WestCoast Racing’s Rob Huff continued to set the pace in second practice for the TCR International Series in Macau, ending the session more than a second ahead of Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Pepe Oriola.
Brit Huff went 1.3 seconds faster than he had done in first practice on Thursday to ensure that championship contender Oriola would have to work hard if he was to close the gap.
In the end, Oriola improved his lap time from Thursday by almost three seconds, but it was not enough to get close to former WTCC champion Huff, who remained the man to beat.
Oriola’s main rival, Target Competition’s Stefano Comini, was third fastest, and the only other driver to be within two seconds of Huff’s pace.
Jordi Gené ended the session in fourth, having been the ‘best of the rest’ behind Huff on Thursday. Kevin Gleason was the second fastest Honda driver after Huff, ending the session in sixth.
A quintet of SEAT León drivers completed the top ten, with Target Competition’s Jordi Oriola the first of the bunch in sixth. Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Sergey Afanasyev was seventh, ahead of the returning Andrea Belicchi in eighth.
Portuguese driver Francisco Mora was ninth, despite breaking a wheel rim at the Melco hairpin, with local Macanese racer Rodolfo Ávila in tenth, ending the session as the quickest of the TCR Asia Series competitors, just two tenths ahead of Henry Ho in 11th.
Having failed to post a lap time on Thursday due to a power steering failure, WestCoast Racing’s Gianni Morbidelli clocked up nine laps of running on Friday, ending the session in 12th place.
James Nash was 13th fastest, but an engine problem late in the session forced him to return to the pits to allow his Proteam / FRD team to look into the problem.
Two drivers suffered sizeable crashes in the session; Target Competition’s Keith Chan hit the barriers at the high-speed Mandarin Bend, whilst Douglas Khoo hit the wall at the final corner.
Neither of Campos Racing’s two Brits, Dan Wells or Josh Files, were able to post a lap time in the session. Wells suffered from overheating and returned to the pits to protect his car, whilst Files was sidelined due to his crash on Thursday, along with Target Competition’s Rafaël Galiana.
Alain Menu did not take part in the session due to a weekend-ending engine failure on his Top Run Motorsport Subaru in first practice.
Session results
| POS | NO | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | 27 | Rob HUFF |  |
West Coast Racing | Honda Civic TCR | 10 | 2:33.702 | 0.000 |
| 2 | 74 | Pepe ORIOLA |  |
Team Craft-Bamboo LUKOIL | SEAT León Racer | 9 | 2:34.811 | 1.109 |
| 3 | 25 | Stefano COMINI |  |
Target Competition | SEAT León Racer | 11 | 2:35.373 | 1.671 |
| 4 | 88 | Jordi GENÉ | |
Team Craft-Bamboo LUKOIL | SEAT León Racer | 9 | 2:36.353 | 2.651 |
| 5 | 24 | Kevin GLEASON |  |
West Coast Racing | Honda Civic TCR | 11 | 2:36.459 | 2.757 |
| 6 | 21 | Jordi ORIOLA | |
Target Competition | SEAT León Racer | 10 | 2:36.782 | 3.080 |
| 7 | 77 | Sergey AFANASYEV |  |
Team Craft-Bamboo LUKOIL | SEAT León Racer | 11 | 2:37.128 | 3.426 |
| 8 | 33 | Andrea BELICCHI |  |
Target Competition | SEAT León Racer | 10 | 2:37.582 | 3.880 |
| 9 | 50 | Francisco MORA |  |
Target Competition | SEAT León Racer | 5 | 2:38.185 | 4.483 |
| 10 | 30 | Rodolfo AVILA |  |
Asia Racing Team | SEAT León Racer | 10 | 2:38.626 | 4.924 |
| 11 | 29 | Henry HO Wai Kun | |
PAS Macau Racing Team | Honda Civic TCR | 10 | 2:38.855 | 5.153 |
| 12 | 10 | Gianni MORBIDELLI | |
West Coast Racing | Honda Civic TCR | 9 | 2:39.890 | 6.188 |
| 13 | 73 | James NASH | |
Proteam Racing | Ford Focus ST TCR | 7 | 2:40.016 | 6.314 |
| 14 | 8 | Mikhail GRACHEV | |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | Volkswagen Golf TCR | 10 | 2:40.880 | 7.178 |
| 15 | 7 | Lorenzo VEGLIA | |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | SEAT León Racer | 10 | 2:44.363 | 10.661 |
| 16 | 38 | Kenneth LAU |  |
Prince Racing Hong Kong | Honda Civic TCR | 8 | 2:45.280 | 11.578 |
| 17 | 99 | Frank YU | |
Craft-Bamboo Racing | SEAT León Racer | 7 | 2:45.309 | 11.607 |
| 18 | 68 | Michael CHOI | |
Prince Racing Hong Kong | Honda Civic TCR | 10 | 2:45.464 | 11.762 |
| 19 | 27 | Robb HOLLAND | |
Roadstar Racing Team | SEAT León Racer | 11 | 2:46.796 | 13.094 |
| 20 | 56 | Samson CHAN | |
Roadstar Racing Team | SEAT León Racer | 11 | 2:48.412 | 14.710 |
| 21 | 28 | Sunny WONG Yat Shing | |
West Coast Racing | Honda Civic TCR | 5 | 2:49.562 | 15.860 |
| 22 | 49 | Guillame CUNNINGTON |  |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | SEAT León Racer | 9 | 2:50.877 | 17.175 |
| 23 | 98 | Keith CHAN | |
Target Competition | SEAT León Racer | 6 | 2:50.924 | 17.222 |
| 24 | 67 | Johnson HUANG |  |
Roadstar Racing Team | SEAT León Racer | 9 | 2:56.630 | 22.928 |
| 25 | 63 | Sam LOK Chi Kit | |
Asia Racing Team | SEAT León Racer | 9 | 2:59.699 | 25.997 |
| 26 | 65 | Douglas KHOO |  |
Niza Racing | SEAT León Racer | 5 | 3:23.342 | 49.640 |
| 27 | 76 | Dan WELLS | |
Campos Racing | Opel Astra OPC | 2 | No time | N/A |
| 28 | 14 | Josh FILES | |
Campos Racing | Opel Astra OPC | 0 | No time | N/A |
| 29 | 52 | Alain MENU | |
Top Run Motorsport | Subaru STi TCR | – | No time | N/A |