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	European Touring Car Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Still, real touring cars like the BMW 2002 and 3.0 CS, Alfa Romeo GTA and Ford Escort were the teams' favorites, although the Porsche 911 did take part in the races.
		BMW and Alfa Romeo prepared regular touring cars for the championship, but it was the big-engined Tom Walkinshaw Racing prepared Jaguar XJS and Rover 3500 Vitesse that would be more competitive in the years to come, fighting against the turbocharged Volvo 240 and Ford Sierra Cosworth.
		The championship was cancelled after the end of the 1988 season, due to escalating costs (a one-off World Touring Car Championship in 1987 also exarcebated the problem).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Touring_Car_Championship (647 words)

	World Touring Car Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The WTCC was first held in 1987 concurrent to the long-running European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) in a Group A format, with races held at Bathurst, Calder Park Raceway (using both the road course and the then newly constructed Thunderdome) and Mount Fuji.
		The championship was won by Roberto Ravaglia in a BMW M3.
		It features compact and midsize cars based on Group N rules, yet modified to Super 2000 regulations, an intermediate level between the slightly modified Superproduction cars and the extinct Supertouring class.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Touring_Car_Championship (470 words)

	Touring car racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct automobile racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars.
		In general, however, touring cars are based upon 4-door 'family' sedans or, more rarely, 2-door coupe cars, while GT racing cars are based upon more exotic vehicles, such as Ferraris or Lamborghinis.
		Underneath the bodywork, a Touring Car is often more closely related to its road-going origins, using many original components and mountings, while a top-flight GT car is often a purpose-built tube-frame racing chassis underneath a cosmetic bodyshell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Touring_car_racing (1282 words)

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		After two exciting races in Monza the 2003 FIA European Touring Car Championship finished with a new title for BMW thanks to consistency all year from the drivers run by the three national teams.
		It was a BMW that won the last European Touring Car Championship when the series was discontinued after the1988 season, and a BMW that won again when it was re-instated 13 years later in 2001.
		The car was fine today and, in fact, better than at some of the other races, so for me it is good to finish the championship like this.
	www.speedarena.com /artman/publish/touring_car_news/article_3640.shtml (1126 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		The car is now being totally rebuilt, with a few areas being updated, before the season begins." The team also plans to enter a second car; negotiations are still underway.
		According to the team's managing director Jøren Agergaard, the new Peugeot 307 is due to make its ETCC debut on the season's opening round in Monza, with the reigning Danish Touring Car champion and former-F1 star Jan Magnussen at the wheel.
		The German car, which belonged to Ravaglia Motorsport, is that which was used by Fabrizio Giovanardi in the 2003 FIA ETCC.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=145712&FS=ETCC (2002 words)

	European Touring Car Championship
		This car was not competing according to the rules in Tom Walkinshaws opinion.
		A car from the Group A class of the ETCC has got to be a four-seater, which has to be build in a series of at least 500 identical vehicles within a year.
		The Group A 240 Turbo is a car with 270-330 (1984), 340 (1985) or 340-350 (1986) brake horsepower, delivered by a B21 engine with a Garret exhaust turbo, Volvo’s own intercooler, a patented Volvo water injection and an inhouse electronic ignition system.
	www.volvo200.org /etcc_eng.htm (959 words)

	'The Racing Baronet'
		In a nine-event European Touring Car Championship season, with eight races and hill-climbs concentrated into a three-month period, the red and gold Lotus Cortinas, which were prepared by Alan Mann Racing, were always the class of the field.
		The 1963/1964 cars were so much more specialised than their rivals that if they held together they were almost bound to be race winners at the end of an event.
		All this, of course, was overshadowed by the magnificent paint job of the 1965 cars, which was eventually applied to the cars by mid-season - lustrous red, with a metallic gold roof, spears on the flanks and across the tail.
	www.pixelmatic.com.au /cortina/articles/whitmore.htm (2325 words)

	italiaspeed.com: FIA EUROPEAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW
		A former Spanish Touring Car champion in 1996 with Audi, Gene (32) took part in the 2002 FIA ETCC at the wheel of a Ravaglia Motorsport BMW 320i; he was classified eighth in the Drivers Championship, with a third place in Donington Park.
		In his first Touring Car season, Diefenbacher (21) is the youngest driver in the 2003 FIA ETCC; he has proved to be a good driver in the German F3 championship, where he finished third in 2001 and fourth in 2002.
		Rydell's car and that of his new team-mate Sandro Sardelli, are the same machines that competed in the 2002 FIA ETCC, which have been leased to the team by Volvo Motorsport.
	www.italiaspeed.com /news_2003_touringcars/news_005etcc_preview.html (2458 words)

	BMW World - Touring Cars 80s
		And for the fourth time in 14 years, Dieter Quester won the European Touring Car Championship in 1983 at the wheel of a BMW 635 CSi coupe.
		Roberto Ravaglia won the driver's title in the same World Championship and became European Touring Car Champion at the wheel of the BMW M3 in 1988.
		At the wheel of this car, Helmut Kelleners and Umberto Grano won the driver's category in the 1981 European Touring Car Championship.
	www.bmwworld.com /racing/history/touring_cars_80s.htm (480 words)

