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The WTCC has filed a draft calendar with the FIA,which is subject to approval, which expands the number of rounds next season to 13, and as expected adding a round in Russia at the Moscow Raceway.

Michel Nykjær made his first FIA World Touring Car Championship appearance last weekend in the races at Curitiba, Brazil, and secured two solid finishes in the top ten.

Arena Motorsport’s James Nash and Tom Chilton endured a tough weekend at Curitiba, with Nash taking the team’s best result of the weekend in 14th place. Nash believes BTCC the weight break given to the rival SEAT and BMW teams worked against the Fords in Brazil.

Rob Huff pulled off a daring pass around the outside of Gabriele Tarquini in the second race at Curitiba to take his third win of the season, and as a result took the biggest haul of points of all of the drivers in Brazil.

SUNRED Engineering driver Pepe Oriola and Arena Motorsport’s Tom Chilton were both given 30 second penalties for overspeeding during the rolling start procedure in race one.

Rob Huff won the second race at Curitiba from eighth on the grid ahead of Alain Menu, with Gabriele Tarquini taking the final spot on the podium for SEAT in an action packed race.

Yvan Muller has taken his seventh win of the season in the first race at Curitiba and extends his Championship lead to 30 points over Rob Huff. Muller led an all Chevrolet top three with Alain Menu and Rob Huff completing the top three.

Yvan Muller has taken his third pole position of the season at Curitiba, leading a Chevrolet top four ahead of Alain Menu, Rob Huff and Michel Nykjaer, with Gabriele Tarquini just behind in fifth in his SEAT.

SEAT’s Gabriele Tarquini has indicated that the Chevrolets are almost uncatchable this weekend, believing that with their impending departure from the WTCC, all restrictions have been taken off of the cars

Yvan Muller was fastest again in the final practice session ahead of qualifying in his Chevrolet Cruze. The Frenchman led team-mates Rob Huff and Alain Menu, with Gabriele Tarquini the closest to the Chevrolets in fourth.