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New Engine for the Lada 110 2.0 cars

photo: wtcc.lada.ru

The LADA 110 2.0 cars have been updated for this week’s event in Valencia. The three Russian machines are now powered by a new engine, which is due to deliver some more horsepower.
The team are also hoping that it can take advantage of the compensation weight system to maximise every opportunity over the Spanish weekend.

Jaap Van Lagen commented:
"I'm very much looking forward to these races and hopefully we can put some of the bad luck behind us now. I'll be very interested to see how much of an effect the new engine has here, but the main thing is that we are obviously making progress."

Team principal Victor Shapovalov added:
"We had a very busy couple of weeks after Pau, as there was a lot of work to do in order to repair the cars and test the new engine. Now everything is ready and we can concentrate on doing a good job on what is generally a more conventional circuit than the last two we have visited. The most important thing is to have a clean weekend in order to put us in a strong position to capitalise on any chances that come our way."

Source: fiawtcc.com

The 2009 WTCC Entry List is released

1 SEAT Sport Yvan Muller (FRA) SEAT León 2.0 TDI
2 SEAT Sport Gabriele Tarquini (ITA) SEAT León 2.0 TDI
3 SEAT Sport Rickard Rydell (SWE) SEAT León 2.0 TDI
4 SEAT Sport Jordi Gené (ESP) SEAT León 2.0 TDI
5 SEAT Sport Tiago Monteiro (POR) SEAT León 2.0 TDI
6 BMW Team UK Andy Priaulx (GBR) BMW 320si
7 BMW Team Germany Jörg Müller (GER) BMW 320si
8 BMW Team Germany Augusto Farfus (BRA) BMW 320si
9 BMW Team Italy-Spain Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) BMW 320si
10 BMW Team Italy-Spain Sergio Hernández (ESP) BMW 320si
11 Chevrolet Robert Huff (GBR) Chevrolet Cruze **
12 Chevrolet Alain Menu (SUI) Chevrolet Cruze **
14 Chevrolet Nicola Larini (ITA) Chevrolet Cruze **
15* Campos Racing Antonio García (ESP) Honda Accord Euro R
18 LADA Sport Jaap van Lagen (NED) Lada 110 2.0
19 LADA Sport Kirill Ladygin (RUS) Lada 110 2.0
20 LADA Sport Victor Shapovalov (RUS) Lada 110 2.0
21 SUNRED Engineering Tom Coronel (NED) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI
22 SUNRED Engineering Tom Boardman (GBR) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI
23 Scuderia Proteam Motorsport Félix Porteiro (ESP) BMW 320si
24 Scuderia Proteam Motorsport George Tanev (BUL) BMW 320si
25 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Franz Engstler (GER) BMW 320si
26 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Kristian Poulsen (DEN) BMW 320si
27 Wiechers-Sport Stefano D'Aste (ITA) BMW 320si
28 Čolak Racing Team Ingra Marin Čolak (CRO) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI
29* SUNRED Engineering TBA SEAT León 2.0 TFSI

* = Will start from the Marrakech event

** = FIA homologation under way

Source: www.fiawtcc.com

Lada’s debut at WTCC

November 21st, in Moscow OAO AVTOVAZ and K.S.O., the WTCC promoter,
signed the agreement on LADA team participation in the World Touring Car
Championship from 2009 onwards.

The document promoting the Russian motor sport and automotive industry
to a new level was signed by Boris Aleshin, Chairman of the biggest
Russian car concern, and Marcello Lotti, K.S.O. general manager. From now
on there will be a new name among global leading car producers
struggling for victory on racing tracks.

AVTOVAZ is the first Russian representative that will participate in the
high level motor racing. The Company has already started preparing three
LADA PRIORAs. Having replaced LADA 110, the new car is to enter the
world touring track in spring next year, when the WTCC European part of
the season starts.

The agreement gives the Russian car company a technological impulse that
will affect AVTOVAZ serial products as well as provides the Company with
an opportunity to become a member of the privileged global car
manufacturers club. The step can be called a Russian breakthrough. Never
before has our country taken part in this level car racing that gathers
best sportsmen and state-of-the-art technologies. Through participating
in prestigious championships, the LADA brand may enter a new quality
level, lay the foundation for further development of automotive
technologies in terms of world motor sport as well as the whole auto
industry, as they are inseparable parts of auto sphere.

Boris Aleshin, “LADA PRIORA has great potential. This year AVTOVAZ plans
to sell 160,000 LADA PRIORAs including export. The Company also intends
to expand its output. We are going to move forward, so motor sport is a
good opportunity for us to prove ourselves. During the first season we
plan to be in a “golden mean”, but then pick up speed. We are highly
ambitious!”