	Famous Touring Cars - Page 3 - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
		Changes to the regulations in the various European championships in 1993, plus the introduction of the new BMW 3-series E36 meant that the M3 E30 was retired from European competition at the end of the 92 season.
		I'm assuming that DJR 1 was the car raced by Dick in 1987 and used as a spare until Bathurst in 1988.
		Hi Motorsportnerd, DJ used the car in '87 and John Bowe used it in '88, it was bought by Gravett and was 2nd in the BTCC in '89, Graham Hathaway then bought the car and raced in a few of the BTCC races and then took it to Malaysia for their touring car Championship.
	www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?t=12471&page=3 (4164 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		The FIA European Touring Car Championship is in excellent shape at the start of the third season under Super 2000 regulations.
		These were 1963, during the first-ever edition, when the ETCC did not have an Italian round at all; 1987, when Monza hosted the opening round of the World Touring Car Championship, and in 2002, when the circuit underwent major works and the FIA ETCC went to Pergusa.
		Meanwhile, two new four-door cars are under construction in the team's workshop, which are due to join the championship in the third or fourth event.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=148523&FS=ETCC (1756 words)

	BMW CS (E9)
		As early as 1971, BMW launched the 3.0CSL (L stands for Light) to homologate German Touring Car Championship (later became European Touring Car Championship).
		Early cars had the same 180 hp carburetor engine as 3.0CS, but it adopted a lightweight body built by Karmann, with aluminum doors, bonnet and trunk, thinner steel panels, plexiglass windows, lightweight sport seats and deletion of virtually all comfort features (such as power steering and power windows).
		In the motor racing side, the CSL won 6 championships in European touring car racing (in 1973, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 79).
	www.autozine.org /Classiccar/html/BMW/CS.html (848 words)

	Famous Touring Cars - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
		Turbo-charged and rotary power cars were required to add 1.4 to get their actual race capacity (ie a 2,000 cc turbo car was given a nominal 2,800 cc for racing).
		Top UK touring car driver Andy Rouse was the first person to campaign the Sierra XR4Ti, and won the BTCC in 1985 in it.
		The car was progressively developed during the 1986 season, eventually winning the final round of the 1986 ETCC, the Estoril 500 in Portugal.
	www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?t=12471&page=3 (3318 words)

	italiaspeed.com: 2003 FIA EUROPEAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP
		For the third round of the 2003 season, the LG Super Racing Weekend series is heading to its southernmost point, the Italian track of Pergusa, on the island of Sicily.
		ART Engineering had a difficult start to their first FIA European Touring Car Championship season, with both the Italian team's Volvo S60 cars being hit by bad luck in the two meetings held so far.
		The Swedish driver, one of the fastest men in the Championship, had a very disappointing weekend in Magny-Cours, when he retired due to incidents in both races.
	www.italiaspeed.com /news_2003_touringcars/news_015pergusa_preview.html (1348 words)

	SEAT to Enter the 2004 British Touring Car Championship
		Thereafter, the cars will be run and maintained throughout 2004 in the UK, with additional technical support from SEAT Sport's 2004 FIA European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) team.
		Jason Plato was British Touring Car Champion in 2001 and this announcement marks the 36-year old Monaco resident's return to the series.
		Robert Huff won the 2003 Holiday Inn SEAT Cupra Championship driving a Leon Cupra R, and the 23-year old Cambridgeshire driver is delighted that his prize of a works drive in the 2004 ETCC has been changed to a works drive in the BTCC.
	www.vwvortex.com /artman/publish/seat_news/printer_518.shtml (435 words)

	CRASH EXTRA: Preview: European Touring Car Championship. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)*
		Nordauto, the winner of both the 2001 FIA European Super Touring Championship and the 2002 FIA European Touring Car Championship has been renamed Autodelta, reviving one of the most glorious names in motorsport and, directed by Monica Sipsz, is entering three Alfa Romeo 156 Gta cars for Nicola Larini, Gabriele Tarquini and Roberto Colciago.
		In 2001, he was runner-up in the Super Touring Championship and, last year, was classified third.
		A former British Touring Car champion, the 41-year old Italian finished as runner-up in the 2001 FIA European Super Touring Championship for Honda.
	www.crash.net /feature_view~cid~26~id~2767~pid~1.htm (680 words)

	Hans Heyer - Career Summary
		One of the most important figures in European Touring Car history, Hans appeared in only 2 single-seater races in his career, one of which was the 1977 German GP where he failed to qualify.
		• European Touring Car Championship, 5 starts, 9th overall, 43 points in a Schnitzer Motul BMW 2800 CS and a Ford Koln Ford Capri RS 2600 with various drivers.
		• European Touring Car Championship, 1st overall, 2 outright wins, 4 class wins, 76 points in a Zakspeed Ford Escort RS 1600 in Division 1, and a Ford Koln Ford Capri RS 3100 in Division 2, with various drivers.
	www.f1rejects.com /drivers/heyer/index.html (1546 words)

