2015 World Touring Car Championship

2015 World Touring Car Championship season
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The 2015 World Touring Car Championship was a motor racing competition organised by the FIA for Super 2000 cars. It was the twelfth FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the eleventh since the series was revived in 2005. The championship comprised a Drivers Championship and a Manufacturers Championship, which were won by José María López and Citroën respectively.

Teams and drivers

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Citroën won the Manufacturers Championship with its C-Elysée WTCC entries

Manufacturer entries Team Car No. Drivers Rounds Honda Racing Team JAS Honda Civic WTCC 2 Gabriele Tarquini All 18 Tiago Monteiro All Nika International 19 Rickard Rydell 1, 5, 7 29 Néstor Girolami 6, 8 Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCC 9 Sébastien Loeb All 33 Ma Qing Hua All 37 José María López All 68 Yvan Muller All Lada Sport Rosneft Lada Vesta WTCC 10 Nick Catsburg 5–12 12 Robert Huff All 14 Mikhail Kozlovskiy 2–3 15 James Thompson 1–3 46 Jaap van Lagen 4–8 47 Nicolas Lapierre 9–12 Independent entries Team Car No. Drivers Rounds ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 3 Tom Chilton All 4 Tom Coronel All Campos Racing 7 Hugo Valente All 27 John Filippi All 70 Maťo Homola 6 95 Nasser Al-Attiyah 12 99 Tin Sritrai 11 ALL–INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport 8 Sabine Schmitz 4 26 Stefano D'Aste All Craft Bamboo 11 Grégoire Demoustier All Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCC 5 Norbert Michelisz All Proteam Racing 98 Dušan Borković 1–2 Sébastien Loeb Racing Citroën C-Elysée WTCC 25 Mehdi Bennani All

Key Eligible for the 2015 Yokohama Teams Trophy points

Team changes

• Citroën will expand its campaign to five full-time entries from 3 full-time entries and 1 part-time entry. Four of the cars will be entered by the main factory team, while the other one will be entered by the satellite team Sébastien Loeb Racing.
• NIKA Racing will return to the series with a TC1-specification Honda Civic WTCC.
• Lada Sport will switch from the Lada Granta 1.6T to a TC1-specification Lada Vesta for the 2015 season. Also the Russian state owned oil company Rosneft will become the team's primary sponsor after the team split with Lukoil during the 2014 season.
• Liqui Moly Team Engstler, who entered 2 TC2-specification BMW 320 TC for the 2014 season, will leave the series after 8 years of participation. The team later elected to participate in the TCR International Series.
• Bamboo Engineering will return to the series as Craft Bamboo Racing with a Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1.

Mid season changes

• Dušan Borković left Proteam Racing after dispute with the team.

Calendar

The 2015 schedule was announced at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Doha, Qatar on 3 December 2014. The season is once again being contested over twenty-four races at twelve circuits, but will see several changes of venue. The races at Salzburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, Beijing and Macau have been removed from the schedule. The Races of Germany and Portugal returned to the calendar. The race in Germany will be held at the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit while the Portuguese round will be held at the Circuito Internacional de Vila Real, a street circuit 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Porto. Two new races were added – in Thailand at Burinam and Qatar at the Losail. On 23 January 2015, Twin Ring Motegi was announced as host of the Race of Japan. On 30 June 2015, it was announced that the season finale at the Losail International Circuit would be moved to Friday 27 November, to prevent the event from clashing with a local political event and the season finales of the 2015 Formula One season. It will be the first time WTCC will race on a Friday.

Rnd.	Race	Race Name	Circuit	Date
1	1	Race of Argentina	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo	8 March
	2
2	3	Eurodatacar Race of Morocco	Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan	19 April
	4
3	5	MOL Group Race of Hungary	Hungaroring	3 May
	6
4	7	Race of Germany	Nürburgring Nordschleife	16 May
	8
5	9	Rosneft Race of Russia	Moscow Raceway	7 June
	10
6	11	Race of Slovakia	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	21 June
	12
7	13	JVC Kenwood Race of France	Circuit Paul Ricard	28 June
	14
8	15	Oscaro Race of Portugal	Circuito Internacional de Vila Real	12 July
	16
9	17	JVC Kenwood Race of Japan	Twin Ring Motegi	13 September
	18
10	19	Rosneft Race of China	Shanghai International Circuit	27 September
	20
11	21	Race of Thailand	Chang International Circuit	1 November
	22
12	23	DHL Race of Qatar	Losail International Circuit	27 November
	24

Points system

Drivers Championship points were awarded on a 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race. Points were also awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first five places after the qualifying session.

Manufacturers Championship points were awarded on the same basis as for the Drivers Championship. Only the results obtained by the best two cars classified per manufacturer were taken into account. All other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.

Results and standings

Races

Compensation weights

The most competitive cars keep a 60 kg compensation weight. The other cars get a lower one, calculated according to their results for the three previous rounds. The less the cars get some good results, the less they get a compensation weight, from 0 kg to 60 kg. For the first two rounds, all the cars had a 60 kg compensation weight.

