2011 World Touring Car Championship

Chevrolet retained their three full-time drivers from 2010, Yvan Muller, Robert Huff and Alain Menu. Cacá Bueno also joined the team in a fourth car at his home meeting in Curitiba. The team utilized the newly introduced 1,600 cc (98 cu in) engine. Again, two further Chevrolets were entered by bamboo-engineering, who retained their 2010 drivers, Darryl O'Young and Yukinori Taniguchi. Bamboo campaigned Lacettis at the first round in Curitiba, but contested the rest of the season with Cruzes.

SUNRED Engineering again ran six cars through three different team guises. Gabriele Tarquini remained with the team and was joined by former SEAT León Eurocup racer Aleksei Dudukalo, who brought Lukoil sponsorship into the team. Another three-car outfit was headed by Tiago Monteiro, who was joined by Michel Nykjær, and another graduate from the SEAT León Eurocup, Pepe Oriola. Fredy Barth completed the SEAT sextet, with his SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED team. The SEATs began the season using a two-litre turbo diesel engine and from Hungary introduced a similar engine to that used in the Chevrolets. However, the cars were branded as SR Leon with no SEAT support at all. Leaving the team is Jordi Gené, who parted with the team before the end of the 2010 season.

Norbert Michelisz remained in the championship with the Zengő Dension Team, but switched to a BMW 320 TC, having campaigned a SEAT in 2010, winning a race at Macau. He began his campaign at the second round of the season at Zolder. Three other teams campaigned a single 320 TC during the season; ROAL Motorsport returned to the series, with Tom Coronel switching from a SUNRED SEAT, Wiechers-Sport ran Urs Sonderegger – another driver from the SEAT León Eurocup – at the European races held during the season, and DeTeam KK Motorsport ran Marchy Lee, who steps up from the Asian Porsche Carrera Cup.

The factory BMW Team RBM did not return in 2011, and drivers Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx moved into sportscar racing, entering the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. Independent BMWs were however campaigned by the Proteam Racing and Liqui Moly Team Engstler outfits. Proteam ran three BMWs; two 320 TCs for Mehdi Bennani, who moves from Wiechers-Sport and former single-seater racer Javier Villa, as well as a naturally aspirated 320si for Fabio Fabiani. Bennani and Villa replaced Independents' champion Sergio Hernández and Stefano D'Aste. Team Engstler ran two cars once again, with Franz Engstler being joined by Kristian Poulsen, who drove for his own team in 2010 after driving for Engstler in 2009. Poulsen replaced Andrei Romanov.

Polestar Racing campaigned a Volvo full-time in 2011, having contested five meetings over the past four seasons. Swedish Touring Car Championship runner-up Robert Dahlgren again campaigned the car as he had done in each of Polestar's events to date. The team also introduced a similar engine in the mid-season.

• The Race of Brazil was going to move from Curitiba to Interlagos. The move was reverted due to logistical issues connected to renovation at Interlagos in regards to safety in the Subida dos Boxes area, which has been the site of touring car fatalities.[8]
• The Race of China will be held for the first time. It was originally scheduled to be held at the Guangdong International Circuit,[6] but was later relocated to the Tianma Circuit.[9]
• The Race of Portugal returned to Porto as in recent odd years.
• The Race of Japan moved from Okayama to Suzuka.
• The Race of UK moved from Brands Hatch to Donington Park.
• The Race of Argentina was originally scheduled to be held in Buenos Aires, but was dropped from the calendar and replaced with the Race of Belgium when the circuit failed its homologation and it was found that there would not be enough time to complete the work necessary to upgrade the circuit to the required standard.[10]
• The Race of Morocco was dropped from the calendar, and replaced by the new Race of Hungary.[11]

