Countdown for the first edition of World Touring Car Championship.
On Sunday 2nd October, in Valencia (Spain) will be the ninth appointment of the season. Alfa Romeo Racing Team is going to enter the second-last Championship round with the great results obtained in the 2004 race. On the 4 km of the Spanish circuit, official Alfa 156s routed the competitors gaining the pole position with Augusto Farfus, the wins in race 1 (Gabriele Tarquini) and race 2 (Fabrizio Giovanardi), and signing the fastest laps with Farfus and Tarquini.


Besides these results, Alfa Romeo recently dominated extra-European round in Istanbul (Turkey, on the last 18th September) where the Racing Team registered a “poker” in qualifying (pole position for Tarquini, followed by Thompson, Farfus and Giovanardi) and gained race 1 and race 2 with double one-two (Giovanardi-Thompson and Tarquini-Farfus).
Thank to this result, Giovanardi goes up in third position (with only 4 points from leader Priaulx, Bmw) of Drivers Championship and Alfa Romeo is near the top in Manufacturers. At two races from the end, Touring Championship is very closed, and there is al lot of uncertainty to define the firsts World Titles of the category.
In Valencia will be the last race of European Alfa Challenge, international trophy reserved to the Alfa 147 GTA Cup.
At the start 16 drivers representing 8 European Country: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Finland, Ireland, Czech Republic and Poland. Overall win is open to three drivers, the Irish Eoin Murray (leader with 303 points thank to 1 win, 3 second places and 4 third), Italian Maurizio Campani (274 points, 3 wins and 2 seconds) and young Finland Mikko Heino (244 points, 3 wins, 2 seconds and 1 third).

Timetable Valencia (Spain)
Friday 30 September 15.20-15.50 European Alfa Challenge practice
16.30-17.00 European Alfa Challenge qualifying 1

Saturday 1 October 9.00-9.30 World Touring Car Championship practice
10.20-10.50 European Alfa Challenge qualifying 2
12.35-13.05 World Touring Car Championship practice
15.40-16.10 World Touring Car Championship qualifying
16.35 European Alfa Challenge race 1

Sunday 2 October 8.55 European Alfa Challenge race 2
9.35-9.50 World Touring Car Championship warm up
15.10 World Touring Car Championship race 1
16.15 World Touring Car Championship race 2