2011 European Touring Car Cup

[NaBUru38]

The 2011 European Touring Car Cup will be held in a single weekend at Salzburgring, Austria on July 23-24.

[Alfa Fan]

An improvement. Let's hope a few STCC & BTCC teams turn up! BUT will they start letting NGTC/STCC new rules cars in?

[helterskelter]

Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

An improvement. Let's hope a few STCC & BTCC teams turn up! BUT will they start letting NGTC/STCC new rules cars in?

I don't think so, it'd be too much of a mess; balancing such different cars would be too hard, I think. So I would expect very few (if not none) entries from the BTCC, as I don't think Plato would bother to go to Austria for the ETCC. That's a shame, because the idea of the championship is realy good but, as usual, the FIA is screwing the touring car world up.

[Sodemo]

As much as I love the Salzburgring, I think that a Touring Car World Cup should be at a bigger venue.

I know in the past Monza and Donington has had that honour, but I think those are the kind of venues it should be looking at.

[redshoes]

I assume the FIA will use the same entry criteria as the WTCC - S2000 or locally homologated S2000, with either 2.0 or 1.6T engine. Looks like most BTCC S2000 entries are going to using NGTC engines, so that rules them out straight away. It's likely that only Chevrolet and WSR/Forster BMWs will be eligible and I can't see any of those wanting to take part.

[helterskelter]

Originally Posted by redshoes

I assume the FIA will use the same entry criteria as the WTCC - S2000 or locally homologated S2000, with either 2.0 or 1.6T engine. Looks like most BTCC S2000 entries are going to using NGTC engines, so that rules them out straight away. It's likely that only Chevrolet and WSR/Forster BMWs will be eligible and I can't see any of those wanting to take part.

Exactly....! And it looks like the 2.0 N/As are obsolete already; They say the new engines make cars a lot faster

[NaBUru38]

Niek Oude Luttikhuis is the first driver in the 2011 list, who will drive a cutting edge Mitsubishi Carisma (diamonds, get it?).

[Jon411]

Thomas Engstrom missing STCC Falkenberg to concentrate on the ETC Cup:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=6365

[Wheels of Fire]

Giovanardi in a Hartmann Honda Accord: http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=6439

[Robbe]

The line-up so far:

Div. 1
Fabrizio Giovanardi - Hartmann Honda
Wolfgang Treml - Hartmann Honda
Tomas Engström - Engström Honda
Pepe Oriola - Sunred Seat (don't know which car)
Ibrahim Okyay - Borusan BMW
Peter Rikli - Rikli Honda Civic FD
Christian Fischer - Rikli Honda Accord
Michael Zemp - Zemp (Rikli) Mercedes
Jens Guido Weimann - Thate BMW

Div 2
Niels Oude Luttikhuis - Pro East Mitsubishi
Fabio Fabiani?

Div 3
Klaus Bingler - ATM Ford

No Nykjaer, at least not for Sunred.

[Robbe]

Originally Posted by Robbe

No Nykjaer, at least not for Sunred.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=6466

Nykjaer with Chevrolet Sweden. Who would have expected that?

[Wheels of Fire]

giovanardi after yesterday pole position wins the first heat ahead of oriola http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=6487

[Wheels of Fire]

giovanardi 2011 european champion with the victory in race1 and a 2nd place in race2.

[Valenok]

3 cars, fighting for podium places - it's not show I'd like to see.

[steve nielsen]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Niek Oude Luttikhuis is the first driver in the 2011 list, who will drive a cutting edge Mitsubishi Carisma (diamonds, get it?).

a 11 year old car wich was driven by Allard Kallf in the Dutch Touring Car Championship in 2000.

they managed to do 1 lap in practice, and that was it.

what a professional entry!

[NaBUru38]

If the race moved to the Nordschleife and the 24h weekend, they could attract a much better grid.