2012 World Touring Car Championship

[Bram Hengeveld]

Going to be an interesting race on this track or a very boring one with the lack of proper corners.

At least there is enough run off

 

[Andrew Skinner]

First 10 laps is paffet Spengler and rocky. These cars look well nice and sound fantasitic. I'll upload some photos when I get back from brands

 

[Ivo Simons]

Its really a joke the WTCC.
Last races the Chevy's were tuned down abit. Now they are again easy 1 sec faster.

 

[Peter]

The Chevys are in arcade mode

 

[Ivo Simons]

Atleast they have tyre wear on.

 

[Ivo Simons]

Wrong side Coronel...

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Wow what an awesome second race!! Big congrats to Stefano "French Kiss" D'Aste as there can't be a more happier winner than him.

 

[János Ócsai]

What a second race! Stefano, that lucky bastard!

 

[Dino Paolini]

Very dominant race by Paffett; it's not by chance that he's front atm that's for sure

But also finally an ok race for Audi. Rockenfeller and Molina were impressive today.

 

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Earlier today I thought: "How many tires have blown in that long right turn in the past? I really should say this in RD forum. Hmm, but no, don*t post such crap. That will definitely never happen nowadays and especially not today."

So I didn't post crap. I just didn't post.
They really need to strenghten the flanks or something... But better finish this was hehe

 

[Ivo Simons]

 

[Thilo Falkenberg]

Its really a joke the WTCC.
Last races the Chevy's were tuned down abit. Now they are again easy 1 sec faster.

It is not a joke. That is what you get when you have only one factory team. The runaway selection is not happening due to the lack of predators.

 

[Ivo Simons]

So its still joke.
As there is still something wrong that there is only one factory team. WTCC should make fair races.
Now there is only one real factory team so to protect the racing in the WTCC they should have "banned" the factory Chevy team.

 

[Thilo Falkenberg]

So its still joke.
As there is still something wrong that there is only one factory team. WTCC should make fair races.
Now there is only one real factory team so to protect the racing in the WTCC they should have "banned" the factory Chevy team.

Banning Chevy would have killed the series. The series is too expensive to run without factory teams. Moreover if Chevy was banned, Honda and Lada wouldn't join. I mean if you are a manufactor you are not interested in joining a series where the team that does the best job gets kicked.

 

[Ivo Simons]

I have put banned also between " "

 

[Andrew Skinner]

rocky was chasing down spengler in the last 10 mins of the race, something came off spenglers car at paddock hill bend and after that he was just loosing touch with paffett. molina had a solid drive today, his tyre stragety payed off after he droped to 14th from the start

 

[Hampus Andersson]

He cracked his front splitter so he lost around 7 tenths per lap the in the 13-14 last laps or so.
However i think he milked it slightly at the end to see if Martin could pass Rockenfeller, he was very close, just a few more laps

Great drive by Paffett however i´m not sure it was dominating, him and Spengler was neck and neck pace wise on track, the advantage Paffett had was that he was further up on the track And even though he got a bad stop it was still almost a second faster then BMW´s worst stop.

Don´t think BMW ever went under 4 seconds in the pits. It´s a shame to lose almost seconds in the pits when you are fighting for hundreds on the track.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Also... Tomczyk you got a new fan, that´s the kind of racing we want to see!
He was so on it in the beginning i was very impressed by that.

 

[Andrew Skinner]

heres some pics from my vantage point at Paddock Hill, sorry if the qualitys bad

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Its not Chevrolet's fault. That team puts in a lot of money and effort to create a super performing car.

Its the lack of factory input in other teams that makes the WTCC a joke. Its a world championship and besides Chevy they are all private owned teams.

So either the series should attrack more factory teams or just dump the WTCC and go back to a privateer series called ETCC on cool European tracks only and forget about those expensive oversees trips as nobody is interested in it anyways.