WTCR Vila Real: Urrutia and Huff share the spoils on Sunday

Starting from pole position in race one, Urrutia led Ehrlacher away and the pair quickly opened a gap to the Munnich Motorsport Honda of Nestor Girolami.

Then on lap three Urrutia took his ‘joker lap’, the rallycross-inspired alternative and longer route at a roundabout that is unique to the Vila Real street track in the WTCR.

Ehrlacher pushed hard, then took his own joker a lap later and emerged in the lead – only to receive an order on the radio to hand the lead back to Urrutia.

He waited until lap 11 before doing so, and after the race tensions emerged over the order.

Before the race, Urrutia said there was a “strategy” between the pair, but refused to be drawn further. Ehrlacher said he was surprised to receive the order.

Girolami finished third ahead of BRC Squadra Corse’s Nobert Michelisz and Cyan Lynk & Co’s Ma Qing Hua, with Huff sixth for Zengo Motorsport.

Points leader Mikel Azcona was classified eighth where he started after a difficult race in his Hyundai.

He was hit at a right-hander by both Attila Tassi’s Honda and Thed Björk’s Lynk & Co on two separate occasions, lost two places when he ran wide at the chicane, recovered one position by passing home hero Tiago Monteiro and another when Tassi was docked five seconds for cutting the chicane.

Rob Huff, Zengo Motorsport, CUPRA Leon Competicion, Daniel Nagy, Zengo Motorsport, CUPRA Leon Competicion

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