Macau

[Muzorewa]

Qualifiying from the final round of the WTCC:

1 Andy Priaulx - BMW 320i
2 André Couto - Alfa Romeo 156
3 Augusto Farfus Jr. - Alfa Romeo 156
4 Gabriele Tarquini - Alfa Romeo 156
5 Nicola Larini - Chevrolet Lacetti
6 Dirk Müller - BMW 320i
7 Rickard Rydell - SEAT León
8 Alain Menú - Chevrolet Lacetti
9 Fabrizio Giovanardi - Alfa Romeo 156
10 Robert Huff - Chevrolet Lacetti
11 Jorg Müller - BMW 320i
12 Antonio Garcia - BMW 320i
13 Tom Coronel - Seat Toledo Cupra
14 Giuseppe Cirò - BMW 320i
15 Jordi Gené - SEAT León
16 Duncan Huisman - BMW 320i
17 James Thompson - Alfa Romeo 156
18 Peter Scharmach - BMW 320i
19 Carl Rosenblad - BMW 320i
20 Patrick Bernhardt - Ford Focus
21 Peter Terting - SEAT León
22 Stefano D'Aste - BMW 320i
23 Michael Funke - Ford Focus
24 Simon Harrison - Honda Accord Euro R
25 Adriano De Micheli - Honda Accord Euro R
26 Marc Hennerici - BMW 320i
27 Alessandro Zanardi - BMW 320i

Too slow:

Paul Poon - BMW 320i
Hironori Takeuchi - Toyota Altezza
Lo Ka Fai - Seat Toledo Cupra
Ao Chi Hong - BMW 320i

Go Priaulx, Go!!

 

[markoos]

Is it on the googlebox?Always love watching Macau!!!

 

[Muzorewa]

Is it on the googlebox?Always love watching Macau!!!

No idea, and I won't be in a position to watch anyway. In fact, I need a volunteer to e-mail the results to me on Sunday morning........

 

[IainW]

It's on British Eurosport live between 3.45am and 6am on Sunday morning. Then it's followed immediately by the rerun and if that's still too early for you, it's repeated at 3pm on Eurosport 2 or 8.15pm on Eurosport.

 

[markoos]

cool cheers iain

 

[Muzorewa]

I presume all the above assumes you have a telly........

 

[markoos]

can email u the results if u like muz??

 

[IainW]

I presume all the above assumes you have a telly........

The ETCC used to have a live feed onto the Eurosport website. I'm not sure if the WTCC is the same. Being a Eurosport-promoted championship, it may well be.

 

[Muzorewa]

The live timing section on www.btcc.net gives the results and live timing but can be difficult to receive whilst driving Markoos, have pm'ed e-mail address if you would be so kind

 

[ZBOYD]

Just a reminder if you can stay awake, Eurosport are showing the racing live from Macau, 3.45am.

The Leons didnt have a great qualifying session after getting involved in seemingly unavoidable accidents. But Rikard & Peter hav gone well in Warm-Up, just now. But Jordi stopped and was pulled off circuit.

Should be hell of a race, this street circuit is so narrow

 

[IainW]

Should be hell of a race, this street circuit is so narrow

Around 8 finishers at the end of race 2 out of the 27 cars which began race 1.

 

[ZBOYD]

Yer i watched it , still tired

 

[Muzorewa]

Race 1 result:

1. Augusto Farfus Jr. - Alfa Romeo 156
2. Andy Priaulx - BMW 320i
3. Rickard Rydell - SEAT León
4. Nicola Larini - Chevrolet Lacetti
5. Alain Menú - Chevrolet Lacetti
6. Duncan Huisman - BMW 320i
7. James Thompson - Alfa Romeo 156
8. Peter Terting - SEAT León
9. Antonio García - BMW 320i
10. Dirk Müller - BMW 320i
11. Stefano D'Aste - BMW 320i
12. Carl Rosenblad - BMW 320i
13. Alessandro Zanardi - BMW 320i
14. Marc Hennerici - BMW 320i
15. Adriano De Micheli - Honda Accord Euro R
16. Peter Scharmach - BMW 320i
17. Michael Funke - Ford Focus
18. Jordi Gené - SEAT León
19. Fabrizio Giovanardi - Alfa Romeo 156
20. Simon Harrison - Honda Accord Euro R
21. Patrick Bernhardt - Ford Focus
DNF André Couto - Alfa Romeo 156
DNF Jorg Müller - BMW 320i
DNF Robert Huff - Chevrolet Lacetti
DNF Tom Coronel - Seat Toledo Cupra
DNF Giuseppe Cirò - BMW 320i

