2014 Guia Race of Macau

2014 Guia Race of Macau

Race details
Round 12 of 12 in the 2014 World Touring Car Championship at Guia Circuit in Macau.
Date	16 November, 2014
Location	Macau
Course	Guia Circuit 6.120 kilometres (3.803 mi)
Race One
Laps 10 Pole position Driver José María López Citroën Total WTCC Time 2:24.294 Podium First José María López Citroën Total WTCC Second Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Third Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda Team Fastest Lap Driver José María López Citroën Total WTCC Time 2:27.338
Race Two
Laps 11 Podium First Robert Huff Lukoil Lada Sport Second Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Third Hugo Valente Campos Racing Fastest Lap Driver Robert Huff Lukoil Lada Sport Time 2:27.009

The 2014 Guia Race of Macau was the final round of the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season and the tenth 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 16 November 2014 at the Guia Circuit in the Chinese special administrative region of Macau.

Race one was won by José María López for Citroën Total WTCC and race two was won by Robert Huff for Lada Sport.

Background

López had secured the drivers' championship at the previous race. His teammates Yvan Muller and Sébastien Loeb were both in contention to finish second in the standings. Franz Engstler had secured the Yokohama Trophy title two rounds previously.

Pepe Oriola returned to the championship with Campos Racing, driving a TC1 Chevrolet Cruze in place of the injured Dušan Borković. William Lok returned to Campos to drive a TC2 SEAT León. ^[1]

When the compensation weights were revised after the previous round; the Citroën C-Elysée WTCC retained the maximum ballast to keep their weight at 1,160 kilograms (2,557 lb). The only change was to the Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s which gained 10 kilograms (22 lb) to weigh 1,140 kilograms (2,513 lb). ^[2]

Report

Testing and free practice

Norbert Michelisz led the test session on Thursday morning ahead of Muller and López. ^[3]

Gabriele Tarquini led a Castrol Honda 1–2 in first free practice later on Thursday, teammate Tiago Monteiro was second ahead of López, Muller and Michelisz. Series returnee Pepe Oriola was the fastest Chevrolet in fifth. The session was red–flagged seven minutes in when Hugo Valente crashed his Campos Racing Chevrolet into the barriers. ^[4]

López led free practice two on Friday ahead of teammate Ma Qing Hua. The session was first interrupted when Henry Kwong crashed into the barrier at Lisboa, the session was then red–flagged when Oriola clipped the barriers at the Esses. ^[5]

Qualifying

Michelisz was quickest in the first part of qualifying which was extended due to the length of the Guia Circuit. Five minutes into the session Oriola was involved in an accident which would see the Spaniard ruled out of the rest of the weekend. ^[6] Mehdi Bennani was the first of the drivers who failed to get through to Q2 along with James Thompson and Mikhail Kozlovskiy. René Münnich failed to qualify within the 107% rule despite setting a time quicker than TC2 driver Felipe De Souza who qualified in 18th.

López topped the times in Q2, Valente was tenth to secure pole race two where he would share the front row with ROAL Motorsport's Tom Chilton. Ma finished eleventh and missed out on the reversed grid opportunity while his three teammates made it through to Q3 along with Tom Coronel and Michelisz.

López recorded his seventh pole of the season on his maiden appearance at the Macau circuit. Citroën filled the first three places, Sébastien Loeb out–qualified Muller who had been suffering with understeer while Michelisz took fourth ahead of Coronel. ^[7]

Race One

Michelisz got around Muller and Loeb to move into second as Chilton stalled on the grid. Muller dropped to sixth position behind the two factory Hondas of Tarquini and Monteiro. On lap three Loeb tried a pass around the outside of Michelisz at Lisboa, losing him places to Tarquini, Monteiro and Muller. On lap five Kwong collided with the barriers, teammate Lok then went off at Melco a few seconds later. On lap nine Bennani went off at the start line after a collision with Kwong who was a lap down and trying to get out of the way; Kwong swerved across and tagged Bennani which caused Bennani to lose control and tag the barriers. The race finished with yellow flags in sector one for the stricken Proteam Racing Honda, López claimed a dominant victory with Michelisz and Tarquini completing the podium. Franz Engstler was the Yokohama Trophy winner. ^[8]

Race Two

Bennani was unable to start race two due to damage sustained to his car in race one while Tarquini pulled out due to illness. At the start Monteiro got through between front row starters Valente and Chilton, Valente tried to retake the lead at Lisboa but outbraked himself and dropped back. Monteiro now led from Huff and Muller, Michelisz was fourth with Valente and Chilton leading the rest of the pack which was dropping back from the lead battle. Gianni Morbidelli went off at Fishermen's Bend on lap four having lost the rear of his Chevrolet on the exit, the car was quickly lifted away. Lap five saw Loeb pass Coronel at Lisboa to take eighth place, he pulled off a similar move on Chilton on the following lap to take seventh place as Ma unsuccessfully tried to pass Coronel just behind. On lap seven Ma went into the barriers at R bend with the safety car coming out at the end of the following lap while the car was removed. The safety car came in at the end of the lap nine and race distance was extended to eleven laps. Valente pass Michelisz for fourth on the approach to Lisboa, later on in the lap Huff and Muller both leapt ahead of Monteiro who dropping back down the field quickly with steering problems. Huff won the race with Muller and Valente completing the podium, Franz Engstler finished tenth to take the final point and victory in the Yokohama Trophy. ^[9]

