2008 World Touring Car Championship season

Yvan Muller (front) and SEAT won the 2008 championships, succeeding Andy Priaulx (behind) and BMW.

The 2008 World Touring Car Championship season was the fifth World Touring Car Championship season, the fourth since its 2005 return. It began on March 2, and ended on November 16, after twenty-four races. The championship, which was open to Super 2000 Cars and Diesel 2000 Cars, was composed of the FIA World Touring Car Championship for Drivers and the FIA World Touring Car Championship for Manufacturers.

Frenchman Yvan Muller won the Drivers title by 26 points from SEAT team-mate Gabriele Tarquini, with Chevrolet's Robert Huff finishing third just a point behind Tarquini. The Manufacturers Championship was awarded to SEAT.

2008 Calendar

A provisional calendar was released in November, 2007.

Sweden was to be included in the calendar for 21 September but the FIA confirmed on 3 May 2008 that the Swedish round at the Scandinavian Raceway was replaced by an Italy round at the revamped Imola Circuit.

Race	Date	Country	Track	Winning driver	Report
1	March 2	Brazil	Curitiba	Yvan Muller	Report
2				Gabriele Tarquini
3	April 6	Mexico	Puebla	Jordi Gené	Report
4				Tiago Monteiro
5	May 18	Spain	Valencia	Robert Huff	Report
6				Alain Menu
7	June 1	France	Pau	Augusto Farfus	Report
8				Andy Priaulx
9	June 15	Czech Republic	Brno	Alessandro Zanardi	Report
10				Gabriele Tarquini
11	July 13	Portugal	Estoril	Rickard Rydell	Report
12				Tiago Monteiro
13	July 27	Great Britain	Brands Hatch	Jörg Müller	Report
14				Alain Menu
15	August 31	Germany	Oschersleben	Augusto Farfus	Report
16				Félix Porteiro
17	September 21	Italy1	Imola	Yvan Muller	Report
18				James Thompson
19	October 5	Italy	Monza	Yvan Muller	Report
20				Gabriele Tarquini
21	October 26	Japan	Okayama	Rickard Rydell	Report
22				Tom Coronel
23	November 16	Macau	Guia Circuit	Alain Menu	Report
24				Robert Huff

• Note 1: The race in Imola was held as "Race of Europe".

Entry List

Andy Priaulx, BMW 320si, 2008 WTCC round, Brands Hatch

Alain Menu , Chevrolet Lacetti, 2008 WTCC round, Brands Hatch

Gabriele Tarquini , SEAT León TDI, 2008 WTCC round, Brands Hatch

James Thompson , Honda Accord Euro R, 2008 WTCC round, Imola

Tom Coronel , SEAT León TFSI, 2008 WTCC round, Okayama

Jaap van Lagen , Lada 110 2.0, 2008 WTCC round, Brands Hatch

The full season entry list.

