Giulietta WTCR 2019 met Ma Qing Hua en Ceccon

[tommaso]

Afgelopen weekend in het Portugese Villa Real weer een prima resultaat voor de Giulietta.

In race 2 vertrok Ma Qing Hua vanaf pole maar maakte helaas een fout in de zogenaamde joker lap toen hij te laat remde en op de curb
terecht kwam en tijd verloor. Werd dus wel een podium met plek 2.

[Hylke]

Gaaf

[Alfa Romeo Miniatura Fer]

TCR Australia @ Queensland , A perfect weekend for Dylan O'Keeffe
Dylan O'Keeffe and his Alfa Romeo Giulietta of the Ashley Seward Motorsport had a perfect weekend in TCR Australia at Queensland Raceway. With two victories and one second place, O'Keeffe cut 72 points off Will Brown's leadership in the standings; although Brown and his Hyundai i30 N are still first in the classification, their advantage has gone down to 57 points with three events still to go.
The first race was dominated by guest star Jean-Karl Vernay in a Audi RS 3 LMS, who converted his pole position in a comfortable victory over O'Keeffe and Russell Ingall. O'Keeffe took two similar victories. In both races 2 and 3 he took the lead at the start, built a small gap and then resisted Ingall's return in the final laps.
Race 1
1. J-K. Vernay (MPC, Audi RS 3 LMS), 21 laps
2. D. O’Keeffe (ASM, Alfa Romeo Giulietta), 7.9520
3. R. Ingall (MPC, Audi RS 3 LMS), 8.5712
Race 2
1. D. O’Keeffe (ASM, Alfa Romeo Giulietta), 21 laps
2. R. Ingall (MPC, Audi RS 3 LMS), 0.7735
3. A. Cameron (MPC, VW Golf GTI), 1.4804
Race 3
1. D. O’Keeffe (ASM, Alfa Romeo Giulietta), 21 laps
2. R. Ingall (MPC, Audi RS 3 LMS), 1.2073
3. T. D’Alberto (Wall Racing, Honda Civic FK7), 2.2409
Championship points
1. Brown 410 pts; 2. O’Keeffe 353; 3. D’Alberto 311
Photos: TCR Australia/Daniel Kalisz

[Alfa Romeo Miniatura Fer]

WTCR @ Macau
Home races are good for Lynk&Co. At Macau the Chinese manufacturer completed a clean sweep winning the three races, and this even improved the results achieved at Ningbo, where the cars run by Cyan Racing had scored two victories.
With only one event left, at Sepang on December 13/15, Muller is now only 11 points behind the leader Norbert Michelisz and two behind Esteban Guerrieri. Björk remains in contention as well with a gap of 28 points.
The other leading actors on the stage of the Guia circuit where Andy Priaulx and Kevin Ceccon. Priaulx claimed a lights-to-flag win in Race 3, providing the icing on the cake for Lynk&Co. Ceccon emerged as one of the fastest drivers in the Asian street circuit and collected well deserved third places in the first two races.
Race 1
1. Yvan Muller (Cyan Racing, Lynk&Co 03), 8 laps
2. Norbert Michelisz (BRC Squadra Corse, Hyundai i30 N), 0.405
3. Kevin Ceccon (Team Mulsanne, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce), 1.644
Race 2
1. Yvan Muller (Cyan Racing, Lynk&Co 03), 8 laps
2. Thed Björk (Cyan Racing, Lynk&Co 03), 0.455
3. Kevin Ceccon (Team Mulsanne, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce), 0.932
Race 3
1. Andy Priaulx (Cyan Performance, Lynk&Co 03), 11 laps
2. Rob Huff (Sébastien Loeb Racing, Volkswagen Golf GTI), 0.352
3. Jean-Karl Vernay (Team WRT, Audi RS 3 LMS), 1.193

[BugAlfa]

Altijd top kijkstuk Macau Ceccon was ook nog eens 9e in race 3 . Ma was in geen enkele qualif & race op niveau & dat voor 'n "thuisrijder" die met Citroën in wtcc nog gewonnen heeft . Hopelijk geen extra gewicht voor de Alfa ; ze hadden nu 30kg extra(in Suzuka nog 40kg) . Als enige privé ontwikkelde auto . Sepang in December wordt leuk met die brede baan slipstreamen

[Alfa Romeo Miniatura Fer]

