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STANDINGS

INTERNATIONAL SERIES

Macau – even more

of a lottery than usual

The former Portuguese colony of Macau provided the venue for

the final pair of races in the 2016 TCR International series. The

Guia street circuit is regarded as one of the toughest motorsport

venues in the world and one that usually provides more than its

fair share of drama. Sadly, the two 2016 races more than lived up

to that unpredictable reputation…

An insistence by the organizing committee that cars from other

Touring Car championships be allowed to enter raised eyebrows

beforehand, but a spate of incidents involving those competitors

meant only a handful of competitive laps were possible in both

races. So few laps were completed, in fact, that only half points

were awarded in each race.

Contact between James Nash and Mat’o Homola in Race 1

effectively ended the British driver’s title hopes. The Craft-

Bamboo Lukoil team was able to repair Nash’s SEAT, but victory

for Stefano Comini in Race 1 meant fourth place in Race 2 was

enough for the Swiss driver to retain his title. At the end of the

season, just three and a half points separated Comini and Nash,

with Jean-Karl Vernay finishing in third place ahead of Pepe

Oriola. While guest star Tiago Monteiro had the last word and won

the second race in a WestCoast Racing Honda Civic.

Traffic jam at the

Lisboa bend

Negotiating the

Melco hairpin

in single file