The 2015 World Touring Car Championship was a motor racing competition organised by the FIA for Super 2000 cars.2015 Sporting regulations – FIA World Touring Car Championship, www.fiawtcc.com, as archived at web.archive.org It was the twelfth FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the eleventh since the series was revived in 2005. The championship comprised a Drivers Championship and a Manufacturers Championship, which were won by José María López and Citroën respectively.2015 Standings, www.fia.com, as archived at web.archive.org

Teams and drivers TeamCarDriversRounds Manufacturer entries Honda Racing Team JAS Honda Civic WTCC 2 Gabriele Tarquini All 18 Tiago Monteiro All Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCC 9 Sébastien Loeb All 33 Ma Qing Hua All 37 José María López All 68 Yvan Muller All Lada Sport Rosneft Lada Vesta WTCC 10 Nick Catsburg 5–12 12 Robert Huff All 14 Mikhail Kozlovskiy 2–3 15 James Thompson 1–3 46 Jaap van Lagen 4–8 47 Nicolas Lapierre 9–12 ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 3 Tom Chilton All 4 Tom Coronel All Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCC 5 Norbert Michelisz All Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 7 Hugo Valente All 27 John Filippi All 70 Maťo Homola 6 95 Nasser Al-Attiyah 12 99 Tin Sritrai 11 ALL–INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 8 Sabine Schmitz 4 26 Stefano D'Aste All Craft BambooChevrolet RML Cruze TC1 11 Grégoire Demoustier All Nika International Honda Civic WTCC 19 Rickard Rydell 1, 5, 7 29 Néstor Girolami 6, 8 Sébastien Loeb Racing Citroën C-Elysée WTCC 25 Mehdi Bennani All Proteam Racing Honda Civic WTCC 98 Dušan Borković 1–2

Team changes Citroën will expand its campaign to five full-time entries from 3 full-time entries and 1 part-time entry. Four of the cars will be entered by the main factory team, while the other one will be entered by the satellite team Sébastien Loeb Racing. NIKA Racing will return to the series with a TC1-specification Honda Civic WTCC. Lada Sport will switch from the Lada Granta 1.6T to a TC1-specification Lada Vesta for the 2015 season. Also the Russian state owned oil company Rosneft will become the team's primary sponsor after the team split with Lukoil during the 2014 season. Liqui Moly Team Engstler, who entered 2 TC2-specification BMW 320 TC for the 2014 season, will leave the series after 8 years of participation. The team later elected to participate in the TCR International Series. Bamboo Engineering will return to the series as Craft Bamboo Racing with a Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1.

Mid season changes Dušan Borković left Proteam Racing after dispute with the team.

Calendar The 2015 schedule was announced at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Doha, Qatar on 3 December 2014. The season is once again being contested over twenty-four races at twelve circuits, but will see several changes of venue. The races at Salzburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, Beijing and Macau have been removed from the schedule. The Races of Germany and Portugal returned to the calendar. The race in Germany will be held at the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit while the Portuguese round will be held at the Circuito Internacional de Vila Real, a street circuit east of Porto. Two new races were added – in Thailand at Burinam and Qatar at the Losail. On 23 January 2015, Twin Ring Motegi was announced as host of the Race of Japan. On 30 June 2015, it was announced that the season finale at the Losail International Circuit would be moved to Friday 27 November, to prevent the event from clashing with a local political event and the season finales of the 2015 Formula One season. It will be the first time WTCC will race on a Friday.

