TCR / 23 November 2020

One-two finish in Japan for Civic Type R TCR

Super Taikyu

Floral Racing with Uematsu leapt to the top of the ST-TCR points table with their second win of the year at Motegi, Japan, as Civic Type R TCRs scored a one-two finish.

Tadao Uematsu, Yuji Ide and Shintaro Kawabata qualified third and hit the front during the second half of the race; the trio finishing just seven seconds clear of the pole-sitting Dome Racing machine after five hours of close competition.

Dome’s quartet of Shinji Nakano, Hiroki Otsu, Mitsuhiro Endo and Syun Koide scored the multiple championship-winning team’s first podium of the year on their return to competition for the first time since the season-opening Fuji 24 Hours.

TCR Italy

JAS Motorsport Development Driver Jacopo Guidetti ended his season with an outstanding pole position and podium finish at Imola as MM Motorsport secured second place in the Teams’ Championship.

Guidetti and team-mate Jonathan Giacon battled hard in Race One, Giacon coming home second and Guidetti fourth.

Contact for Monza winner Giacon early in the season finale led to his eventual retirement with damage while Guidetti climbed from 11th at the end of the opening lap to finish third.

Series debutant Ibragim Akhmadov qualified 10th and produced two fine race drives, climbing to fifth in Race One and then going from outside the top 20 on the opening lap to to ninth on Sunday.

Macau Guia Race

Lo Sze Ho scored a magnificent podium finish on the streets of Macau to reward a superb effort by Maximum Racing.

The Hong Kong driver was the fastest Civic Type R TCR driver in qualifying in ninth spot and secured sixth in the qualifying race before keeping his nose clean while others dirtied theirs in the main event to finish on the podium in third place.

Team-mate Ivan Szeto, also driving an older FK2-model Civic, made progress across the weekend to finish 18th^.

While MacPro Racing Team’s Bebe Eurico was a strong sixth on Sunday with team-mate Ryan Wong - ninth in the qualifying race - eliminated on the opening lap of the main event.