WTCC Macau

[Allyc85]

No thread for this despite a BTCC great being on the verge of world championship glory im shocked! Im going to try and be up tomorrow morning for it but I think il be watching the highlights lol. Anyway the grid...

Pos Driver Car Time Gap
1. Alain Menu Chevrolet Lacetti 2:30.285
2. Andy Priaulx BMW 320si 2:30.458 +0.173
3. Yvan Muller SEAT Leon TDi 2:30.938 +0.653
4. Rob Huff Chevrolet Lacetti 2:30.953 +0.668
5. Augusto Farfus BMW 320si 2:31.083 +0.798
6. Jordi Gene SEAT Leon TDi 2:31.227 +0.942
7. Rickard Rydell SEAT Leon TDi 2:31.299 +1.014
8. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Leon TDi 2:31.529 +1.244
9. Nicola Larini Chevrolet Lacetti 2:31.617 +1.332
10. Jorg Muller BMW 320si 2:31.664 +1.379
11. James Thompson Honda Accord 2:31.712 +1.427
12. Tiago Monteiro SEAT Leon TDi 2:31.804 +1.519
13. Felix Porteiro BMW 320si 2:31.996 +1.711
14. Alex Zanardi BMW 320si 2:32.734 +2.449
15. Sergio Hernandez BMW 320si 2:33.701 +3.416
16. Andre Couto Honda Accord 2:33.824 +3.539
17. Tom Coronel SEAT Leon 2:34.090 +3.805
18. Franz Engstler BMW 320si 2:34.562 +4.277
19. Takayuki Aoki BMW 320si 2:34.799 +4.514
20. Manabu Orido Chevrolet Lacetti 2:35.266 +4.981
21. Jaap van Lagen Lada 110 2:36.687 +6.402
22. Matthew Marsh BMW 320si 2:36.897 +6.612
23. Viktor Shapovalov Lada 110 2:37.939 +7.654
24. George Tanev BMW 320si 2:38.274 +7.989
25. Kirill Ladygin Lada 110 2:38.507 +8.222
26. Ibrahim Okyay BMW 320si 2:39.771 +9.486
27. Andrei Romanov BMW 320si 2:39.876 +9.591
28. Masaki Kano BMW 320i 2:43.154 +12.869
29. Melvin Choo BMW 320si 2:49.352 +19.067

[VkmSpouge]

Congratulations to Yvan Muller for winning the WTCC 2008 title. Definitely a worthy winner.

[MattL]

Congratulations to Yvan Muller for winning the WTCC 2008 title. Definitely a worthy winner.

Couldn't have put it better myself! It's good to see Yvan win!

[VkmSpouge]

Also Rob Huff managed to finish 3rd in Drivers' Championship, well done to him.

[Sarah]

Well done to Yvan and Rob

[PDS]

Good to see a new Champion in the WTCC!

http://www.btccpages.com/news/NewsStory.php?SeriesID=1&ArticleID=1200

Interesting to see Chevrolet dominating the meeting... now they have announced a new car for 2009!

[El Sween]

Well worth getting up at 4am for. Well done Yvan!

[Eurotech]

nice one yvan - race two was mayhem!

[Les]

I was feeling so sick then so happy.... excellent for Huffy and Yvan

[AndySpeed]

And if anyone was like me and didn't watch it live or doesn't have eurosport on their tellybox, Yahoo! Eurosport have both races available online in full (with commentary!). :up:

Couldn't believe that Thommo didn't take the final race of the year...


Interesting to see Chevrolet dominating the meeting... now they have announced a new car for 2009!

I wouldn't have called it domination.

[Daniel]

What a joke. I refer not to Muller's excellent title win but the fact that the race wasn't stopped early. When Tarquini almost got rolled over by Farfus' wheel they should have stopped the race and left it at that. In hindsight they made the right decision but how easy would it have been for someone to be seriously hurt?

Congrats to Mr Muller anyway :up: A well deserved win.

[Allyc85]

lol Bit late, but congrtulations to Yvan and Seat on a superb season with both being worthy champions. Hes easily one of the best drivers of the modern era with the best car control you will see IMO.

I really do feel for James Thompson though. Every race meeting hes getting punted off the track, yet the officials turn a blind eye everytime. Whats worse is theres a video on the eurosport website saying hes got nothing for next year at the moment :(

[VkmSpouge]

Thompson really deserves a top quality drive, hope someone picks him up.

[DazzlaF1]

Thompson really deserves a top quality drive, hope someone picks him up.
Or hopefully N.tech develop that Honda into a front runner.

Anyway congrats to Yvan, a worthy champion. Also its great to see that all of the top 5 all raced in the BTCC at some-point in their careers which is fantastic

[Eurotech]

not to sound mean, but I hope Thommo can't get a WTCC drive next year so we get him back in the UK :D