2013 Guia Race of Macau

2013 Guia Race of Macau

Race details
Round 12 of 12 in the 2013 World Touring Car Championship at Guia Circuit in Macau.
Date	17 November, 2013
Location	Macau
Course	Guia Circuit 6.120 kilometres (3.803 mi)
Race One
Laps 9 Pole position Driver Yvan Muller RML Time 2:28.933 Podium First Yvan Muller RML Second Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda Team Third Robert Huff Münnich Motorsport Fastest Lap Driver Yvan Muller RML Time 2:31.573
Race Two
Laps 11 Podium First Robert Huff Münnich Motorsport Second Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team Third Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport Fastest Lap Driver Yvan Muller RML Time 2:31.437 [1]

The 2013 Guia Race of Macau was the final round of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season and the ninth running of the Guia Race of Macau. The race was part of the Macau Grand Prix weekend, headlined by the Formula Three event. It was held on 17 November 2013 at the Guia Circuit in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau.

Race one was won by Yvan Muller from pole position, race two was won by Robert Huff for ALL–INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport.

James Nash won the Yokohama Independents' Trophy in race one, his first WTCC title and the first for his team bamboo-engineering.

Background

With the drivers' title already secured by Yvan Muller, Gabriele Tarquini, Tom Chilton and James Nash were all in contention to finish second in the championship going to Macau. Nash was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy and needed just two points to secure it ahead of bamboo-engineering teammate Alex MacDowall.

When the weights were re-calculated, the Chevrolet Cruze 1.6Ts and the Honda Civic WTCCs gremained on 1,190 kg. The BMW 320 TCs gained 30 kg of weight to take them up to 1,160 kg while the SEAT León WTCCs remained below the base weight with a 10 kg increase to bring them up to 1,140 kg. ^[2]

Jo Merszei joined Liqui Moly Team Engstler who along with the returning Masaki Kano brought the team's entry up to 5 cars. ^[3] Yukinori Taniguchi moved teams again, this time to NIKA Racing as he looked to secure the inaugural Eurosport Asia Trophy. ^[4] Fernando Monje did not race in Macau for personal reasons, Hugo Valente was joined at Campos Racing by series debutants Michael Soong and Konstantīns Calko. ^{[5] [6]} China Dragon Racing expanded to four cars, running a pair of Chevrolet Lacettis for Lam Kan San and Celio Alves Dias. ^[7] PAS Macau Racing Team joined the championship with a Honda Accord Euro R driven by Eurico de Jesus. ^[8]

Report

Testing and free practice

Robert Huff set the pace in a disrupted test session on Thursday. Stefano D'Aste finished sixth despite clashing with Calko's SEAT at Moorish Hill before Taniguchi spun at the first corner and crashed into the barriers, bringing out the red flag. ^[9]

Muller set the pace in free practice one, seven tenths clear of Pepe Oriola. Kin Veng Ng crashed into the barriers at Police, he was then hit by the Campos Racing car of Calko who was able to continue to the pits for repairs having been shown a black and orange flag. There was also a minor collision for Fredy Barth at Fisherman's bend. ^[10]

The top two from FP1 switched places in FP2, Oriola ended the session fastest ahead of Muller. James Thompson missed the session due to steering issues on his Lada Granta while Chilton had a big crash at the Solitude Esses. Charles Ng, Franz Engstler and Michael Soong all had less serious collisions with the barriers during the remainder of the session. ^[11]

Qualifying

During the first part of the session, Valente crashed into the barriers and brought the red flags out for the first time. The red flags came out again when the second Campos car of Soong crashed into the barriers and briefly caught fire. After a lengthy delay, the session resumed, and several cars tried to get quick laps in. Chilton was outside the top twelve and got up to thirteenth place before a crash for Barth brought out the red flags for the third time. The session resumed with less than five minutes left on the clock; Chilton went up to seventh on his single timed lap. This bumped out Norbert Michelisz who then responded to go second to put Oriola out in Q1. Despite having not gone out for a final run, Muller was quickest in the first session, with Huff second.

