August 2008
29th Aug - FIA WTCC - newsletter 34
WTCC is proud to announce Atari as the Title
Sponsor of the World Touring Car Championship meeting to be
held this weekend at the Oschersleben Motorsport Arena which
will be named "FIA WTCC Atari Race of Germany".
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22nd Aug - FIA WTCC - newsletter 33
Current championship leader, SEAT Sport's Yvan
Muller, and BMW Team Germany's Jörg Müller, the
winner of the first race in Brands Hatch, will both carry
the maximum 70kg success ballast in Oschersleben.
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14th Aug - FIA WTCC - newsletter 32
The Golden Motors team from Russia, will rejoin
the championship at the end of August, for the next race meeting
at Oschersleben.
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8th Aug - FIA WTCC - newsletter 31
Rounds 15th and 16th of the FIA WTCC will take
place at the end of the month in Germany, at Oschersleben
Motorsport Arena on August 31st.
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5th Aug - FIA WTCC - SALZBURGRING TO HOST THE
FOURTH EDITION OF THE FIA EUROPEAN TOURING CAR CUP
The fourth edition of the FIA European Touring
Car Cup will take place on October 19th at the Salzburgring,
Austria.
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1st Aug - FIA WTCC - newsletter 30
Japanese driver Yukinori Taniguchi will join
James Thompson to drive the second Honda Accord Euro R car
developed in collaboration with JAS Motorsport at two FIA
WTCC events this season: Monza and Okayama
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July 2008
27th Jul - FIA WTCC - Brands Hatch Races
Jörg Müller of BMW Team Germany and
Alain Menu for Chevrolet claimed a win apiece after two breathtaking
races at Brands Hatch.
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26th Jul - FIA WTCC - Brands Hatch Qualifying
Augusto Farfus managed to beat Alain Menu to
pole position in the qualifying at Brands Hatch, but he had
to set a new lap record to do it.
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25th Jul - FIA WTCC - newsletter 29
The FIA Touring Car Bureau have taken two decisions
that will take effect from this weekend's event in Brands
Hatch and until further notice.
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18th Jul - FIA WTCC - newsletter 28
The new Volvo C30 in Super 2000 is ready to
make its maiden appearance in the FIA WTCC at Brands Hatch.
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13th Jul - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 11 & 12 -
ESTORIL, PORTUGAL RACES
Rickard Rydell led from the first corner in
his SEAT León TDI to win the first race in Estoril,
which was also his first victory of the season.
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12th Jul - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 11 & 12 -
ESTORIL, PORTUGAL QUALIFYING
In the heat of the Saturday afternoon sunshine
the Chevrolet and SEAT cars dominated qualifying. It was closely
fought between the two manufacturers with the BMW cars trailing
close behind.
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11th Jul - FIA WTCC - Estoril Testing
Through the drizzle the BMW and Chevrolet cars
topped the times for the first Estoril test on Friday afternoon.
BMW Team Germany drivers Augusto Farfus and Jörg Müller
set the fastest times on the damp track.
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10th Jul - FIA WTCC - newsletter 27
The two LADA 110 cars of Jaap van Lagen and
Viktor Shapovalov have been declared eligible to score championship
points.
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4th Jul - FIA WTCC - newsletter 26
The 11th and 12th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place next week in Portugal, at Estoril's Autódromo
Fernanda Pires da Silva.
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2nd Jul - FIA WTCC - MARRAKECH GP JOINS 2009
WTCC CALENDAR
The FIA World Touring Car Championship will
expand to Africa in 2009.
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June 2008
27th Jun - FIA WTCC - newsletter 25
For the first time since they joined the championship,
James Thompson and his N.technology Honda Accord Euro R set
the WTCC pace.
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20th Jun - FIA WTCC - newsletter 24
A record crowd of 59,000 attended the WTCC
weekend in Brno and they were rewarded with two exciting races.
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15th Jun - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 9 & 10 - BRNO,
CZECH REPUBLIC - Results
The BMW cars played with their opposition in
the first race at Brno. Gabriele Tarqunini held off a charging
Alessandro Zanardi to salvage a valuable victory for SEAT
Sport in the second.
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14th Jun - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 9 & 10 - BRNO,
CZECH REPUBLIC - Qualifying
In a fiercely fought session BMW Team Italy-Spain's
Alessandro Zanardi clocked the fastest lap in the dying seconds
to take his first pole position in the championship
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13th Jun - FIA WTCC - newsletter 23
Chevrolet drivers set the fastest time in yesterday's
official test session at Brno.
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6th Jun - FIA WTCC - newsletter 22
The 9th and 10th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place next week in the Czech Republic, at Brno's Masaryk
Circuit.
