2010 World Touring Car Championship

[Mark Birney]

he will race the first round injured

WOW! He's so brave!

 

[Omer Said]

Silence before the storm maybe ?!

According to most latest news i could find, Lada's director told that they will be more consistent and strong in 2010 and they are proud of with their 2009 performance espicially with Thompson. And this new's date is 29 November. 2 months with silence is really strange.

 

[Mel Dixon]

sure i read somewhere that they were calling it a day,which i think would be a shame.

 

[Wido Rossen]

The start of the 2010 season in Brazil on the 5,6,7 of March.

Track Facts:

LAP DISTANCE: 3,695 m
RACE DISTANCE: 2 x 14 laps

Records:

Qualifying - 1:24.196/157.98 kph, Yvan Muller (SEAT León Tdi), 7 Mar 2009

Race - 1:24.959/156.57 kph, Augusto Farfus (BMW 320si), 2 Mar 2008

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

 

[Wido Rossen]

I hope that T.C can live up to his / our expectations.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Oh yes, he'll race the full season in a Seat Leon TDI (Zengő-Dension Team)!
http://www.markakupa.hu/felnottunk

I must get Eurosport player for the whole season now! Best news I could get! Go Norbi!

 

[Peter Boszormenyi]

GOGO Norbi!!!!

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Thats fantastic news! We saw him driving last year in Brands Hatch and he was so fast, but bad luck in both races got in his way! With a TDI i see him finishing really high in the championship!

Wasn't he a sim racer a few years ago?

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Wasn't he a sim racer a few years ago?

Yes he was.

 

[Peter Boszormenyi]

Thats fantastic news! We saw him driving last year in Brands Hatch and he was so fast, but bad luck in both races got in his way! With a TDI i see him finishing really high in the championship!

Wasn't he a sim racer a few years ago?

Yes, as I know he used to race at gtr-masters.hu with GTR & GTR2, it was about 5-6 years ago. Then Zoltán Zengő asked Gabor Weber to find a fast driver. He called Norbi.
After this he won the national suzuki swift and renault clio cups, and finished P2 in his third year in Seat Leon Hungarian cup

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Spanish driver Sergio Hernández will join Stefano D’Aste at Proteam Motorsport for the new season.
Hernández who spent the 2009 as factory driver at BMW Team Italy-Spain, claiming his first WTCC victory at Brno, returns to the Italian outfit for which he raced in 2007 and 2008.
During his second year with the team, Hernández managed to win the Yokohama Independents’ Trophy and together with D’Aste helped Proteam to win the Teams’ Trophy.

Source | fiawtcc.com​

 

[OverTake.gg]

The newly established SR-Sport, emanation of SUNRED Engineering Development, will field a very strong four-car team in the 2010 FIA WTCC.
Thanks to their strong ties with SEAT Sport, the Spanish outfit managed to put together a quartet of SEAT León TDI machines that will be entrusted to the capable hands of former SEAT Sport drivers: the reigning World Champion Gabriele Tarquini, the 2009 Independents’ Trophy winner Tom Coronel, Tiago Monteiro and Jordi Gené. Altogether they claimed 16 WTCC race wins so far.

Source | fiawtcc.com

 

[OverTake.gg]

The full season entry list for the 2010 FIA World Touring Car Championship that will start on March 7[SUP]th[/SUP] at Curitiba, Brazil, was released today.
Twenty competitors are listed: drivers coming from fifteen countries at the wheel of cars built from three different manufacturers.
KSO’s reaction was of satisfaction, considering the difficult moment for motorsport in general and the fact that race-by-race entries are expected to expand the field during the season representing additional brands.

Click this link to download the full entry list (pdf)

 

[Christopher Aponte]

it looks indeed like no Lada this year
http://www.racedepartment.com/content/242-wtcc-full-driver-line-up-unveiled-for-2010.html

 

[Michael Herrmann]

arf i was so hoping to see them again they did well with the material they had to go with

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

As fellow sim racers of course all the best to Marin Colak and Norbert Michelisz! We will be following you guys closely this year again :thumbup:

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

They have died silently! Not really nice for their fans to not even issue a statement what so ever.

Edit: Hmm looking at the entry list i see the numbers 12,13,14 are still available. Maybe they join in later?

 

[Michael Herrmann]

maybe Lada skip the non europe races ?? i hope atleast

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Would make sense, the other teams should do that as well