WTCC WTCC 2009: News, Rumours, Entries... - Page 25

**FIRE** · 10 Feb 2009, 15:43 (Ref:2393729)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robbe

Marin Colak joins with his own team in a petrol-Leon!

http://www.fiawtcc.com/fiawtcc/sport_sto1839436.shtml

Independent's trophy is not looking bad!

Engstler, Poulsen, D'Aste, Tanev, Boardman, Colak already confirmed, and we are still waiting for second Proteam and Wiechers drivers, Okyay, Campos Honda and maybe Corthals or Nogues or a Lada team!

Great news!

werner · 11 Feb 2009, 08:52 (Ref:2394346)

I think the new ballast-rules make the entering of a petrol-leon or a quite interesting, so it would be a shame is Corthals would not be able to enter the championship this year. The same goes for Honda.

werner · 11 Feb 2009, 08:52 (Ref:2394347)

I think the new ballast-rules make the entering of a petrol-leon or a quite interesting, so it would be a shame is Corthals would not be able to enter the championship this year. The same goes for Honda.

stedevil · 11 Feb 2009, 09:13 (Ref:2394360)

Speaking of the ballast rules, will they apply the same to factory as well as independent teams? If they are, I wouldnt want to be a privateer driving a BMW this year.

helterskelter · 11 Feb 2009, 09:14 (Ref:2394361)

I think the indipendents' trophy looks simply fantastic. Look at the amount of talent we have this year. IMO Boardman and Colak have the speed to become works drivers in the future, if they grow up correctly.
Anyway, from what I have seen in the pictures, he has a vary "Croatian" car, talking about his livery, and the fact that the words 'Croatia' and 'Seat' are in the name of the team makes me wonder if he has any slight support from Seat Croatia.

helterskelter · 11 Feb 2009, 09:15 (Ref:2394362)

Quote:

Originally Posted by stedevil

Speaking of the ballast rules, will they apply the same to factory as well as independent teams? If they are, I wouldnt want to be a privateer driving a BMW this year.

Yeah, I said that immediately after they released the rules, and still had no reply! And the fact that lots of Seats are entering the championship makes me even more worried about that...

spookyt_de · 12 Feb 2009, 18:29 (Ref:2396307)

Official confirmation of the Lada entry:

http://www.lada.ru/cgi-bin/statement...e=76843&prev=1

The article says that on January, 29th three Lada 106 have gone from Tolyatti to the first stage of 2009 season, Curitiba. These are the old (Lada 110) cars, but:

Quote:

The Cars have been essentially modernised that has allowed to improve aerodynamics, speeds, engine power, stability-controllability of the cars as a whole...

Drivers are confirmed, Jap Van Lagen, Victor Shapovalov and Cyril Ladygin.

Also interesting:

Quote:

...there is an active preparation of sports cars LADA PRIORA according to technical requirements and World championship regulations. Replacement of sport cars it is planned to carry out in the middle of a season, on one of summer stages of European part WTCC.

(translated using some website translator)

Good to see the field gets filled up by the Ladas...

Matt · 12 Feb 2009, 18:33 (Ref:2396311)

Lada? Sports cars? Pffft.

Valker · 12 Feb 2009, 19:04 (Ref:2396332)

Curtiba poster featuring a red Lada

Matt · 12 Feb 2009, 19:15 (Ref:2396340)

That's a great looking livery, imo. Whoever is driving it wears an open-face helmet, which is really cool.

Robbe · 12 Feb 2009, 19:24 (Ref:2396346)

Livery looks very nice in red! Not so many red cars last year, but already 4 this year.

The driver is Jaap van Lagen, however last year he did not wear an open-face helmet.

http://i.eurosport.com/2008/05/20/440044.jpg
(big image)

Matt · 12 Feb 2009, 19:27 (Ref:2396348)

That's definitely JVL's helmet in open face form. Hopefully he has to wear those *****in' bubble goggles as well.

**FIRE** · 12 Feb 2009, 20:27 (Ref:2396373)

JvL is using a Stilo open helmet.

Isn't red the racing color of Lada?

JorritVD · 12 Feb 2009, 20:46 (Ref:2396377)

Big grid in Brazil already:

