The re-opening of the western section of the old Osterreichring is under review, and could be in place for next year's Formula 1 grand prix at the Red Bull Ring.The original Osterreichring was built in 1969 with a distance of 5.9km, but it was shortened in the 1990s and re-opened...

Kevin Gleason, racing a Honda Civic TCR for the Swedish WestCoast Racing team, today became the first American driver to stand on the top step of the podium in an international touring car race with a lights-to-flag victory in Round 6 of the TCR International Series at the Salzburgring, Austria...

The new TC3 International touring car series has announced a provisional calendar incorporating three Formula 1 support races.The championship expects to race alongside the Malaysian, Chinese and Singapore Grands Prix in its first season, with the Sepang event TC3's inaugural race. TC3 will also visit F1 venues Monza and Sochi...

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...

Jose Maria Lopez extended his lead at the top of the World Touring Car Championship drivers' standings to 41 points after taking victory in a crash-interrupted second race at the Salzburgring.Polesitter Gabriele Tarquini had to settle for second, ahead of teammate Tiago Monteiro, as both men struggled to defend from...

Salzburgring fastest qualifier Gianni Morbidelli has been awarded a five-place post-qualifying grid penalty for Sunday's opening World Touring Car Championship race, handing pole position to Yvan Muller.Munnich Motorsport driver Morbidelli was judged by race officials to have set his fastest lap in the opening Q1 segment of the three-part qualifying...

Gianni Morbidelli produced a stunning effort in qualifying for round five at the Salzburgring to end Citroen's unbeaten World Touring Car Championship pole streak.The Munnich Motorsport driver, who already held the honour of being the only non-Citroen competitor to win this season, set a fastest Q3 time of 1m22.137s, to...

Fresh from victory at the Slovakia-Ring two weeks ago, Sebastien Loeb led the way in World Touring Car Championship practice at the Salzburgring on Saturday morning. The World Rally Championship legend recorded his fastest time of 1m22.421s in the second of two free practice sessions.Loeb's FP2 effort shaded championship leader...

Campos Chevrolet racer Hugo Valente has been ruled out of this weekend's Salzburgring World Touring Car Championship meeting after his Chevrolet Cruze sustained heavy accident damage in a practice crash.Valente was in the slipstream of practice two pacesetter Sebastien Loeb when he cut the inside grass at Turn 9, sending...

Lada driver James Thompson has been retrospectively excluded from the results of the third and fourth rounds of the 2014 World Touring Car Championship at the Hungaroring and Slovakia-Ring.Officials handed the penalty to the Briton after an unauthorised break to a seal on his engine's oil sump was found in...