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
BMW Team UK	BMW 320si	1	Andy Priaulx	All
BMW Team Germany	BMW 320si	2	Jörg Müller	All
		3	Augusto Farfus Jr.	All
BMW Team Italy-Spain	BMW 320si	4	Alessandro Zanardi	All
		5	Félix Porteiro	All
Chevrolet	Chevrolet Lacetti	6	Nicola Larini	All
		7	Robert Huff	All
		8	Alain Menu	All
		80	Manabu Orido	19-24
SEAT Sport	SEAT León TDI	9	Jordi Gené	All
		10	Rickard Rydell	All
		11	Gabriele Tarquini	All
		12	Yvan Muller	All
		18	Tiago Monteiro	All
	SEAT León TFSI	21	José Manuel Pérez-Aicart	5-6
Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport	BMW 320si	13	Ibrahim Okyay	All
		62*	Aytaç Biter	13-16
N.Technology	Honda Accord Euro R	15	James Thompson	5-10,13-24
		66	André Couto	23-24
		72	Yukinori Taniguchi	19-22
Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	16*	Olivier Tielemans	1-6,9-12,15-16
		17*	Takayuki Aoki	19-24
		33*	Laurent Cazenave	7-8
		49	Duncan Huisman	15-16
		60*	Kristian Poulsen	19-20
		88*	Matthew Marsh	21-24
SUNRED Racing Development	SEAT León TFSI	20	Tom Coronel	All
		22*	Michal Matejovský	9-10
		32*	Oscar Nogués	7-8
		75*	Norbert Michelisz	21-22
		76*	Lourenço Beirão da Veiga	13-14
		77*	Tom Boardman	11-12
		78*	Marin Čolak	15-16
		79*	Duarte Félix Da Costa	19-20
Exagon Engineering	SEAT León TFSI	23*	Pierre-Yves Corthals	1-20
Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	26*	Stefano D'Aste	1-22
		31*	Sergio Hernández	All
		45*	George Tanev	23-24
Russian Bears Motorsport	Lada 110 2.0	27*	Kirill Ladygin	17-24
		28*	Viktor Shapovalov	5-20
		29*	Jaap van Lagen	5-24
Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	42*	Franz Engstler	All
		43*	Andrey Romanov	1-12,15-24
	BMW 320i	81*	Masaki Kano	21-24
Petrol GT Racing Team	BMW 320si	45*	George Tanev	15-20
Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	54*	Alexander Lvov	5-6,9-10
		55*	Andrey Smetsky	5-6,9-10
Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	60*	Kristian Poulsen	11-16
Volvo Olsbergs Green Racing	Volvo C30	63	Robert Dahlgren	13-14
Thunder Asia Racing	BMW 320si	69*	Melvin Choo	21-24

* drivers eligible for the Yokohama Independents' Trophy

Note: Macau-based RPM Racing Team had planned to race one Toyota Altezza and one Honda Civic Type-R for Macanese drivers Lei Kit Meng and Jo Rosa-Merszei in the final races in Macau. Although car numbers were allocated to them (#64 for Meng (Toyota Altezza) and #65 for Rosa-Merszei (Honda Civic)), the FIA Touring Car Bureau rejected the entries because neither of these cars had been homologated by the FIA.

Drivers' championship

The final standings in the 2008 FIA World Touring Car Championship for Drivers were :

