It's back - 2009 Motorsport is Go!

[Piglet]

The first round of WSB was last weekend and now it's the first round of WTCC which is showing on Eurosport now

Spring must be coming and all is now right with the world (except our Sky is being turned off tomorrow as we're moving so we're going to miss the WTCC races I think )

Welcome to the 2009 race season

(WTCC coverage isn't the same without David Leslie though )

[Hugh Jass]

Meeke looking good in the IRC from Curitiba, lets hope he gets it to the finish this time after his
crash on the Monte.

[Altrezia]

Poo, didnt realize the WTCC was on - when is it repeated?

[FourWheelDrift]

This was qualifying so it might be repeated before the races tomorrow.

[egomeister]

Altrezia said:

Poo, didnt realize the WTCC was on - when is it repeated?

Was only the qually, you haven't missed any racing yet!

[SRL Racing]

I was not impressed with bmw and there idea of qual,they left it to late and just fluffed it at end but the seat is just do qual to there gain big time.

They put the cars out there owned the track.worked togther perhaps bmw and chev will follow there foot steps even though they do have less cars.

[Altrezia]

Great! Will bookmark it for tomorrow

[Allyc85]

That was one of the most boring qualifying sessions you will ever see! The new format was meant to stop team mates helping each other out but instead we still had one long Seat slipsteam train. Makes me laugh when people say the BTCC is inferior when the FIA still cant get the rules right!

Anyway the grid..

1. Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 24.196secs
2. Jordi Gene SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 24.315secs
3. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 24.355secs
4. Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 24.472secs
5. Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT Leon TDi 1min 24.486secs
6. Jorg Muller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1min 24.637secs
7. Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1min 24.749secs
8. Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1min 24.831secs
9. Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1min 24.831secs
10. Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 1min 24.933secs
11. Sergio Hernandez BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1min 25.046secs
12. Felix Porteiro Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si 1min 25.377secs I
13. Rob Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1min 25.456secs
14. Alex Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1min 25.488secs
15. Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 1min 26.018secs I
16. Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT Leon TFSI 1min 26.026secs I
17. Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320si 1min 26.076secs I
18. Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT Leon TFSI 1min 26.220secs I
19. Marin Colak Colak Racing Team Ingra SEAT Leon TFSI 1min 26.281secs I
20. Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 1min 26.753secs
21. George Tanev Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si 1min 26.940secs I
22. Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 1min 27.578secs I
23. Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 1min 27.585secs
24. Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 1min 28.035secs

[Hugh Jass]

It's only the first race and it is at altitude so a turbo car will have an advantage. Lets see how it pans out when the weight penalty's are added after the, IIRC, the 3rd race meet!

Good to see Kris Meeke winning the IRC at Curitiba

Lets have a good showing from Andy and roll on Brands in July

[RJB_666]

1st race on in just over 5 minutes on Eurosport2. After the table football world championships

[micron750]

Oh dear it looks like a Seat lock out!!

I hope this doesn't continue all year otherwise i'll be watching something else

Lets hope our hope grown championship[BTCC] is better