World Touring Car Championship 2007

The 2007 World Touring Car Championship started on March 11th in Curitiba ( Brazil ) and ends on November 18th in Macau .

Teams and drivers

driver Nat. team automobile James Thompson N. Technology Alfa Romeo 156 Olivier Tielemans Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si Jörg Müller Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si Félix Porteiro Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Lacetti Nicola Larini Alain Menu Jordi Gené Seat Sport Seat Leon Yvan Muller Michel Jourdain Jr.

driver Nat. team automobile Gabriele Tarquini Seat Sport Seat Leon Tiago Monteiro Roberto Colciago Seat Sport Italia Seat Leon Tom Coronel GR Asia Seat Leon Emmet O'Brien Pierre-Yves Corthals Exagon Seat Leon Stefano d'Aste Wiechers Sport BMW 320si Luca Rangoni Proteam Motorsport Sergio Hernández Miguel Freitas Racing for Belgium Alfa Romeo 156 Lev Fridman Russian Bears Motorsport BMW 320si Evgeny Zelenov Viktor Shapovalov

Diesel vehicles

From the seventh round in Anderstorp, Sweden, 2 diesel- powered Seat Leon will also be involved in the championship, driven by Jordi Gené and Yvan Muller . When they first appeared, these cars were a little slower in qualifying than the "normal" Seats with petrol engines, although the diesel vehicles are 30 kg heavier. In the race itself they had no chance except for a sixth place for Muller in the first run. At the following race in Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Muller won the first of the two races, which is the first ever victory for a diesel-powered vehicle in an official world championship. In the second race, Gené was third, Muller fifth.

Results and ratings

calendar

	date	run	route	Pole position	1st place	place 2	place 3
1 & 2	March 11	Brazil	Curitiba	Jörg Müller	Jörg Müller	Andy Priaulx	Augusto Farfus
					Augusto Farfus	Andy Priaulx	Jörg Müller
3 & 4	May 6th	Netherlands	Zandvoort	Alain Menu	Alain Menu	Nicola Larini	Luca Rangoni
					Gabriele Tarquini	Augusto Farfus	Jörg Müller
5 & ​​6	May 20th	Spain	Valencia	James Thompson	James Thompson	Nicola Larini	Yvan Muller
					James Thompson	Jörg Müller	Andy Priaulx
7 & 8	3rd of June	France	Pau	Alain Menu	Alain Menu	Yvan Muller	Tiago Monteiro
					Augusto Farfus	Andy Priaulx	Tiago Monteiro
9 & 10	17th of June	Czech Republic	Brno	Félix Porteiro	Félix Porteiro	Jörg Müller	Alessandro Zanardi
					Jörg Müller	Augusto Farfus	Félix Porteiro
11 & 12	8th of July	Portugal	postage	Alain Menu	Alain Menu	Robert Huff	Nicola Larini
					Andy Priaulx	Jörg Müller	Alain Menu
13 & 14	29th of July	Sweden	Anderstorp	Tiago Monteiro	Robert Huff	Tiago Monteiro	James Thompson
					Rickard Rydell	Nicola Larini	Alain Menu
15 & 16	26th of August	Germany	Oschersleben	Gabriele Tarquini	Yvan Muller	Gabriele Tarquini	James Thompson
					Augusto Farfus	Andy Priaulx	Jordi Gené
17 & 18	September 23rd	Great Britain	Brands Hatch	Alain Menu	Alain Menu	James Thompson	Colin Turkington
					Andy Priaulx	Félix Porteiro	Robert Huff
19 & 20	October 7th	Italy	Monza	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Jordi Gene	James Thompson
					Jordi Gene	Nicola Larini	James Thompson
21 & 22	November 18	Macau	Macau	Alain Menu	Alain Menu	Gabriele Tarquini	Robert Huff
					Andy Priaulx	Nicola Larini	James Thompson

Score

driver

Pl. driver Points 1. Andy Priaulx 92 2. Yvan Muller 81 3. James Thompson 79 4th Augusto Farfus 71 5. Nicola Larini 71 6th Alain Menu 69 7th Jörg Müller 66

Pl. driver Points 8th. Gabriele Tarquini 62 9. Robert Huff 57 10. Jordi Gené 55 11. Tiago Monteiro 38 12. Félix Porteiro 32 13. Tom Coronel 29 14th Luca Rangoni 15th

Pl. driver Points 15th Alessandro Zanardi 14th 16. Rickard Rydell 13 17th Roberto Colciago 5 18th Michel Jourdain Jr. 3 Pierre-Yves Corthals 3 20th Fredrik Ekblom 1 Sergio Hernández 1

Brands

Pl.	team	Points
1.	BMW	237
2.	Seat	227
3.	Chevrolet	194
4th	Alfa Romeo	111

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/news/2007/07/SEAT_setzt_in_Anderstorp_auf_Diesel-Power_07071907.html
2. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/news/2007/07/Gen_Wir_haben_erst_am_Anfang_der_Entwick_07072801.html
3. ↑ http://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/news/2007/08/Muller_holt_historischen_ersten_Diesel-Sieg_07082604.html