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The 2007 World Touring Car Championship will reach the halfway mark in Portugal next weekend, with races 11 and 12 held at the street course in Porto. The Portuguese round of the WTCC is new on the calendar, while the 4.72-kilometre street track hasn’t been used by touring cars before. In other words: every contender will have to start from a clean sheet.

Porto is the third new venue on this year’s calendar, and the second street course the championship visits this year after Pau, with the third one, in Macau, hosting the traditional championship’s finale. After the success in the streets of Pau the Chevrolet team is keen to get some more strong results on the kind of track that typically suits the Chevrolet Lacetti WTC very well.
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Porto is the third new venue on this year’s calendar, and the second street course the championship visits this year after Pau, with the third one, in Macau, hosting the traditional championship’s finale. After the success in the streets of Pau the Chevrolet team is keen to get some more strong results on the kind of track that typically suits the Chevrolet Lacetti WTC very well.

The news in my Belgian favorite newspaper was saying that there was some resistance (for instance from Roland Koch [...]