{{Racing car , Car_name = Lada Granta 1600T WTCC , Image = Lada Granta WTCC 2012 Race of Hungary James Thomson

, Category =

World Touring Car Championship The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It has had several different incarnations, including a sing ...

, Constructor =

Lada LadaAccording to various sources, the name Lada is derived from a Russian word for Viking longships (). (, , marketed as LADAFrom 2004 onwards Lada is marketed worldwide, including in Russia, using the all-capitals brand name written in Latin sc ...

, Designer = Andrey Ruzanov, TMS Motorsport , Predecessor = Lada Priora , Chassis = Lada 119/VAZ-2190 (

Lada Granta The Lada Granta () is a subcompact car developed by Russian automaker AvtoVAZ in collaboration with Renault, based on the Lada Kalina platform. Mass sales started in Russia on 1 December 2011. Additional production at the Izhevsk plant began i ...

) , Capacity = {{convert, 1598, cc, cuin, 0, abbr=on , Configuration = In-line 4 cylinder engine , Turbo/NA =

Turbo In an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger (also known as a turbo or a turbosupercharger) is a forced induction device that is powered by the flow of exhaust gases. It uses this energy to compress the intake air, forcing more air into the ...

, 8,500 RPM limited , Engine position =

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, Gears = 6 speeds + reverse , Type = Semi-automatic sequential , Differential = Limited-slip differential , Weight = N/A (subject to FIA homologation) , Tyres =

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, Debut =

2012 FIA WTCC Race of Hungary The 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Hungary was the fifth round of the 2012 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Hungary. It was held on 6 May 2012 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród near Budapest, Hungary. The f ...

, Races = 49 , Wins = 2 , Poles = 0 , Fastest_laps = 1 The Lada Granta 1600T WTCC is a racing car built under

Super 2000 Super 2000 is an Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA powertrain specification used in the World Rally Championship, the British Touring Car Championship, the World Touring Car Championship, and other touring car racing, touring car ...

specifications, which will be competing in the FIA

History

In the

2009 World Touring Car Championship The 2009 World Touring Car Championship season was the sixth FIA World Touring Car Championship season, the fifth since its 2005 return. It began on 8 March, and ended on 22 November, after twenty-four races. The championship, which was reserve ...

Lada Sport Lada Sport is the Tolyatti-based performance and motorsport company for Lada-branded cars and a wholly owned subsidiary of AvtoVAZ. History AvtoVAZ had a minor involvement in motorsport from the 1970s, producing racing cars for various series ...

entered 3

Lada 110 The Lada 110 or VAZ-2110 is a compact car built by the Russian automaker AvtoVAZ from 1995 to 2009. It spawned two close derivatives: the Lada 111 estate and the Lada 112 hatchback. The Lada 110 and its variants were replaced in 2007 by the Lad ...

s and Lada Prioras, where the team saw moderate success. In

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

the team pulled out of WTCC. Lada returned to the championship in

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

with James Thompson driving the car in selected events, and in

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Mikhail Kozlovskiy Mikhail Kozlovskiy ( Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Козловский, born 17 October 1989 in Leningrad) is a Russian auto racing driver. He won the Russian Touring Car Championship in 2010 ( RTCC – Touring-Light). He currently r ...

joined Thompson in the Granta's first full WTCC season. The car is based on the

Cup car which is a single-make trophy, with races held mostly in

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

and the neighbouring countries. Compared to the cup car the WTCC car is fitted with a 1.6 litre turbocharged engine and the body and suspension is modified to comply with the WTCC rules. The car was tested in

Magny-Cours Magny-Cours () is a Communes of France, commune in the Nièvre Departments of France, department in central France. It is the home of the ''Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours'', a famous Motorsport#Motor racing, motor racing circuit (whose name is o ...

track in April, 2012, and debuted in the

in May, 2012. It was modified for entry into the 2014 World Touring Car Championship under the new TC1 regulations. It took 2 wins in the hands of Rob Huff, at Beijing Goldenport and Macau.

External links

Official website of the Lada Sport WTCC

Official website of Lada Sport

Official Greek website of Lada Sport

Official website of the WTCC
Cars of Russia Granta WTCC Racing cars Cars introduced in 2012 Touring cars