DNS Gabriele Tarquini - Alfa Romeo 156

Race 2 result:

1. Duncan Huisman - BMW 320i
2. Andy Priaulx - BMW 320i
3. Alain Menú - Chevrolet Lacetti
4. Augusto Farfus Jr. - Alfa Romeo 156
5. Alessandro Zanardi - BMW 320i
6. Jordi Gené - SEAT León
7. Peter Terting - SEAT León
8. Rickard Rydell - SEAT León
9. Giuseppe Cirò - BMW 320i
10. Patrick Bernhardt - Ford Focus
11. Nicola Larini - Chevrolet Lacetti

DNF Adriano De Micheli - Honda Accord Euro R
DNF Robert Huff - Chevrolet Lacetti
DNF Peter Scharmach - BMW 320i
DNF Marc Hennerici - BMW 320i
DNF Carl Rosenblad - BMW 320i
DNF Dirk Müller - BMW 320i
DNF James Thompson - Alfa Romeo 156
DNF Stefano D'Aste - BMW 320i

DNS Antonio García - BMW 320i
DNS Michael Funke - Ford Focus
DNS Fabrizio Giovanardi - Alfa Romeo 156
DNS Simon Harrison - Honda Accord Euro R
DNS André Couto - Alfa Romeo 156
DNS Jorg Müller - BMW 320i
DNS Tom Coronel - Seat Toledo Cupra
DNS Gabriele Tarquini - Alfa Romeo 156


So, Andy Priaulx becomes World Champion and all the Seat Sport cars score points. And Seat are on the Manufacturer's podium.

Some reasonable video clips available at Videos. There are three, qualifying, race 1 and race 2. The pileup at the beginning of race 1 is pretty cool, but the same chaos and at the same place as last year

 

[PipSqueak111]

Get in there! Nice one Andy Priaulx!
Chuffed for him. Dirk Muller has been playing so dirty for the last couple of rounds that Andy deserved to beat him.

Now it's time to vote for Andy as BBC Sports Personality of the year - can't think of many other British World Champions this year.

 

[IainW]

I'm glad Andy won. I've never liked Dirk Muller since he destroyed Simon Harrison's Integra at Macau a few years back. Never had a hope in hell of getting past towards the end of the race, so he punted him off in the narrow section of the track, the Honda rode the barrier and was lucky not to go over it. The cleanest driver won again this year.

 

[Prev]

Go Andy Priaulx Guernsey's number one driver. Its good to finally have a Guernsey man good at something.

 

[ZBOYD]

Guernsey's only driver. No he did well, I watched it, and he played it cool and did the job.

Dedicated the Championship win to the late Will Hoy. top man

 

[ZBOYD]

Get in there! Nice one Andy Priaulx!
Chuffed for him. Dirk Muller has been playing so dirty for the last couple of rounds that Andy deserved to beat him.

Now it's time to vote for Andy as BBC Sports Personality of the year - can't think of many other British World Champions this year.

Unfortunate as it is, i doubt he'll even get a look in. It'll be one of the England cricketers. Or a footballer.

Motorsport seems to get little coverage on the BBC these days, unless your into MotoGP, only twinkle of light was the MastersGP last weekend, which was delayed, and i watched it live on MotorsTV anyway.

 

[IainW]

Nah, it'll be something to do with all that cricket stuff that went on this year. It'd be nice for him to at least get a mention on the show.

 

[andyb]

Guernsey's only driver. No he did well, I watched it, and he played it cool and did the job.

Dedicated the Championship win to the late Will Hoy. top man

Will was his mentor in his Arena days and he was devasted by Will's death. Really pleased for Andy, top, top bloke and a very nice guy