Compensation weight comes into effect for the third round, in Hungary, with Citroën penalized by a maximum of 60 kg compensation weight, as the best results cars.

Car	Hungaroring	Nürburgring	Moscow	Slovakia Ring	Le Castellet	Vila Real	Motegi	Shanghai	Buriram	Losail
Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg	+60 kg
Honda Civic WTCC	0 kg	0 kg	+20 kg	+60 kg	+40 kg	+30 kg	0 kg	+40 kg	+40 kg	+40 kg
Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	0 kg	0 kg	+40 kg	+50 kg	+20 kg	+20 kg	+10 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg
Lada Vesta WTCC	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	+20 kg	+20 kg	0 kg	0 kg	0 kg	+10 kg

Results

Race	Race Name	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer	Independent winner	Report
1	Race of Argentina	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
2			Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani
3	Race of Morocco	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
4			José María López	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton
5	Race of Hungary	Yvan Muller	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente	Report
6			Gabriele Tarquini	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda	Norbert Michelisz
7	Race of Germany	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
8			Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani
9	Race of Russia	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
10			Robert Huff	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	Norbert Michelisz
11	Race of Slovakia	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente	Report
12			Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Hugo Valente
13	Race of France	Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton	Report
14			José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz
15	Race of Portugal	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
16			Ma Qing Hua	Ma Qing Hua	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz
17	Race of Japan	Norbert Michelisz	Gabriele Tarquini	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz	Report
18			Tiago Monteiro	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	Hugo Valente
19	Race of China	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
20			Sébastien Loeb	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani
21	Race of Thailand	José María López	Sébastien Loeb	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
22			Gabriele Tarquini	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Tom Chilton
23	Race of Qatar	José María López	José María López	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Mehdi Bennani	Report
24			Yvan Muller	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën	Norbert Michelisz

Championship standings

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT  Pts.  1 José María López 11 2 11 3 13 6 11 2 22 12 22 2 33 1 11 5 12 Ret 11 3 11 3 11 8 475 2 Yvan Muller 22 11 5 1 21 7 3 1 11 6 11 3 22 4 7 2 5 15† 25 1 Ret3 Ret 6 1 357 3 Sébastien Loeb 33 1 3 2 64 5 23 5 9 7 33 1 11 Ret 22 15† 63 4 34 4 22 1 43 4 356 4 Ma Qing Hua 74 6 23 10 45 9 55 Ret 5 5 Ret Ret 44 3 6 1 45 5 10†2 8 34 2 5 2 241 5 Gabriele Tarquini 5 4 7 5 DSQ 13 6 4 33 Ret 6 4 8 5 45 3 3 12 Ret 2 5 5 15 7 197 6 Norbert Michelisz 6 7 8 11 8 1 44 Ret 7 3 Ret 8 6 2 34 4 21 14† 6 11 Ret 12 7 3 193 7 Tiago Monteiro 45 3 6 Ret 5 4 Ret 3 8 1 8 9 7 Ret 5 Ret 9 1 7 6 7 DSQ 8 9 177 8 Mehdi Bennani 13 5 42 12 11 Ret 7 6 14 Ret Ret 7 9 9 11 10 74 10 5 7 45 7 22 5 127 9 Hugo Valente Ret DNS 154 9 32 8 Ret2 DNS 12 8 5 5 Ret 6 Ret3 7 10 2 8 Ret Ret DNS 34 6 120 10 Robert Huff Ret Ret 10 Ret 9 Ret Ret 7 44 2 44 Ret Ret DNS 10 9 8 3 Ret 5 6 6 12 Ret 103 11 Tom Chilton 8 8 145 4 7 3 9 DNS 65 9 7 Ret 55 8 14 13 Ret 6 Ret DNS 11† 4 13 13 96 12 Nick Catsburg 11 4 Ret5 Ret Ret 12 9 6 Ret Ret 43 Ret Ret DNS 95 Ret 41 13 Tom Coronel 14† Ret Ret Ret 10 2 Ret 8 17† 10 9 10 12 7 12 11 Ret 7 Ret DNS Ret DNS 11 12 39 14 Stefano D'Aste 9 Ret 9 6 14 12 8 Ret 16 14 11 12 14 15† 13 Ret 14 9 9 13† 8 8 17 Ret 28 15 Jaap van Lagen 11 9 10 Ret NC 6 10 11 8 Ret 16 16 Nicolas Lapierre 11 8 DSQ 9 Ret DNS 10 10 8 17 James Thompson NC Ret 11 7 DNS DNS 6 18 John Filippi Ret 12 13 8 13 11 12 10 NC 15 12 14 15 13 15 14 13 11 NC 10 Ret 11 14 15 6 19 Néstor Girolami 10 11 DSQ 8 5 20 Grégoire Demoustier 12 10 Ret Ret 12 10 13 12 15 13 Ret 13 13 14 16 12 12 13 Ret 12 9 10 18† 11 5 21 Rickard Rydell 10 9 13 11 11 10 4 22 Tin Sritrai 10 9 3 23 Sabine Schmitz 10 11 1  — Dušan Borković 11 Ret DNS DNS 0  — Mikhail Kozlovskiy 12 Ret Ret Ret 0  — Maťo Homola 13 15 0  — Nasser Al-Attiyah 16 14 0 Pos. Driver ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT  Pts.

