Individual Features of the WTCC The 2007 season will be the third in which the the World Touring Car Championship is a recognised World Championship event. One of only three competitions in this category along with Formula 1 and the World Rally Car Championships. The distinctive aspects of the championship are the following: Competition Regulations The WTCC 2007 will run over eleven races, nine European, one American and one Asian. Every test is structured in a format of 2 free training sessions on Friday and one on Saturday along with the Classification on Saturday, all these sessions last 30 minutes. On the day of there race there is free training for 15 minutes on Sunday and two independent races in between leg which the cars can make pit stops. The grid of the first race Hill be decided by the times made during the classification, and the second in accordance with the classification of the first, but with the first eight in reverse order. The points for the race championship will be awarded for each race as in the other FIA championships (10, 8, 6). In the classifications the 2 first cars from each team will be awarded the points. There is an independent  classification. Technical Rules The WTCC is open to the Supertour Cars 2000 the 4-door, mass-produced modified vehicles. The power should be approximately 250/270 CV and the engines should last 2 meetings, 4 races and all the training rounds. The car with front wheel drive have to have a minimum weight of 1,110kg those with rear-wheel drive1,140kg. a sequenced gearbox with be penalised with 30kg. All entrants must use the same Yokohama tyres. JAIME PUIG, DIRECTOR OF SEAT SPORT “The WTCC is the most evenly balanced World Championship”   The SEAT Sport team is looking forward to the new season with the León, a car which is starting its second full season, and a slightly different pool of drivers and teams to last year. The team is headed by Jaime Puig, Director of SEAT Sport, who knows more than anyone just how difficult it is to win a World Championship.   The team is beginning the new season after a winter spent working and preparing, although no major changes have been made to how the cars are actually prepared, as Jaime Puig explains: “We have focused on optimising the car, getting the most out of it, as the León WTCC has already demonstrated its competitiveness, both in terms of its chassis and its engine.   It should not be forgotten that the rules are very restrictive. For example, there is a limit to the number of engine revolutions and valves, and to the gear ratios. Faced with this, you have to be really careful and work out if it is worth taking a risk by making alterations to a competitive car.”   The most changes have taken place in the SEAT personnel, as the team is competing with different current SEAT cars, in a block called the “SEAT Armada” which incorporates various different teams: “There are four SEAT Sport drivers: Jordi Gené, Michel Jourdain, Yvan Muller and Gabriele Tarquini. Two of them will be supported by Oreca, just like last year, when this scheme proved to be very positive, as it is highly flexible.   In addition, there will be a series of importer teams which are SEAT teams, like GR-Asia, SEAT Italy and Exagon, without ruling out the possibility of another team joining up between now and the start of the season. All these teams will use cars which are identical to the official models in the first race, and they will have access to all the developments which happen throughout the season. But they themselves will decide whether to adopt these changes, depending on their own operating capacity.   These teams will, of course, be helped by SEAT in the races and will be able to share our tests, both pre-season and during the season itself, and this will be what shows the differences between them, but I am sure that all together we will form a highly competitive “Armada”.   This competitiveness will doubtlessly be vital, as the presence of no fewer than fifteen official cars in each race means that the odds on winning are quite high: “You would put your money on two or three drivers in Formula 1 races and rallies, but here there are more than ten potential winners. The WTCC is undoubtedly the most competitive and evenly balanced championship, and therefore the most difficult to win. In addition, the use of handicap weights to equal out the cars, and the different sorts of race tracks, with three urban tracks this year, make it a very well-rounded championship.”