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09.05.2008
Route to Valencia , Spain COUNTDOWN: - 9 DAYS to the 2008 FIA WTCC Race of Spain - 17th / 18th May, in Valencia The 5th and 6th rounds of the FIA WTCC will take place in Spain, at Valencia's Circuit Ricardo Tormo on May 17th and 18th. This is the fifth consecutive visit of the FIA Touring Cars to the Spanish stadium-like racetrack. Alfa Romeo dominated the 2004 FIA European Touring Car Championship meeting, with Fabrizio Giovanardi and Gabriele Tarquini who took one victory apiece. The following year, on the FIA WTCC inaugural season, local hero Jordi Gené started from pole position to give the new SEAT León its first win, while Jörg Müller won Race 2 for BMW. In 2006 Alfa Romeo won again with Augusto Farfus in the first race and Jörg Müller in the second. Last year's event was the Italian manufacturer's swan song as James Thompson claimed a double victory after two breathtaking races. Thompson will make his first appearance in the 2008 WTCC at the wheel of the brand new Honda Accord Euro R built by N.technology and JAS Motorsport. The Valencian event will mark the beginning of WTCC's European season after the first two race meetings held in Brazil and Mexico. The activities on the track will start on Friday, May 16th, with a 30-minute test session at 3.00pm giving the teams the opportunity to shake their cars down after they were shipped from Mexico.
BUREAU LIMIT TDI ENGINE SPEED The Touring Car Bureau have issued a decision to limit the engine speed of the SEAT León TDI cars. From the next event in Valencia and until further notice, the engine speed of the turbo-diesel SEAT cars will be limited to 4100 revs per minute. At the same time the Bureau confirmed the decision issued before the previous meeting in Puebla to limit the supercharged air pressure, the fuel rail pressure and the fuel/air ratio to the average maximum values measured measured with the FIA homologated data logger during the Curitiba event. This supercharged air pressure limit will be corrected by the atmospheric pressure ratio between Curitiba and Valencia.
OTHER BUREAU'S DECISIONS The Bureau have issued two other decisions, which are also valid from the next event in Valencia and until further notice: - reduction of the homologated minimum weight of the BMW 320si car driven by Alessandro Zanardi by 15 kg; - the possibility to adjust the weight of the N.technology Honda Accord Euro R car at any moment during the events.
EUROSPORT LIVE COVERAGE FROM VALENCIA Saturday, 17th: Qualifying Eurosport 2, 16.00/16.30 Sunday, 18th: Warm up - LIVE Eurosport International, 09.00/09.30 Race 1 - LIVE Eurosport 2, 11.45/12.45 Race 1 - highlights Eurosport International, 15.00/15.30 Race 2 - LIVE Eurosport International, 15.30/16.30 Times are CET (Central European Time)
- Fabio Ravaioli - FIA WTCC -
Author: maggy (admin2)
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