WCTR

The First Victory of Norbert Michelisz
Norbert Michelisz completely dominated the WTCR's last race in the Slovakiaring, a race involving a huge car crash on the first lap, which led to some of the main protagonists of the WTCR being out of the race. Among them, championship leader Gabriele Tarquini, who opened the way for Yvan Muller to ascend to the helm of the competition, but the truth is that in the restart of the race the Hyundai Frenchman saw a wheel loose from his car, of evidence.In this way, Norbert Michelisz secured his first win of the year - finally - with the BRC Racing driver to convert his pole position in an easy triumph, finishing with about two seconds ahead of Peugoet 308 TCR of the DG Sport Peugeot piloted by Aurelien Comte, who never managed to truly annoy the Hungarian.

Michelisz got off to a good start, but the race was soon interrupted by the crash at Turn 3. It all happened when Gabriele Tarquini pulled in the 'back' of Benjamin Lessennes's Honda Civic, which went on top and 'took' with him John Filippi (Cupra), Esteban Guerrieri (Honda).

This incident generated a lot of confusion in the squad, the Safety Car had to intervene. On the lap before the restart, Yvan Muller lost a wheel of his Hyundai and left the track, and from there, Michelisz completely controlled the front of the race, which had only fights beyond the second place. Michelisz and Comte cruised, but soon after Frederic Vervisch (Audi) was fiercely attacked, especially on the last lap by Thed Bjork (Hyundai), who previously had to unravel from Fabrizio Giovanardi's Alfa Romeo Giulietta.

With everything that happened, Bjork progressed from 19th to 5th, delayed to pass Giovanardi, and when he succeeded was behind Vervisch, passing the goal in fourth, but only with 0.039s behind his opponent. Wildcard Petr Fulin was fifth, ahead of Kevin Ceccon's second alpha, which debuted in Slovakia.

1	Norbert Michelisz	Hyundai	13 voltas
2	Aurélien Comte	Peugeot	2.005
3	Frederic Vervisch	Audi	8.273
4	Thed Björk	Hyundai	8.312
5	Petr Fulin	Seat	8.796
6	Kevin Ceccon	Alfa Romeo	9.150
7	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Alfa Romeo	9.382
8	Tom Coronel	Honda	9.729
9	Pepe Oriola	Seat	11.065
10	Zsolt David Szabo	Seat	11.721
11	Aurelien Panis	Audi	15.253
12	Mato Homola	Peugeot	20.767
13	Andrej Studenic	Volkswagen	25.516
14	Rob Huff	Volkswagen	46.026
15	Yann Ehrlacher	Honda	1m24.581
16	Denis Dupont	Audi	1 volta
	Yvan Muller	Hyundai	10 voltas
	Mehdi Bennani	Volkswagen	12 voltas
	Gordon Shedden	Audi	12 voltas
	Nathanaël Berthon	Audi	12 voltas
	Norbert Nagy	Seat	12 voltas
	Jean-Karl Vernay	Audi	12 voltas
	John Filippi	Seat	–
	Esteban Guerrieri	Honda	–
	Benjamin Lessennes	Honda	–
	Gabriele Tarquini	Hyundai	–

Fábio Mendes, de Portugal