Pos Driver BRA BEL ITA HUN CZE POR GBR GER ESP JPN CHN MAC  Pts  1 Yvan Muller 2 3 3 Ret 2 2 5 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 5 1 1 4 2 4 1 2 3 433 2 Robert Huff 1 4 1 6 1 1 4 2 1 4 3 1 2 2 2 6 5 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 430 3 Alain Menu 6 1 2 2 19† 5 1 Ret 3 3 1 6 3 5 5 2 2 3 1 4 1 6 Ret DNS 323 4 Tom Coronel 4 2 Ret DNS 5 15 18† 4 4 2 6 5 4 4 10 4 3 7 NC 1 5 5 4 2 233 5 Gabriele Tarquini 7 6 4 1 Ret 10 6 3 NC 6 5 7 5 7 3 3 17† 4 9 Ret NC 2 3 4 204 6 Tiago Monteiro 11 7 5 3 3 4 7 5 12 12 4 3 Ret Ret Ret 8 8 Ret Ret DNS 8 Ret 12 8 117 7 Kristian Poulsen 5 14 6 Ret 6 3 9 Ret 5 8 14 19 9 17† 13 Ret 4 5 5 10 6 7 7 13 112 8 Franz Engstler 9 9 Ret 12 9 9 15 6 16 Ret 11 8 6 3 16 1 NC 10 10 11 12 8 6 7 88 9 Norbert Michelisz 7 8 4 7 2 15 8 15 8 4 NC 12 15 Ret 7 6 15 9 11 Ret 8 9 88 10 Michel Nykjær 8 Ret 8 5 12 Ret 13 13† 10 5 9 12 7 Ret 7 17 11 15 3 6 14 14 5 5 86 11 Robert Dahlgren 12 13 13 7 15 13 NC 9 6 9 7 16 8 6 4 7 9 9 Ret 5 9 9 DNS DNS 72 12 Javier Villa 14 8 9 10 8 8 3 7 9 7 Ret 17 17 16 12 10 6 19† 16 8 10 Ret 11 10 59 13 Colin Turkington 10 10 6 7 2 4 46 14 Darryl O'Young Ret 11 10 4 7 6 12 8 7 Ret 12 9 11 8 14 11 15 14 11 Ret 13 Ret Ret 12 43 15 Cacá Bueno 3 5 25 16 Mehdi Bennani 10 Ret Ret 11 11 20† 14 14 11 10 16 18 14 9 11 Ret Ret 12 8 18 7 11 9 6 24 17 Stefano D'Aste 10 11 6 9 10 11 12 18 Pepe Oriola 13 10 11 14 14 12 10 Ret 13 11 13 14 12 15 8 12 12 8 18 13 17 13 10 11 11 19 Fredy Barth 15 Ret Ret DNS 10 19† 8 10 Ret 16† NC 10 13 11 NC Ret 19 18† Ret DNS 21 12 DNS DNS 7 20 Yukinori Taniguchi 18 15 14 DSQ 13 11 11 11 15 14 15 15 16 13 17 14 14 16 7 14 20† DNS WD WD 6 21 Aleksei Dudukalo 17 12 12 9 Ret Ret 16 12 14 13 Ret 13 15 14 9 15 13 Ret 17 12 15 17 Ret DNS 4 22 Charles Ng 14 19 16 10 13 14 1 Masaki Kano 12 16 0 Toshi Arai 13 15 0 Fabio Fabiani 19 NC 16 13 18 18 17 Ret DSQ DSQ 19 16 16 17 DNQ DNQ 18 15 0 Ibrahim Okyay 16 16 18 13 0 David Sigachev 18† 13 0 Jo Merszei 14 15 0 Marchy Lee 16 16 Ret DNS 20 14 0 Urs Sonderegger 15 15† 17 17 DNS DNS 17 Ret 0 Felipe De Souza 15† Ret 0 Philip Ma 19 16† Ret 16 0 Gary Kwok 16† Ret 0 Hiroki Yoshimoto Ret 17 0 Mak Ka Lok Ret Ret 0 André Couto Ret Ret 0 Kuok Io Keong DNS DNS 0 Lo Ka Chun EX EX 0 Pos Driver BRA BEL ITA HUN CZE POR GBR GER ESP JPN CHN MAC  Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

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.[1]

Pos Manufacturer BRA BEL ITA HUN CZE POR GBR GER ESP JPN CHN MAC  Pts  1 Chevrolet 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 973 2 3 2 4 2 2 4 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 BMW Customer Racing Teams 4 2 6 8 4 3 2 4 4 2 6 4 4 3 6 1 3 5 5 1 2 4 4 2 583 5 8 7 10 5 7 3 6 5 7 8 5 6 4 10 4 4 6 6 7 5 5 6 6 3 SR Customer Racing 7 6 4 1 3 4 6 3 10 5 4 3 5 7 3 3 8 4 3 6 8 2 3 4 522 8 7 5 3 10 10 7 5 12 6 5 7 7 11 7 8 11 8 9 12 14 12 5 5 4 Volvo Polestar Evaluation Team 12 13 13 7 15 13 NC 9 6 9 7 16 8 6 4 7 9 9 Ret 5 9 9 DNS DNS 154 Pos Manufacturer BRA BEL ITA HUN CZE POR GBR GER ESP JPN CHN MAC  Pts

Manufacturers 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.[1] However, only the results obtained by the best two cars classified per manufacturer in each race were counted.[1] All the other cars of that same manufacturer were invisible as far as scoring points is concerned.[1]