In an interview for website touringcartimes.com, Volvo Motorsport boss Derek Crabb announced that the swedish constructor won't step up to WTCC as an official team.
Volvo made its debuts in WTCC last season with team Polestar, which ran a C30 for Robert Dahlgren. Despite having set good results, Volvo won't continue his implication in the world touring car championship in 2012, prefering to focus on the S60 that the manufacturer will run in TTA, one of the two Swedish touring car championship.
"We will not be stepping up and entering an official team in WTCC in 2012," Crabb said to touringcartimes.com. "We are more than happy with the series as a whole. Even though it is a relatively young world championship compared to F1 and WRC, it has a very good exposure and growth, both geographically with the race calendar and with TV distribution. However, during the latter part of last year and based on strong push from our markets, we decided to shift our attention in Motorsport to the larger platform and the S60. This is a car we do not have developed in the S2000 regulation used in the WTCC. So in short, a very good championship, but we don't have a car for it in 2012."
"We are making a massive effort to support and help develop a new home market championship, TTA - Elite Racing Series, where sporting fairness, exciting races, and local importer accessibility will be key factors," he added. "We will race four S60 cars with Polestar through to 2015. Our activities in Sweden are very important to us, partly because it is a critical market for us, but also because it is the backbone of our motorsport infrastructure, similar like DTM is for some brands."
Volvo made its debuts in WTCC last season with team Polestar, which ran a C30 for Robert Dahlgren. Despite having set good results, Volvo won't continue his implication in the world touring car championship in 2012, prefering to focus on the S60 that the manufacturer will run in TTA, one of the two Swedish touring car championship.
"We will not be stepping up and entering an official team in WTCC in 2012," Crabb said to touringcartimes.com. "We are more than happy with the series as a whole. Even though it is a relatively young world championship compared to F1 and WRC, it has a very good exposure and growth, both geographically with the race calendar and with TV distribution. However, during the latter part of last year and based on strong push from our markets, we decided to shift our attention in Motorsport to the larger platform and the S60. This is a car we do not have developed in the S2000 regulation used in the WTCC. So in short, a very good championship, but we don't have a car for it in 2012."
"We are making a massive effort to support and help develop a new home market championship, TTA - Elite Racing Series, where sporting fairness, exciting races, and local importer accessibility will be key factors," he added. "We will race four S60 cars with Polestar through to 2015. Our activities in Sweden are very important to us, partly because it is a critical market for us, but also because it is the backbone of our motorsport infrastructure, similar like DTM is for some brands."