Brazil to open the 12 round championship
The FIA World Motor Sport Council has approved the draft for the 2009 World Touring Car Championship.
Twelve meetings are listed, including one in Morocco on May 3 that will be hosted by on a new street circuit around Marrakesh that needs to be homologated by the FIA.
The other change concerns the Portuguese event that comes back to Porto after being hosted in Estoril this year.
Like in 2008, the next season will start in Curitiba, Brazil, and end in Macau.
Because the date of the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix has been moved to August 30, and is now in clash with the WTCC event in Germany, KSO and the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben are working together to move the meeting to September 6th.
2009 FIA WTCC CALENDAR
March 8 - BRAZIL Curitiba
March 22 - MEXICO Puebla
May 3 - MOROCCO Marrakech *
May 17 - FRANCE Pau
May 31 - SPAIN Valencia
June 21 - CZECH REPUBLIC Brno
July 5 - PORTUGAL Porto *
July 19 - GREAT BRITAIN Brands Hatch
August 30 - GERMANY Oschersleben
October 4 - ITALY Monza
October 25 - JAPAN Okayama
November 22 - MACAU Macau
* subject to the FIA homologation of the circuit