UNDER THE SKIN OF LYNK & CO

The newest brand in WTCR has limited motorsport pedigree, but the forces behind the project are no strangers to tin-top success

BY JACK COZENS

CYAN’S NEW CHAPTER Take a look at the brands on the World Touring Car Cup grid and it’s hard to miss the motorsport pedigree each brings – even when you narrow that down to tin-tops. Alfa Romeo has its run of mid-1980s European Touring Car titles, the came/saw/conquered Alfa Corse British Touring Car season of 1994 and successful European and World Touring Car programme of the mid-2000s, while Cupra can call on the WTCC dominance of parent company SEAT and its turbodiesel mastery. Even Honda – which has never quite cracked the world stage – still has what are now long-standing and successful British and World Touring Car efforts in place. But in the case of WTCR’s newest arrival, that heritage is harder to spot, and you’d be forgiven for asking what affinity…

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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14/03/19

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