A brand new championship deserves a brand new website.
With the FIA European Touring Car Championship being upgraded to FIA World Touring Car Championship, the current website will not be updated any longer.
From today, Friday 10th December 2004, at 16.00 hours CET, the new www.fiawtcc.com website will be online, reporting all the news and facts about the FIA WTCC.
Build of the three Chevrolet Lacetti FIA WTCC cars is continuing at a steady pace at RML in Wellingborough, Great Britain.
Drivers Alain Menu from Switzerland, Nicola Larini from Italy and Rob Huff from Great Britain, will get the chance to start testing the Lacetti for the first time in Spain in early January 2005.
He’s the man of the moment! FIA European Touring car Champion Andy Priaulx will take part in a Formula 1 test for the BMW Williams team early next year, as a prize for winning the FIA ETCC title for BMW. Priaulx has not been told exactly when he will test for Williams, although it could take place as early as January at Valencia in Spain.
In touring car racing, BMW faces a new challenge. The FIA European Touring Car Championship, in which BMW and Andy Priaulx won the Manufacturers´ and Drivers´ title respectively in 2004, will become the FIA World Touring Car Championship - the third FIA-sanctioned World Championship besides Formula One and the World Rally Championship.
After enlisting experienced touring car drivers, Alain Menu (41) and Nicola Larini (40), Chevrolet Europe has signed up the young British driver Robert Huff (25), to race the third Chevrolet Lacetti in next year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship. Huff has already spent a number of years in motorsports driving touring as well as single seater cars.
