2014 World Touring Car Championship

After making a race-winning début on home soil during the 2013 campaign, Argentina's José María López won the drivers' championship after performing strongest during the season.

Huff won the second races in Beijing and Macau; his win in the latter was his seventh at the circuit,[4] over the previous seven years.

Single race winners during 2014 were Gabriele Tarquini (Japan), Tom Chilton (Beijing), Gianni Morbidelli (Hungary), Mehdi Bennani (Shanghai) and Ma Qing Hua in Russia.

Morbidelli's win was his first in the series, while the victories for Bennani and Ma were the first in FIA competition for their respective countries, Morocco and China.

In the TC2-only Yokohama Drivers' Trophy, Franz Engstler finished well clear of the field in his final WTCC season before moving to the TCR International Series.

Engstler achieved 20 victories and a pair of second places from 23 starts, and finished 90 points clear of closest rival John Filippi, who won the second race in Japan.

The Yokohama Performer of the Year award went to López, taking the most fastest laps of the season, with eleven.

With ten victories during 2014, José María López won the Drivers' Championship by 126 points, ahead of his nearest challenger, Yvan Muller.
Citroën won the Manufacturers' Championship with the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC , winning 17 of the 23 races (74% of victories).
Defending champion Yvan Muller placed second in the Drivers' Championship, winning four races.
In his rookie season in the championship, Sébastien Loeb placed third with two race victories.
Yvan Muller and his Citroën C-Elysée WTCC. As the most competitive car, the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC got a maximum of 60 kg ballast during the whole season.
The Citroën Racing/Total team won the Manufacturer title five races before the end of the season, with a Citroën C-Elysée WTCC 1-2-3-4 at the race of Shanghaï (from left to right: Yves Matton director of Citroën Racing, Ma Qing Hua , J-M López , Yvan Muller and Franz Engstler for 'TC2')
Honda placed second in the Manufacturers Championship with the Civic
Lada placed third with the Granta
Franz Engstler won the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy