Another victory of a Volcano Motorsport Cupra Leon Competición in Race 2 of TCR Europe in Barcelona, this time by a great Klim Gavrilov.
Passed on the Spanish car for the last round of the series, the Russian did not do anything wrong in his ride from the Pole Position of the inverted grid, deservedly taking home the first success of his career in the final round of the 2021 series, won yesterday by Mikel Azcona who returned to Most for the FIA WTCR races.
Gavrilov at the set of traffic lights managed to keep behind the fearsome Honda Civic Type R of Jack Young and Isidro Callejas (Brutal Fish Racing Team), with the Englishman who tried for a long time to undermine the leader.
In the last few steps, however, a Drive Through arrived to be served for the young Brit from JAS Motorsport, who sadly slips 15th, leaving the place of honor to his teammate at the finish line. But the cold shower came after the race, when the Spaniard’s car was underweight and was disqualified.
Callejas had gritted his teeth for long stretches, having to resist the pressure suffered by the Hyundai Elantra N of Sébastien Loeb Racing driven by Mehdi Bennani and Sami Taoufik, respectively third and fourth, after a good fight that saw the Peugeots close behind them. 308 of Teddy and Jimmy Clairet at the checkered flag.
But sanctions have also arrived here for Taoufik and J.Clairet, with 30 “added to their time for causing accidents with their rivals, so they both slide backwards.
This gives fourth place to the third Hyundai Elantra N of Sébastien Loeb Racing in the hands of a Niels Langeveld who appeared a little more in difficulty than usual, with Franco Girolami coming up from the rear bringing the Honda of PSS Racing even into the Top5 after the great disappointment of the title lost on Saturday.
Isidro Callejas, Brutal Fish Racing Team, Honda Civic Type R TCR
Photo by: TCR media
In sixth and seventh place we also find the Hyundai i30 N prepared by Janík Motorsport for Jáchym Galáš and Mat’o Homola, who prevailed in the final of Nicolas Baert’s Audi RS 3 LMS (Comtoyou Racing).
The departure from the last place forced Felice Jelmini to stop for a long time to recover and in the end the driver of Sébastien Loeb Racing obtained a good 9th place with a Hyundai Elantra N weighed down with 60kg of ballast and also hit on the rear at the start of the race from the Cupra of Evgenii Leonov (Volcano Motorsport), punished with a Drive Through.
The points taken by the Lombard (together with his colleagues) allow the SLR to be crowned Champion among the TCR Europe teams.
The points zone is completed by the old Cupra of Gilles Colombani and Sylvain Pussier (Team Clairet Sport), in addition to the aforementioned Young, the two new Leon Competición of the Spaniards Sergio Lopez and Felipe Fernandez (RC2 Junior Team), protagonists of several battles with forbidden strokes , and Taoufik.
Clairet, Leonov and Giacomo Ghermandi remain dry, 18th at the first exit in the series with the Cupra Leon Competición of Lema Racing with which he precedes the Honda of Viktor Davidovski (PSS Racing), also sanctioned with a Drive Through for having caused accidents at the start. Out of Martin Ryba (Honda-Brutal Fish Racing Team).
