Santiago Urrutia doubles up in Zhuzhou practice

Santiago Urrutia stayed on top of the times in the second FIA TCR World Tour and TCR China practice session at Zhouzhou in China, as the Lynk & Co driver headed a Cyan Racing 1-2-3-4.

Urrutia had earlier posted the fastest lap in the opening session with a time of 1 minute 45.198 seconds, but after rain arrived for second practice, the times were much slower, with Urrutia lapping in 1:55.758.

The Uruguayan ended up 0.141 seconds faster than team-mate Yann Ehrlacher, with Ma Qing Hua a further half a tenth back. Thed Björk completed the Cyan quartet, just over a quarter of a second slower than Urrutia’s time.

BRC Racing’s Néstor Girolami was the best of the rest in fifth as the leading Hyundai, improving substantially on his performance earlier in the day when no Hyundai drivers made it into the top ten.

Esteban Guerrieri was the leading Honda racer in sixth, the GOAT Racing driver seven tenths off the pace, ahead of reigning champion Norbert Michelisz in eighth, the Hyundai driver being the only other driver within a second of the blue cars.

GOAT Racing’s Dušan Borković and Teamwork Motorsport’s David Zhu completed the top ten, the latter as the leading TCR China driver in his Lynk & Co.

GOAT Racing’s Marco Butti put his Honda in 11^th, whilst series returnee Rob Huff was 12^th in his Audi, over two seconds adrift of Urrutia.

Fewer TCR China drivers were able to mix with the TCR World Tour regulars in second practice, with points leader Jason Zhang in 14^th, just under 2.5 seconds off the pace as the second in the local ‘class’.

Qualifying takes place on Saturday at 10:00 local time (03:00 BST, 04:00 CEST) followed by race one at 14:00 local time (07:00 BST, 08:00 CEST).

Session results

POS	NO	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	112		Santiago URRUTIA	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR		1:55.758	–
2	168		Yann EHRLACHER	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR		1:55.899	0.141
3	155		MA Qing Hua	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR		1:55.948	0.190
4	111		Thed BJÖRK	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR		1:56.017	0.259
5	129		Néstor GIROLAMI	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:56.075	0.317
6	186		Esteban GUERRIERI	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		1:56.485	0.727
7	105		Norbert MICHELISZ	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:56.522	0.764
8	196		Mikel AZCONA	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:56.792	1.034
9	62		Dušan BORKOVIĆ	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		1:57.223	1.465
10	9		David ZHU Dai Wei	Lynk & Co Teamwork Motorsport	Lynk & Co 03 TCR		1:57.494	1.736
11	199		Marco BUTTI	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		1:57.530	1.772
12	179		Rob HUFF	Volcano Motorsport	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II		1:57.853	2.095
13	127		John FILIPPI	Volcano Motorsport	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II		1:57.925	2.167
14	36		Jason ZHANG Zhi Qiang	Lynk & Co Teamwork Motorsport	Lynk & Co 03 TCR		1:58.241	2.483
15	12		Sunny WONG Yat Shing	Lynk & Co Teamwork Motorsport	Lynk & Co 03 TCR		1:59.110	3.352
16	52		LAI Jing Wen	326 Racing Team	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II		1:59.124	3.366
17	2		Rainey HE Xiaole	Hyundai N	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:59.154	3.396
18	51		WU Yi Fan	326 Racing Team	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II		1:59.293	3.535
19	3		Andy YAN Cheuk Wai	Hyundai N	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:59.504	3.746
20	1		Martin CAO Hong Wei	Hyundai N	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		1:59.621	3.863
21	55		Martin XIE Xin Xie	MacPro Racing Team	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		1:59.662	3.904
22	95		HU Heng	GYT Racing	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II		2:00.109	4.351
23	27		CHAN Chun Leung	Norris Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FK7 TCR		2:00.580	4.822
24	28		LO Sze Ho	Evolve Racing	Hyundai Elantra N TCR		2:00.937	5.179
25	37		ZHOU Yun Jie	Spark Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		2:00.953	5.195
26	87		MAN Siu Ming	Evolve Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FK7 TCR		2:01.200	5.442
27	7		DENG Bao Wei	MacPro Racing Team	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR		2:02.592	6.834
28	26		Tony CHAN Chi Wai	Norris Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FK7 TCR		No time	N/A