2011 World Touring Car Championship

[ufunacaoenn]

lucky Chevys: this is the latest news from WTCC:

The penalties awarded by the Stewards after today’s qualifying demoted Fredy Barth and Darryl O’Young, but also promoted Alain Menu to pole position for tomorrow’s Race 2.
Barth and O’Young were stripped of all their qualifying times for different infringements.
The crew of the Hong Kong man worked on his car under parc fermé condition which resulted in O’Young being demoted from 15th to 19th.
Barth was penalised for missing twice the red light at the weighing bay and straight-cutting a chicane during Q1. The Stewards decided to exclude him from the qualifying results and pushed him to the back of the grids for both Race 1 and Race 2.
As a consequence of Barth’s exclusion, Menu was promoted to 10th in the final results of Q1 that also meant pole position for Race 2.
Franz Engstler too had his fastest lap time disallowed from the Q2 results for straight-cutting a chicane. However this did not affect his tenth position.

OMG Eckhart I was just about to write the same thing....

 

[Péter Bártfai]

For once it seems Alain Menu is a lucky guy

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

90 minutes left to go

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Time for a WTCC poll, who is (are) your favorite driver(s). Multiple choices are allowed.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

A poll has setup to vote for your favorite driver(s) this year. Please take a few seconds of your time to fill it in (multiple choices allowed):
http://www.racedepartment.com/motorsport-forum/50785-your-favorite-driver-s-year.html

 

[Erik Tveit]

Voted :roflol:

 

[ufunacaoenn]

I am new to WTCC (well I never found the intrest to follow the sport until this year) so I will save my vote for later this year.

 

[Aristide Romanov]

Voted for Tom Coronel :doublethumb: . I do hope he will be the Champion for this year.

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Voted for 7 drivers, is that OK?

Mainly: Norbert Michelisz (go Norbi!)
And I like the Chevrolet drivers, + Tarquini, + Coronel
And voted for Bueno too, even if I don't really know him, his car is awesome to look at and I want to see it at front! + his performance yesterday was pretty impressive imo.

 

[Adam Eggbeer]

Voted for Tarquini. Always liked the guy from F1 then BTCC, and now WTCC. Its just a shame that Priaulx is no longer on the grid :frown:

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Broadcast of Race 1 starts now!

HD: check
Soft drink: check
'borrelnootjes': check

yes i am ready, bring it on

 

[Duco Jansen]

coronel p4!

 

[Mike Bell]

top 5 predictions for this race anyone?

mine are
1.muller
2.huff
3.coronel
4.tarquini
5.paulson

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Now half way the race the tyrewear will start to show for the FWD cars

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Dirty move by Poulsen

 

[Mike Bell]

cmon coronel and menu and nykjaer

 

[Duco Jansen]

p4 for Coronel. he deserves it. Poulsen should have been penalised. he cant overtake normally

 

[Duco Jansen]

that straight line speed and fastcorner-grip of those chevys is insane.

 

[Mike Bell]

race 2 predictions -

1. menu
2. coronel
3. muller
4. tarquini
5. engstler?

 

[Balazs Toth]

Michelisz is in the Hungarian Eurosport studio during the races, and he said that Poulsen's move was clean (in his oppinion), and the push might help Coronel to accelerate So B/W flag was unneccessary.