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Manufacturers' Championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Points
1	Citroën	11	1	11	1	11	5	11	1	11	5	11	1	11	1	11	1	12	4	11	1	11	1	11	1	1069
		22	2	22	2	22	6	22	2	22	6	22	2	22	3	22	2	43	5	22	3	22	2	22	2
2	Honda	43	3	63	5	53	1	43	3	33	1	65	4	63	2	33	3	21	1	65	2	54	5	74	3	721
		54	4	74	11	85	4	65	4	75	3	8	8	74	5	44	4	34	12	7	6	75	12	85	7
3	Lada	NC5	Ret	105	7	94	Ret	114	7	44	2	43	6	105	11	85	6	85	3	43	5	63	6	93	10	360
		Ret	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	10	4	NC4	Ret	Ret	12	9	9	11	8	Ret4	9	Ret	DNS	10	Ret
Pos.	Manufacturer	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

Yokohama Trophies

World Touring Car Championship promoter Eurosport Events organized the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy and the Yokohama Teams' Trophy within the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Yokohama Drivers' Trophy

Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.
1	Norbert Michelisz	6	7	8	11	8	1	4	Ret	7	3	Ret	8	6	2	3	4	2	14	6	11	Ret	12	7	3	168
2	Mehdi Bennani	13	5	4	12	11	Ret	7	6	14	Ret	Ret	7	9	9	11	10	7	10	5	7	4	7	2	5	164
3	Tom Chilton	8	8	14	4	7	3	9	DNS	6	9	7	Ret	5	8	14	13	Ret	6	Ret	DNS	Ret	4	13	13	127
4	Hugo Valente	Ret	DNS	15	9	3	8	Ret	DNS	12	8	5	5	Ret	6	Ret	7	10	2	8	Ret	Ret	DNS	3	6	118
5	Stefano D'Aste	9	Ret	9	6	14	12	8	Ret	16	14	11	12	14	15	13	Ret	14	9	9	13	8	8	17	Ret	90
6	Tom Coronel	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	2	Ret	8	17†	10	9	10	12	7	12	11	Ret	7	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNS	11	12	77
7	Grégoire Demoustier	12	10	Ret	Ret	12	10	13	12	15	13	Ret	13	13	14	16	12	12	13	Ret	12	9	10	18	11	72
8	John Filippi	Ret	12	13	8	13	11	12	10	NC	15	12	14	15	13	15	14	13	11	Ret	10	Ret	11	14	15	70
9	Tin Sritrai																					10	9			10
10	Sabine Schmitz							10	11																	9
11	Dušan Borković	11	Ret	DNS	DNS																					5
12	Maťo Homola											13	15													4
13	Nasser Al-Attiyah																							16	14	3
Pos.	Driver	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

Yokohama Teams' Trophy

All non-manufacturer teams were eligible to score points towards the Yokohama Teams' Trophy.

Pos.	Team	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.
1	ROAL Motorsport	8	8	14	4	7	2	9	8	6	9	7	10	5	7	12	11	Ret	6	Ret	DNS	Ret	4	11	12	193
		14	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	3	Ret	DNS	17†	10	9	Ret	12	8	14	13	Ret	7	Ret	DNS	Ret	DNS	13	13
2	Campos Racing	Ret	12	13	8	3	8	12	10	12	8	5	5	15	6	15	7	10	2	8	10	10	9	3	6	181
		Ret	DNS	15	9	13	11	Ret	DNS	NC	15	12	14	Ret	13	Ret	14	13	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	14	14
3	Zengő Motorsport	6	7	8	11	8	1	4	Ret	7	3	Ret	8	6	2	3	4	2	14	6	11	Ret	12	7	3	161
4	Sébastien Loeb Racing	13	5	4	12	11	Ret	7	6	14	Ret	Ret	7	9	9	11	10	7	10	5	7	4	7	2	5	150
5	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	9	Ret	9	6	14	12	8	11	16	14	11	12	14	15†	13	Ret	14	9	9	13	8	8	17	Ret	92
								10	Ret
6	Craft-Bamboo	12	10	Ret	Ret	12	10	13	12	15	13	Ret	13	13	14	16	12	12	13	Ret	12	9	10	18	11	64
7	Nika International	10	9							13	11	10	11	11	10	DSQ	8									42
8	Proteam Racing	11	Ret	DNS	DNS																					4
Pos.	Team	ARG		MAR		HUN		DEU		RUS		SVK		FRA		PRT		JPN		CHN		THA		QAT		Pts.

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

External links

• Official website of the World Touring Car Championship