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8 Oct 2009, 17:39
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2010 Facts, rumours and speculation...
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WTCC: Chevrolet could expand with Muller and Giovanardi
While BMW and SEAT are considering to reduce their teams, Chevrolet is looking to expand the team for 2010.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4084
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WTCC: Engstler confirms 2010 and plans to expand
The Liqui Moly Engstler team has confirmed it plans to contend the 2010 World Touring Car Championship, as well as expand it's squad.
The team hopes to add an Asian driver contingent to the team, which has a lot of links in that series after winning the 2005, 2006 and 2008 Asian Touring Car Championships.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4083
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WTCC: SEAT ends co-operation with ORECA
SEAT are going to end their co-operation with ORECA for next year. This season ORECA ran the cars for Yvan Muller and Tiago Monteiro.
"I can confirm that we are stopping with SEAT: it is 100 per cent," said ORECA boss Hughes de Chaunac to Autosport.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4039
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WTCC: Proteam could leave WTCC next year Privateer team Proteam Motorsport could be leaving the World Touring Car Championship for the Italian series Superstars next year.
"Superstars is very interesting, it is a series that we are looking in to seriously," said team boss Valmiro Presenzini Mattoli.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4027
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8 Oct 2009, 17:47
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Wiechers will be builting a lot of Chevy Cruzes for a new one make series here in Germany, which will be announced this weekend in Oschersleben.
I wonder if that will also be a factor in their WTCC-campaign, i.e. I wonder if Wiechers will switch to Chevys next year.
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8 Oct 2009, 18:48
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Didn't know that. Do you have more info on that Cruze cup? In Holland they plan to start a Cruze cup in 2011. The Dutch cars (probably diesel powered  ) will be developed by Dutch company Biesheuvel Autosport.
If Wiechers is responsible for the Cruze Cup I can even imagine they will not take part in WTCC.
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8 Oct 2009, 19:31
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Back at WTCC Oschesleban, Perfection Racing were talking about looking at a WTCC campaign - don't think they said it if would be a full campaign or just a few races.
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9 Oct 2009, 14:35
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Wiechers is also running a Dacia cup in Germany AFAIK, so this probably doesn't mean they stop their WTCC program.
Perfection Racing has announced they pull out of DTC for 2010 so I hope they will do full season. Nykjaer is definately capable of winning the independents trophy.
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13 Oct 2009, 16:46
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TouringCarTimes has received information that the debated Touring Car Bureau of the FIA World Touring Car Championship is going to be closed down. The Touring Car Bureau currently handles the rules, dispensations, weight changes and more for the WTCC and the S2000 regulations.
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http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=4111
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13 Oct 2009, 16:49
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Finally they understand that there is something wrong but at the end they just replace the bureau by two times more people which is completely useless.....
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13 Oct 2009, 17:24
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Surely that's papering over the cracks of the Super 2000 technical regulations rather than solving the issue properly - we don't need this 1600cc turbo business, just a fresh start with regulations with less politics. Maybe it's NGTC, perhaps for the world stage it needs something with a bit more oomph and less of the whole FWD/RWD, hatch/saloon, petrol/diesel nonsense.
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13 Oct 2009, 21:21
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Production-based 4.6m sedans and 4.3m hatchbacks sound fine to me for a World Touring Car Championship. Engines should be all turbocharged and a bit more powerful than today. However, I feel that 1.6L is an excessively small displacement for such a high-level tournament.
Perhaps some of you would enjoy a completely different type of racing car. I believe that Europeans need some sort of stock car racing - by that I mean heavy, overpowered RWD sedans. These could be silhouettes just like DTM cars, but with little downforce and metallic brake discs to make driving more difficult and overtaking more feasable.
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14 Oct 2009, 06:40
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2 support classes for STCC are Porsche Carrera Cap and Camaro Cup. 1 more "heavy overpowered RWD" class might make it a bit too crowded at least here. 
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14 Oct 2009, 07:31
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Those are low, sleek fast sportscars, hardly heavy and over-powered?!
Touring cars are the expression of ordinary sedans in tricked out form however.
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14 Oct 2009, 12:34
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Those are low, sleek fast sportscars, hardly heavy and over-powered?!
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Well, for the tracks we have here I think you would agree. Something clumsier and even more powerful would just look ridiculous on the Swedish small tracks.
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21 Oct 2009, 23:43
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Originally Posted by Robbe
Wiechers is also running a Dacia cup in Germany AFAIK, so this probably doesn't mean they stop their WTCC program.
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Actually the Cruze Cup is the Dacia Cup, they're switching cars for next year.
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