BMW одержал очередную полную победу в WTCC!!

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Сегодня прошла заключительная гонка сезона в Чемпионате мира по кузовным гонкам. Энди Приоль защитил свой титул и стал 3-х кратным Чемпионм мира. Кубок конструкторов тоже в очередной раз у BMW!! УРРРРРЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯ!!

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19.11.2006
BMW and Andy Priaulx win the 2006 World Touring Car Championship.



Andy Priaulx is the old and new World Touring Car Champion. At the FIA WTCC’s season finale in Macau, the BMW Team UK driver added a fifth win to his tally in race one and finished fifth in the second round. With 73 points under his belt, he secured his second consecutive world title.

Jцrg Mьller from BMW Team Germany was beaten by his brand-mate by just a single point. The 37-year-old won the final race of the season at the “Guia Circuit”, following a sixth-place finish in the first round of the day. In the Manufacturers’ Championship BMW has a 19-point lead over SEAT. With 254 points, the marquee also defended this championship title.

Priaulx made history at one of the world’s most demanding tracks. He is the first touring car driver since Roberto Ravaglia, now Team Principal of BMW Team Italy-Spain, who succeeded in winning three FIA Touring Car Championship titles in a row. In 2004 he secured title glory in the European Touring Car Championship, last year he won the FIA WTCC. Whenever a world title was up for grabs in touring car racing, it was carried away by a BMW driver. By winning both the Drivers’ and the Manufacturers’ Championship, the BMW 320si WTCC finished a truly successful maiden season in motorsports. The drivers of the BMW national teams scored a total of 11 wins out of 20 races with the car that was developed by BMW Motorsport on the basis of the road-going series car with the same name.
With a good start from pole in race one, Priaulx laid the foundation for his second triumph. He defended the lead and delivered a flawless performance over the course of the following laps. For the drivers further back in the field, however, the first lap was a more turbulent affair. Duncan Huisman of BMW Team Italy-Spain kept out of all this turmoil by improving from fourth to second at the start. Jцrg Mьller who started from fifth on the grid, lost one place. His team-mate, Dirk Mьller, who prior to the final two races also had the chance to become World Champion, experienced a dose of bad luck: When approaching the renowned Lisboa bend, he was pushed by Fabrizio Giovanardi and lost control of his car. With his car sideways, the 31-year-old blocked the track for a while, before continuing in the race. However, the best position he could achieve after this incident was 14th. This meant that Dirk Mьller was out of the title fight.

The races of Alessandro Zanardi from BMW Team Italy-Spain and Jan Magnussen, who was competing for BMW Team UK, were also spoiled by this situation. Magnussen was forced to return to the pits with a damaged car, while Zanardi was at least able to resume the race following a pit stop for repairs. The 40-year-old finished 23rd. At the top of the field, Priaulx dictated the pace and collected ten valuable points after nine racing laps. Huisman also completed a great race and took the chequered flag in second position.

With 69 points under his belt, Priaulx held a five-point lead over Augusto Farfus and was seven points ahead of Jцrg Mьller in the title race at this point in time. Farfus and Jцrg Mьller had fought a tough duel for fifth place, with the German finally crossing the line in sixth place. This meant that the championship was to be decided in the very final race of the year.

Jцrg Mьller had to win race two in order to gain ground on Priaulx – and at the start he took the first crucial step towards victory. From third place he passed Peter Terting and Tom Coronel, thus taking the lead. However, Priaulx also improved by two positions and was already running in sixth when the safety car came out at the end of lap one. As was the the case in race one, a collision in the midfield hampered the progress of many BMW drivers. Huisman dropped back from seventh to 17th, while Magnussen was sent into yet another early retirement. Dirk Mьller, on the other hand, improved from 14th to eighth. Zanardi leap-frogged the field from 21st to 11th. For Priaulx and Jцrg Mьller, however, it was more important that the third title contender, Farfus, had crashed on lap one and retired. Now it was obvious: The title fight had turned into a two-horse race.

At the end of lap four, the safety car pulled off. Jцrg Mьller benefited from technical problems on Terting’s car at the re-start, as the SEAT with a misfire held up the rest of the field. Consequently, Jцrg Mьller was quickly was to open up a gap over his rivals and secured the all-important victory. For Priaulx, sixth place would have been enough to win the title. But he did even better than that. Following Terting’s retirement he moved into fifth position and held this place until the end, thus scoring four points and keeping Jцrg Mьller at bay in the drivers’ classification. Dirk Mьller secured sixth place in the championship by coming eighth in race two. Zanardi finished ninth, Huisman brought home his damaged car home in 13th place.

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2006 FIA WTCC Drivers' Championship.

Pos Driver Car Points

1 Andy Priaulx BMW 320si 73

2 Jцrg Mьller BMW 320si 72

3 Augusto Farfus Alfa Romeo 156 64

4 Yvan Muller SEAT Leуn 62

5 Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Leуn 57

6 Dirk Mьller BMW 320si 54

7 James Thompson SEAT Leуn 54

8 Rickard Rydell SEAT Leуn 54

9 Peter Terting SEAT Leуn 49

10 Jordi Genй SEAT Leуn 36

11 Alessandro Zanardi BMW 320si 26

12 Nicola Larini Chevrolet Lacetti 24

13 Duncan Huisman BMW 320si 22

14 Gianni Morbidelli Alfa Romeo 156 22

15 Alain Menu Chevrolet Lacetti 21

16 Robert Huff Chevrolet Lacetti 20

17 Tom Coronel SEAT Leуn 20

18 Salvatore Tavano Alfa Romeo 156 15

19 Luca Rangoni BMW 320si 14

20 Fabrizio Giovarnadi Honda Accord Euro R 8

21 Ryan Sharp Honda Accord Euro R 6

22 Alessandro Balzan Alfa Romeo 156 5

23 Andre Couto SEAT Leуn 2

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2006 FIA WTCC Manufacturers' Championship.

Pos Manufacturer Points

1. BMW 254

2. SEAT 235

3. Alfa Romeo 154

4. Chevrolet 128


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[Drive]

ААААААААААА, хочу такую кепку!!!! :D :shock: :D

[Ninja]

Мы в БМВ никогда не сомневались!

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Сообщение от Drive

ААААААААААА, хочу такую кепку!!!! :D :shock: :D

А если серьезно, насчет кепки, можно достать или нет?
А то я езжу в Монтоевской ВильямсБМВФ1Тим, а комаеды такой уже нет, да и Монти за океаном. Вот и думаю БМВЗаубер взят следующего года что ли? А такая кепка была бы просто супер!!! :wink:

На Монтое.ру народ кепки форумчанам поставлял без проблем (и у меня оттуда)! Может у кого и здесь есть выход?

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А кепочку такую все же хочется!!! :cry:

[VOHA]

попробую узнать :roll:

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попробую узнать :roll:

Буду благодарен!!! :wink: