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There has been plenty of Italian moments to remember in the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup since the series fired into life in 2018. Ahead of next week’s WTCR Race of Italy at Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi, here’s FIAWTCR.com’s pick of an impressive bunch.
Rob Huff’s victory in Race 2 at WTCR Race of Portugal earned him hero status in Vila Real after he mastered the Joker Lap to perfection in his privateer CUPRA Leon Competición. Here are five numbers that matter to the Zengő Motorsport star, who not only leads the WTCR Trophy by an increased margin of 36 points but has also climbed the overall WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup ranking.
LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler is the latest WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup outfit to provide a behind-the-scenes insight into how a team approaches Free Practice 1 and 2. As well as being treated to all the key track action, fans watching on Eurosport Player and the WTCR’s Facebook page and YouTube channel, will hear from key LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler personnel with explanations on what’s happening to the team’s cars, what work is being done to make them faster or be better suited to the track layout and conditions at the time and who is doing what in the team.
Of the 17 drivers taking part in WTCR Race of Portugal this weekend, only Gilles Magnus and Santiago Urrutia have no previous experience of the challenging street track. Race winners in 2022, Magnus drives an Audi RS 3 LMS for Comtoyou Team Audi Sport with Urrutia part of the three-strong Cyan Performance Lynk & Co effort.
Home hero Tiago Monteiro is preparing to enter into a “different state of mind” when Vila Real hosts the fifth event of the 2022 WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup from Saturday morning. LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler’s Portuguese star holds the record as the last driver to win on the town’s challenging streets following his euphoric success in the third of three races in 2019. He returns in a latest-specification Honda Civic Type R TCR run on Goodyear tyres and said: “We all remember very well every inch of the track, but the thing is the confidence, especially at a track like this when you have to commit so much more than at any other track.
Former King of WTCR Norbert Michelisz has been doing the maths ahead of WTCR Race of Portugal. The BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse driver calculated that Circuito Internacional de Vila Real is the sum total of the Nürburgring Nordscleife and the Circuita da Guia in Macau due to the intense challenge it presents.
Thed Björk has recalled one of the standout moments of his WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup career ahead of the series returning to Vila Real this weekend. Björk was caught up in the multi-car crash at the start of Race 1 at WTCR Race of Portugal in 2018. But after his Cyan-assisted YMR team worked through the night he was able to qualify on pole for Race 3 and promptly took victory to complete a dramatic transformation of fortunes.
Tom Coronel plans to capitalise on previous street race heroics when the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup returns to Vila Real after a gap of three years. The challenging street circuit hosts WTCR Race of Portugal for the third time this weekend and Coronel can’t wait to take to the 4.790-kilometre circuit aboard his Goodyear-equipped Audi RS 3 LMS.