Andrea Barlesi joins SUNRED SEAT for World Touring Car Championship

The 20-year-old Belgian, who won the LMPC class in the 2010 Le Mans Series, and then raced an OAK LMP2 car in last year's Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, will drive a SUNRED Engineering SEAT Leon.

Another driver to make a late entry into the series is Turkish racer Isaac Tutumlu, who is swapping the Porsche Supercup for a seat at the Proteam BMW squad.

A 24-car entry list has been revealed by series organisers. The only other previously unannounced entrant present is European F3 Open racer Fernando Monje.

The Spaniard, who will drive a fourth SUNRED SEAT, will be at Monza for this weekend's season-opener, but will compete in the accompanying European Touring Car Cup before joining the full WTCC field at a later date.

 WTCC 2012 entry list
 #1 Yvan Muller          Chevrolet (RML)       Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
 #2 Rob Huff             Chevrolet (RML)       Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
 #3 Gabriele Tarquini    Lukoil Racing (SEAT)  SEAT Leon WTCC
 #4 Aleksei Dudukalo     Lukoil Racing (SEAT)  SEAT Leon WTCC
 #5 Norbert Michelisz    Zengo Motorsport      BMW 320 TC
 #6 Franz Engstler       Team Engstler         BMW 320 TC
 #7 Charles Ng           Team Engstler         BMW 320 TC
 #8 Alain Menu           Chevrolet (RML)       Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
#11 Alex MacDowall       bamboo-engineering    Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
#12 Pasquale di Sabatino bamboo-engineering    Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T
#14 James Nash           Arena Motorsport      Ford Focus S2000 TC
#15 Tom Coronel          ROAL Motorsport       BMW 320 TC
#16 Alberto Cerqui       ROAL Motorsport       BMW 320 TC
#18 Tiago Monteiro       SUNRED Engineering    SEAT Leon WTCC
#20 Darryl O'Young       Special Tuning Racing SEAT Leon WTCC
#22 Tom Boardman         Special Tuning Racing SEAT Leon WTCC
#23 Tom Chilton          Arena Motorsport      Ford Focus S2000 TC
#24 Isaac Tutumlu        Proteam Racing        BMW 320 TC
#25 Mehdi Bennani        Proteam Racing        BMW 320 TC
#26 Stefano D'Aste       Wiechers-Sport        BMW 320 TC
#27 Gabor Weber          Wiecher-Sport         BMW 320 TC
#40 Andrea Barlesi       SUNRED Engineering    SEAT Leon WTCC
#74 Pepe Oriola          SUNRED Engineering    SEAT Leon WTCC
#88 Fernando Monje       SUNRED Engineering    SEAT Leon WTCC
*Rickard Rydell is also entered as a one-off for Monza in a Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden Cruze.