Calendar
The 2013 championship was contested over twenty-four races, with two races held at each of twelve events throughout the year. The final calendar for the season was released in December 2012.[20]
Calendar changes
- The Race of Morocco was not included on the provisional calendar for 2013, though the provisional calendar was released with a vacant race date.[22]
- The Race of Portugal returned to the Circuito da Boavista in Porto after being held at the Portimão circuit in 2012.
- The Race of Spain was originally included on the provisional calendar at a venue to be decided.[22] However, the race was removed from the final calendar released in December 2012.[20]
- The Race of Russia made its championship debut at the Moscow Raceway.[22]
- The Race of Brazil was dropped before the start of the season, but was later reinstated.[23] It was then dropped from the calendar again when the Argentine round was confirmed.
- An additional thirteenth round of the championship was added before the start of the season.[24] In May 2013, it was confirmed the Race of Argentina made its championship debut at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo.[25] The race in Argentina was confirmed in June, replacing the Brazilian round.[26]
- ↑ Yvan Muller was one of twelve drivers given a grid penalty for unsporting behaviour during qualifying for the first race in Austria and started from thirteenth place.[27] Michel Nykjær started the race from pole as a result, but Muller was entitled to keep the five championship points for pole position.
References
- 1 2 3 Hudson, Neil (3 June 2012). "James Thompson takes 11th on Lada's last appearance". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
The Lada programme this year consists of just two appearances in Hungary and Portugal, and the team will now go on to work on the car ahead of a potential full assault on the 2013 World Touring Car Championship.
- 1 2 "Engstler and Ng to team up again". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ↑ Tremayne, Sam (19 September 2013). "Hiroki Yoshimoto takes Michel Nykjaer's World Touring Car seat". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ↑ Hudson, Neil (5 January 2013). "Arena International Motorsport closes its doors". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 7 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ↑ "CAMPOS AND ORÚS JOIN FOR 2013 WTCC". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 9 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ↑ Meissner, Johan (4 July 2012). "Chevrolet pulls out of WTCC after 2012 season". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ "Stefano D'Aste to race for his own team". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 1 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ↑ Hudson, Neil (3 February 2012). "Honda planning 2013 WTCC entry". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Basseng and Winkelhock set for WTCC 2013". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 8 November 2012. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- 1 2 Hudson, Neil (15 November 2012). "Aleksei Dudukalo set for Lada switch in 2013". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Russian driver Aleksei Dudukalo has indicated that he expects to be racing for Lada in the 2013 season in a two car team alongside double British Touring Car champion James Thompson, with backing from LUKOIL, as was rumoured earlier in the year.
- ↑ "Nika Racing enters one Cruze for 2013 WTCC". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ↑ György, Juni (10 January 2013). "Bréking: Hondával folytatjuk! – Videóval!". Zengo Motorsport. Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ↑ "RML Chevrolets for Muller and Chilton". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
- ↑ "ROB HUFF DEFENDS TITLE WITH ALL-LINKL.COM". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 27 February 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
- ↑ Hudson, Neil (6 March 2013). "Alain Menu to contest the 2013 Porsche Supercup". Touring Car Times. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- 1 2 "Castrol sponsors Honda". WorldTouringCars.com. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
- ↑ Mills, Peter (5 December 2012). "James Nash to drive for Bamboo in 2013 WTCC season". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ "@TomCoronel: 12 February". Twitter. Twitter Inc. 12 February 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
- ↑ Hudson, Neil (29 March 2013). "Mikhail Koslovskiy replaces Dudukalo at Lada". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- 1 2 "WTCC to pay first visit to Russia in 2013". fiawtcc.com. World Touring Car Championship. 21 December 2012. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ↑ "Auto GP reveals 8 events in 2013". Auto GP. Auto GP Organization. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- 1 2 3 Hudson, Neil (28 September 2012). "FIA issues revised 2013 WTCC calendar". Touring Car Times. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
- ↑ "Race of Brazil on calendar". www.fiawtcc.com. FIA WTCC. 24 March 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ↑ "FIA issues amended 2013 WTCC calendar". Touring Car Times. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ↑ "El WTCC en Las Termas de Río Hondo". Nuevo Diario Web (in Spanish). Nuevo Diario. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- ↑ "WTCC TO VISIT ARGENTINA FOR THE FIRST TIME". World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 4 June 2013. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ↑ "Mass penalties put Nykjær on pole". fiawtcc.com. FIA World Touring Car Championship. 18 May 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship – Race 2 Result" (PDF). mstworld.com. MST Systems Ltd. 17 November 2013. p. 69. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- 1 2 3 "FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP YOKOHAMA TROPHY" (PDF). World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
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