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WORLD AND LIFE
TCR 2016
NEWS
Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing
wins 24H Paul Ricard
The Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing staked a serious claim
on the TCR title by grabbing class victory in the 24
hours of Paul Ricard, the fifth round of the 24H Series.
Four SEAT Leon Cup Racer cars took the start of the
French enduro, but only two of them made it to the
end. Despite suffering from a puncture and suspension
problems earlier on, the quartet of Ramzi Moutran,
Nabil Moutran, Sami Moutran and Phil Quaife completed
519 laps of the French circuit (the equivalent of 3032
kilometres) and was classified in a brilliant 20th
position overall, only beaten by GT cars and ahead of
all the Touring Cars.
The RS Connect SEAT of Lea Hodson, Jacob Hodson,
Adam Jones and Gavin Jones finished second, 49 laps
down.
With only two rounds to go, the 24 hours of Barcelona
STARD unveils further details about the Kia cee’d TCR
STARD unveils further details about
the Kia cee’d TCR
Following months of intensive
development work, STARD – the
official Kia TCR developer – has
revealed further details about the
Kia cee´d TCR.
Michael Sakowicz, STARD CEO,
explained: “We have worked
intensively with full focus on the
technical solutions. We are
extremely pleased with the progress
over the last few months and are
very confident that the car will be
highly competitive in all the
various TCR series. The testing
programme is going very well and
the results have even exceeded our
expectations. We are perfectly on
schedule with our project plan up
until now.“
Philipp Thonet, the CTO of STARD,
added: “To ensure that we pick the
best suppliers, we are testing a
number of different components,
also bearing in mind the new tasks
for TCR like endurance and 24-hour
races. We are currently testing four
different damper suppliers.
The same approach applies to the
gearbox, brakes and so on.
This process is time consuming, but
ensures that only the best package
will find its way into the car!“
The official car presentation is
scheduled for October 2016,
but customers will be able to place
pre-orders ahead of the 2017 season
from September onwards.
Manfred Stohl, President Stohl
Group GmbH said: “
The Kia community around the
globe is incredibly interested and
excited about this project,
which again shows how much
customers were longing
for a proper Kia road car-based
motorsport project.“
(2/4 September) and Brno (14/16 October), Quaife and
the Moutrans have a leading margin of 30 points ahead
of Harry Hilders, while the Hodsons and the Joneses are
in third position with a gap of 36 points.