NEWS // WTCC ENTRY LIST RELEASED

The entry list for the 2010 FIA World Touring Car Championship which will start on March 7th at Curitiba, Brazil, has been released. Twenty competitors are listed with drivers from fifteen countries at the wheel of cars built from three different manufacturers. The list confirms full season entrants only - however there are other entrants planning on competing in selected rounds only... [read more]

WTCC 2010 entry list:

1 Gabriele Tarquini SR Sport SEAT Leon TDi
2 Tom Coronel SR Sport SEAT Leon TDi
3 Tiago Monteiro SR Sport SEAT Leon TDi
4 Jordi Gene SR Sport SEAT Leon TDi
5 Norbert Michelisz Zengo-Dension SEAT Leon TDi
6 Yvan Muller Chevrolet (RML) Chevrolet Cruze
7 Rob Huff Chevrolet (RML) Chevrolet Cruze
8 Alain Menu Chevrolet (RML) Chevrolet Cruze
10 Augusto Farfus BMW (RBM) BMW 320si
11 Andy Priaulx BMW (RBM) BMW 320si
15 Franz Engstler Team Engstler BMW 320si
16 Andrei Romanov Team Engstler BMW 320si
17 Michel Nykjaer SUNRED SEAT Leon TDi
19 Harry Vaulkhard Bamboo Chevrolet Lacetti
20 Darryl O'Young Bamboo Chevrolet Lacetti
21 Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320si
23 Marin Colak Colak Racing SEAT Leon
24 Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320si
25 Sergio Hernandez Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si
26 Stefano D'Aste Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si

The newly established SR-Sport, will field a very strong four-car team in the 2010 FIA WTCC.
Thanks to their strong ties with SEAT Sport, the Spanish outfit managed to put together a quartet of SEAT León TDI machines that will be entrusted to the capable hands of former SEAT Sport drivers: the reigning World Champion Gabriele Tarquini (below), the 2009 Independents’ Trophy winner Tom Coronel, Tiago Monteiro and Jordi Gené. Altogether they have claimed 16 WTCC race wins between them.

Team principal Joán Orus said: “I am really enthusiastic to race the SEAT TDI cars, because I think we will be able to fight for the WTCC title with the new team SR-Sport and four great drivers. We will also run Michel Nykjær’s cars under the SUNRED banner and altogether this is a great opportunity to show our potential and future possibilities. I want to say thank you to SEAT Sport’s customer department for their support and to all drivers for placing confidence in our team.”

Spanish driver Sergio Hernández (above) will join Stefano D’Aste at Proteam Motorsport for the new season.
Hernández who spent 2009 as a factory driver at BMW Team Italy-Spain, claiming his first WTCC victory at Brno, returns to the Italian outfit for which he raced in both 2007 and 2008.
During his second year with the team, Hernández managed to win the Yokohama Independents’ Trophy, and together with D’Aste helped Proteam to win the Teams’ Trophy.

Info: WTCC
Images: Neil Tozer