In the second session, Muller initially set the pace, although the Hondas of Tiago Monteiro and Michelisz were second and third. Tarquini in the third Honda had been close to dropping out in Q1 and now had to return to the pits when his front bumper was damaged. Muller was the only driver to set a time below 2:29; Monteiro would start second and Tarquini third. MacDowall was the leading independent driver while Tom Coronel finished tenth to take pole for race two, where he would share the front row with Thompson. ^[12]

Warm-Up

Huff led the final warm-up session in the WTCC on Sunday morning, Pepe Oriola was second fastest ahead of pole sitter Muller. ^[13]

Race One

Before the race started, Tarquini required an engine change in his Honda Civic and would not make the start but would start race two from the back of the grid. ^[14]

Muller led away from the final rolling start of the World Touring Car Championship and distanced himself from Monteiro in second. There was contact on lap two between Muller's teammate Chilton and Oriola with Chilton spinning into one of the barriers and ending his race. Oriola went on to have a spin at the Solitude Esses which dropped him down the order having already been under investigation for the incident with Chilton. Muller claimed his second Macau win ahead of Monteiro who had spent the race defending from multiple Macau winner Huff's SEAT. Nash finished sixth to claim his first Yokohama Independent Drivers' Trophy title. ^[15]

After the race, Oriola was given a 30-second time penalty for his collision with Chilton which dropped him from 8th to 15th in the final classification. ^[16]

Race Two

Coronel led Thompson away from pole while behind Michelisz tagged the back of Chilton, sending the Honda spinning across the track where it was struck by a number of other cars with Mehdi Bennani, Darryl O'Young, Tom Boardman, Mikhail Kozlovskiy, Calko and Valente out on the spot. The race was red flagged while the cars were removed from the circuit, when the race resumed a battle developed behind them between Chilton and Nash for third place both in the race and in the drivers' championship. A clash between Monteiro and Muller on lap 3 pushed Muller into a tyre barrier at San Francisco and Monteiro would eventually return to the pits for repairs. On lap 4 Thompson, Chilton and Nash were all running close together in their pursuit of Coronel, Nash tapped into the back of Chilton and Huff took the opportunity to go around. Chilton dropped out of the race on lap 5 with exhaust problems, only to be hit by de Jesus as he crawled around the Maternity corner. With the Honda stopped across the track, the safety car out only for Charles Ng, Felipe De Souza and Henry Ho to crash into the back of Franz Engstler and Yvan Muller who had slowed to pass the scene of the accident. Soong and Merszei then also crashed into the stranded cars and the race was stopped for a second time. On the restart Huff quickly got past Thompson and Coronel to take the lead, Thompson then crashed out of the race following contact with Oriola. Huff went on to claim the win ahead of Oriola and Coronel, Nash in fourth was the winning independent driver. ^[17]

Results

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Q1	Q2	Points
1	12	Yvan Muller	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		2:30.142	2:28.933	5
2	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		2:30.969	2:29.933	4
3	3	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		2:31.289	2:29.991	3
4	1	Robert Huff	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		2:30.700	2:30.107	2
5	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC		2:30.945	2:30.224	1
6	9	Alex MacDowall	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	2:31.098	2:30.248
7	23	Tom Chilton	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		2:31.563	2:30.583
8	14	James Nash	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	2:31.392	2:30.723
9	10	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		2:31.173	2:31.189
10	15	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC		2:31.488	2:31.287
11	38	Marc Basseng	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		2:31.718	2:31.482
12	22	Tom Boardman	Special Tuning Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	2:31.755	2:34.989
13	74	Pepe Oriola	Tuenti Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		2:31.800
14	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:32.178
15	26	Stefano D'Aste	PB Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:32.666
16	73	Fredy Barth	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:32.961
17	55	Darryl O'Young	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:33.104
18	20	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	2:33.265
19	81	Konstantīns Calko	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	2:33.847
20	8	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		2:34.224
21	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:34.667
22	7	Charles Ng	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	2:34.775
23	37	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC	Y	2:35.999
24	88	Henry Ho	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	2:37.142
25	60	Felipe De Souza	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	2:37.920
26	33	Yukinori Taniguchi	NIKA Racing	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	YA	2:38.468
27	66	Jerónimo Badaraco	Son Veng Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	2:38.866
28	80	Michael Soong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	YA	2:39.897
29	70	Jo Merszei	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	2:40.551
107% time: 2:40.651
–	79	Eurico de Jesus	PAS Macau Racing Team	Honda Accord Euro R	YA	2:41.016
–	61	Kin Veng Ng	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	2:41.491
–	63	Célio Alves Dias	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	2:42.521
–	77	Mak Ka Lok	RPM Racing	BMW 320si	YA	2:42.959
–	62	Lam Kam San	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	2:46.831

• Bold denotes Pole position for second race.