No	Cls	Driver	Nat	Team	Car	Status
1		Yvan Muller	FRA	Seat Sport	SEAT Leon TDI	Confirmed
2		Gabrielle Tarquini	ITA	Seat Sport	SEAT Leon TDI	Confirmed
3		Rickard Rydell	SWE	Seat Sport	SEAT Leon TDI	Confirmed
4		Jordi Gené	ESP	Seat Sport	SEAT Leon TDI	Confirmed
5		Tiago Monteiro	POR	Seat Sport	SEAT Leon TDI	Confirmed
6		Andy Priaulx	GBR	BMW Team UK	BMW 320si	Confirmed
7		Jörg Müller	GER	BMW Team Germany	BMW 320si	Confirmed
8		Augusto Farfus	BRA	BMW Team Germany	BMW 320si	Confirmed
9		Alex Zanardi	ITA	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320si	Confirmed
10		Sergio Hernández	ESP	BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320si	Confirmed
11		Rob Huff	GBR	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Cruze	Confirmed
12		Alain Menu	SUI	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Cruze	Confirmed
13		Nicola Larini	ITA	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Cruze	Confirmed
14		Jaap van Lagen	NLD	Lada Sport	LADA 110 2.0	Confirmed
15		Viktor Shapovalov	RUS	Lada Sport	LADA 110 2.0	Confirmed
16		Kirill Ladygin	RUS	Lada Sport	LADA 110 2.0	Confirmed
17		Tom Coronel	NLD	SUNRED	SEAT Leon TFSi	Confirmed
18	I	Tom Boardman	GBR	SUNRED	SEAT Leon TFSi	Confirmed
19	I	George Tanev	BUL	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Confirmed
20	I		???	Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Confirmed
21	I	Stefano D'Aste	ITA	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Confirmed
22	I		???	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Confirmed
23	I	Franz Engstler	GER	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Confirmed
24	I	Kristian Poulsen	RUS	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Confirmed
25	I	Ibrahim Okyay	TUR	Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport	BMW 320si	Confirmed
26	I	Marin Colak	CRO	Croatia Colak Ingra Seat tim	SEAT Leon TFSi	Confirmed
27	I	Felix Portiero	ESP	Campos Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	Possible
28	I		???	Campos Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	Possible
29	I	Pierre-Yves Corthals	BEL	Exagon Engineering	SEAT Leon TFSi	Possible

Robbe · 12 Feb 2009, 21:12 (Ref:2396397)

I haven't found official confirmation of Okyay, and the second Wiechers car also needs a questionmark, as they probably need a driver with budget.

Still looking very healthy, especially in these times! What other top series, maybe except LMS, can say that the grid is growing?

helterskelter · 12 Feb 2009, 21:42 (Ref:2396411)

Weird to see a Honda Accord with the name of James Thompson on the poster! Anyway I'm glad Lada has joined, and let's not laugh at them, you never know, they might as well do some great stuff... They certainly have a great driver

Stefvh · 12 Feb 2009, 22:51 (Ref:2396458)

http://sport.turbomagazine.be/index.php?pg=news&id=1458

No more Red-Bull on the car.

Matt · 13 Feb 2009, 00:38 (Ref:2396503)

Quote:

Originally Posted by FIRE

JvL is using a Stilo open helmet.

Isn't red the racing color of Lada?

I still say he should wear those *****in' bubble goggles.

Aslak Vind · 13 Feb 2009, 04:04 (Ref:2396563)

Still curious about the Lada effort. Cute that a privateer teams wants to sponsor Lada effort, but the Lada 110 is no where near the front.

I simply does not understand the press focus at this point.

stedevil · 13 Feb 2009, 07:34 (Ref:2396604)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aslak Vind

Cute that a privateer teams wants to sponsor Lada effort

Its a factory sponsored project now, as far as I understand. That webpage is lada.ru, so it's a company press release. And they apparently wrote a contract with KOS (the company running WTCC) last year about participating.

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but the Lada 110 is no where near the front.

Probably no, but Chevy wasnt exactly title contenders first factory year either, but supposedly they did a lot of tests since last season so we might still get a bit of a surprise.

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I simply does not understand the press focus at this point.

Well, even Thompson and Honda is on that Curitiba poster. Think there might have been some artistic freedom involved there.

helterskelter · 13 Feb 2009, 10:48 (Ref:2396715)

I'm surely not saying that Lada is going to surprise all of us in Curitiba, but they will surely grow as they get more and more experience. I know that here in Europe we have probably the best touring car tradition (BMW, Alfa, Seat and many more), but that doesn't mean Russians can't come and have good results. They're a good team, everybody is keen on working and van Lagen is definitely a great driver, so they have all the chances to follow Chevy's pattern, like stedevil was mentioning.
And yes, KSO and Lada had a contract, and Wtcc is planning to go to Russia next year, from what was said in a press conference held in Moscow last year. They were discussing about street circuits in Moscow, St Petersburg or Togliatti, which is where Lada is based.

werner · 13 Feb 2009, 12:53 (Ref:2396800)

Whether it will go fast or not, the Lada has great livery. Although I'm very sceptical about that car ever winning a race, I wish them good luck anyway. The more brands in the championshop the merrier!

JorritVD · 13 Feb 2009, 13:00 (Ref:2396804)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robbe

I haven't found official confirmation of Okyay, and the second Wiechers car also needs a questionmark, as they probably need a driver with budget.

Still looking very healthy, especially in these times! What other top series, maybe except LMS, can say that the grid is growing?

Okyay: information on the teams website. It's turkish (I can't read), but I believe they are saying that they will enter a car in WTCC and a car in the TurkishTCC.

SEATFreak · 13 Feb 2009, 18:55 (Ref:2397034)

Yvan has a new livery. Also a new national flag by the looks of things. That flag above "Y. Muller" is the Itallian flag.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/picture.php?id=3130

I had assumed that perhaps he is racing Tarquini's to illustrate what the livery on the SEAT's will now look like but the number is #1. My new thought is that perhaps Yvan is being given Tarquinis Leon from last year and though they have "re-liveried" it perhaps the team hasn't got round to putting the Tricolour above "Y. Muller" on the rear side window. But I cannot help but think the team would surely have built 09' spec Leons.

Matt · 13 Feb 2009, 19:02 (Ref:2397037)

Nope, that's definitely the French flag.

Wow, and they're down 18bhp this year. Good.

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