Race Race Name Circuit Date 1 1 Race of Argentina Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo 8 March 2 2 3 Eurodatacar Race of Morocco Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan 19 April 4 3 5 MOL Group Race of Hungary Hungaroring 3 May 6 4 7 Race of Germany Nürburgring Nordschleife 16 May 8 5 9 Rosneft Race of Russia Moscow Raceway 7 June 10 6 11 Race of Slovakia Automotodróm Slovakia Ring 21 June 12 7 13 JVC Kenwood Race of France Circuit Paul Ricard 28 June 14 8 15 Oscaro Race of Portugal Circuito Internacional de Vila Real 12 July 16 9 17 JVC Kenwood Race of Japan Twin Ring Motegi 13 September 18 10 19 Rosneft Race of China Shanghai International Circuit 27 September 20 11 21 Race of Thailand Chang International Circuit 1 November 22 12 23 DHL Race of Qatar Losail International Circuit 27 November 24

Points system Drivers Championship points were awarded on a 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race. Points were also awarded on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first five places after the qualifying session.

Manufacturers Championship points were awarded on the same basis as for the Drivers Championship. Only the results obtained by the best two cars classified per manufacturer were taken into account. All other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.

Results and standings

Races

Compensation weights The most competitive cars keep a 60 kg compensation weight. The other cars get a lower one, calculated according to their results for the three previous rounds. The less the cars get some good results, the less they get a compensation weight, from 0 kg to 60 kg. For the first two rounds, all the cars had a 60 kg compensation weight.

Compensation weight comes into effect for the third round, in Hungary, with Citroën penalized by a maximum of 60 kg compensation weight, as the best results cars.

Car Hungaroring Nürburgring Moscow Slovakia Ring Le Castellet Vila Real Motegi Shanghai Buriram Losail Citroën C-Elysée WTCC +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg +60 kg Honda Civic WTCC 0 kg 0 kg +20 kg +60 kg +40 kg +30 kg 0 kg +40 kg +40 kg +40 kg Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 0 kg 0 kg +40 kg +50 kg +20 kg +20 kg +10 kg 0 kg 0 kg 0 kg Lada Vesta WTCC 0 kg 0 kg 0 kg 0 kg +20 kg +20 kg 0 kg 0 kg 0 kg +10 kg

Results Race Race Name Pole Position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Winning manufacturer Report 1 Race of Argentina José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz Report 2 Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani 3 Race of Morocco José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani Report 4 José María López Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Tom Chilton 5 Race of Hungary Yvan Muller José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Hugo Valente Report 6 Gabriele Tarquini Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Norbert Michelisz 7 Race of Germany José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz Report 8 Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani 9 Race of Russia Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Tom Chilton Report 10 Robert Huff Tiago Monteiro Honda Racing Team JAS Honda Norbert Michelisz 11 Race of Slovakia Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Hugo Valente Report 12 Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Hugo Valente 13 Race of France Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Tom Chilton Report 14 José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz 15 Race of Portugal José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz Report 16 Ma Qing Hua Ma Qing Hua Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz 17 Race of Japan Norbert Michelisz Gabriele Tarquini José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz Report 18 Tiago Monteiro Tiago Monteiro Honda Racing Team JAS Honda Hugo Valente 19 Race of China José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani Report 20 Sébastien Loeb Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani 21 Race of Thailand José María López Sébastien Loeb José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani Report 22 Gabriele Tarquini Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Tom Chilton 23 Race of Qatar José María López José María López José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Mehdi Bennani Report 24 Yvan Muller Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën Norbert Michelisz

