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WORLD AND LIFE
TCR 2018
ENDURANCE
Winning debut in the CER
for the Peugeot 308
Enrique Hernando and Gonzalo de Andres drove
the SMC Junior Motorsport Peugeot 308 to a
victorious debut in the Campeonato de España
Resistencia. The series’ fourth race meeting took
place at Jarama, where the TCR cars competed
against GTs in two one-hour races; Hernando
and Gonzalo scored a double victory in the TCR
class, finishing an outstanding third overall in
Race 2.
In the first race they were followed by the
Baporo Motorsport Cupra DSG of Joan Vinyes-
Jaime Font that crossed the line 34 seconds
behind them, while the podium was completed
by the PCR Sport Cupra DSG driven by the
father-and-son pair of Ferrán and Fernando
Monje a further 19 seconds adrift. In the fight
for third, the Monjes beat Alba Cano’s Monlau
Competición Cupra DSG by just 176
thousandths.
The SMC Junior team had a tougher time in
Race 2 as they were closely chased by the RC2
Junior Team SEAT León of David Cebrián-Max
Llobet and the Baporo Cupra of Vinyes-Font;
eventually Hernando-de Andres managed to win
by a three-second margin over Cebrián-Llobet
who preceded Vinyes-Font by another three
seconds.
Cebrián-Llobet now lead from Vinyes-Font in the
championship standings by one point, ahead of
the CER’s finale that will be at Barcelona on
November 10/11.
The inaugural edition of the Shanghai
International Circuit 888 Km Endurance race saw
four TCR teams competing against a bunch of GTs.
One day after clinching the TCR Asia title on the
very same racetrack, Luca Engstler took a class
victory at the wheel of the Team Engstler
Volkswagen Golf GTI he shared with Diego Moran
and Théo Coicaud.
The trio completed the race in six hours and
twenty-two minutes, covering 148 laps and
finishing fourth overall behind three GT cars.
They beat the HE Racing Golf GTI of Li Xue Feng
and Tian Li Ying (regular competitors in TCR
China) by two laps; Li and Tian were classified
6th overall.
The podium was completed by the Elegant
Racing Team Cupra of Alex Liu and Kenneth
Look that finished 8th overall, 11 laps behind
the Engstler Golf.
Team Engstler
wins the TCR class
in the SIC 888 Km