It begins the WTCC

As it is usual in recent years, the layout of Curitiba in Brazil serves to give the go-ahead to the touring car world, the WTCC. The 2011 season marks a turning point in the history of the Championship, that everything is said in passing, has lost a bit of splendour with the passage of the years. 2011 represents the seventh campaign of a Championship which has only had three different champions.
In 2011 the new single global engine has come, the 1.6 Turbo, which already see the world Rallye, but cars has come from a more timid way that only the current champions, Chevrolet have chosen directly by the same. Volvo also has done, but that we will leave then.
The departure of SEAT in 2009 and the abandonment of BMW in 2010, have been a serious blow for the Championship of Marcelo Lotti. In 2011, only Chevrolet, with three more units in some citations, and Volvo, with a single unit by way of field research, will be official teams. Four official for a World Championship cars seem like few others.

For American part, Chevrolet will have the objective of defending the qualifications obtained in 2010, something that should not be difficult seeing the few existing rivals. That Yes, all this waiting to see how the new engines are defended before the old. Not exceed it is possible that the latter will be castrated. Regular medicine in the Championship.

If talk of pilots, the two-time and reigning champion, Yvan Muller, as a main favourite. A third title you would match in entorchados to Andy Priaulx. Although the British have already abandoned the Championship. Robert Huff will again try to break with its irregularity to stand up to his partner while Alain Menu aspirara to partial, as hitherto victories.
SUNRED will continue to defend the colours of SEAT, and will continue to do it with the engine as you gave all the successes, the TDI. The guys from Joan Orus will again have the champion of the world 2009, Gabriele Tarquini as a main driver, accompanied by Tiago Monteiro. The other four units are distributed to Fredy Barth, Michael Nykjaer, Aleksey Dudukalo and Spanish hope, the young pilot Pepe Oriola. Oriola landed in the touring car world after achieving good results in the SEAT Leon Eurocup.



The big unknowns will be both Volvo, with its C30 eDrive in the hands of Robert Dahlgren, as well as the new BMW 320 TC, the 1.6 engine Turbo developed by BMW for private teams. With the Bavarian brand and ROAL it shall be a regular, Tom Coronel, although there will be up to six units of the German model. All of them featuring one in particular, the unit of Proteam will be in the hands of Javi Villa, a "recently" arrived in cars from the cars.
While they are involved with private teams, Tom Coronel, Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro will have to fight for the title abosluto, which will leave via free for pilots as Mehdi Bennani, as good feeling left behind in previous yearsthe own Javi Villa and the Fredy Barth, Michel Nykjaer. Franz Engstler or Norbert Michelisz fight for independents trophy.