Championship standings

Drivers' championship Driver ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT    1 José María López 11 2 11 3 13 6 11 2 22 12 22 2 33 1 11 5 12 Ret 11 3 11 3 11 8 475 2 Yvan Muller 22 11 5 1 21 7 3 1 11 6 11 3 22 4 7 2 5 15† 25 1 Ret3 Ret 6 1 357 3 Sébastien Loeb 33 1 3 2 64 5 23 5 9 7 33 1 11 Ret 22 15† 63 4 34 4 22 1 43 4 356 4 Ma Qing Hua 74 6 23 10 45 9 55 Ret 5 5 Ret Ret 44 3 6 1 45 5 10†2 8 34 2 5 2 241 5 Gabriele Tarquini 5 4 7 5 DSQ 13 6 4 33 Ret 6 4 8 5 45 3 3 12 Ret 2 5 5 15 7 197 6 Norbert Michelisz 6 7 8 11 8 1 44 Ret 7 3 Ret 8 6 2 34 4 21 14† 6 11 Ret 12 7 3 193 7 Tiago Monteiro 45 3 6 Ret 5 4 Ret 3 8 1 8 9 7 Ret 5 Ret 9 1 7 6 7 DSQ 8 9 177 8 Mehdi Bennani 13 5 42 12 11 Ret 7 6 14 Ret Ret 7 9 9 11 10 74 10 5 7 45 7 22 5 127 9 Hugo Valente Ret DNS 154 9 32 8 Ret2 DNS 12 8 5 5 Ret 6 Ret3 7 10 2 8 Ret Ret DNS 34 6 120 10 Robert Huff Ret Ret 10 Ret 9 Ret Ret 7 44 2 44 Ret Ret DNS 10 9 8 3 Ret 5 6 6 12 Ret 103 11 Tom Chilton 8 8 145 4 7 3 9 DNS 65 9 7 Ret 55 8 14 13 Ret 6 Ret DNS 11† 4 13 13 96 12 Nick Catsburg 11 4 Ret5 Ret Ret 12 9 6 Ret Ret 43 Ret Ret DNS 95 Ret 41 13 Tom Coronel 14† Ret Ret Ret 10 2 Ret 8 17† 10 9 10 12 7 12 11 Ret 7 Ret DNS Ret DNS 11 12 39 14 Stefano D'Aste 9 Ret 9 6 14 12 8 Ret 16 14 11 12 14 15† 13 Ret 14 9 9 13† 8 8 17 Ret 28 15 Jaap van Lagen 11 9 10 Ret NC 6 10 11 8 Ret 16 16 Nicolas Lapierre 11 8 DSQ 9 Ret DNS 10 10 8 17 James Thompson NC Ret 11 7 DNS DNS 6 18 John Filippi Ret 12 13 8 13 11 12 10 NC 15 12 14 15 13 15 14 13 11 NC 10 Ret 11 14 15 6 19 Néstor Girolami 10 11 DSQ 8 5 20 12 10 Ret Ret 12 10 13 12 15 13 Ret 13 13 14 16 12 12 13 Ret 12 9 10 18† 11 5 21 Rickard Rydell 10 9 13 11 11 10 4 22 Tin Sritrai 10 9 3 23 Sabine Schmitz 10 11 1 — Dušan Borković 11 Ret DNS DNS 0 — Mikhail Kozlovskiy 12 Ret Ret Ret 0 — Maťo Homola 13 15 0 — Nasser Al-Attiyah 16 14 0 Driver ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT   Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Manufacturers' Championship Manufacturer ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT Points 1 Citroën 11 1 11 1 11 5 11 1 11 5 11 1 11 1 11 1 12 4 11 1 11 1 11 1 1069 22 2 22 2 22 6 22 2 22 6 22 2 22 3 22 2 43 5 22 3 22 2 22 2 2 Honda 43 3 63 5 53 1 43 3 33 1 65 4 63 2 33 3 21 1 65 2 54 5 74 3 721 54 4 74 11 85 4 65 4 75 3 8 8 74 5 44 4 34 12 7 6 75 12 85 7 3 Lada NC5 Ret 105 7 94 Ret 114 7 44 2 43 6 105 11 85 6 85 3 43 5 63 6 93 10 360 Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret Ret Ret 9 10 4 NC4 Ret Ret 12 9 9 11 8 Ret4 9 Ret DNS 10 Ret Manufacturer ARG MAR HUN DEU RUS SVK FRA PRT JPN CHN THA QAT   

Yokohama Trophies World Touring Car Championship promoter Eurosport Events organized the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy and the Yokohama Teams' Trophy within the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Yokohama Drivers' Trophy