WTCC: 25 Cars To Start The Season

[Bram Hengeveld]

The 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship proves to be in excellent shape, as twenty-five cars have been entered by fifteen teams in the WTCC season opener that takes place at Monza, Italy next weekend.



The entry list features model cars built by five different car Manufacturers: BMW (8), SEAT (7), Chevrolet (5), Honda (3) and LADA (2).

Among the drivers who are aiming to fight for the World Champion’s crown are three former WTCC winners: Yvan Muller (champion in 2008, 2010 and 2011) at the wheel of a Chevrolet Cruze run by RML, Gabriele Tarquini (champion in 2009) who drives a Civic for the Honda Racing Team JAS, and reigning champion Rob Huff who joined the ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport in a SEAT León.

Biggest name missing on the entry list is that of Swiss Alain Menu, who seems to have quietly left the series to race this season in the Porsche Supercup.

1 ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Rob Huff (GBR) SEAT León WTCC
3 Honda Racing Team JAS Gabriele Tarquini (ITA) Honda Civic WTCC
5 Zengö Motorsport Norbert Michelisz (HUN) Honda Civic WTCC
6 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Franz Engstler (DEU) BMW 320 TC
7 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Charles Ng Ka Ki (HKG) BMW 320 TC
9 bamboo-engineering Alex MacDowall (GBR) Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
10 LADA Sport Lukoil James Thompson (GBR) LADA Granta
11 LADA Sport Lukoil Aleksei Dudukalo (RUS) LADA Granta
12 RML Yvan Muller (FRA) Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
13 ANOME Jean-Philippe Dayraut (FRA) BMW 320 TC
14 bamboo-engineering James Nash (GBR) Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
15 ROAL Motorsport Tom Coronel (NLD) BMW 320 TC
17 Nika Racing Michel Nykjær (DNK) Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
18 Honda Racing Team JAS Tiago Monteiro (PRT) Honda Civic WTCC
19 Campos Racing Fernando Monje (SPA) SEAT León WTCC
20 Campos Racing Hugo Valente (FRA) SEAT León WTCC
22 Special Tuning Racing Tom Boardman (GBR) SEAT León WTCC
23 RML Tom Chilton (GBR) Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
25 Proteam Racing Mehdi Bennani (MAR) BMW 320 TC
26 PB Racing Stefano D’Aste (ITA) BMW 320 TC
37 ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport René Münnich (DEU) SEAT León WTCC
38 ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Marc Basseng (DEU) SEAT León WTCC
55 ROAL Motorsport Darryl O’Young (HKG) BMW 320 TC
73 Wiechers-Sport Fredy Barth (CHE) BMW 320 TC
74 Tuenti Racing Team Pepe Oriola (ESP) SEAT León WTCC

To whet your appetite some raw engine sounds of the new Seat of reigning world champion Huff, the Honda Civic of Michelisz and the BMW of D'Aste during earlier pre-season tests.

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[Boby Kim]

Seeing this i truly hope R3E will implement WTCC cars...

 

[t.o.]

I hope ANYTHING new implements WTCC. rFactor2, pCars, iRacing ANYTHING!!!

 

[Xosé Estrada]

And no live coverage for Spain

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Not even on Spanish Eurosport?

 

[Tony Gentile]

thats cool do you need another pit crew member
WTCC Sim Racing Rocks

 

[Tony Gentile]

That Seat sounds real nice real nice

 

[David Tepper]

Germany also havn´t live races on eurosport.
Only paytv Eurosport 2
Do anybody have an livestream?

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Hmm I see the Dutch Eurosport only shows race 2 on Eurosport 1 the other race and the qualification will be only on Eurosport 2.

Well great, that will be another season without WTCC then. They broadcast cross country skiing instead lol. Really a sport I can't wait for to see live.

 

[David Tepper]

I can´t understand why the didn´t show Wtcc any longer.
In times of Etcc they show everything of an event and that´s why it is what it is today!
And now they destroy the series by not showing it in freetv!

The same like ADAC GT MASTERS, there they limited the startfield to 25 starters on a raceseries that lives from the many manufactures!

 

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The neutral revs sound like a steamboat. Kinda weird. Why is this?

My motorsport newspaper tells me, WTCC will be on Eurosport 1 for Race 2, Race 1, Warm-up, Qual on 2.
Qual and Warmup have been on 2 regularly last year, so not good, but still not worse.

 

[Trebor901]

qualifying isnt on at all in the uk

 

[Rui F. Martins]

in Portugal both races are broadcasted, the first round race 1 was on eurosport 2 and the 2nd race was on eurosport, i don't know about qualy, didn't checked that

 

[Alklian]

Nice Picture.
I like the sports cars because on that i saw some cool graphic work. Actually the wrapping or graphic work start from these cars and now it is so much popular even peoples start making graphics on the simple cars.

melbourne car wrapping