FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 43 – 2 November 2007
ROUTE TO MACAU FOR THE LAST STOP
The clock is ticking for the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.
In two weeks the competitors will hit the track for the last
two races of the season with all the titles still at stake.
For the third consecutive year the FIA WTCC closing act will
be staged on Macau’s infamous 6.1-km Guia street circuit.
On Sunday 18th November two 9 lap races will consecrate the
2007 Drivers’ and Manufacturers World Champions, while
the Yokohama Trophies will also be awarded to the best Independent
driver and team. Six men are still in contention for the Drivers’
Championship: two times World Champion Andy Priaulx (BMW),
Yvan Muller (SEAT), Augusto Farfus (BMW), James Thompson (Alfa
Romeo), Jörg Müller (BMW) and Nicola Larini (Chevrolet),
all covered by 20 points.
Half of this gap separates BMW and SEAT in the fight for
the Manufacturers’ Championship.
CLAIMANTS TO THE WORLD TITLE COMPARED
driver car age points gap ballast best result in Macau
A. Priaulx BMW 33 81 60 kg 1st FIA WTCC 2006 2nd FIA WTCC
2005 2nd Guia Race 2003/04
Y. Muller SEAT 38 81 60 kg 2nd FIA WTCC 2006
A. Farfus BMW 24 71 - 10 60 kg 1st FIA WTCC 2005
J. Thompson Alfa Romeo 33 69 - 12 60 kg 4th FIA WTCC 2006
J. Müller BMW 38 66 - 15 60 kg 1st F3 Grand Prix 1993
1st Guia Race 2004 1st FIA WTCC 2006
N. Larini Chevrolet 43 61 - 20 60 kg 2nd Guia Race 2002
WHAT IF…
• Andy Priaulx wins the title: - he would be the first
driver ever to win four back to back FIA Touring Car championships.
• Yvan Muller wins the title: - he would be the first
French circuit racing World Champion, 14 years after Alain
Prost in the 1993 Formula One Championship. - he would give
SEAT the first circuit racing World championship won by a
Spanish car manufacturer.
• Augusto Farfus wins the title: - he would be the
first Brazilian World Champion in motor sport, 16 years after
Ayrton Senna in the 1991 Formula One Championship.
• James Thompson wins the title: - he would give Alfa
Romeo their first World title since the 1977 World Sportscar
Championship.
• Jörg Müller wins the title: - he would
be the second driver ever to be FIA champion for single-seaters
(1996 in F3000) and touring cars after Jacky Ickx who claimed
European titles in Touring Cars (1965) and F2 (1967). - he
would be the first German to win an FIA Touring Car title,
eleven years after Manuel Reuter in the 1996 International
Touring Car Championship.
• Ncola Larini wins the title: - he would be the first
Italian FIA World Champion since Teo Fabi won the 1991 World
Sportscar Championship.
• any of Andy Priaulx, Augusto Farfus or Jörg
Müller wins the title: - he would give BMW their fourth
Touring Car World title out of the four awarded.
NYKJÆR AND BASOV WON FIA EUROPEAN CUPS
Last Sunday in Adria, 38 drivers competed for the third FIA
European Touring Car Cup before 10,000 spectators.
Danish Touring Car Champion Michel Nykjær (SEAT León)
clinched the Super 2000 cup, the second consecutive for SEAT
and the GR Asia team, from Tomas Engström (Honda Accord)
and Kristian Poulsen (BMW 320si). Thanks to Nykjaer’s
and Poulsen’s results, the Danish Federation (DASU)
won the Nations’ Cup.
The Super Production class produced an all Russian podium:
Aleksey Basov (Honda Civic) winner, Nikolay Agapov (Honda
Civic) second and Arkadiy Pavlovskiy (Opel Astra) third.
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