Lada is set to end its involvement in the World Touring Car Championship at the end of the current season.The Russian marque first entered the WTCC in 2008 and has competed in every campaign since 2012, but it is expected to formally confirm its exit from the championship on November...

Tiago Monteiro claimed a sensational home pole for the main World Touring Car Championship race in Vila Real after stringing together the cleanest lap in the final part of qualifying.Portuguese Monteiro had looked the slowest of Honda's three drivers coming into the session, but produced a strong lap in the...

Gabriele Tarquini scored a memorable first World Touring Car Championship win since his switch to Lada, leading team-mate Nicky Catsburg home in a one-two finish at Moscow Raceway.Tarquini started ninth but sliced his way through the field after rain forced a delayed start and, having caught and passed early leader...

Jose Maria Lopez was fastest in the second World Touring Car Championship practice session at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, lapping his Citroen C-Elysee almost three seconds quicker than anyone else.With rain overnight having dampened the circuit, Lopez backed up his session-topping pace from Thursday evening's first practice with the fastest time...

The Honda and Lada World Touring Car Championship teams have received a weight break following a second review of the championship's success ballast levels.Having run without ballast during the opening two rounds of the season, Honda and Lada were handed 70 and 50 kilograms (154lb and 110lb) respectively ahead of...

Thed Bjork denied Lada's Gabriele Tarquini a clean sweep of World Touring Car Championship sessions at the Hungaroring with the fastest time in second practice in his Volvo S60 Polestar.Polestar's Bjork, who was disqualified from both of last weekend's Slovakia Ring races for an air restrictor fault, had an early...

Polestar Volvo's Fredrik Ekblom and Lada's Nicky Catsburg set the pace in World Touring Car Championship practice at the Slovakia Ring.Swede Ekblom produced the fastest time in either of the two sessions in Saturday morning's first practice, leading a Polestar one-two with a best time of 2m05.420s in his Volvo...

Lada's Gabriele Tarquini set the pace in the World Touring Car Championship testing session at the Slovakia Ring. The 2009 world champion set a best time of 2m04.956s in the final minutes of a trouble-free 30-minute session, and headed Honda's Norbert Michelisz who was 0.211 seconds slower.Nicky Catsburg was third-fastest...

Jose Maria Lopez survived a late onslaught from Tiago Monteiro to win the main World Touring Car Championship race at Paul Ricard.Lopez's Citroen led from lights to flag, but came under intense pressure from Honda driver Monteiro in the final laps and won by a mere 0.284 seconds in his...

Double World Touring Car champion Jose Maria Lopez secured pole for Sunday's main race at Paul Ricard with a scintillating lap of the Le Castellet circuit.Lopez set a best time of 1m28.950s - the fastest lap of the weekend – in the final shootout session to secure pole in his...