– Defending champion Gabriele Tarquini scores a race win on the opening weekend of the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup season and left Morocco third in the standings
The i30 N TCR scored race wins in the first weekends of both the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup and TCR Asia seasons, thanks to drivers Gabriele Tarquini and Luca Engstler respectively.
Race win for Tarquini caps consistent i30 N TCR performance in WTCR opener
Defending champion Gabriele Tarquini made a winning start to the 2019 WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup season at the Race of Morocco (April 6-7). The Italian took his BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse entered i30 N TCR to victory in Race 2 of the weekend.
Despite a restrictive Balance of Performance to start the year all four drivers with Hyundai customers were able to take points away from the event in Marrakech. In the first race of the season Hyundai was the only manufacturer to have all of their cars in the points scoring positions. The teams added more points in Sunday’s Race 2 and 3. Behind Tarquini both his teammate Norbert Michelisz and TCR newcomer Augusto Farfus added to their personal tallies in Race 2.
Tarquini completed his weekend with fifth place in Race 3. Together with his earlier win and fourth in Race 1 the result left him in third in the early points’ standings. A trio of points’ finishes for Michelisz, topped by an eighth in the final encounter, helped put BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse similarly third in the teams’ standings to start the year.
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