After a processional few races in South America the World Touring Car Championship put on an entertaining battle at Valencia in Spain.
Rob Huff burst through to win in his Chevrolet having escaped a penalty for overtaking pole sitter Yvan Muller at the rolling start. Huff then dropped back to third, but passed the leading Seats, [...]

Yvan Muller bounced back from the disappointment of losing the 2007 WTCC to win the first round of 2008. But it looks like being another year of tiresome political wrangling over how competitive the cars are.
The turbo diesel-powered Seat Leons were able to cruise away easily from the petrol BMWs on the straights. Seat were [...]

Jordi Gene gave Seat their second win of the day by triumphing in the second race at Monza.
But the big surprise of the race was August Farfus’s failure to win from second place on the grid.
The BMW driver didn’t capitalise on the advantage of his car’s rear wheel drive and was beaten into the first [...]

Yvan Muller moved within four points of the championship lead with another victory in the Seat Leon TDi at Monza.
His chances of winning the title were doubly boosted when championship leader Andy Priaulx was hit from behind at the first corner by Roberto Colciago. The heavy impact badly damaged the rear of the BMW.
Muller was [...]

Andy Priaulx scored maximum points in the second WTCC race at Brands Hatch to take a vital 12-point lead in the drivers championship with four races remaining.
He had started from third on the grid, blasted past Pierre-Yves Courthals’ Seat heading into Paddock Hill bend before pole sitter Felix Porteiro let him pass at Hawthorns.
Courthals, meanwhile, [...]

Chevrolet’s Alain Menu cruised to a straightforward win from pole position at Brands Hatch. Behind him were James Thompson and BTCC racer Colin Turkington, also in the same positions they started.
Jordi Gene sacrificed third place to Turkington so that he could let Yvan Muller in the other diesel Seat finish fourth. Gene ended the race [...]

It was another case of follow-my-leader in the second WTCC race at Oschersleben, with Augusto Farfus easily converting his front row start into a victory.
He was pushed every millimetre of the way by team mate Andy Priaulx. But the two looked happy to accept their positions especially as their team mate and principal rival Jorg [...]

Rickard Rydell sensationally - and surprisingly - won the second race at Anderstorp after passing team mates Alain Menu and Nicola Larini on the final lap.
Rydell is not contesting the full championship this season, and Larini was unhappy that he had been allowed to take points off him.
Rain once again made the race complicated and [...]

Andy Priaulx underlined his street racing credentials with an emphatic win in the second race at Porto.
He moved into first after pressuring Jorg Muller into a mistake and pulled out a substantial lead after a safety car period to win.

Alain Menu repeated his wins from pole at Zandvoort and Pau with a third victory on the streets of Porto.
Chevrolet team mates Rob Huff and Nicola Larini completed the podium after an unsatisfying race dominated by a long safety car period.