Reigning World Champion Yvan Muller and SEAT France’s director François Michel have met the French media yesterday during a press conference in Paris, only a few days before Yvan will leave to Macau for the season’s finale. Last year Muller became the fifth French automobile world champion after Alain Prost, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Didier Auriol and Sébastien Loeb. In the attempt to defend his title, Yvan is currently second, two points behind his SEAT Sport team-mate Gabriele Tarquini.

Testing: Thursday

Free Practice 1: Friday

Free Practice 2: Friday

Qualifying Q1: Friday

Qualifying Q2: Friday

Warm Up: Sunday

Race 1: Sunday

Race 2: Sunday

Liqui Moly Team Engstler will run three additional BMW 320SI cars for local drivers in the final race meeting of the season at Macau. Alongside regulars Franz Engstler – who is fighting for a podium position in the Independents’ Trophy – and Kristian Poulsen, the German outfit will field Henry Ho, Liu Lic Ka and Joseph Rosa Merszei. Ho, 27-years old and three times winner of the Macau Touring Car Championship, joined the team already for the previous event in Okayama.

The clock is ticking for the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship. In less than two weeks the competitors will hit the track for the last two races of the season. For the fifth consecutive year the final and deciding act will be staged on Macau’s infamous 6.1-km Guia street circuit. On Sunday 22nd November two 9 lap races will consecrate the 2009 World Champion. Three men are still in contention for the Drivers’ crown: Gabriele Tarquini, Yvan Muller and Augusto Farfus.

Macau motorsport hero André Couto will join the SUNRED Engineering team for the WTCC final on his home racetrack. He will be at the wheel of the team’s third SEAT León car, alongside regulars Tom Coronel and Tom Boardman. Couto, who won the 2000 F3 Macau Grand Prix and took pole position in the 2003 Macau Guia race with an N.technology Alfa Romeo 147, has become a regular competitor in the WTCC final at Macau.

WTCC 2009 Support Races

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