Marcello Lotti, “The arrival of the LADA team is a great honor for us.
It is the leading Russian car producer having 70% of the national
automotive market. We are ready to help AVTOVAZ with preparation and
homologation of the racing LADA PRIORAs. I’d also like to note that WTCC
is beneficial for all its participants. Having invested one euro at the
beginning of a season, a producer receives a media-payoff of EUR 32-33.
Welcome to WTCC!”

Being the arena of struggle between car leaders from various countries,
Touring Car Racing Series has been held since 2005. Due to its
popularity and pilots that take part in, WTCC may compete with Formula 1.

The first round of the Championship is to be held in Curitiba, Brazil,
March 7-8, 2009.


Source: Press service ОAО AVTOVAZ

Merry Xmas!!!

Lamda Motorsport wishes you Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Ladygin involves, van Lagen comments & Aleshin suggests

Third Lada 110 in the entry list

Fiawtcc.com confirmes that the Russian Bears Motorsport team will add a third LADA 110 car for the remaining four events of the season.
The third driver is Kirill Ladygin from Russia. Ladygin is LADA Motorsport's official tester and is currently working on the technical development of the WTCC version of the new Priora, that will be raced from 2009.


Jaap van Lagen comments

Additionally, Jaap van Lagen, in his interview to TouringCarTimes.com referred on the Lada team hard work during 2008:
"I think the season has been great so far! At the start of the season we were five seconds behind the top of the field, but now we are much closer. The main problem with the car is the top speed. We need more power to fight against the top teams. The team is working really hard and we have a good atmosphere. I do want to continue with the team and I hope that we get factory status for 2009!"

About the strong points of Lada 110, Jaap said:
"The chassis is very good. The balance is ok and so is the suspension. The car is also very light, so we can play a lot with the weight distribution. That is a big advantage. All in all it is an easy car to drive, we just need more power."

About the coming races:
"I think we can keep up the performance from Oschersleben at Imola. But Monza and Macau will be a different story as they have very long straights. Then we will most likely be at the back of the grid."

He also referred on his future participation in the Porsche Supercup and said that if he gets the chance again to drive for a top team in the Supercup, he will be on the grid.


Lada plant team in 2009 / WTCC event in Russia in 2010

WTCC organizers are interested in a futute WTCC event in Russia and Moscow, st Petersbourgh and Togliatti are the candidate cities. According to AvtoVAZ Press service, Boris Aleshin, president of AvtoVAZ Group, said:
"This year the LADA car as a private team made its debut in WTCC. Next year we are going to participate in the championship as representatives of the car plant. We are going to use LADA PRIORA cars in the championship and as well as other promising models in future. “AVTOVAZ”, in its turn, offered the WTCC organizers to hold WTCC in Tolyatti in 2010".


And a Lada WTCC video clip

Thoughts about 2009 season...

Lada in WTCC officially...

It seems that a Lada works team will be in the 2009 entry list of the World Touring Car Championship. According to TouringCarTimes.com, Victor Shapovalov said the Lada WTCC is a three-years project:

"This year is only testing and next year we would like to have a new car. When we would have the new model we also would have more technical support from Lada. They want to change their image and for Lada the WTCC is a good base to show what they want to be in the future."

But which car?

The production of the Lada 110 has already stopped and the new Lada Priora (2170) is now in production since April of 2007. Actually the car is a face-lifted 110. This would mean that the S2000-specs development of the Priora is not so difficult as a completely new car. The problem is that there is no a 2-litre version of the car to be homologated. Maybe a 2-litre "sport" edition should be unveiled soon just like Lada 110 2.0 GTI (21106) back in 1996 (at Paris Motor Show in October maybe? why not?). And I think that it will be a "powered by Renault" edition since the Opel C20XE is already old enough and of course now Renault Group owns the 25% of AvtoVAZ.


On the other hand the 2007 Lada Project C (2116) developed by AvtoVAZ and Magna-Steyr is a modern and beautiful car. It could increase the sales of AvtoVAZ dramatically but unfortunatelly it remains just a prototype although it was announced to be in production in 2009. The industry news are lack of information about this vehicle.
However the Lada 2116 sedan participated in the EuroCarBody benchmarking for the first time as “SPECIAL GUEST 2007” (see 9th European Car Body AWARD Event, 2007):
"The clean-cut and well-structured car body positively surprised many conference participants with its low weight", according to the organizers of the event.