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1st Jun - FIA WTCC - Pau Results
The sun was shining for the first WTCC race
in Pau this morning. BMW Team Germany's Augusto Farfus led
the drivers out on the first lap and carefully negotiated
the first few corners
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May 2008
31st May - FIA WTCC - Pau Qualifying
Augusto Farfus claimed his and BMW's first
pole position of the season at the end of an eventful session
that had been delayed by a half-an-hour for the track to be
repaired after a support race
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30th May - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 21
Laurent Cazenave will replace Olivier Tielemans
at the wheel of the Wiechers-Sport BMW 320si car for the WTCC
meeting in Pau.
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23rd May - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 20
The 7th and 8th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place next week in France, on the historical street circuit
of Pau.
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18th May - FIA WTCC - Valencia Results
Robert Huff claimed his and Chevrolet's first
victory of the season, charging from fourth position to the
lead in the first five laps of the race.
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17th May - FIA WTCC - Valencia Qualifying
Yvan Muller dominated today's qualifying session
on the wet track. SEAT Sport's Frenchman made his ambitions
clear from the start, posting a provisional fastest lap of
1:59.123.
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16th May - FIA WTCC - Test Report Valencia
Alain Menu of Chevrolet topped the time sheet,
completing a lap in 1:44.440 with only one minute left.
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15th May - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 19
The WTCC Race of Spain was officially launched
this afternoon at Bioparc Valencia, the city's modern and
spectacular zoological park that was inaugurated last year.
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9th May - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 18
The 5th and 6th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place in Spain, at Valencia's Circuit Ricardo Tormo on
May 17th and 18th.
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3rd May - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 17
The 17th and 18th rounds of the 2008 FIA World
Touring Car Championship will be held at Imola's Enzo and
Dino Ferrari racetrack on September 20th and 21st.
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April 2008
25th Apl - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 16
As a consequence of their domination in the
first two events of the season, SEAT drivers will carry the
heaviest success ballasts in their home race meeting at Valencia.
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18th Apl - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 15
Alain Menu's Chevrolet Lacetti was the fastest
car in the WTCC official test on Tuesday and Wednesday at
Valencia.
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11th Apl - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 14
The FIA's WTCC Mexican event resulted in a
complete triumph for SEAT, which Jaime Puig, SEAT Sport director,
described as "the best day ever for SEAT."
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7th Apl - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 3 & 4 - PUEBLA-AMOZOC,
MEXICO RACE 1 & 2 REPORT
Jordi Gené led from pole to secure the
win of the first race in Puebla. He started alongside Chevrolet's
Nicola Larini, and was only challenged during the rolling
start
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6th Apl - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 3 & 4 - PUEBLA-AMOZOC,
MEXICO QUALIFYING REPORT
Despite Nicola Larini and birthday boy Tom
Coronel topping the times for most of the qualifying, Jordi
Gené snatched pole for SEAT Sport in the closing minutes.
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5th Apl - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 3 & 4 - PUEBLA-AMOZOC,
MEXICO TEST REPORT
This afternoon the second meeting of the FIA
WTCC season got underway under Puebla's sunshine.
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4th Apl - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 13
SEAT Sport team-mates Yvan Muller and Gabriele
Tarquini arrive in Puebla as co-leaders of the Drivers' Championship
after they won one race apiece in the season's opening meeting
at Curitiba, Brazil
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March 2008
28th Mar - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 12
The N.technology team announced yesterday that
they will join the FIA World Touring Car Championship from
the third race meeting of the season that will take place
in Valencia, Spain,
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21st Mar - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 11
Chevrolet driver Nicola Larini celebrated his
44th birthday on Wednesday while testing his racing car at
the Guadix racetrack in Spain.
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14th Mar - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 10
The new FIA WTCC success ballast system will
come into force from the second race meeting of the season,
which will take place in Puebla, Mexico
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7th Mar - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 9
The WTCC Race of Brazil, which took place last
Sunday in Curitiba, again made a contribution towards the
aid of the starving people of Brazil.
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2nd Mar - FIA WTCC - RACE REPORTS ROUNDS 1
& 2 - CURITIBA, BRAZIL
SEAT Sport drivers Yvan Muller and Rickard
Rydell held off the BMW Team Germany's attack of Augusto Farfus
and Jörg Müller, to win the first race in Curitiba.
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1st Mar - FIA WTCC - QUALIFYING ROUNDS 1 &
2 - CURITIBA, BRAZIL
Yvan Muller placed his SEAT León TDI
on pole position following an eventful qualifying session
in Curitiba, with a time of 1:24.295, the fastest time of
the weekend so far
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February 2008
28th Feb - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 8
The FIA WTCC Race of Brazil will again be making
a contribution towards the aid of the starving people of Brazil.
