungarian round of the World Touring Car Championship on medical grounds, his Lada Sport team has confirmed.Thompson, twice a champion at British and European level, had a muted qualifying session and was due to start 14th on the grid in the first race.He reportedly...

Lada will start the 2015 World Touring Car Championship season with just two of its new Vestas for 2012 champion Rob Huff and two-time British Touring Car champion James Thompson.Mikhail Kozlovskiy, the third team's driver, will miss next weekend's Termas de Rio Hondo opener and make his debut in the...

The World Touring Car Championship will race on the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 2015 as a curtain-raiser to the track's 24 Hours. The meeting is set to be the first world championship event on the circuit since the 1983 1000km World Sportscar race.A three-year deal between WTCC promoter Eurosport Events and...

World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller expressed his frustration at Citroen team-mate Jose Maria Lopez after a Salzburgring startline collision caused his third retirement in five rounds.Muller had closed to within 16 points of Lopez in the WTCC standings after winning race one. But failure to finish in the reversed-grid...