2020 WTCR Team Mulsanne Giulietta Veloce
69 Jean Karl Vernay
25 Luca Filippi

"After a maiden Touring Car season in TCR Europe last year, Luca Filippi will join Jean-Karl Vernay to drive Team Mulsanne’s second Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce in the 2020 WTCR opener at Zolder.
Michela Cerruti, Romeo Ferraris Operations Manager, commented: “We gladly welcome Luca Filippi to the family. I am happy to have an Italian driver at the wheel of our car in the FIA WTCR, and I am delighted that it will be Luca, whose career I have always been following with interest. To have two drivers with great experience and specific touring car know-how will be an added value in a championship with such a compressed calendar and which will require reactivity and flexibility. Luckily, we can benefit from the great support of the FIA WTCR promoter, Eurosport Events.” Filippi said: “I am very happy to be at the kick-off of the FIA WTCR in this 2020 season. It has been possible thanks to the support of great companies that I have the honour to represent and that I want to repay with my greatest determination and the best possible results in what is the most competitive touring car series. My first season with a front-wheel-drive car has left me very good sensations and I am sure that the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR by Romeo Ferraris will be among the front-runners."

Jean Karl Vernay werd 5e in de eerste WTCR race op Zolder, vanaf P2 aan de start. 7e in de tweede race op Zolder.
Filippi werd tweemaal 18e in beide races.

[Alfa Romeo Miniatura Fer]

2020 WTCR Team Mulsanne Giulietta Veloce
69 Jean Karl Vernay
25 Luca Filippi

Jean-Karl Vernay is the WTCR Trophy winner following the season-deciding WTCR Races of Aragón*

He made sure of the title for drivers competing without car manufacturer support in the WTCR − FIA World Touring Car Cup in the second race of the MotorLand Aragón weekend, which he completed with a season-total of seven category wins and a 20-point winning margin over Gilles Magnus. Nathanaël Berthon was classified third, seven points behind Magnus, his Comtoyou team-mate. He also celebrated finishing third in the overall standings behind fellow Frenchmen Yann Ehrlacher and Yvan Muller.
Vernay’s success completes a 81 days since his agreement with Team Mulsanne to drive an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR by Romeo Ferraris was announced. Following his success in Aragón, the 33-year-old was quick to praise his Italian team.
“Big thanks to my team, I think nobody would have believed what we have done this year,” said Vernay, who also took an outright win at WTCR Race of Spain earlier this month. “I’ve never been so determined and I grew up a lot. For me it was a fantastic experience to be in a little team with a lot more responsibility and I really loved it. Thanks to Romeo Ferraris, we did great and you are a very good team, be sure about that.” Vernay’s agreement to race in WTCR with Team Mulsanne came so late that he only managed to sample his Goodyear-equipped Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR by Romeo Ferraris on one occasion before the 2020 season got underway at Circuit Zolder in mid-September.
“I tested the car once before the championship and the car was good, so with my experience I have now, even if I’m not a touring car specialist, if I give more confidence to the team I was quite sure we would be able to do a good job. With that confidence and me doing a good job setting up the car with the guys, that was all [that was needed]. There’s a lot of great people [in the team].
“Honestly I was not thinking we were going to be able to fight for the overall podium, but we’ve been getting quicker and quicker and it’s well deserved to all these guys. Third is my best position in the championship and I’ve also learned a lot about myself and that is also important.
“People have been quite surprised with the job we have done because of our resources. But it’s been a good challenge for me and I’ve taken it very seriously, putting in so much effort. We can all be proud of what we have achieved.”
Championship 1. Yann Ehrlacher Lynk&C0 234 pts; 2. Yvan Muller 195 pts Lynk&Co; 3. Jean-Karl Vernay 194 pts Ferraris Giulietta TCR

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IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Alfa Romeo wins the season opener at Daytona
The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce Romeo Ferraris of Tim Lewis and Roy Block won the TCR class in the opening round of the 2022 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, the four-hour race at Daytona International Speedway.
This was the second consecutive victory for the pair and their Giulietta TCR run by KMW Motorsports with TMR Engineering, following the 2021 final round at Road Atlanta.
After a plethora of lead changes, Tim Lewis gapped the field in the closing laps and drove on to the class victory by 9.5 seconds over the reigning TCR champions, Michael Lewis and Taylor Hagler in the #1 Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Elantra N.
Tim Lewis took the lead for good with a half-hour remaining when he passed Stephen Simpson in the Michael Johnson Racing Elantra.
Third place continued the inspirational story of the week, with Robert Wickens getting a podium finish in his series debut in the #33 BHA Hyundai. It was Wickens’ first race since he was paralyzed in a 2018 IndyCar crash. He logged nearly 90 minutes in the car before handing off to co-driver and fellow Canadian Mark Wilkins. The series will resume on March 16/19 at Sebring International Raceway.
Daytona – 4 hrs. race
1. T. Lewis-R. Block (KMW Motorsports, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce), 107 laps
2. M. Lewis/T. Hagler (Bryan Herta Autosport, Hyundai Elantra N), 9.524
3. R. Wickens/M. Wilkins (Bryan Herta Autosport, Hyundai Elantra N), 14.035