	MINI Cooper S Project Car KW Coilover Suspension Installation - european car Magazine
		KW Suspension was the first company to contact european car and actually have suspension in stock that included a damper, so that's what we chose.
		The tires on european car's MINI are the same Michelin X Rally tires you saw on the Peugeots as they dominated WRC tarmac competition.
		Normally, we tell readers about our project car build-ups one step at a time, slowly revealing an upgrade path that was ideally planned well in advance but takes time to bring to fruition.
	www.europeancarweb.com /projectcars/0305ec_mini_cooper_s_kw_coilover_suspension/index.html (1536 words)

	How BMW Motorsport made an M3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It means that the e30 M3 has won more touring car races than any other touring car (I believe the definition of a touring car is a front engined passenger car).
		The claim is true, and here is a list of the touring car championships won by the e30 M3, compiled from the BMW Motorsport website:
		Ravaglia's M3 won the '89 German Touring Car Championship (DTM) before venturing to his homeland to clinch the Italian series in 1990 and '91.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~mjjackso/touringcar.html (305 words)

	Tarquini joins Jörg Müller in the lead of European Touring Car Championship :: car.kak.net ::
		The red 156 Gta cars run by the Autodelta works team, and loudly supported by the 40,000 spectators around the track, won both the fifth and sixth rounds of the Championship.
		The fight for the lead intensified: Dirk Müller drove beyond the kerbs at the first chicane, while Colciago went wide at the exit of the Schumacher; the gap between them was reduced to 0.172 seconds at the end of the eighth lap.
		My car was fantastic and this enabled me to be very was fast in the chicane.
	car.kak.net /index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=965&theme=Printer (2378 words)

	World Touring Car Championship News with Try My Sport
		I like the car, it is very modern and has a better design than the Toledo.
		Cars will be on exhibition from 9.00 to 17.00, while drivers will meet the public for an autograph session from 14.00 to 15.00.
		It’s also very important for SEAT that both the road car and the racing car are being launched at exactly the same time.
	www.trymysport.co.uk /sports_news/world_touring_car_championship/2005/aug05/FIA_WTCC_Newsletter_30.htm (801 words)

	CRASH EXTRA: Preview: European Touring Car Championship. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)*
		The number of independent drivers and teams taking part in the championship has also increased since last year, although the privateers driving for the Clever Cats Alfa Romeo and Scuderia Bigazzi teams appear to be the most competitive.
		Balzan was an Italian and European karting champion before switching to car racing, and was a race winner in the Italian Formula Renault Campus series before moving to one-make trophies and being classified second in the 2001 Renault Clio European Cup and winning the 2002 Alfa Romeo 147 Italian Cup.
		Former Swedish Touring Car title winner Jan 'Flash' Nilsson drivers a Flash Engineering S60, but will also be competing for his own national crown again, after finishing runner-up in 2001 and 2002 in a Volvo S40.
	www.crash.net /feature_view~cid~26~id~2767~pid~4.htm (627 words)

	Racecar
		Prepared by RML (Ray Mallock Ltd) in the UK, the Chevrolet Lacetti touring car will compete in the new WTCC, the event that succeeds the European Touring Car Championship.
		Alain Menu has his sights set high for his comeback in two-litre touring cars: "We want to be on the podium in the first year and by 2006 we must be able to win.
		While competing in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) from 1992-2000, he was champion twice (1997 and 2000).
	www.racecar.com /story.asp?NewsID=8081 (494 words)

	:: rcZone :: - European Touring Car Championship 2005
		Next years dates for the European Touring Car Championship have been set at the EFRA AGM which took place in Rome last weekend.
		The Euro's warm up race will be held alongside with the Nordic Touring Car Championship, thus making it an open championship just as was the case for this years warm up event at Staffanstorps in Sweden.
		The dates for the Open Nordic Touring Car Championship, which is also serves as the Euro's warm up race, are June 17 to 19.
	www.rczone.net /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=550 (464 words)

	BMW focuses on European Touring Car Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dutchman Peter Kox, for example, won the 2001 drivers' championship in a BMW entered by former touring car world and European champion Roberto Ravaglia.
		This year, the European Championship for near-production touring cars will be carried out according to the new Super 2000 regulations introduced by the FIA world motor sport council, based on the previous SPC regulations.
		Says Berger: "Subsidized costs for an up-and-running car along with a comprehensive education program that includes training in technology, fitness, nutrition and rhetoric make this scheme by BMW and ADAC unique." The Formula BMW ADAC Championship races will largely take place within the framework of the German Touring Car Masters (DTM).
	worldcarfans.com /news.cfm?newsid=2020124.001&bmw=1.html/country/gcf (628 words)

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