Race 1

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Yvan Muller	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		9	22:54.522	1	25
2	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		9	+1.265	2	18
3	1	Robert Huff	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		9	+1.592	4	15
4	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC		9	+5.147	5	12
5	9	Alex MacDowall	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	9	+7.096	6	10
6	14	James Nash	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	9	+7.632	8	8
7	38	Marc Basseng	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		9	+18.148	11	6
8	26	Stefano D'Aste	PB Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	9	+20.644	15	4
9	22	Tom Boardman	Special Tuning Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	9	+21.213	12	2
10	15	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC		9	+21.806	10	1
11	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	9	+22.806	14
12	55	Darryl O'Young	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC	Y	9	+30.471	16
13	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	9	+32.905	20
14	8	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		9	+40.394	19
15	74	Pepe Oriola	Tuenti Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		9	+50.345	13
16	37	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC	Y	9	+58.083	21
17	33	Yukinori Taniguchi	NIKA Racing	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	YA	9	+1:12.888	23
18	80	Michael Soong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	YA	9	+1:13.961	24
19	88	Henry Ho	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	9	+1:16.085	22
20	60	Felipe De Souza	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	9	+1:18.107	32
21	70	Jo Merszei	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	9	+1:36.668	25
22	61	Kin Veng Ng	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	9	+1:44.616	27
23	63	Célio Alves Dias	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	9	+1:45.773	28
24	79	Eurico de Jesus	PAS Macau Racing Team	Honda Accord Euro R	YA	9	+1:46.315	26
25	66	Jerónimo Badaraco	Son Veng Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	9	+1:55.988	33
26	62	Lam Kam San	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	9	+2:23.146	30
27	77	Mak Ka Lok	RPM Racing	BMW 320si	YA	9	+2:25.450	29
28	7	Charles Ng	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	8	+1 Lap	31
29	81	Konstantīns Calko	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	7	+2 Laps	18
Ret	20	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	5	Race incident	17
Ret	23	Tom Chilton	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		2	Race incident	7
Ret	10	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		2	Turbo	9
DNS	3	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		0	Engine	3
DNS	73	Fredy Barth	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320 TC	Y	0	Did not start	–

• Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Race 2

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Robert Huff	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		11	1:23:32.152	7	25
2	74	Pepe Oriola	Tuenti Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		11	+0.723	12	18
3	15	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC		11	+1.173	1	15
4	14	James Nash	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	11	+2.909	3	12
5	9	Alex MacDowall	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	Y	11	+3.428	5	10
6	12	Yvan Muller	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		11	+4.642	9	8
7	38	Marc Basseng	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC		11	+5.665	10	6
8	3	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		11	+30.963	33	4
9	88	Henry Ho	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	11	+47.079	22	2
10	63	Célio Alves Dias	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	11	+48.255	30	1
11	61	Kin Veng Ng	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	11	+58.652	29
12	62	Lam Kam San	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Lacetti	YA	11	+58.921	32
13	77	Mak Ka Lok	RPM Racing	BMW 320si	YA	11	+1:00.680	31
14	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	11	+1:18.982	19
15	60	Felipe De Souza	China Dragon Racing	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	11	+1:34.078	23
Ret	10	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		7	Race incident	2
Ret	33	Yukinori Taniguchi	NIKA Racing	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	YA	6	Race incident	24
Ret	7	Charles Ng	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	Y	5	Race incident	20
Ret	80	Michael Soong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	YA	5	Race incident	26
Ret	70	Jo Merszei	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	YA	5	Race incident	27
Ret	23	Tom Chilton	RML	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T		4	Exhaust	4
Ret	79	Eurico de Jesus	PAS Macau Racing Team	Honda Accord Euro R	YA	4	Race incident	28
Ret	37	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	SEAT León WTCC	Y	3	Race incident	21
Ret	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC		3	Brakes	8
Ret	66	Jerónimo Badaraco	Son Veng Racing Team	Chevrolet Cruze LT	YA	2	Technical	25
Ret	26	Stefano D'Aste	PB Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	1	Race incident	14
Ret	81	Konstantīns Calko	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	0	Race incident	17
Ret	55	Darryl O'Young	ROAL Motorsport	BMW 320 TC	Y	0	Race incident	15
Ret	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	BMW 320 TC	Y	0	Race incident	13
Ret	22	Tom Boardman	Special Tuning Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	0	Race incident	11
Ret	20	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	Y	0	Race incident	16
Ret	8	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta		0	Race incident	18
Ret	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC		0	Race incident	6
DNS	73	Fredy Barth	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320 TC	Y	0	Did not start	–

• Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Yvan Muller 431 2 Gabriele Tarquini 242 1 3 James Nash 226 2 4 Robert Huff 215 2 5 Tom Chilton 213

Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 James Nash 208 2 Alex MacDowall 168 3 Michel Nykjær 134 4 Mehdi Bennani 102 5 Stefano D'Aste 96

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Honda 1017 2 Lada 601

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings.

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External links

• World Touring Car Championship official website

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