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Nathanaël Berthon enjoyed the ultimate homecoming with his first win of the 2022 WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup season as Circuit l’Anneau du Rhin hosted a memorable first international-level event with two action-packed races.
Rob Huff resisted 18 laps of pressure to brilliantly claim his second win of the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup season in Race 2 at WTCR Race Alsace GrandEst on this afternoon. The Briton’s fifth WTCR career victory came after he passed polesitter Mehdi Bennani at the start and built just enough of a cushion to fend off an attack by the Comtoyou Team Audi Sport driver. Ad/> Huff’s success at Circuit l’Anneau du Rhin aboard his Zengő Motorsport CUPRA Leon Competición not only cemented his third place in the Goodyear #FollowTheLeader contest, but also increased his lead at the head of the WTCR Trophy standings for independent racers.
Gilles Magnus has lost his third-place finish in Race 1 at WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst after he was handed a five-second time penalty for an on-track clash with Esteban Guerrieri. Guerrieri was running in fourth place in his ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR when contact at Turn 1 with the Comtoyou Team Audi Sport Audi RS 3 LMS of Belgian driver Magnus sent the Argentinian into a lurid slide across the grass and gravel on lap five.
Nathanaël Berthon claimed his first WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup victory of the year with a commanding performance in Race 1 of the WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst. The Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport driver used the superior straightline speed of his Audi RS 3 LMS to out-drag the pole-sitting ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Honda of Nestor Girolami at the start and was never headed afterwards. Ad/> The only French driver competing on home soil at Anneau du Rhin, Berthon maintained a 0.5s lead for most of the race to secure his second career victory – and his first since the WTCR Race of Slovakia in October 2020.
Néstor Girolami stormed to his third WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup pole position of 2022 with a perfect performance in qualifying at WTCR Race Alsace GrandEst. The ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport driver lapped Circuit l’Anneau du Rhin in 1m26.546 during the single-lap pole-position shootout in Q3 to take the top spot from home hero Nathanaël Berthon of Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport. Ad/> Having set the pace in Q2, Girolami had free choice of when to complete his Q3 lap; the Argentinian choosing to go last of the five drivers who had made it into the final section of Qualifying.
Norbert Michelisz showed that BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse will be a force to be reckoned with at Circuit l’Anneau du Rhin by heading a one-two result for the team in an ultra-tight Free Practice 2 at WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst. The Hungarian and his Spanish team-mate Mikel Azcona controlled the session throughout; Michelisz saving his best effort of 1m26.769s until the final lap of the session to set the pace by just 0.003s.
Nathanaël Berthon and Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport set the pace in the opening free practice sesson at Circuit l’Anneau du Rhin as the WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst officially began this morning. The Frenchman, competing on home soil this weekend, went fastest with a time of 1m26.566s with four of the 45 scheduled minutes remaining aboard his Audi RS 3 LMS.
Mikel Azcona, Nathanaël Berthon, Tiago Monteiro and Dániel Nagy attended the pre-event press conference for WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst, rounds 13 and 14 of the 2022 WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup, earlier today. Watch the press conference again at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5R8ux1_uo Ad/> WTCRWTCR testing flash: Girolami heads Honda-powered 1-2 in Alsace GrandEst5 HOURS AGO The post They said what? Drivers look ahead to WTCR Race of Alsace GrandEst appeared first on FIA WTCR | World Touring Car Cup.