The 2009 World Touring Car Championship season was the sixth

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season, the fifth since its 2005 return. It began on 8 March, and ended on 22 November, after twenty-four races. The championship, which was reserved for

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and

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Cars, comprised two titles, the FIA World Touring Car Champion for Drivers and the FIA World Touring Car Champion for Manufacturers. Italian

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won the Drivers' Championship by four points from

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team-mate

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, with BMW Team Germany's

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finishing third ten points behind Muller. The Manufacturers Championship was retained by

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beating BMW by just three points.

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took the Independents' Trophy for

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, which won the Teams' Trophy.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers contested the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship: Andy Priaulx 2009 WTCC Marrakech

Jaap van Lagen 2009 WTCC Race of Japan (Free Practice)

Driver changes

Changed Teams *

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: Scuderia Proteam Motorsport → Wiechers-Sport * Sergio Hernández: Scuderia Proteam Motorsport → BMW Team Italy-Spain *

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: BMW Team Italy-Spain → Scuderia Proteam Motorsport *

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: Wiechers-Sport → Liqui Moly Team Engstler * James Thompson: N-Technology → LADA Sport Entering WTCC Including those who entered one-off rounds in 2008 *

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: No full-time drive → Exagon Engineering * Tom Boardman: SEAT León Eurocup → SUNRED Engineering *

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: SEAT León Eurocup → Čolak Racing Team Ingra *

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→ Scuderia Proteam Motorsport Leaving WTCC *

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: Exagon Engineering → Belgian Touring Car Series *

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: Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport → Unknown * Andrey Romanov: Liqui Moly Team Engstler →

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Calendar

The first provisional calendar was released in October 2008. Marrakech hosted a round on a new temporary street circuit in the heart of the city on 3 May. and Porto returned to the championship. On 5 November 2008, FIA released a new provisional calendar, and announced the date of the ''Race of Germany'' in

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moved from 30 August to 6 September (due to clash with the date of the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix), and the date of the ''Race of Japan'' in

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moved from 25 October to 1 November. The ''Race of Italy'' was originally scheduled to be run in

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but it was changed to

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, and the date of the event in Italy was also changed (from 4 October to 20 September).

Results and standings

Races

Standings

Drivers' Championship

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance. Drivers' Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis to the first eight finishers in each of the twenty four races.''FIA World Touring Car Championship (2009 Sporting Regulations)'', argent.fia.com
As archived at www.webcitation.org on 12 December 2009 All results obtained were taken into account.

Manufacturers' Championship

Manufacturers' Championship points were awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis to the first eight finishers in each of the twenty four races. All results obtained by the best two classified cars per manufacturer were taken into account. All other cars from the same manufacturer were considered to be invisible in terms of points scoring.

Yokohama Independents' Trophy

* The Yokohama Independents' Trophy used a similar points system to that used for the Drivers’ Championship, however bonus points were also awarded at each event for race one pole position and for the fastest race lap, unlike the Drivers' championship. Three bonus points per position were awarded if an independent driver finished in the overall top eight, e.g. if a driver finished sixth overall, he or she received nine bonus points. Double points were awarded at the final event at Macau.

Yokohama Teams' Trophy

All the teams taking part in any of the rounds of the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship were eligible to score points for the Yokohama Teams' Trophy. Points were awarded to the two best classified cars of each team, providing they were driven by Independent drivers. All other cars of that same team were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.

Notes

References

External links

* FIA World Touring Car Championship official website: Archives *
2009 Season archives
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2009 Championship point standings
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2009 Independents' Trophies point standings

2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship – Sporting Regulations

2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship – Yokohama Independents’ Trophies Regulations

Regulations for Super 2000 Cars

Regulations for Diesel 2000 Cars

2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship – Points Tables

2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship – Yokohama Independents’ Trophies Points Tables

2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship – images
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