2010 World Touring Car Championship

[AndreasFSC]

It's a FWD. Ethanol fueled in STCC

 

[Johan Bergqvist]

This will be exiting, latset news is that Rickard Rydell is making his comeback next year in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship in the Chevrolet Cruize!!!!!!!!!

 

[cristiano]

Ciao a tutti..volevo dirvi che mi piacerebbe conoscervi e casomai trovarci in pista !!! In attesa di notizie vi lascio un saluto....

 

[OverTake.gg]

For the third consecutive year Japanese Gods sent the rain to soak the WTCC races at Okayama. In spite of this, local fans did not miss the last appearance of the World Championship before it moves to Suzuka from next year and a crowd of 31,000 attended over the weekend.

After a Saturday that was clearly in favour of BMW, the rainy Sunday smiled to Yvan Muller. In extremely difficult conditions the Chevrolet driver kept a cool head and collected two third places that are worth their weight in gold. Especially as his two rivals in the title fight. committed hara-kiri.
After a brilliant second place in the first race, Andy Priaulx spun off and retired in the early stages of Race 2. A few laps later Gabriele Tarquini lost control and crashed from the lead.
The Italian, reigning world champion, has been cut out of the fight, while Priaulx now has a 37-point gap with 50 still to be awarded.

In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet is only 14 points shy from securing the title.
Rob Huff and Augusto Farfus shared victories today. The Briton pushed beyond the limits in the first race to get past the BMW cars of Farfus and Priaulx, while the Brazilian managed to stay on the track in the final laps of the second race after forcing Tarquini to make the fatal mistake.
The championship will resume for the season finale (rounds 21 and 22) at Macau, on November 21 where the Rookie Challenge and the Independents' Trophy will also elect their champions.

 

[Fábio Rafran Lima Santos]

Stock car Brazil have the best drives

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Yes of course, how could we forget about those awesome drivers from that super important world championship of brazil

 

[Keith Peppiatt]

Not a good news:

Former WTCC and European Touring Car cup competitor Marin Čolak has been injured in a motorway incident in his home country of Croatia, in which his 20 year old female passenger has died.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=5512

 

[Ryan Callan]

OMG :/

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Jezus

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

At the Speciality Equipment Manufacturers Association Show in Las Vegas, Ford revealed plans to leverage the all-new Focus for motorsport by supporting the development of a next-generation touring car for global competition.
The move extends Ford's reputation for offering race-capable, affordable platforms that can be converted into a race car. The new Focus will become Ford’s global touring car to be developed with private race teams in cooperation with the company’s global motorsport group.

See the car here

A bit strange that this news surfaced on the WTCC site. Next year the cars will drive with a new rulebook as all cars will need to be S1600 with turbo's. Or is there a different rule for privateers?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

20th March: Curitiba, Brazil
24th April: Zolder, Belgium
15th May: Monza, Italy
5th June: Marrakech, Morocco
19th June: Brno, Czech Republic
3rd July: Porto, Portugal
17th July: Donington Park, UK
31st July: Oschersleben, Germany
4th September: Valencia, Spain
23rd October: Suzuka, Japan
6th November: TBA, China
20th November: Macau, Macau

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Curitiba & Marrakech, b-b-b-b-boring

 

[Christopher Aponte]

I thought I saw an Argentina race after curitiba

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Taken off the calendar and replaced by Zolder.

 

[Christopher Aponte]

oh
that's a shame

 

[James Chant]

Curitiba & Marrakech, b-b-b-b-boring

And Brno isn't? All the corners are the same. The track was designed with a rubber stamp!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Brno is one of the favorite tracks of the drivers, you can literally overtake in almost every corner and the atmosphere in the Czech Rep is amazing with a decent amount of spectators. Very friendly people and a great modern paddock

In Curitiba and Marrakech the only spectators are family of Farfus and Bennani

 

[James Chant]

In Curitiba and Marrakech the only spectators are family of Farfus and Bennani

That's like saying monza is boring because only Ferrari fans turn up!

I found Brno boring to drive in a 320si on race pro.

Some of these are too long a track for touring cars I reckon.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

True, for that reason Monza was taken off the calendar two years ago and replaced with Imola (just a long lol). But it would be nicer to have some shorter tracks in the future, at least for the spectators.

 

[James Chant]

I think thats why the British touring cars to me is more interesting - shorter laps at the circuits produce more interesting racing. More visits to the harder parts of the tracks.

This year both BTCC and F1 have been excellent, but I find I ffwd through the WTCC races as they are just not as exciting. The strett circuits in F1 and WTCC provide little if no overtaking, which can make for a dull race. Why is F1 valencia not done at the proper circuit like motogp?

F1 may become a disaster in years to come as the new circuits replace the classics in the calendar. There are too many circuits now which makes for good viewing every other weekend, but at what cost ?

Also a 3 make series is poor for a world championship. Although ford and Volvo ( same chassis though) showing interest next year might make it more interesting.

/rant