Results

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Q1	Q2	Q3	Points
1	37	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	2:26.508	2:24.329	2:24.294	5
2	9	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	2:26.036	2:24.536	2:24.522	4
3	1	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	2:26.618	2:25.035	2:24.779	3
4	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	2:25.920	2:25.699	2:25.327	2
5	4	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	2:26.661	2:25.279	no time set	1
6	2	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	2:26.647	2:25.769
7	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	2:26.661	2:25.825
8	12	Robert Huff	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	2:26.783	2:25.866
9	3	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	2:27.034	2:26.187
10	7	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	2:27.052	2:26.204
11	33	Ma Qing Hua	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	2:27.093	2:26.535
12	10	Gianni Morbidelli	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	2:26.543	2:26.911
13	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	2:27.630
14	11	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	2:27.667
15	14	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	2:28.602
16	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2T	2:34.015
17	27	John Filippi	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2T	2:35.656
18	26	Felipe De Souza	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	2:38.204
19	44	Mak Ka Lok	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	2:41.086
107% time: 2:36.134 (TC1), 2:44.796 (TC2T)
–	77	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	2:37.287
–	38	William Lok	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	2:45.059
–	19	Henry Kwong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	2:45.110
–	74	Pepe Oriola	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	no time set

• Bold denotes Pole position for second race.

Race 1

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	37	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	10	24:50.183	1	25
2	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	10	+2.741	4	18
3	2	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	10	+3.661	6	15
4	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	10	+4.055	7	12
5	1	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	10	+4.589	3	10
6	9	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	10	+5.186	2	8
7	4	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	10	+9.338	5	6
8	33	Ma Qing Hua	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	10	+10.008	11	4
9	12	Robert Huff	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	10	+15.548	8	2
10	10	Gianni Morbidelli	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	10	+19.201	12	1
11	11	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	10	+19.947	14
12	3	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	10	+27.894	9
13	14	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	10	+52.601	15
14	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2T	10	+1:23.715	16
15	77	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	10	+1:59.115	20
16	27	John Filippi	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2T	10	+2:02.667	17
17	26	Felipe De Souza	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	10	+2:04.627	18
18	44	Mak Ka Lok	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	9	+1 Lap	19
19	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	8	+2 Laps	13
NC	7	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	6	+4 Laps	10
Ret	38	William Lok	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	3	Race incident	22
EX 1	19	Henry Kwong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	9	Excluded	21
DNS	74	Pepe Oriola	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	0	Did not start	–

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

^1  — Kwong was excluded for causing the collision with Bennani.

Race 2

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	12	Robert Huff	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	11	28:21.086	3	25
2	1	Yvan Muller	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	11	+0.344	8	18
3	7	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	11	+3.352	1	15
4	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő Motorsport	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	11	+3.990	7	12
5	37	José María López	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	11	+4.285	10	10
6	9	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	11	+4.825	9	8
7	3	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	11	+5.562	2	6
8	4	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	11	+6.615	6	4
9	11	James Thompson	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	11	+8.252	14	2
10	6	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2T	11	+41.038	16	1
11	77	René Münnich	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	11	+1:31.505	20
12	27	John Filippi	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2T	11	+1:38.302	17
13	26	Felipe De Souza	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	11	+1:40.310	18
14	44	Mak Ka Lok	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320 TC	TC2TA	11	+2:04.022	19
15	19	Henry Kwong	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	11	+2:22.483	21
16	18	Tiago Monteiro	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	10	+1 Lap	4
Ret	33	Ma Qing Hua	Citroën Total WTCC	Citroën C-Elysée WTCC	TC1	6	Race incident	11
Ret	14	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	Lukoil Lada Sport	Lada Granta 1.6T	TC1	6	Retired	15
Ret	10	Gianni Morbidelli	ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	3	Race incident	12
DNS	2	Gabriele Tarquini	Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	0	Did not start	5
DNS	25	Mehdi Bennani	Proteam Racing	Honda Civic WTCC	TC1	0	Did not start	13
DNS	38	William Lok	Campos Racing	SEAT León WTCC	TC2TA	0	Did not start	22
DNS	74	Pepe Oriola	Campos Racing	Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1	TC1	0	Did not start	–

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 José María López 462 2 Yvan Muller 336 3 Sébastien Loeb 295 1 4 Norbert Michelisz 201 1 5 Tiago Monteiro 186

Yokohama Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Franz Engstler 249 2 John Filippi 159 3 Pasquale Di Sabatino 98 4 Felipe De Souza 38 5 Camilo Echevarría 12

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Citroën 1003 2 Honda 710 3 Lada 425

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

References

1. Mills, Peter (6 November 2014). "Oriola replaces injured Borkovic at Campos for Macau WTCC finale". Autosport . Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 15 November 2014.
2. Casillo, Pietro (4 November 2014). "Chevrolet heavier for Macau season finale". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
3. Casillo, Pietro (13 November 2014). "Norbert Michelisz tops Macau testing". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
4. Noble, Jonathan (13 November 2014). "Macau WTCC: Gabriele Tarquini leads Honda one-two in practice". Autosport . Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 19 November 2014.
5. "Practice 2 – López regains the leadership". World Touring Car Championship . Kigema Sport Organisation. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
6. "Oriola's comeback is already over…". World Touring Car Championship . Kigema Sport Organisation. 15 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
7. Mills, Peter (14 November 2014). "Macau WTCC: Champion Lopez takes seventh pole of 2014". Autosport . Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 19 November 2014.
8. "Race 1 – López scores a record victory". World Touring Car Championship . Kigema Sport Organisation. 16 November 2014. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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External links

• World Touring Car Championship official website

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