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TouringCarTimes Awards results – WTCC

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The results of the TouringCarTimes Awards in the World Touring Car Championship category are in. James Thompson has been elected best driver of the 2007 season and got 35% of the votes, beating the champion Priaulx by 8%. But for the team award was the other way around with team RBM as winners with 28% ahead of N-Technology with 24%.

BMW was voted best manufacturer of WTCC 2007 with a margin of 10% ahead of Chevrolet. Pierre-Yves Corthals was voted best privateer driver with a good margin to Stefano D’Aste in second place despite the finishing order being the opposite in the championship.

Rickard Rydell secured his home-round, and first WTCC appearance of the year as, Anderstorp to be voted best WTCC race of the year. This was without doubt due to his spectacular last laps of the second race when he overtook his team mates Alain Menu and Nicola Larini to win the race in his first, and most likely only, Chevrolet outing.

WTCC driver
James Thompson – 35%
Andy Priaulx – 27%
Alain Menu – 16%
Yvan Muller – 13%
Rickard Rydell – 3%
Augusto Farfus Jr. – 2%
Tom Coronel – 1%
Robert Huff – 1%
Tiago Monteiro – 1%
Jörg Müller – 1%

WTCC team
RBM (BMW Team UK) – 28%
N-Technology” – 24%
RML (Chevrolet Europe) – 21%
Oreca (SEAT) – 9%
Schnitzer (BMW Team Germany) – 5%
Proteam Motorsport – 3%
SEAT Sport Italia – 3%
GR Asia – 1%
Elgh Motorsport – 1%
Engström Motorsport – 1%
Exagon Engineering – 1%
Racing for Belgium – 1%
Team Aviva WSR – 1%
Wiechers Sport – 1%

WTCC manufacturer
BMW – 38%
Chevrolet – 28%
SEAT – 25%
Alfa Romeo – 9%

WTCC privateer driver
Pierre-Yves Corthals – 35%
Stefano D’Aste – 20%
Luca Rangoni – 16%
Roberto Colciago – 7%
Tomas Engström – 5%
Emmet O’Brien – 4%
Anthony Beltoise – 2%
Carl Rosenblad – 2%
Franz Engstler – 1%
Maurizio Ceresoli – 1%
Miguel Freitas – 1%
Lev Fridman – 1%
Sergio Hernández – 1%
Alexander Lvov – 1%
Massimiliano Pedalá – 1%
Davide Roda – 1%
Andrey Romanov – 1%

WTCC privateer team
GR Asia – 39%
Proteam Motorsport – 22%
Exagon Engineering – 15%
Honda Dealer Team Sweden – 5%
SEAT Sport Italia – 5%
Wiechers Sport – 4%
Racing for Belgium – 3%
Russian Bears Motorsport – 2%
Engstler Motorsport – 2%
Elgh Motorsport – 1%
Golden Motors – 1%
Maurer Motorsport – 1%

WTCC rookie
Tiago Monteiro – 33%
Colin Turkington – 30%
Félix Porteiro – 19%
Fredrik Ekblom – 7%
Tomas Engström – 3%
Massimiliano Pedalà – 3%
Michel Jourdain – 2%
Sergio Hernández – 1%
Anthony Beltoise – 1%
Miguel Freitas – 1%

WTCC race
Sweden – Anderstorp – 27%
Macau – Macau – 20%
Spain – Valencia – 15%
United Kingdom – Brands Hatch – 11%
Italy – Monza – 8%
Portugal – Porto – 6%
Netherlands – Zandvoort – 4%
Germany – Oschersleben – 4%
France – Pau – 4%
Brazil – Curitiba – 1%