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Wiechers-Sport reveal drivers

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Germany-based Wiechers-Sport launched a new campaign in the FIA World Touring Car Championship in which they won the 2005 Independents’ Trophy with Marc Hennerici. For the new season the team double their efforts, lining-up two BMW cars compared to the one they raced last year, for Diego Romanini and Emmet O’Brien.

Romanini, 27-year old Italian from Camaiore (he’s a fellow villager of Chevrolet’s Nicola Larini), already raced for the team in the 2004 German Production Car Championship claiming one podium result.

O’Brien, 24-year old from Dublin, emerged in the one make trophies, classifying 7th in the 2004 British SEAT Cupra Cup and 10th in the 2005 European Alfa Challenge; he will be the first Irishman to join the FIA WTCC.

The team will compete in Monza with two BMW 320i E46, but they have planned to switch to a couple of new BMW 320si E90 cars sometimes during the season.