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28th Feb - WTCC SUPPORTS MAKE CARS GREEN CAMPAIGN
Competitors from the FIA World Touring Car
Championship will be supporting the FIA's Make Cars Green
campaign from the first round of the series, in Curitiba,
Brazil, this weekend.
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22nd Feb - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 7
24 drivers from 13 countries, representing
five different car Manufacturers - BMW, Chevrolet, Honda,
LADA and SEAT - have entered the 2008 FIA World Touring Car
Championship's full season
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15th Feb - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 6
Golden Motors Honda Dealer Team, from St. Petersburg,
Russia officially announced their plans for the 2008 racing
season
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8th Feb - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 5
N.technology concluded their first test towards
the 2008 FIA WTCC in Valencia with James Thompson at the wheel
of the Honda Accord Euro R Super 2000.
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1st Feb - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 4
N.Technology will take part in the 2008 FIA
World Touring Car Championship with a Honda Accord Euro R,
designed and built by JAS Motorsport and driven by James Thompson
who classified third in the 2007 FIA WTCC.
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January 2008
25th Jan - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 3
The two opening races of the 2008 World Touring
Car Championship will be televised live from Curitiba on Sunday,
March 2nd.
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18th Jan - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 2
The members of the FIA Touring Car Bureau defined
the directions for the 2008 season within their mission of
maintaining the balance of performance among the competitors
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4th Jan - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 1
The fourth season of the FIA World Touring
Car Championship will get underway in less than two months,
on March 2nd in Brazil, at the Autódromo Internacional
de Curitiba
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December 2007
21st Dec - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 48
The FIA World Touring Car Championship will
visit Mexico again in 2008. After a one-year break the 3.2-km
Miguel E. Abed racetrack of Puebla Amozoc will host the championship’s
third and fourth rounds on April 6th.
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8th Dec - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 47 –
8 December 2007
During their meeting held yesterday in Monaco,
the FIA World Motor Sport Council have approved the 2008 FIA
World Touring Car Championship calendar.
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November 2007
23rd Nov - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 46 –
23 November 2007
Andy Priaulx began his route to become one
of the most successful touring car drivers ever four years
ago when he clinched the 2004 FIA European Touring Car Championship
crown in Dubai.
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18th Nov - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 21 & 22 –
MACAU RACES
For the third consecutive year Andy Priaulx
and BMW emerged as the winners of the ultimate fight for the
FIA World Touring Car Championship in Macau.
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17th Nov - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 21 & 22 –
MACAU QUALIFYING
Alain Menu has taken his fifth pole of the
season. In the dying minutes of qualifying Yvan Muller looked
to have secured prime position in Macau with a time of 2:31.395,
but under the chequered flag Menu stormed a lap in 2:31.209.
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16th Nov - FIA WTCC - ROUNDS 21 & 22 –
MACAU TESTING REPORT
Alain Menu set the fastest lap around the streets
of Macau as the 32 the WTCC cars hit the track for the test
session of the final showdown.
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15th Nov - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 45
Track action for the final event of the 2007
FIA World Touring Car Championship in Macau has been postponed
by one day due to logistical issues that resulted in a delayed
delivery of spare parts to some of the teams.
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9th Nov - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 44
Local hero André Couto will join the
Alfa Romeo N.technology team for his home race in Macau. The
30-year old driver had his first test in the Alfa Romeo 156
car last week at the Varano racetrack in Italy.
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2nd Nov - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 43
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.
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October 2007
28th Oct - NYKJÆR AND BASOV WIN FIA EUROPEAN
CUPS
Before 10,000 spectators, the 38 competitors
of the third FIA European Touring Car Cup delivered two exciting
races in Adria.
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28th Oct - ENGSTRÖM AND BASOV WIN EXCITING
FIRST RACE
Tomas Engström from Sweden won both, the
overall race and the Super 2000 class, making a perfect start
from pole position and rejecting the assaults of his competitors.
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27th Oct - ENGSTRÖM AND MØLLER
MAKE HONDA 1-2 IN QUALIFYING
Tomas Engström from Sweden claimed pole
position for the third FIA European Touring Car Cup and Jens
Reno Møller from Denmark completed an all-Honda front
row on the grid for tomorrow’s Race 1.
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26th Oct - TEST DAY FOR THE FIA EUROPEAN TOURING
CAR CUP
The third FIA European Touring Car Cup got
underway today at the Adria Raceway in Italy with four 60-minute
test sessions.
