The FIA is set to rebrand its World Touring Car Championship as the "World Touring Car Cup," with ratification by the international motorsport governing body's World Motor Sport Council of the decision to adopt the regulations of the TCR International Series for 2018-19.The move, which follows a cooperative agreement between...

Thed Bjork claimed a sensational first World Touring Car Championship win for the Volvo Polestar team with a last lap pass on Honda's Norbert Michelisz.Bjork started sixth but, after getting promoted to second after an incident in front, he closed down race-long leader Michelisz and drafted by the Honda at...

Fredrik Ekblom will return to Polestar's World Touring Car Championship outfit for next weekend's China round after the Volvo team again opted to shake up its driver line-up.Ekblom started the season alongside Thed Bjork in the team's second Volvo S60 Polestar, scoring a best result of fourth in Hungary. However...

Norbert Michelisz claimed his first World Touring Car Championship win since moving to the factory Honda team as the marque secured a podium lockout at its home Motegi circuit.Hungarian Michelisz started from the reversed grid pole after qualifying in 10th, and gradually eased away from teammate and second-place starter Rob...

Tiago Monteiro scored a famous World Touring Car Championship victory in Vila Real, winning the second race in front of his home Portuguese crowd ahead of Citroen's Yvan Muller.Monteiro secured pole for the main race in Saturday's qualifying session and led from lights-to-flag in his factory Honda Civic to clinch...

Robert Dahlgren will race for Polestar for the remainder of the World Touring Car Championship season, taking the place of Fredrik Ekblom from this weekend's round in Vila Real.36-year-old Dahlgren, whose association with Volvo goes back more than 10 years, has competed in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship for Polestar...

The Polestar World Touring Car Championship team is expecting a step forward in performance when it introduces an additional Volvo S60 for testing.Despite failing a handful of technical checks in the opening three rounds of the season, the manufacturer-backed team has made a solid start to life in the WTCC,...

Tom Coronel took a sensational win in the opening World Touring Car Championship race in Morocco after resisting world champion Jose Maria Lopez.Coronel inherited the lead when Hugo Valente was handed a drive-through penalty for wiping out polesitter James Thompson on the opening lap, and survived a couple of late...

Rob Huff questioned the inconsistency of penalties handed out during the second World Touring Car Championship race at the Hungaroring after a drive-through penalty dropped him out of contention.Starting third, Huff had worked his way up to second in a sodden encounter before being passed by Citroen's Yvan Muller just...

The results from Sunday's World Touring Car Championship races at the Hungaroring will remain provisional until the completion of an investigation relating to the Honda cars.A technical investigation was launched by the stewards into the legality of the flat floor on the Honda Civic WTCC on Saturday during scrutineering. But...