Following months of intensive development work, STARD – the official Kia TCR developer – has revealed further details about the Kia cee´d TCR.
Michael Sakowicz, STARD CEO, explained: “We have worked intensively with full focus on the technical solutions. We are extremely pleased with the progress over the last few months and are very confident that the car will be highly competitive in all the various TCR series. The testing programme is going very well and the results have even exceeded our expectations. We are perfectly on schedule with our project plan up until now.“
Philipp Thonet, the CTO of STARD, added: “To ensure that we pick the best suppliers, we are testing a number of different components, also bearing in mind the new tasks for TCR like endurance and 24-hour races. We are currently testing four different damper suppliers. The same approach applies to the gearbox, brakes and so on. This process is time consuming, but ensures that only the best package will find its way into the car!“
The official car presentation is scheduled for October 2016, but customers will be able to place pre-orders ahead of the 2017 season from September onwards.
Manfred Stohl, President Stohl Group GmbH said: “The Kia community around the globe is incredibly interested and excited about this project, which again shows how much customers were longing for a proper Kia road car-based motorsport project.“
