2006
2006-11-30 CHEVROLET STARTS BUSIEST WINTER TEST PROGRAMME YET
WELLINGBOROUGH-ZÜRICH - Chevrolet Europe is about to start its busiest winter test programme yet, with a number of multi-day, multi-car test sessions scheduled in December and January before the cars are shipped to Brazil in mid-February ...
2006-11-19 HUFF (9th) AND MENU (10th) BRING HOME TWO FINISHES
MACAU, 19 November 2006 - It was written somewhere that this was not going to be Chevrolet's year in Macau ...
2006-11-17 CHEVROLET BETS ON SUNDAY !
Macau, 17 November 2006 - The reputation of being one of the most treacherous circuits in the world that the Macau urban track enjoys was confirmed once again in today's qualifying for the last two races of the 2006 WTCC ...
2006-11-16 CHEVROLET STORMS FIRST TESTING IN MACAU
MACAU, 16th November 2006 - The last event of the 2006 WTCC could not have a more promising start for Chevrolet, as the three Lacettis WTC were in the top eight of the testing practice, with Larini and Menu sharing the virtual first row! ...
2006-11-15 Now, everyone can drive the Chevrolet WTCC race car
The official WTCC computer game, RACE, will be launched on November 18, featuring all the cars and circuits from the 2006 World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) ...
2006-11-08 CHEVROLET DRIVERS LOOKING FOR WIN IN WTCC FINALE
WELLINGBOROUGH-ZÜRICH, 8 November 2006 - After a six-week break, the 2006 World Touring Car Championship will reach its conclusion in the streets of Macau in the People's Republic of China. ...
2006-10-29 ALAIN MENU AND MATIAS ROSSI WIN BUENOS AIRES TC2000 CLASSIC
BUENOS AIRES, 29 October 2006 - Swiss Chevrolet WTCC driver, Alain Menu, and co Matias Rossi, have won the Buenos Aires 200 Kilometres ...
2006-10-21 ALL THREE WTCC DRIVERS TO STAR IN MAIN ARGENTINE TC2000 EVENT
BUENOS AIRES-ZÜRICH, 20 October 2006 - What do Chevrolet's WTCC drivers do when they have a weekend off? ...
2006-10-08 THREE IN A ROW: NICOLA LARINI VISITS PODIUM AGAIN
VALENCIA, 8 October 2006 - Chevrolet made it three WTCC podiums in a row in Valencia today. Nicola Larini finished third in race 1 and fourth in race 2 ...
2006-10-07 CHEVROLET ON SONG IN SPAIN
VALENCIA, 7 October 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team confirmed its continuing improvement of form in today's qualifying session at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain. All three drivers set very competitive times at the same track where the team had its best qualifying result of the season in last year's championship. Alain Menu set fourth ...
2006-10-02 FIVE CHEVROLETS TO START IN LAST EUROPEAN ROUND OF 2006 WTCC
WELLINGBOROUGH-ZÜRICH, 2 October 2006 - Fresh from a second consecutive podium finish in Istanbul ...
2006-09-28 Chevrolet WTCC Ultra: Exciting Driveable Race car Concept
Paris. "It's a wild thing" The Chevrolet WTCC Ultra has got what it takes to be the star of the Paris Motor Show - and not just because its rear spoiler shoots so brashly up to-wards the heavens. ...
2006-09-24 CHEVROLET CONTINUES PODIUM FINISH STREAK
ISTANBUL - Chevrolet driver, Nicola Larini joined his team mates as a WTCC podium finisher by finishing third in the second of the Istanbul races, today ...
2006-09-23 LARINI QUALIFIES SIXTH BEFORE RAIN BRINGS END TO FAST RUNS
ISTANBUL - Chevrolet driver Nicola Larini made the best use of a light car at the Istanbul Park circuit today by qualifying in sixth position ...
2006-09-18 CHEVROLET LOOKING FOR MORE POINTS IN ISTANBUL
WELLINGBOROUGH-ZÜRICH, 18 September 2006 - Fresh from a second 2006 WTCC win in Brno two weeks ago, the Chevrolet team had the pleasure of actually having its racing cars back in the workshops in Wellingborough for the first time since... Oschersleben in June. ...
2006-09-06 Exciting Chevrolet study WTCC Ultra celebrates world premiere
Zurich/Paris. An athlete takes centre stage The exciting racecar study WTCC Ultra will be the highlight of the Chevrolet Europe presentation at the Paris Motor Show ...
2006-09-03 ROB HUFF AND CHEVROLET REIGN SUPREME
BRNO, 3 September 2006 - Chevrolet driver Rob Huff scored his maiden WTCC win in Brno, today, having started in 24th position on the grid. Never before in the history of the World Touring Car Championship did a winning driver start further back ...
