A third N.Technology-built Alfa Romeo 156 will be seen in the FIA World Touring Car Championship from the next round in Zandvoort onwards, the 2007-specification Super Touring 2000 car being entered under the famous "Racing for Belgium" banner, and is set to be piloted by young Portuguese Renault Megane Trophy racer Miguel Freitas. The Racing for Belgium team hope to be able to give an initial track shakedown to their new Alfa 156 at Zolder on 22nd March when they hope to take advantage of an official test day at the Belgian circuit for the Belgian Touring Car Championship and Belcar series.

The Alfa 156 that Wim Coekelbergs' Belgian team will campaign in the remaining FIA WTCC races of 2007, starting from Zandvoort on 5/6 May, is the same machine that Italian touring car pilot Alessandro Balzan drove to an excellent fourth place overall in the season opening FIA WTCC race at Monza last year.

This year will also be a learning season season for the Racing for Belgium outfit, as next year they have hatched ambitious plans to run a pair of the new racers which are now being developed for the 2008 FIA WTCC, with full details of this programme set to be announced later during the season. The Belgian team had hoped to run two Alfa 156s this year, but with N.Technology busy building an additional car for their recently-signed second driver Olivier Tielemans, just one car will be campaigned at Zandvoort, although a second may well appear during the season.
 

Miguel Freitas has been signed up to drive the Racing for Belgium Alfa 156. The Portuguese youngster, who has driven for the team recently in the Eurocup Megane Trophy, started his racing career in karts, winning his domestic 125cc title in 2001 and 2002, before claiming the K-Open title in 2003.

The next year Freitas contested the single marque Honda BPI Cup, winning two races in his newcomers category, before 2005 saw him enter the Portugeses National Championship in a Honda Civic Type-R where he took a superb five poles and five wins from the six races, as well as in the single-make Eurocup Megane Trophy with Racing for Belgium, and where he raced to three podium finishes in the Junior category.

Racing for Belgium have in recent years fielded multiple entries in the Eurocup Megane Trophy, winning the title with Jan Heylen in 2005 and finishing third with César Campaniço last year. This year, as well at the new FIA WTCC campaign, they will also run an Aston Martin DBRS9 in the newly formed GT3 class of the Belcar series.