Pos Driver CUR PUE VAL PAU BRN EST BRA OSC IMO MON OKA MAC  Pts  1 Yvan Muller 1 5 6 4 4 8 2 7 8 5 3 2 2 11 11 8 1 5 1 4 7 6 3 2 114 2 Gabriele Tarquini 5 1 5 3 2 5 5 4 6 1 13 11 7 5 24 16 5 Ret 2 1 10 Ret 7 12 88 3 Robert Huff Ret Ret 9 9 1 2 4 5 9 DSQ 4 5 21 10 2 3 4 3 6 26 4 5 5 1 87 4 Andy Priaulx 4 2 10 8 7 3 8 1 14 8 6 3 3 Ret Ret 5 11 7 3 25 3 22 2 3 81 5 Rickard Rydell 2 7 2 2 10 7 6 3 10 17 1 8 11 9 6 20 2 6 16 9 1 9 Ret 4 77 6 Augusto Farfus DSQ 6 11 10 Ret 20 1 6 4 3 Ret 10 Ret 6 1 6 7 8 Ret 8 6 2 4 11 63 7 Jörg Müller 3 4 14 12 5 4 9 13 5 7 9 7 1 4 26 9 8 2 9 10 2 Ret 10 Ret 60 8 Jordi Gené 11 8 1 5 3 6 3 19 13 14 5 9 9 Ret 5 4 17 17 7 2 11 10 6 Ret 56 9 Alain Menu Ret 10 8 7 8 1 10 Ret 3 6 11 14 8 1 3 Ret Ret 12 11 5 Ret 13 1 13 54 10 Félix Porteiro 6 3 16 20 22 10 15 12 2 4 8 4 6 2 8 1 10 Ret Ret 12 Ret 8 14 DNS 51 11 Nicola Larini Ret 12 3 Ret 6 9 7 2 11 11 2 6 23 12 Ret 11 6 4 5 3 16 12 9 Ret 48 12 Tiago Monteiro 17 13 7 1 18 Ret 13 10 12 10 7 1 16 15 4 Ret 13 11 4 6 5 7 11 Ret 43 13 Alessandro Zanardi 15 11 15 11 12 18 12 11 1 2 20 13 4 3 12 19 12 9 8 7 13 Ret 23 5 36 14 Tom Coronel 7 9 4 6 9 DNS 14 9 18 12 10 12 5 22 7 2 15 15 10 24 8 1 22 Ret 35 15 James Thompson 11 11 11 8 7 9 10 14 15 Ret 3 1 Ret 11 17 4 8 14 25 16 Sergio Hernández 14 15 17 15 23 12 17 17 15 13 Ret 15 13 8 10 7 9 10 14 13 12 3 12 Ret 9 17 Franz Engstler 10 17 18 16 17 17 19 15 16 23 18 18 17 13 Ret 15 16 14 13 16 14 11 15 6 3 18 Stefano D'Aste 9 16 13 14 14 15 18 14 25 21 19 16 12 7 9 13 18 16 24 14 9 23 2 18 Manabu Orido 15 17 Ret 18 16 7 2 20 Olivier Tielemans 8 14 19 17 15 Ret 19 Ret Ret DNS 22 18 1 20 Matthew Marsh 21 14 17 8 1 - Andrey Romanov 12 19 20 18 16 Ret 20 20 20 16 16 20 17 Ret 20 20 18 Ret 22 15 20 9 0 - Pierre-Yves Corthals 13 18 12 13 Ret 12 Ret 21 17 15 12 19 14 16 25 12 14 13 12 Ret 0 - Ibrahim Okyay 16 20 21 19 24 19 Ret Ret Ret 19 17 23 18 Ret 19 Ret Ret 21 19 21 Ret DNS 18 10 0 - José Manuel Pérez-Aicart 13 14 0 - Alexander Lvov 19 16 23 20 0 - Viktor Shapovalov 20 Ret DNQ Ret 18 Ret 24 19 20 20 23 Ret DNS Ret 22 0 - Andrey Smetsky 21 21 24 22 0 - Jaap van Lagen Ret Ret 21 18 21 Ret 15 21 DNS 18 14 22 19 18 Ret 19 18 17 21 Ret 0 - Laurent Cazenave 16 Ret 0 - Oscar Nogués Ret 16 0 - Michal Matejovský 22 Ret 0 - Kristian Poulsen 14 22 15 17 18 14 23 15 0 - Tom Boardman Ret 17 0 - Lourenço Beirão da Veiga 20 19 0 - Aytaç Biter 22 21 23 24 0 - Robert Dahlgren 24 DNS 0 - Marin Čolak 13 17 0 - Duncan Huisman 16 10 0 - George Tanev 21 21 21 19 20 18 19 Ret 0 - Kirill Ladygin Ret 22 22 23 19 Ret Ret Ret 0 - Takayuki Aoki 17 Ret 15 Ret Ret 15 0 - Yukinori Taniguchi 21 Ret 20 19 0 - Duarte Félix Da Costa Ret 20 0 - Melvin Choo 23 20 Ret Ret 0 - Masaki Kano 24 21 Ret DNS 0 - Norbert Michelisz Ret 16 0 - André Couto 13 Ret 0 Pos Driver CUR PUE VAL PAU BRN EST BRA OSC IMO MON OKA MAC  Pts  Manufacturers' Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis to the first eight finishers in each race. However only the results of the best two cars for each manufacturer were taken into account. External links FIA World Touring Car Championship official website: Archives 2008 Entry list 2008 Race results 2008 Championship point standings 2008 Independents' Trophies point standings 2008 WTCC race results Retrieved from www.teamdan.com on 1 January 2008 Template:Tnavbar-header 1987 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008