WTCC 2007 - World Touring Car Championship

1. Still in pursuit of BMW and Andy Priaulx. 2. Dates and TV coverage. 3. Circuits. 4. Drivers. 5. Teams. 6. The BMW 320si WTCC. 7. Technical specifications. 8. Format and regulations. 9. Statistics. 10. Press contacts.

BMW enters another WTCC season as title defender.

The FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) 2007 presents a familiar picture:
as BMW and Andy Priaulx (GBR) of the BMW Team UK step up to defend their
titles, they are once again hoping to make their mark on this year's world
championship. Since the top-class touring car championship began, BMW has
managed to keep its copybook unblotted: when the race series started in 1987,
it was the BMW driver Roberto Ravaglia (ITA) - currently team boss at BMW Team
Italy-Spain - who won. Then, 18 years later, the relaunch of the series in 2005
saw Priaulx take WTCC victory. The year before that the Guernsey-born driver
reaffirmed his exceptional talent with a European Championship title win, but
he also raised the bar yet again in the WTCC 2006, when a total of five race
victories earned him his second world championship title in succession.

"Successfully defending a world championship title is always an outstanding
achievement", says BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen. "Including his
European championship title in 2004, Andy Priaulx has won three drivers' titles
in succession with BMW. That's an impressive performance. The fact that three
more BMW drivers also managed at least one victory each is clear confirmation
that the BMW 320si WTCC was competitive from its first
year of racing. This year we are once again the object of pursuit - but that is
a challenge we will gladly take. We are aiming to end another final event in
Macau celebrating - not only the driver's title, but also the manufacturers'
title, which is top priority for BMW."