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It’s been 30 years since Volvo won the European Touring Car
Championship with the 240 Turbo but the Swedish brand is celebrating by
preparing a race car for the 2016 World Touring Car Championship. Based on the S60
sedan and was developed by Polestar, the company’s performance division, and
will be campaigned in the WTCC by Cyan Racing.
WTCC ( World Touring Car Championship) which is one of five
officially FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, the sanctioning body
of international motorsport) sanctioned world championships of racing. The
championship runs across the globe and features heavily modified standard cars
from manufacturers like Citroën, Chevrolet and Honda. The championship runs for
12 race weekends with two race heats per weekend each season on tracks like
Shanghai International Circuti in China and the Nürburgring Nordschleife in
Germany. The season starts in March and ends in November.
The all-new Volvo S60 Polestar TC1 race car carries the
legacy of the 240 Turbo, featuring a newly developed 4-cylinder turbo engine of
400 horsepower, based on the cutting edge technology of the new Drive-E Volvo
engine family.
Polestar Cyan Racing will enter the FIA World Touring Car
Championship (WTCC) in 2016 with two Volvo S60 Polestar race cars as start of a
multi-year programme.
Cyan Racing which is the official motorsport partner to
Polestar, the Volvo Cars Performance Brand, a cooperation started in 1996 with
six STCC (Swedish Touring Car Championship) driver titles and seven team titles
under its belt, most recently securing a double 2015 STCC title for the third
year in succession.
“We have chosen the FIA WTCC as our global motorsport
platform as it combines the cutting edge technology of our Volvo cars with
exciting racing all over the world. The championship enables us to further
develop our technology and utilise development from the racing circuits
directly to our products for performance oriented Volvo customers,” said Niels
Möller, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Polestar, the Volvo Cars
Performance Brand.
“This is a great day for all of us at Polestar Cyan Racing
to announce our assault on the FIA World Touring Car Championship, a programme
that boils down to one thing; to bring the world title to Sweden,” said
Alexander Murdzevski Schedvin, Head of Motorsport at Polestar.
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