alternate reality WTCC 2008-????

[andrew]

A massive monsoon decided to happen

[andrew]

The dates for the Laguna sega and Helsinki tests have been swapped around to make things easier for the teams with travel and costs, it was announced today by the TCC today after many resquets from the poorer independent teams

[andrew]

Autosport.com
Thursday Practice to take place.
For all rookies of the. Hampionshop on each Thursday before the race a 30 minute free test will take place, then following will be a 45 minute session on Friday morning for rookies and test drivers. There will be a 1 hour session on Friday afternoon and Saturday warmup with qualifying following in the afternoon. On Sunday morning there will be - 30 minute warm up
Weekend schedule in full:
Thursday testing 30 mins (rookies only)
FRIDAY
Practice 1 45 mins (rookies and test drivers only)
Practice 2 1 hour
SATURDAY
Practice 3 1 hour
Qualifying
SUNDAY
Warmup
Race 1
Race 2

[andrew]

[b][size=200]Attendees at the goodwood test

BMW Team 1 (Bmw 320i)
1. Andy Priaux
2. Agusto Farfus

BMW Team Germany (bmw 320i)
7. Jorg Muller
8. Dirk Muller

BMW Italia spain (BMW 320I)
15. Alex Zanardi
17. Felix Porterio
Seat Sport uk (Seat leon)
3. Yvan Muller
4. Gabrielli Tarquini
5. Ricard Rydell
6. Jordi Gene
9 Tiago Monterio

Chevy (Chevy Laccetei)
10. alain Menu
11. Nicola Larini
12. Rob Huff

Austro-Hungaria ( Honda Integra)
13. Alex Wurz
14. HWMWSNBM

Polestar Volvo (Volvo v80)
16.Robert Dahlgren
81.mattias Ekstrom

Lukiol Lada (Lada 110)
18.Vitaly Petrov
19. Alexey Dudukalo

VW sport (vw polo)

20. Andreas Mikkleson
21. Sean Hollomby

Honda (Honda civic)
22. Kamui Kobayashi
23. Takuma Sato

Ford sports (For Focus ST)
24. Tom Chilton
25. James Nash

Liqui Moly Alfa sports (Alfa Romeo 156)

26. Fabrizio Giovanardi
27. James Thompson


Seat GB (SEAT LEON)

34. Jason Plato
35. Darren Turner

Dynojet (TOYOTA CORROLA)

36. Robb Holland
37. Frank Wrathell

wixx Racing (Audi a4)

38. Rob Austin
39. Felipe Albuquerque

[andrew]

Touringcarmag.com
Giovanardi tops the time sheets

41 year old Fabrizio Giovanardi topped the time sheets on the first day of the 2nd winter test in goodwood, a very cold goodwood however with temperatures only reaching 4c and a light sprinkling of snow during the session.

His Alfa Romeo teammate James Thompson was 2nd rounding off the perfect day for the italian firm. Early on however this was not case as Jason Plato topped the sheets but his seat developed a gearbox problem so he had to sit out he rest of the day, teammate Turner crashed early on meaning the Seat Sport U.K team got very little data. the other seats were in a line , practice their slipstream undoubtably for Monza where this would be an asset. The kings of Kyalami, Honda struggled to find any pace and were at the foot of the time sheets, the final times and results are listed below.

Day 1:
1. Fabrizio Giovanardi 1:21.111 (Alfa 156)
2. James Thompson. 1:21.666 (Alfa 156)
3. Vitaly. Petrov. 1:22.190 (Lada 110)
4. Andy Priaux. 1:22.191 (BMW 320I)
5.Dirk Muller 1:22.251 (BMW 320I)
6. Jason Plato. 1:22.259 (Seat Leon)
7. Yvan Muller. 1:22.356 (Seat Leon)
8. Jordi Gene. 1:22.666 (Seat Leon)
9.Alex Zanardi. 1:22.985 (BMW 320I)
10 Rob Huff. 1:23.411.(Chevy Lacetti)
11. Alex Wurz. 1:24.501 (Honda Integra)
12. Darren Turner. No time (Seat Leon)
13.Mattias Ekstrom. No time (Volvo V80)
14. Takuma Sato. No time (Honda Civic)

[andrew]

Guys, from now on for all the testing reports, do you want me to post a team by team report or like the previous write up

[andrew]

BMW finally show their hand and dominate day 2 while the Volvo gets it's first run.

2007 champions BMW and Andy Priaux looks as though they are now showing their hand as they dominated day 2 at goodwood.
Review of all teams days
BMW team one: Only Andy Priaux turned up for team 1 today with Agusto getting the car tomorrow and other testing arrangements to be decided later on. Anyway it was a very productive day for the team, in the morning they worked on upgrades and base Setup work and in the afternoon they worked on raw speed which they have a lot of.

BMW team Germany: Braught both drivers unlike BMW team 1, however this team had a much worse day that the other BMW team which un reliability plaguing their morning meaning that they had to split setups in the afternoon which Dirk doing race runs and Jorge doing base setup and upgrades.

BMW italia spain: Today the car was driven by Zanardi again and the italian had am awful day, in the morning and engine. Blow up kept him in the pits and he binned it in the afternoon while doing long runs.

Seat sport U.K: Ricard Rydell and Gabrelli Tarquini fronted the squad today, the car has not changed much from last year apart from now having a brand new petrol engine however this team has been the disappointment, the car is whoefully slow and hideously unreliable, when the car was not in the pits it was pulling over to the side of the track, this team must improve of it wants to mount a serious title challenge.

Chevy: Nicola Larini drove the car today which is much like last years car, the team were solid but quiet today slowly chugging out the most mileage of most the question for them is will missing South Africa hurt them, only time will tell.

Austria-Hungaria: Did. It take part in day 2 due to divers illness

Volvo: A very productive day for this much loved new team, the car was driven by ROC winner Mattias Ekstrom today, the car got its first moments on track and with no teething problems reported it seems good, and the car is fast too.

Lada: Once again driven by Russian rocket Vitaly Petrov, Lada had and O.K day, they fixed teething issues from day 1 and although slow they did get lots of tyre data in.

Vw: Andreas Mikkleson was behind the wheel of the Golf today, his target was to learn touring cars, the car seems very reliable but slow.

Honda; What has happened to the Japaneese squad since South Africa? Today they got no running due to a Broken fuel pump.

Ford: Tom Chilton took the car out today however he did 1 flyer and we saw nothing of him again.

[andrew]

Times for goodwood test day 2

1 Andy Priaulx 1:21.111
2. Nicola Larini 1:21.321
3. Mattias Ekstrom 1:21.871
4.Jorge Muller. 1:25.876
5. Dirk muller 1:26.999
6. Gabrelli Tarquini 1:27.800
7. Ricard Rydell. 1:28.101
8: Alex Zanardi. 1:28.726
9. Vitaly Petrov. 1:28.876
10. Andreas Mikkleson 1:29.991
11: Tom Chilton 1:41.566