The WTCC season ended abruptly for Volvo Polestar Racing as Robert Dahlgren crashed out of qualifying as fastest driver after hitting debris from a previous crash at legendary street track Macau.
Volvo Polestar Racing and Robert Dahlgren had a strong but frustrating WTCC weekend at Suzuka in Japan with third in qualifying, retirement in race one and a fighting fifth in race two.
Volvo won the first ever Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) race in 1996 and Robert Dahlgren secured the last ever victory in the season finale of STCC 2011 at Mantorp Park.
With a sizable contingent of Volvo fans at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway for the penultimate round of the Pirelli World Challenge, the K-PAX Racing team put down another strong finish.
Aaron Povoledo drove his K-PAX Racing Volvo C30 to his third Touring Car class win of the season today at the Cadillac Grand Prix of Sonoma, bringing himself and Volvo closer to the points lead.
Coming off a three win high from Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and the fastest times in practice from Randy Pobst (GT) and Aaron Povoledo (TC), K-PAX Racing was poised to continue their streak Saturday at Infineon Raceway in their first race of the double header race weekend.
Tommy Rustad celebrated the first victory of 2011 and climbs back to third in the championship after the STCC (Scandinavian Touring Car Championship) weekend at Jyllandsringen in Denmark.
Following James Thompson's departure from the team earlier this week, Volvo and Polestar have signed WTCC champion Gabriele Tarquini to drive for the Volvo Polestar Green Racing team.