2011 World Touring Car Championship

[Nippon2]

Amazing to see how Yvan Muller is making a comeback in the second half of the season. Huff never saw this coming I think.

 

[Nick Brooke]

Muller is my fav all time touring car driver i just think he rocks

 

[Nippon2]

He is a stunning driver for sure, but I simply can not cheer for a Chevrolet Cruze

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I think Dahlgren will be the surprise of the last part of the year. He is getting faster and faster in his Volvo and keep in mind that he hasn't run on 90% of the tracks ever before. He is my candidate for the title in 2012 (or Tarquini when he joins the WTCC as well with a Volvo)

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

WTCC 2012 CALENDAR

March 11, 2012	Autodromo di Monza	Italy
April 1, 2012	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	Spain
April 15, 2012	Donington Park	England
April 29, 2012	t.b.a	Germany
May 6, 2012	Hungaroring	Hungary
May 20, 2012	Marrakech	Marocco
June 10, 2012	Circuito de Boavista	Portugal
July 22, 2012	Autodromo Int de Curitiba	Brazil
September 23, 2012	Infineon Raceway	United States
October 21, 2012	Suzuka	Japan
November 4, 2012	Shanghai International Circuit	China
November 18, 2012	Circuit da Guia	Macau

What do you think about this line up of tracks?

 

[Ivan Boskovic]

I love Autodromo di Monza, Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Donington Park, Marrakech, Circuito de Boavista, Circuit da Guia... So it is OK line up

 

[Péter Bártfai]

I think I'll visit the Hungaroring event again

 

[Yann Laprevotte]

That schedule is a bit outdated. The German round has been replaced by the Salzburgring, and Shangai has been replaced by some obscure chinese track.

Not that bad really. Can't bear Curitibia(shame they never made it to Interlagos), Valencia is a bit meh but provides decent racing. Shame they don't use the whole track at Suzuka, the East track might not provide good racing. Never heard about the Chinese track, but I heard it's quite a joke. But apart from that, the whole thing is pretty much decent IMO.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

The championship continues this weekend. On Saturday the qualifications are held very early in the morning 06:30 GMT (Live on Eurosport 2 I think). Sunday the two races start at 05:35 GMT and 06:50 GMT.

Bloody shame they are racing on the short version of Suzuka, but you can't have it all

 

[James Chant]

The full circuit is too long for touring cars, the main pitfall for the whole of WTCC really for me, it's not very exciting to watch anymore.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Tommy's qualy

 

[Peter]

Major Tom, hiep-hiep-hoera !!!!!

Leve de Koningin

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Haha, he did it again

 

[OverTake.gg]

Alain Menu and Tom Coronel claimed wins for Chevrolet and BMW today at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan. For the Dutchman it was his second WTCC victory after his heroic win in the rain at Okayama in 2008.

At first, most of their main contenders - Robert Dahlgren, Tom Coronel, Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro – were eliminated in two different incidents at the start. Later, Yvan Muller lost the lead and eventually dropped to fourth because of a wrong set up choice. This made things easier for Menu (who pocketed his fourth victory of the season), Huff (who reduced the gap in the standings to ten points), and Nykjær (who claimed his first WTCC podium besides winning the Yokohama Trophy).

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Finally Tom Coronel came back to the WTCC winning circle, claiming his first WTCC victory in the ROAL Motorsport BMW. The second one for him in the World Championship.

Chevrolet drivers focused on the championship and did not take the risk to try hazardous overtaking maneuvers; Yvan Muller, Rob Huff and Alain Menu filled the positions from second to fourth, while Robert Dahlgren’s hopes were frustrated once again with a fifth place that could have been a podium without a misfiring problem.

Michel Nykjær encored in the Yokohama Trophy after a race-long close fight with Colin Turkington and Javier Villa. For the whole 23 laps the Dane was able not to open the least of a gap.

A video summary of both races will follow this week so stay tuned for more. In the meantime leave your comments below or head over to our motorsport forum for more WTCC discussions.

Update: added highlights video of both races

 

[Omer Said]

Great video! I'm very happy to see Tom win, very unlucky first turn at the first race. A nice present for his son By the way Huff-Muller title battle will be really interesting! Can't wait to see.

 

[Zeynel Babacan]

yeah!! finally

 

[Trebor901]

WTCC is a shambles, have to laugh at the people that wasted their time getting up early this morning to watch it on eurosport. Get rid of the rolling starts and i think all sunred drivers need banning cos they're all as dirty and dangerous as each other.

 

[Appie Kuipers]

Wow ho, Congfu Tom, Dutch Hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Awesome, well done Tom Couldn't have gone to a nicer guy.

 

[Linus Pettersson]

Nice to see Tom and the 320 TC on top of the podium!