2010 World Touring Car Championship

Yvan Muller won his second Drivers' Championship and Chevrolet won the Manufacturers' Championship for the first time.

The 2010 World Touring Car Championship season was the seventh season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the sixth since its 2005 return. It began with the Race of Brazil at Curitiba on 7 March and ended with the Guia Race of Macau at the Guia Circuit on 21 November, after twenty-two races at eleven events. The championship was open to both Super 2000 and Diesel 2000 cars.[1]

A new points system was introduced for the championship in 2010, in alignment with that used for both the Formula One World Championship and the World Rally Championship. The winner of each race received 25 points, continuing with 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point for 10th place.[2]

In the week leading up to the final event in Macau, 2008 champion Yvan Muller was confirmed as Drivers' Champion after the BMWs of Augusto Farfus and title rival Andy Priaulx were excluded from the results of the event in Japan, after the FIA overturned a stewards' decision allowing the BMWs to run sequential gearboxes.[3] Chevrolet was awarded the Manufacturers' Championship title.

  1. ^ "2010 Sporting regulations – FIA World Touring Car Championship" (PDF). argent.fia.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  2. ^ English, Steven (2010-02-27). "WTCC adopts F1 points system". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
  3. ^ "Chevrolet win appeal in Paris". fiawtcc.com. World Touring Car Championship. 16 November 2010. Archived from the original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 16 November 2010.