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Following the heat and dust of the first ever FIA World Touring Car Championship race in Morocco two weeks ago, the series and the LADA Sport team now heads to the well-known street circuit of Pau, in the south of France near the Spanish border for round four of the series.<!–more–>LADA Sport achieved its best finish in Morocco, so the three-car team now heads to Pau in an upbeat mood. Once more, Russia’s biggest car manufacturer is represented on the FIA WTCC by the usual line-up of Jaap van Lagen (n.18), Kirill Ladygin (n.19) and Viktor Shapovalov (n.20). Read more

Russia, 07 April 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship 2009

The new LADA Priora will make its WTCC debut on 5 July 2009 in Portugal. Starting from the Porto race, the LADA SPORT Team will enter a new World Touring Car to replace the current LADA 110 2.0. Before then, the existing car will benefit from an improved engine even earlier, in time for the Valencia race at the end of May. The design and development work for this new project has been ongoing since the end of last year. Read more

Curitiba, 06 March 2009 / FIA World Touring Car Championship 2009 - Round 1 Curitiba

Lada gets off to colourful start in Brazil
Lada has kicked off its debut season as a full manufacturer in the FIA World Touring Car Championship with a series of promotional appearances prior to the opening round in Curitiba, Brazil. Lada will enter three cars this year, for Jaap Van Lagen, Kirill Ladygin and Viktor Shapovalov, on all 24 rounds of the prestigious World Touring Car Championship, which is broadcast live on Eurosport: Europe’s biggest television channel. Read more

Jaap van Lagen had a good weekend in Hockenheim, because he put the best lap in Quali and finish second in the race on Sunday. Jaap is 4th in drivers standing with 76 points, because Faulkner lost his 2nd place in Monaco.

Ede, 03 March 2008 - Jaap van Lagen has assured himself of a top seat in the Mobil 1 Porsche Supercup. The resident from Ede signed a one-year contract with Kadach Racing Team. Time to relax after enjoying this important decision will Van Lagen not have: on Wednesday and Thursday the 31-year old driver drives the first miles for his new German employer during the first collective test at Hockenheim. Read more

Ede, February 10, 2008 – Jaap van Lagen has signed a contract with Russian Bears Motorsport en will take part in the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). The dutchman starts with a Lada 110 prepared by the team and will make his WTCC debute during the third raceweekend (May 18) in Valencia. The Russian Viktor Shapovalov is the other teammember. Besides his participation in the FIA WTCC the inhabitant from Ede concentrates on the Mobil Porsche Supercup, just like in 2007.. Read more

ASSEN, 4th of february 2008 – Last Sunday Jaap van Lagen had his first victory of the season with a Porsche during the 4 hours of Assen. Together with Henk Haane the driver from Ede drove the Porsche 997 GT3 to the first place overall. They kept 42 teams one round behind them during the 4th round of the Winter Endurance Championship 2007/2008.

Because the regular driver, Dick Waayenberg, had other commitments during the weekend, Henk Haane and teamowner Edwin Lammertink invited Van Lagen for a guest performance on the TT-circuit of Assen. To Van Lagen, who’s going to drive the Porsche Supercup this season, this was a excellent opportunity to train with the Porsche and share his experiences with the team. It was a succesfull performance: they grapped immediately pole position and exchanged this in the afternoon for a convincing victory. Read more

The first roll out of Audi CR-8.

The TOYO TIRES 24h of Dubai 2008 had the debut showing the world the first metres of the Audi CR-8 on the race track. The car developed by Creventic BV from Holland made a few testing laps on Sunday 6^th on a small part of the circuit of the Dubai Autodrome. Running without any problem, Cor Euser worked for getting a set up in the car. The handling of the car felt OK from the start.At the free practice on Thursday Jaap van Lagen and Cor Euser worked further on the car adjusting the AST suspension and wing. During qualifying and night practice the CR-8 got better and better. All the time the car showed no problem at all, quite amazing looking at the fact there have been no tests with this car so far.On race day Cor Euser took the start. The car performed well and Cor could easily run a 2m15s with the CR-8. Cor was pleased about the balance of the car. After one hour he came in for refuelling. After refuelling Cor wanted to start the engine again but the electronic gearbox was stuck in first gear and it was not possible to start the car. The CR-8 mechanics plugged their laptops in and found an unknown error and after calling many experts in Europe it turned out that the car was missing a modification of a hydraulic unit which is operated by the electronic gearbox. This modification should exactly avoid what happened to the car at the refuelling station. The team did not have a spare unit with them. The other Audi CR-8 the team brought to Dubai had a manual gearbox so did not had this specific part. With Dubai closed for the weekend and no Audi dealer to reach it looked like the team could not continue the race. Suddenly in the night a friendly race enthusiast turned up in the teams pit box 3A, telling he had good contacts with Audi. With a special tester it was confirmed that the problem was caused by this particular unit. Fortunately our contact had access to the Audi warehouse in Dubai where this part could be picked up and mounted. After mounting the engine could be started again and needed to learn all the gears. (A part of this was filmed and is becoming quite popular on YouTube now). In the meantime in the middle of the night it was raining heavily. During “Code 60” Ivo Breukers went out on the track. The car was performing perfect again and could be shifted through all the gears.The car was on manual cut rain tires and to avoid every risk, and keeping in mind the weather forecast that the rain would stop in the morning, the team decided to come in and to wait for the dry track so the slicks could be mounted again. In the early morning later than expected the track got dryer and Ivo Breukers and Jaap van Lagen could drive the car without any problem in a few stints to the finish.In total the CR-8 did 113 laps without any problem at all. The replaced hydraulic part was the modified one so it is expected this specific problem will not occur again.Although the team would have liked to see that they could have had more track time it is satisfied with the reliability it showed on the track during this test race. The CR-8 will now go on a heavy, heavy diet. After this diet it will look a little different and should have lost almost 200 kilo’s. Together with some other modifications the car will become a little faster for the next test. 

On the 5th of August 2007 Jaap van Lagen finished in fourth position. This is a marvelous prestation for a talented coureur in his fourth race for the Porche Supercup . He started all the way from the 9th position. After a beatiful race he catched up on 5 opponents, and finished on fourth position, close to the numbers 2 (Damien Faulkner) and 3 (Jeroen Bleekemolen).