2009 European Touring Car Cup

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Layout of the Circuito Vasco Sameiro

The 2009 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the fifth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It was held on 25 October 2009 at the Circuito Vasco Sameiro near Braga in Portugal. James Thompson won the event after winning the second race. Norbert Michelisz won the first race.

Entry list[]

Super 2000 class[1]
Team Car No Drivers Regular series
Denmark Perfection Racing Chevrolet Lacetti 1 Denmark Michel Nykjær Danish Touring Car Championship
Sweden Engström Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 2 Sweden Tomas Engström Swedish Touring Car Championship
Germany Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 3 Estonia German ADAC Procar Series
4 Germany Franz Engstler World Touring Car Championship
Spain SEAT Sport SEAT León TDi 5 Hungary Norbert Michelisz SEAT León Eurocup
Portugal Veloso Motorsport SEAT León TFSi 6 Portugal Francisco Carvalho Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Switzerland Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti 7 Belgium Vincent Radermecker† German ADAC Procar Series
8 Portugal José Monroy Portuguese Touring Car Championship
United Kingdom Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 9 Portugal Duarte Fèlix da Costa Portuguese Touring Car Championship
10 United Kingdom Harry Vaulkhard British Touring Car Championship
Denmark Honda Accord Euro R 11 United Kingdom James Thompson Various
12 Denmark Danish Touring Car Championship
Portugal BMW 320si 14 Portugal ‡ Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Super Production class
Latvia Honda Civic Type-R 21 Latvia Baltic Touring Car Championship
Russia Volkswagen Golf IV 22 Russia Nikolay Karamyshev Russian Touring Car Championship
BMW 320i 23 Russia
Super 1600 class
Germany Ford Fiesta ST 31 Germany German ADAC Procar Series

† Although in attendance, Radermecker did not compete due to a technical problem with his car.

‡ Despite entering the event, Fontes did not attend.

Report[]

Qualifying[]

SEAT Leon Eurocup champion Norbert Michelisz took pole position from Franz Engstler at the very end of the session.[2] Bamboo Engineering pairing Duarte Félix Da Costa and Harry Vaulkhard locked out the second row of the grid.[2] Pre-event favourites James Thompson and Michel Nykjær qualified down in sixth and eighth respectively.[2] Vincent Radermecker was forced to sit out the session due to problems with his Chevrolet Lacetti.[2]

Classification[]

Race 1[]

Pos No Class Driver Team Car Laps Time/Retired Grid Class Points
1 5 S2000 Hungary Norbert Michelisz SEAT Sport SEAT León TDi 17 25:54.375 1 10
2 4 S2000 Germany Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 17 +0.442 2 8
3 11 S2000 United Kingdom James Thompson Honda Accord Euro R 17 +3.683 6 6
4 1 S2000 Denmark Michel Nykjær Perfection Racing Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +10.283 8 5
5 10 S2000 United Kingdom Harry Vaulkhard Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +20.927 4 4
6 8 S2000 Portugal José Monroy Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +34.125 9 3
7 6 S2000 Portugal Francisco Carvalho Veloso Motorsport SEAT León TFSi 17 +53.270 7 2
8 9 S2000 Portugal Duarte Félix da Costa Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +57.518 3 1
9 2 S2000 Sweden Tomas Engström Engström Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 17 +1:07.001 5
10 3 S2000 Estonia Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 17 +1:07.355 11
11 21 SP Latvia Honda Civic Type-R 16 + 1 lap 13 10
12 23 SP Russia BMW 320i 16 + 1 lap 12 8
13 31 S1600 Germany Ford Fiesta ST 16 + 1 lap 14 10
14 22 SP Russia Nikolay Karamyshev Volkswagen Golf IV 14 + 3 laps 27 6
Ret 12 S2000 Denmark Honda Accord Euro R 3 Accident 10

Final standings[]

Pos Driver Race
1 		Race
2 		Pts
Super 2000
1 United Kingdom James Thompson 3 1 16
2 Germany Franz Engstler 2 2 16
3 Hungary Norbert Michelisz 1 5 14
4 Portugal Francisco Carvalho 7 4 7
5 United Kingdom Harry Vaulkhard 5 6 7
6 Sweden Tomas Engström 9 3 6
7 Denmark Michel Nykjær 4 Ret 5
8 Portugal José Monroy 6 Ret 3
9 Portugal Duarte Félix da Costa 8 7 3
10 Denmark Ret 8 1
11 Estonia 10 Ret 0
Super Production
1 Latvia 11 9 20
2 Russia 12 11 16
3 Russia Nikolay Karamyshev 14 Ret 6
Super 1600
1 Germany 13 10 20
Pos Driver Race
1 		Race
2 		Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

References[]

  1. ^ "2009 Entry List". fiawetcc.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  2. ^ a b c d Hudson, Neil (2009-10-24). "Michelisz takes last second pole". TouringCarTimes. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

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