Luciano Lameiras
Macau’s Luciano Lameiras is leading a 35-strong field for the Macau Roadsport Challenge. This race was the result of the merging of the previous Roadsport category for cars over 1,995cc with the former Macau Touring Car Cup for 1.6 turbo engine touring cars.
Lameiras, in his Mitsubishi Evolution 9, left competitors behind as he clocked a best lap in 2:37.155 at the third of only four laps completed in the FP2 session.
Behind Lameiras placed another local racer – Chu Hiu Fong – in yet another Evo 9 but at 0.860 seconds of the first.
In reality, in the first eight positions, we can find seven Evo 9 cars and one Evo 10. We need to scroll down the list to the ninth position to find the first 1.6-turbo car, a Peugeot RCZ driven by Ip Tak Meng that has a personal best lap 11.4 seconds slower than Lameiras.
Similarly to what happens in the Greater Bay Area GT Cup, there is currently a very large number of racers who are at risk of being excluded from the races for not being able to reach a lap time within 115% of the best time. A total of 13 racers are currently in this situation, which would reduce the field to just 22 cars on the grid for race 1 Saturday and race 2 Sunday. RM
