Rickard Rydell has hung up his helmet to end a career that made him a modern-day touring car legend.The Swede, 48, claimed a total of 21 race victories over a seven-year stint in the British Touring Car Championship, which included winning the title with Volvo in 1998. That made him...

World Touring Car Championship race winner Rickard Rydell is set to return to the series in Russia next month after missing the last three rounds through illness.The Swedish driver was diagnosed with thyroiditis and unable to take part in the Moroccan, Hungarian and German races. As his recovery continues, the...

The highly rated Argentine Super TC2000 driver Nestor Girolami could enter selected World Touring Car Championship rounds later this season, potentially in a factory Lada Vesta.Reigning TC2000 champion Girolami tested a Vesta at the Hungaroring last week but it was previously thought that calendar clashes, and his contract with Peugeot...

James Thompson has withdrawn from the Hungarian round of the World Touring Car Championship on medical grounds, his Lada Sport team has confirmed.Thompson, twice a champion at British and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...

Rickard Rydell will miss a second World Touring Car Championship event due to illness as he is not well enough to return to racing at the Hungaroring this weekend. The WTCC returnee was diagnosed with thyroiditis last week and sat out the previous event in Marrakech.A statement from Rydell's Nika...

World Touring Car Championship returnee Rickard Rydell will miss the second round of the season in Marrakech this weekend due to illness.Rydell, who is racing in the series full-time this year for the first time since 2009, intended to race despite suffering from a high fever this week, but he...

World Touring Car Championship returnee Rickard Rydell believes his team will have to treat the opening races as extended tests because of the late delivery of his new Honda Civic.After struggling against Citroen's dominant C-Elysees last season, Honda has made a number of changes to Civic's engine specification to address...

Nika Racing has revealed that Rickard Rydell will spearhead its assault on the World Touring Car Championship next year. The Swedish outfit is running a Honda Civic for Yukinori Taniguchi on a part-time basis in the TC2 category of the series this season and now plans to join the main...