The Volkswagen Motorsport Car is based on the Golf 8 GTI
The Global Touring Cars (GTC), which launched in South Africa in 2016, is the premier motorsport championship in South Africa and includes the main GTC Championship (GTC1) as well as the second-tier class, GTC2. and today, Volkswagen unveiled the new Global Touring Cars (GTC) racing car through a virtual event that was streamed live on social media.
The new GTC racing car is built using the Golf 8 GTI body, and although the Golf 8 GTI will only make its South African debut in the first quarter of 2021, VW wanted to showcase the Golf 8 GTI’s performance attributes ahead of the local market introduction.
Volkswagen Motorsport will compete in the two Golf 8 GTIs in GTC1. They will be driven by 2019 GTC champion Keagan Masters and Daniel Rowe, the 2016 GTC2 champion. Volkswagen Motorsport will also be represented in the SupaCup, which replaces GTC2, by 2016 Driver Search winner and 2017 Polo Cup Rookie winner, Jonathan Mogotsi. Mogotsi will be racing the SupaCup Polo, which is a newly developed car for the second tier class within the GTC Championship.
The new car is an exciting addition to South African motorsport and produces over 200kW coupled to a locally developed 6-speed M-Trac Sequential Gearbox.
