2009 European Touring Car Cup

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.

2009 European Touring Car Cup
Previous: 2008 Next: 2010

Entry list
Super 2000 class[1]
Team Car No Drivers Regular series
Perfection Racing Chevrolet Lacetti 1 Michel Nykjær Danish Touring Car Championship
Engström Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 2 Tomas Engström Swedish Touring Car Championship
Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 3 Urmas Kitsing German ADAC Procar Series
4 Franz Engstler World Touring Car Championship
SEAT Sport SEAT León TDi 5 Norbert Michelisz SEAT León Eurocup
Veloso Motorsport SEAT León TFSi 6 Francisco Carvalho Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti 7 Vincent Radermecker† German ADAC Procar Series
8 José Monroy Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 9 Duarte Fèlix da Costa Portuguese Touring Car Championship
10 Harry Vaulkhard British Touring Car Championship
Hartmann Honda Racing Honda Accord Euro R 11 James Thompson Various
12 Per Poulsen Danish Touring Car Championship
Sports & You BMW 320si 14 José Pedro Fontes‡ Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Super Production class
AV Motorsport Honda Civic Type-R 21 Marcis Birkens Baltic Touring Car Championship
Sport-Garage Volkswagen Golf IV 22 Nikolay Karamyshev Russian Touring Car Championship
BMW 320i 23 Mikhail Zasadych
Super 1600 class
NK Racing Team Ford Fiesta ST 31 Carsten Seifert 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
PosNoClassDriverTeamCarLapsTime/RetiredGridClass Points
1 5 S2000 Norbert Michelisz SEAT Sport SEAT León TDi 17 25:54.375 1 10
2 4 S2000 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 17 +0.442 2 8
3 11 S2000 James Thompson Hartmann Honda Racing Honda Accord Euro R 17 +3.683 6 6
4 1 S2000 Michel Nykjær Perfection Racing Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +10.283 8 5
5 10 S2000 Harry Vaulkhard Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +20.927 4 4
6 8 S2000 José Monroy Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +34.125 9 3
7 6 S2000 Francisco Carvalho Veloso Motorsport SEAT León TFSi 17 +53.270 7 2
8 9 S2000 Duarte Félix da Costa Bamboo Engineering Chevrolet Lacetti 17 +57.518 3 1
9 2 S2000 Tomas Engström Engström Motorsport Honda Accord Euro R 17 +1:07.001 5
10 3 S2000 Urmas Kitsing Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si 17 +1:07.355 11
11 21 SP Marcis Birkens AV Motorsport Honda Civic Type-R 16 + 1 lap 13 10
12 23 SP Mikhail Zasadych Sport-Garage BMW 320i 16 + 1 lap 12 8
13 31 S1600 Carsten Seifert NK Racing Team Ford Fiesta ST 16 + 1 lap 14 10
14 22 SP Nikolay Karamyshev Sport-Garage Volkswagen Golf IV 14 + 3 laps 27 6
Ret 12 S2000 Per Poulsen Hartmann Honda Racing Honda Accord Euro R 3 Accident 10

Final standings
Pos Driver Race
1		 Race
2		 Pts
Super 2000
1 James Thompson 3 1 16
2 Franz Engstler 2 2 16
3 Norbert Michelisz 1 5 14
4 Francisco Carvalho 7 4 7
5 Harry Vaulkhard 5 6 7
6 Tomas Engström 9 3 6
7 Michel Nykjær 4 Ret 5
8 José Monroy 6 Ret 3
9 Duarte Félix da Costa 8 7 3
10 Per Poulsen Ret 8 1
11 Urmas Kitsing 10 Ret 0
Super Production
1 Marcis Birkens 11 9 20
2 Mikhail Zasadych 12 11 16
3 Nikolay Karamyshev 14 Ret 6
Super 1600
1 Carsten Seifert 13 10 20
Pos Driver Race
1		 Race
2		 Pts
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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References
  1. "2009 Entry List". fiawetcc.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  2. 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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