2006-09-02 BEST EVER QUALIFYING PERFORMANCE FOR CHEVROLET
BRNO, 2 September 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team managed its best ever qualifying performance in Brno, today, when Rob Huff set the fourth fastest time of the session, just 0.157 seconds from pole position ...
2006-09-01 Chevrolet In Good Spirits On First Visit To Czech Republic
BRNO, The Chevrolet team was in good mood after this Friday afternoon's free practice session in Brno, in the Czech Republic ...
2006-08-29 WORLD TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP GOES EAST
WELLINGBOROUGH-ZÜRICH, 25 August 2006 - With the next round of the 2006 World Touring Car Championship taking place in Brno in the Czech Republic, the Chevrolet team visits its third new track in succession, after Curitiba in Brazil and a revised Puebla in Mexico. ...
2006-07-31 ROB HUFF OKAY AFTER MASSIVE SHUNT AT START OF RACE 1
AMOZOC, 30 July 2006 - The Mexican round of the 2006 World Touring Car Championship was a character building exercise for the Chevrolet team, with highs and lows ...
2006-07-29 ROB HUFF QUICKEST CHEVROLET ON RESURFACED TRACK But Will Drop Ten Places Due To Engine Change
AMOZOC, 29 July 2006 - It was an eventful day at the Autodromo Miguel E Abed in the Pueblan suburb of Amozoc, today. First there were the track issues which called for the cancellation of one free practice session ...
2006-07-28 NICOLA LARINI SEVENTH FASTEST ON REVISED PUEBLA TRACK
AMOZOC, 28 July 2006 - After the previous round in Brazil, the World Touring Car Championship has set up camp in Mexico for round 6 of the 2006 championship, the second and last stop on the American continents ...
2006-07-19 CHEVROLET HEADS TO MEXICO AFTER INTENSIVE TESTS
ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH, July 19th, 2006 - The 2006 World Touring Car Championship will start the second half of the season in Puebla ...
2006-07-02 ONE MORE POINT FOR CHEVROLET AFTER INTENSE BATTLE IN BRAZIL
CURITIBA, 2nd July 2006 - Chevrolet put two cars in the top ten and scored one more point in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) thanks to a brilliant eighth place secured by Rob Huff in the second race of the HSBC Race of Brazil. The fifth round of the season, which took place on the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, has probably been the most competitive event so far, with ...
2006-07-01 CHEVROLET ONE SECOND FROM POLE BUT ON SECOND HALF OF GRID
CURITIBA, 1st July 2006 - It is definitely 'football time' in Brazil today! Shortly after the qualifying session for the HSBC Race of Brazil, the fifth round of the 2006 World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) finished, the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba got empty in a matter of seconds, as virtually the entire country and its 188 million souls watched the quarter-final of the soccer World Cup opposing the Seleção to France. Football is almost a religion ...
2006-06-30 BRAZILIAN WINTER AND SOCCER FEVER WELCOME WTCC
CURITIBA, 30 June 2006 - The World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) circus has put up its tents in Curitiba, where the fifth event of the season, the HSBC Race of Brazil, will take place this week-end. It is winter time in the Southern hemisphere and... it feels like it! The weather in Curitiba, located some 900 metres above sea level in the State of Paraná, ...
2006-06-23 INTERACTIVE LIVE WEB CONFERENCE FROM CURITIBA
ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH, June 23rd, 2006 - When the 2006 World Touring Car Championship visits the Brazilian race track of Curitiba for the first time next weekend ...
2006-06-04 CHEVROLET TO FOCUS ON TEST PROGRAMME
OSCHERSLEBEN, June 4th, 2006 - After conquering their first victory in the World Touring Car Championship in Brands Hatch two weeks ago, the Chevrolet WTCC team lived a disappointing weekend in the Race of Germany, the fourth two-race event of the season, which proves once again that motor racing is an ever-evolving business and that races may be very different one from the other. ...
2006-06-03 CHEVROLET NOT REWARDED IN HECTIC QUALIFYING
OSCHERSLEBEN, June 3rd, 2006 - Two weeks after the memorable weekend of Brands Hatch, where Alain Menu conquered the first victory of a Chevrolet Lacetti in the World Touring Car Championship, the Chevrolet Racing has experienced a less happy start ...
2006-05-26 BACK TO WORK AFTER HISTORIC VICTORY CELEBRATIONS
ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH, May 26th, 2006 - After the historic first WTCC win for Chevrolet at the last round in Brands Hatch, team and drivers are eager to prove that the bad British weather was a factor they mastered rather than a factor that helped them win ...
2006-05-21 CHEVROLET SCORES HISTORIC FIRST WIN
BRANDS HATCH, May 21st, 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC Racing lived a historic day at Brands Hatch as Alain Menu scored the first victory of a Chevrolet Lacetti in the World Touring Car Championship. Less than a year and a half since the debut in the world's top competition for touring cars, Chevrolet has managed to climb on the highest spot of the podium, ...
