WTCR – Huff leads Guia Race like a fish to water

For the British racer Rob Huff, the Guia Circuit has few secrets and that was proven once more yesterday when Huff gave another lesson on how to take the Guia Circuit by storm.

One of the must successful drivers on the streets of Macau and the most successful driver in touring car racing clocked the best laps on track during the World Touring Car Cup (WTCR) Free Practice session.

In the end, the man from Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR from Sebastien Loeb Racing clocked one lap in 2:29.766, leaving the closest competition over half a second away: the Honda Civic TCR driven by the Frenchman Yann Ehrlacher racing for ALL- INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport. Another 0.149 of a second away was another Frenchman, this time MRacing-YMR’s Yvan Muller, driving a Hyundai i30 N TCR.

Besides the gap achieved by Huff, all the other drivers placing second to seventh clocked times within the same second, showing the high competitiveness of these drivers and their racing machines.

In a race like this where the difference in lap times is almost unnoticeable, the start position assumes a very significant role in the way the race unfolds and the final results. It is expected that today, all drivers will give their utmost to top yesterday’s times and get the best possible seat on the grid for the series of three races that comprise this event.

A note to the Macau drivers that are participating in this event as “wild cards”: the best time of any local driver was achieved by André Couto in the Honda Civic TCR for the MacPro Racing Team. Couto clocked his best lap of the day in 2:36.030 almost 6.3 seconds slower that the leader.

The WTCR racing action will start today at 8:50 a.m. with a qualifying session of 40 minutes followed in the afternoon (1:35 p.m.) by the split qualifying session (Q1, Q2, and Q3) that will define the grid for the eight-lap Race 1 to be held on Saturday at 2:25 p.m.