World Touring Car Championship: Season preview
The 2009 World Touring Car Championship fires up at Curitiba in Brazil this weekend. Autosport's WTCC correspondent Steven English tells you what to expect as Andy Priaulx bids to wrest the title back from Yvan Muller
For the first time since its inception in 2005, the World Touring Car Championship will begin with a new driver carrying the #1 plate on his door. Andy Priaulx and BMW's run of four consecutive titles (three world and one European) was finally broken by Yvan Muller and SEAT last year.
Not that he's greedy, but make no mistake, the Channel Islander wants 'his' title back.
Both BMW and SEAT return with no major shake-ups in their driver rosters this season, and with essentially the same cars they raced last year, so there should be no great surprises in the form guide. You can expect Priaulx and Muller to lead their respective camps, with Gabriele Tarquini and Augusto Farfus in the hunt if they can cut out the mistakes that hindered their campaigns in 2008.
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