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27 Feb 2009, 17:40 (Ref:2405539) | #1 | |
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Race 1 & 2 - Curitiba (BRA), 8th March 2009
Entrylist N° TEAM DRIVER CAR 1 SEAT Sport Yvan Muller (FRA) SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2 SEAT Sport Gabriele Tarquini (ITA) SEAT León 2.0 TDI 3 SEAT Sport Rickard Rydell (SWE) SEAT León 2.0 TDI 4 SEAT Sport Jordi Gené (ESP) SEAT León 2.0 TDI 5 SEAT Sport Tiago Monteiro (POR) SEAT León 2.0 TDI 6 BMW Team UK Andy Priaulx (GBR) BMW 320si 7 BMW Team Germany Jörg Müller (GER) BMW 320si 8 BMW Team Germany Augusto Farfus (BRA) BMW 320si 9 BMW Team Italy-Spain Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) BMW 320si 10 BMW Team Italy-Spain Sergio Hernández (ESP) BMW 320si 11 Chevrolet Robert Huff (GBR) Chevrolet Cruze ** 12 Chevrolet Alain Menu (SUI) Chevrolet Cruze ** 14 Chevrolet Nicola Larini (ITA) Chevrolet Cruze ** 18 LADA Sport Jaap van Lagen (NED) Lada 110 2.0 19 LADA Sport Kirill Ladygin (RUS) Lada 110 2.0 20 LADA Sport Viktor Shapovalov (RUS) Lada 110 2.0 21 SUNRED Engineering Tom Coronel (NED) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI * 22 SUNRED Engineering Tom Boardman (GBR) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI * 23 Scuderia Proteam Motorsport Félix Porteiro (ESP) BMW 320si * 24 Scuderia Proteam Motorsport George Tanev (BUL) BMW 320si * 25 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Franz Engstler (GER) BMW 320si * 26 Liqui Moly Team Engstler Kristian Poulsen (DEN) BMW 320si * 27 Wiechers-Sport Stefano D'Aste (ITA) BMW 320si * 28 Colak Racing Team Ingra Marin Colak (CRO) SEAT León 2.0 TFSI * * Yokohama Independents' Trophy ** FIA homologation under way |
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If Chevrolet somehow cannot get FiA Homologation in time for Brazil, could they use the Lacetti's?
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27 Feb 2009, 19:25 (Ref:2405598) | #3 | ||
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Its the FIA, trust me, they will get the homologation. If there is a commercial upside, FIA will know how to gain from it. Sad but true.. |
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27 Feb 2009, 22:58 (Ref:2405734) | #4 | |
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Yeah, I also guess the "homologation holdup" is mostly down to how much dispensations they should be allowed to have to be reasonably competitive from pretty much day 1. The underpowered old engine eg will likely continue to yield them the same weight break as on the lacetti, but they likely want more than that (and seat and bmw are likely against).
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28 Feb 2009, 10:06 (Ref:2405969) | #5 | |
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I suspect that part of the homologation issue is that the road car isn't on sale yet. The FIA will need to confirm the minimum build requirement has been met and that the road car is being built to the homologated spec.
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28 Feb 2009, 10:54 (Ref:2405989) | #6 | ||
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Technical issues aside - hoorah, 8 days till we go racing again - my these winters are surely getting longer!
Still - much like the F1 season, there's not a lot of change in terms of teams and drivers. Apart from the Cruze and Hernandez and Porteiro's swap - everything's the same...but will the results be? |
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28 Feb 2009, 21:09 (Ref:2406179) | #7 | ||
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Curiuos about the diesels.
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I thought the Cruze will get a new engine or thoroughly updated engine?
If Chevy goes bankrupt (in the UK? or Globally?), it could always appear as a Vauxhall Cruze? |
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With new engine regs coming in 1 (possibly 2, if delayed) years? That would be an awful short time to recoup the development investment of a new engine. Lada seems to be doing it though, but they also seem to not be at the brink of extinction and need to get up on par with the rest.
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4 Mar 2009, 20:52 (Ref:2409123) | #10 | ||
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Chevy is General Motors, if it goes bankrupt then Vauxhall also is off! But don't worry, it just won't happen
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4 Mar 2009, 22:50 (Ref:2409192) | #14 | |
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I wouldn't say for sure. It's possible that Opel could survive GM's demise, maybe even likely. But not sure at all.
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5 Mar 2009, 09:06 (Ref:2409318) | #15 | |
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The German state has already show quite high willingness to pour in large sums of cash to keep their auto industry floating during these harsh times. So Opel wont die in the nearby future. But of course, what happens in 3-10 years will depend on future Opel car sales, they will not get indefinite future funding from the state if they cant make a profit.
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Opel are going to close 3 plants in the nearest future as I've heard.
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Off topic?
Looking forward to the season beginning again. I'm curious to see what the performances of the cars with no success ballast is like. |
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Ie it still makes sense for the manufacturer aiming for the M title to put 5 cars on the grid with good drivers, but for the individual driver trying to take home the D title it will make things much harder to have 4 competent drivers to "fight" with, since if you have a bad weekend, but at least 2 of your teamates doesnt, you still can find yourself penalized for the next weekend. So I think it adds some interesting aspects and tactical conserns for both teams and drivers. Should you try to find a team with 2-3 cars and go for driver title or 4-5 cars and aim for manufacturer title? Im not sure we will see the full effects of this for 2009, but if they keep the same for 2010+ it could be quite interesting to see how things pan out, especially if a few more brands joins 2010+. |
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Testing results, http://www.fiawtcc.com/html/uploaded....1.Testing.pdf
If it's stays like that, only Lada will benefit from the new wighting rule. |
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That was just a bit of kidding, just saying the field is quite closed together.
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