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26th Oct - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 42
This Wednesday in Paris the FIA World Motor
Sport Council approved the draft for the 2008 World Touring
Car Championship.
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20th Oct - FIA WTCC - 39 DRIVERS ENTERED IN
THE THIRD FIA EUROPEAN TOURING CAR CUP
The third running of the FIA European Touring
Car Cup, that will take place next week at the Adria Raceway,
Italy, has already met with a brilliant result: a new record
in terms of participations.
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19th Oct - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 41
All the six drivers who are still in contention
to secure the world champion’s crown will be carrying
the maximum 60kg ballast on board their cars at Macau
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13th Oct - 2007 FIA EUROPEAN TOURING CAR CUP
The third edition of the FIA European Touring
Car Cup will take place on October 28th at the Adria Raceway,
Italy.
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12th Oct - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 40
52,000 fans gathered last Sunday at the Monza
circuit for the last European meeting of the FIA WTCC.
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7th Oct - FIA WTCC - MONZA, ITALY RACE 2 REPORT
In front of a large crowd Jordi Gené
made it two wins for SEAT Sport this weekend, becoming the
11th driver to have scored a victory this season.
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7th Oct - FIA WTCC - MONZA, ITALY RACE 1 REPORT
Yvan Muller was victorious in race one after
leading the field for the entire nine laps. His SEAT Sport
team-mate Jordi Gené crossed the line behind him and
the podium was completed by James Thompson
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6th Oct - FIA WTCC - MONZA, ITALY QUALIFYING
SEAT Sport claimed an impressive 1-2-3 in qualifying.
Yvan Muller posted a stunning 1:59.487 in the second half
of the session to give the diesel powered León its
first pole.
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5th Oct - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 39
Chevrolet confirmed that it will remain in
the FIA WTCC beyond 2007, and the RML team will continue to
run the works squad.
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September 2007
28th Sep - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 38
The 19th and 20th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place next week at Monza, the Italian temple of speed,
home of the Italian Grand Prix since 1922.
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23rd Sep - FIA WTCC - Brands Hatch Race 2
Andy Priaulx has taken his first ever win at
the wheel of a touring car at Brands Hatch. The reigning champion
dedicated his success to the late Colin McRae and his family.
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23rd Sep - FIA WTCC - Brands Hatch Race 1
Alain Menu claimed victory after not putting
a wheel wrong all race. The Chevrolet driver came under pressure
from N.technology’s James Thompson on numerous occasions
but the Alfa Romeo never got close enough to overtake
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22nd Sep - FIA WTCC - Brands Hatch Qualifying
Alain Menu claimed his fourth pole position
of the season for Chevrolet. The Swiss man stole it from the
grasp of James Thompson who had set a superb 1:33.032 on his
first flying lap
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21st Sep - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 37
Chevrolet and BMW took part with one car each,
driven by Nicola Larini and Augusto Farfus respectively, testing
the new Yokohama/Advan tyres.
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14th Sep - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 36
Gabriele Tarquini had his first drive in the
SEAT León TDI during a private test organised by the
SEAT Sport team at Barcelona’s Catalunya circuit in
view of the next WTCC meeting at Brands Hatch.
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7th Sep - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 35
James Thompson and Robert Huff are gunning
for double World Champion Andy Priaulx as the three Britons
prepare for their home round at Brands Hatch
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August 2007
31st Aug - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 34
The British event of the FIA World Touring
Car Championship, that will take place in Brands Hatch on
September 22nd and 23rd, was launched yesterday at the racetrack
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25th Aug - FIA WTCC - Oschersleben Results
Yvan Muller made motor sport history today
at Oschersleben, claiming the first World Championship victory
for a diesel car.
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25th Aug - FIA WTCC - Oschersleben Qualifying
SEAT drivers dominated the qualifying session
for the FIA WTCC’s eighth race meeting at Oschersleben
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24th Aug - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 33
Timur Sadredinov will join the GR Asia team
for this weekend’s meeting in Oschersleben. The 19-year
old from Moscow will become the youngest driver ever to compete
in the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
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17th Aug - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 32
The 15th and 16th rounds of the FIA WTCC will
take place next week in Germany, at Oschersleben’s Motorsport
Arena.
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10th Aug - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 31
Peter Terting will return to the SEAT Sport
team at the next round of the FIA WTCC to drive a works petrol-engined
SEAT León in Oschersleben.
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3rd Aug - FIA WTCC NEWSLETTER # 30
A record number of Swedish viewers switched
on Eurosport to watch live broadcasting of the FIA World Touring
Car Championship races from Anderstorp
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