FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 01 – 13 February 2006
2006 FIA WTCC TO BE LAUNCHED AT MONZA ON 21 MARCH
The new season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship
will be launched at Monza on Tuesday March 21, 2006.
All teams and drivers taking part in the championship will
attend the event and will also participate in the official
two-day testing.
SIX TEST SESSIONS FOR FIA WTCC CARS
The competitors of the FIA World Touring Car Championship
will hit the track in six different test sessions over the
two days (Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd), for a total track
time of six hours.
F3000 MASTERS, GT OPEN AND TROFEO MASERATI
The F3000 International Masters, the International GT Open
and the Trofeo Maserati series will also take part in the
event. The F3000 International Masters’ competitors
will drive in three test sessions for a total of two hours.
Drivers of the International GT Open and the Trofeo Maserati
will test together in five sessions for a total of 4 hours
and 30 minutes. These three series will complete the programme
of the FIA WTCC season’s opening event that will take
place at Monza on 1st and 2nd April.
YOKOHAMA PRESENTED WTCC TO JAPANESE MEDIA
Special emphasis was given to the tyre company’s involvment
– through the brand Advan – in the FIA World Touring
Car Championship.
“Until 2005 we used the Advan brand for our domestic
motor sport programmes. But from now on Advan wil be Yokohama’s
symbol brand worldwide for both international motor sport
and road cars in a long term plan. And our new partership
with the FIA WTCC is the ideal platform for this strategy,”
Mr Takashi Sugimoto, Managing Director of the Yokohama Rubber
Co. explained to the attendance.
Jacques Behar, Chairman of championship promoter KSO, declared:
“We are honoured to welcome Yokohama as our new partner
and we thank Mr Sugimoto for this opportunity of presenting
the FIA WTCC to the Japanese media. I want to affirm today,
that it is our wish to organise an FIA WTCC event in Japan
in the near future.”
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