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King of WTCR Yann Ehrlacher and Santiago Urrutia have locked out the front row for the partially reverse-grid Race 2 in WTCR Race of Italy at Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi. The pair, who are rivals for the WTCR title, qualified in P10 and ninth respectively in the Q2 session to ensure two Lynk & Cos will start from the front on Sunday afternoon.
Esteban Guerrieri will look back to 2003 for inspiration when he goes for WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup gold at WTCR Race of Italy this weekend. The ace Argentine’s tally of 10 wins is a WTCR record but he’s eager to increase that number having not triumphed in the series outright since 2020. Ad/> And having taken a victory double at Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi earlier in his career, the Honda-powered ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport heads to Italy armed with crucial experience and race-winning pedigree.
A star-studded line-up will take to Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi for WTCR Race of Italy this weekend. Here's a run down of who will be in action.
With Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi gearing up to host WTCR Race of Italy from July 22-24 here are some fast facts. *Vallelunga, located 40 kilometres north of the Italian capital Rome, staged its first race in 1951 and is named in honour of Piero Taruffi, the Mille Miglia road racer who was the track’s principal design engineer. Ad/> *It has played host to international and national-level competition over the past half-century and last June was the setting of the inaugural PURE ETCR event, which has become the FIA ETCR eTouring Car World Cup for 2022.
Esteban Guerrieri suffered double disappointment when the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup returned to Vila Real last weekend. Guerrieri, whose tally of 10 WTCR wins remains a record, failed to finish both races in northern Portugal. The Argentinian was bidding to make up a position in Race 1 when he struck a kerb through the Turn 11/12 chicane aboard his ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR.
Tiago Monteiro said the “support and passion” from his home fans made up for a tough WTCR Race of Portugal weekend on track for the Honda-powered LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler driver. Monteiro, who started the weekend as the last driver to have won on Vila Real’s iconic street track following his 2019 victory, finished P11 in Race 1 before he crashed out on lap two after he went off-line following contact with trackside barrier and collided with ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport driver Esteban Guerrieri. Ad/> Although the incident caused huge disappointment among the thousands of fans lining the ultra-demanding Circuito Internacional de Vila Real, the Portuguese driver was cheered onto the Race 2 podium.
Attila Tassi claimed a first podium finish in this season’s WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup as he battled to a hard-earned Vila Real podium in the 100th WTCR race yesterday. The Hungarian’s runner-up finish, which followed a podium earlier in the day for fellow Honda Racing driver Néstor Girolami (ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport), also marked the first WTCR podium for LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler as a Honda customer team.
The upcoming Race 2 at WTCR Race of Portugal will mark the WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup’s 100th race since the series fired into life on the streets of Marrakech, Morocco, in April 2018. Thed Björk, Yann Ehrlacher and Yvan Muller are the only members of the exclusive club of drivers never to have missed the start of a WTCR race and are on course to make it to 100 starts in Vila Real this afternoon.