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Engstler grabs
TCR Asia title
THE BATTLE FOR TCR CHINA BECOMES HOTTER
TCR Asia’s season finale took place at
the Shanghai International Circuit
where the series’ competitors joined
their TCR China colleagues for two
sprint races that were dominated by
the Team Engstler Volkswagen Golf
GTI cars.
Luca Engstler claimed a double win
and secured the title, adding it to an
already impressive season tally that
includes victory in the 24H Dubai,
the TCR Middle East title and second
place in TCR Germany.
In both the Shanghai races Engstler
led from lights to flag and was
followed by his teammates Mitchell
Cheah and Diego Moran who
completed the podiums and were
classified second and third in the
championship as well.
TCR China ran two events on two
consecutive weekends, racing at
Shanghai one week after the previous
meeting at Ningbo. The title fight is
becoming hotter as just two points
split the leading MacPro Racing
Honda Civic of Henry Ho and Eurico
De Jesus from the TeamWork
Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI of
Alex Hui and Sunny Wong. The latter
pair has won all the four 60-minute
races held so far, while the Honda has
claimed seven victories out of the
eight sprint races. However, De Jesus
was stripped of second place in
Shanghai Race 2, as his car was not
in compliance with the ride height,
and this cost the MacPro Racing duo
12 points.
The next and final event of TCR China
will be at Shanghai’s Tianma Circuit
on 27/28 October.