2006-05-20 CHEVROLET'S BEST EVER QUALIFYING PERFORMANCE
BRANDS HATCH, May 20th, 2006 - Rob Huff and Alain Menu will start from the third and fifth position on the grid respectively in tomorrow's first race of the Brands Hatch round of the World Touring Car Championship, after achieving for the Chevrolet WTCC team the best performance ever so far in a qualifying session. Nicola Larini, in his first appearance in the legendary and difficult Kentish circuit, completed the good day for the Chevrolet Lacettis. ...
2006-05-19 CHEVROLET FIT FOR A PROMISING WEEK-END IN BRANDS HATCH
BRANDS HATCH, May 19th, 2006 - The three Chevrolet Lacetti WTC put together a strong and ...
2006-04-30 Nicola Larini Saves One Point; Huff And Menu Unlucky
MAGNY COURS, April 30th, 2006 - Nicola Larini scored a single point for Chevrolet in today's third and fourth rounds of the 2006 World Touring Car Championship in Magny Cours. Rob Huff looked set to finish in the points in race two, but gearbox woes decided otherwise, while Alain Menu became the innocent victim of other drivers' accidents, despite having a perfect car.As predicted yesterday, all three Chevrolets drove strongest in the second half of the first race, but ...
2006-04-29 CHEVROLET CONFIRMS EXPECTATIONS
MAGNY COURS, April 29th, 2006 - All three Chevrolet Lacetti WTC qualified exactly where drivers and engineers thought they would qualify for rounds three and four at Magny Cours, today ...
2006-04-21 CHEVROLET LOOKING FOR STRATEGIC POINTS IN FRANCE
ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH, April 21st, 2006 - The four weeks since Monza have been used by the Chevrolet WTCC team to ready themselves for the next rounds at Magny Cours ...
2006-04-02 CHEVROLET SCORES FIRST PODIUM FINISH IN MONZA
MONZA, April 2nd, 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team started their 2006 season in the best possible way by having Alain Menu on the podium and Nicola Larini finishing in the points, while Rob Huff showed ...
2006-04-01 CHEVROLET SHOWS COMPETITIVE FORM IN MONZA
MONZA, April 1st, 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team kicked off their 2006 World Touring Car Championship campaign with a solid result in today's qualifying session. ...
2006-03-28 CHEVROLET ANXIOUS TO GET TO ROUND 1 IN MONZA
ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH, March 27th, 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team is looking forward to start its second season in the World Touring Car Championship in Monza ...
2006-03-22 TEAM CONTINUES TO IMPROVE CAR AND LEARN NEW SLICK TYRES
MONZA, March 22nd, 2006 - Chevrolet and RML continued to improve their performance at the second day of the official FIA test session at the Autodromo of Monza in Italy, today. ...
2006-03-21 CHEVROLET LEADS IN THE RAIN IN FIRST GROUP TEST
MONZA, March 21st, 2006 - Chevrolet and RML joined all the other 2006 WTCC competitors for the first day ...
2006-03-13 CHEVROLET CONCLUDES WINTER TEST PROGRAMME IN FRANCE
MAGNY COURS, 10 March 2006 - The Chevrolet WTCC team finished its winter test programme in Magny Cours, France today ...
2006-03-01 CHEVROLET TESTS LACETTI WTC IN ALBACETE
ALBACETE, 28 February 2006 - RML and Chevrolet continued their winter test programme at the Albacete track in Spain this week ...
2006-02-21 CHEVROLET HAS SUCCESSFUL FIRST TEST AT BRANDS HATCH
BRANDS HATCH, 21 February 2006 - RML and Chevrolet had a successful first test with the new 2006 Chevrolet Lacetti WTC at Brands Hatch today. ...
2006-02-06 2006 CHEVROLET LACETTI TWC HAS SUCCESSFUL SHAKE DOWN
MILLBROOK, 8 February 2006 - Today's shake down of the first 2006-spec Chevrolet Lacetti WTC at Millbrook was a success ...
2006-01-30 MAURER MOTORSPORT ENTERS TWO CHEVROLET LACETTI IN GERMANY
BRUSSELS, 30 January 2006 - Swiss team, Maurer Motorsport, is the first team to enter two privateer Chevrolet Lacetti WTC in 2006 ...
2006-01-11 CHEVROLET LAUNCHES 2006 WTCC LACETTI
VIENNA, 11 January 2006 - Chevrolet Europe has launched its 2006 World Touring Car Championship campaign in Vienna, Austria, today ...
2006-01-11 GMAC SPONSORS 2006 CHEVROLET WTCC CAMPAIGN
VIENNA, 11 January 2006 - General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC), the financial services arm of General Motors, will be the main sponsor of the Chevrolet's World Touring Car Championship team it has been officially announced at the Vienna Auto Show today ...
