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  • BMW expects difficult WTCC centenary meeting in Porto.
    Created: Sunday, June 28, 2009 Author: Jeff
    Following three consecutive victories, BMW this weekend goes to Porto (PT), which marks the start of the second half of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. Thanks to BMW Team Italy-Spain’s Alessandro Zanardi (IT) and Sergio Hernández (ES) claiming a victory each in Brno (CZ), the present points’ score of 153 puts BMW just eight points adrift of SEAT’s tally. In the drivers’ classification the five BMW national team drivers are close. After a disappointing weekend for him in the Czech Republic, Augusto Farfus (BR), from BMW Team Germany, is determined to ratchet up the pressure on points’ leader Yvan Muller (FR/SEAT). The Brazilian’s team-mate, Jörg Müller (DE), BMW Team UK’s Andy Priaulx (GB) and the BMW Team Italy-Spain duo also intend making up ground in the drivers’ rankings.   However, the BMW drivers face a difficult mission in the 99th and 100th rounds since the WTCC started in 2005. Farfus, Müller, ...
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  • Alessandro Zanardi and Sergio Hernández win for BMW in Brno.
    Created: Saturday, June 20, 2009 Author: Jeff
    BMW Team Italy-Spain continued its impressive winning streak at the “Automotodrom Brno” today. Alessandro Zanardi (IT) and Sergio Hernández (ES) crossed the line as winners in rounds 11 and 12 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship. This makes it four wins out of the last six races in Brno (CZ) for Italian team principal Roberto Ravaglia’s squad. While Zanardi celebrated his fourth WTCC victory, it was first time Hernández had climbed to the top step of the podium.   BMW Team Germany’s Jörg Müller (DE) scored another podium finish by coming second in race one and increased his points’ total to ten by taking seventh in race two. Hernández also scored points in the first race after taking the chequered flag in fifth. Andy Priaulx (GB) from BMW Team UK had to make do with eighth place in round two. His hopes for a big points weekend were destroyed at the start of race one, when BMW Team Germany’s Augusto Farfus (...
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  • Augusto Farfus wins pole position in Brno – Three BMW drivers in front.
    Created: Friday, June 19, 2009 Author: Jeff
    BMW Team Germany’s Augusto Farfus (BR) will start round 11 of the FIA World Touring Car Championship from pole position. At the “Automotodrom Brno” the 25-year-old set the best time of 2:09.590 minutes in the decisive second qualifying phase. Just 0,040 seconds behind his fellow BMW driver, Andy Priaulx (GB) qualified second for BMW Team UK in Brno (CZ). Alessandro Zanardi (IT) from BMW Team Italy-Spain came third, so rounding off an excellent overall result for BMW.   The other two BMW national team drivers also managed to get into the top-ten shoot-out. BMW Team Germany’s Jörg Müller (DE) will line up seventh on the grid for the first of Sunday’s two sprint races at the 5.402-kilometre circuit. Zanardi’s team-mate, Sergio Hernández (ES), was ninth.   “It was really tricky to find the perfect set-up for this qualifying,” said Farfus. “Following the wet practice sessions we then had to prepare for dry ...
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  • BMW national teams conclude first half of the WTCC season in Brno.
    Created: Sunday, June 14, 2009 Author: Jeff
    The first half of the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship comes to an end in Brno (CZ) this weekend. Following the first BMW victory of the season in Valencia (ES), claimed by Augusto Farfus (BR), the BMW national teams again want to play a major role when it comes to fighting for top positions at the “Automotodrom Brno”. For the first time since the Marrakech (MA) rounds, all the title favourites from BMW, SEAT and Chevrolet will compete with the same compensation weight. Farfus, second in the championship, has to load 40 kilograms of ballast on his BMW 320si WTCC car. The same goes for his team-mate Jörg Müller (DE), BMW Team UK’s Andy Priaulx (GB) and Sergio Hernández (ES) from BMW Team Italy-Spain. Hernández team-mate, Alessandro Zanardi (IT), will take the start at the wheel of his BMW 320si WTCC with its sequential gearbox without carrying any ballast. Last year Zanardi was the dominant force in Brno: After scoring his maiden WTCC p...
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