2016
Volvo S60 Polestar WTCC
Polestar
Cyan Racing will enter the FIA World Touring Car Championship in 2016 with two
Volvo S60 Polestar race cars as start of a multi-year programme.
The
announcement comes on the day 30 years after Volvo Cars claimed the 1985
European Touring Car Championship title with the iconic Volvo 240 Turbo.
Fast-forward to 2016 and Polestar Cyan Racing will carry the legacy to a new
challenge, by taking on the world title with the brand new Volvo S60 Polestar
TC1 race car.
Cyan
Racing is the official motorsport partner to Polestar, the Volvo Cars
Performance Brand, a cooperation started in 1996 with six STCC driver titles
and seven team titles under its belt, most recently securing a double 2015 STCC
title for the third year in succession.
Following
an evaluation season in the 2011 WTCC and two seasons in the Australian V8
Supercars, 2016 marks the start of the Polestar Cyan Racing’s first multi-year
programme in a world championship.
The
240 Turbo dominated the racing circuits in Australia, Finland, Germany,
Portugal, New Zealand and Sweden during the mid-eighties. Volvo had proved the
strength of their concept with a downsized four-cylinder turbo charged engine
against the might of the likes of BMW, Rover and Jaguar, all using six, eight
and 12-cylinder engines.
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.
Reigning
STCC champion Thed Björk, three-time STCC champion Fredrik Ekblom and multiple
STCC race winner Robert Dahlgren are part of the development work of the WTCC
programme.
Further
information on the 2016 WTCC Polestar Cyan Racing programme, including driver
line-up, will be revealed in due course.
