FIA WTCC Newsletter # 6 - 15 February 2008
MORE THAN THREE HOURS LIVE FROM BRAZIL
Eurosport unveiled their plans for the live TV coverage from
Curitiba for the FIA World Touring Car Championship's opening
event.
A total of 195 minutes of live broadcasting will be dedicated
to the FIA WTCC during the first weekend in March,
The coverage will start on Saturday 1st with the qualifying
session aired live on Eurosport International from 7.00 to
7.45 pm Central European Time.
Live coverage will switch to Eurosport 2 on Sunday - from
1.00 to 1.30 pm CET - for the 15-minute warm-up session.
The first two races of the season will be broadcast live
on Eurosport International: Race 1 from 5.00 to 6.00 pm CET
and Race 2 from 8.00 to 9.00 pm CET.
GOLDEN MOTORS TO RACE IN FIVE ROUNDS
Golden Motors Honda Dealer Team, from St. Petersburg, Russia
officially announced their plans for the 2008 racing season.
They will start in the Swedish Touring Car Championship to
continue in the FIA WTCC and finish in the FIA European Touring
Car Cup with two Honda Accord Euro R cars, built by JAS Motorsport
and run by the Estonian team Artman Racing.
The team's two drivers - Alexander Lvov and Andrey Smetsky
- who were classified first and second in the 2007 Russian
Touring Car Championship - will make their seasonal debut
in the STCC at Knutstorp.
Golden Motors who took part in last year's WTCC event at
Anderstorp have planned to take part in five events of the
2008 season - Valencia, Brno, Oschesleben, Anderstorp, and
Monza - before heading to the Austrian Salzburgring for the
European Touring Car Cup.
POULSEN MOTORSPORT TO JOIN IN THREE EVENTS
Denmark-based Poulsen Motorsport confirmed their plans to
enter three races of the 2008 FIA WTCC.
"We have planned to enter in Estoril, Brands Hatch and
Oschersleben," said team manager Niels Jørgen
Iversen. "The last of these three events is quite close
to the Danish Touring Car Championship race at Sturup, but
we should manage it anyway, as the way back from Oschersleben
is not that long."
The team has five BMW 320si cars and so far only three drivers
have been confirmed: Kristian Poulsen, the winner of the 2007
European Touring Car Cup Michel Nykjær and Jesper Sylvest.
"We are still working on a deal with Emmet O'Brien, maybe
just for the WTCC races," Iversen revealed
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