2009 European Touring Car Cup

Last updated July 07, 2025

The 2009 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the fifth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It was held on 25 October 2009 at the Circuito Vasco Sameiro near Braga in Portugal. James Thompson won the event after winning the second race. Norbert Michelisz won the first race.

Entry list

Super 2000 class^[1]
Team	Car	No	Drivers	Regular series
Perfection Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	1	Michel Nykjær	Danish Touring Car Championship
Engström Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	2	Tomas Engström	Swedish Touring Car Championship
Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	3	Urmas Kitsing	German ADAC Procar Series
Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	4	Franz Engstler	World Touring Car Championship
SEAT Sport	SEAT León TDi	5	Norbert Michelisz	SEAT León Eurocup
Veloso Motorsport	SEAT León	6	Francisco Carvalho	Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	7	Vincent Radermecker ^†	German ADAC Procar Series
Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	8	José Monroy	Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Bamboo Engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	9	Duarte Fèlix da Costa	Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Bamboo Engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	10	Harry Vaulkhard	British Touring Car Championship
Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	11	James Thompson	Various
Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	12	Per Poulsen	Danish Touring Car Championship
Sports & You	BMW 320si	14	José Pedro Fontes ^‡	Portuguese Touring Car Championship
Super Production class
AV Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	21	Marcis Birkens	Baltic Touring Car Championship
Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Golf IV	22	Nikolay Karamyshev	Russian Touring Car Championship
Sport-Garage	BMW 320i	23	Mikhail Zasadych	Russian Touring Car Championship
Super 1600 class
NK Racing Team	Ford Fiesta ST	31	Carsten Seifert	German ADAC Procar Series

† Although in attendance, Radermecker did not compete due to a technical problem with his car.

‡ Despite entering the event, Fontes did not attend.

Report

Qualifying

SEAT Leon Eurocup champion Norbert Michelisz took pole position from Franz Engstler at the very end of the session.^[2] Bamboo Engineering pairing Duarte Félix Da Costa and Harry Vaulkhard locked out the second row of the grid.^[2] Pre-event favourites James Thompson and Michel Nykjær qualified down in sixth and eighth respectively.^[2] Vincent Radermecker was forced to sit out the session due to problems with his Chevrolet Lacetti.^[2]

Classification

Race 1

Pos	No	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Class Points
1	5	S2000	Norbert Michelisz	SEAT Sport	SEAT León TDi	17	25:54.375	1	10
2	4	S2000	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	17	+0.442	2	8
3	11	S2000	James Thompson	Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	17	+3.683	6	6
4	1	S2000	Michel Nykjær	Perfection Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	17	+10.283	8	5
5	10	S2000	Harry Vaulkhard	Bamboo Engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	17	+20.927	4	4
6	8	S2000	José Monroy	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	17	+34.125	9	3
7	6	S2000	Francisco Carvalho	Veloso Motorsport	SEAT León TFSi	17	+53.270	7	2
8	9	S2000	Duarte Félix da Costa	Bamboo Engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	17	+57.518	3	1
9	2	S2000	Tomas Engström	Engström Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R	17	+1:07.001	5
10	3	S2000	Urmas Kitsing	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	17	+1:07.355	11
11	21	SP	Marcis Birkens	AV Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	16	+ 1 lap	13	10
12	23	SP	Mikhail Zasadych	Sport-Garage	BMW 320i	16	+ 1 lap	12	8
13	31	S1600	Carsten Seifert	NK Racing Team	Ford Fiesta ST	16	+ 1 lap	14	10
14	22	SP	Nikolay Karamyshev	Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Golf IV	14	+ 3 laps	27	6
Ret	12	S2000	Per Poulsen	Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	3	Accident	10

Final standings

Pos	Driver	Race 1	Race 2	Pts
Super 2000
1	James Thompson	3	1	16
2	Franz Engstler	2	2	16
3	Norbert Michelisz	1	5	14
4	Francisco Carvalho	7	4	7
5	Harry Vaulkhard	5	6	7
6	Tomas Engström	9	3	6
7	Michel Nykjær	4	Ret	5
8	José Monroy	6	Ret	3
9	Duarte Félix da Costa	8	7	3
10	Per Poulsen	Ret	8	1
11	Urmas Kitsing	10	Ret	0
Super Production
1	Marcis Birkens	11	9	20
2	Mikhail Zasadych	12	11	16
3	Nikolay Karamyshev	14	Ret	6
Super 1600
1	Carsten Seifert	13	10	20
Pos	Driver	Race 1	Race 2	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points classification
Blue	Non-points classification
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

References

↑ "2009 Entry List". fiawetcc.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
1 2 3 4 Hudson, Neil (2009-10-24). "Michelisz takes last second pole". TouringCarTimes. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

External links

Official website of the FIA European Touring Car Cup

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[1] "2009 Entry List". fiawetcc.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-10-18.

[Qualifying-2] 1 2 3 4 Hudson, Neil (2009-10-24). "Michelisz takes last second pole". TouringCarTimes. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2009-10-24.

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