Citroën’s José María López took victory in the opening World Touring Car Championship race at Termas de Río Hondo in Argentina, beating Zengő Motorsport’s Norbert Michelisz by 2.526 seconds.
Argentine driver López led the entire race from pole position and was never challenged by the Honda of Michelisz. The Hungarian driver made his way into second at the start of the race as both Yvan Muller and Sébastien Loeb in front of him got off to slow starts.
Muller took the final podium position in third, with the Frenchman seeing his deficit to López in the championship increase to 50 points. Loeb was fourth, after the French duo repassed a fast-starting Honda of Tiago Monteiro on the opening lap of the race.
Portugese Monteiro finished in fifth, unable to pressure the Citroën duo in front after initially getting the better of the pair on the opening lap.
Tom Chilton finished sixth for ROAL Motorsport, with the Brit being the only Chevrolet driver to finish in the points in a difficult race for the Cruze cars.
LADA had reason to celebrate, as Rob Huff finished in seventh. The Brit got past the works Honda of Gabriele Tarquini on the opening lap of the race and the Italian was unable to repass, being forced to settle for eighth.
Ninth went to Mehdi Bennani, ensuring that all four Honda Civics finished inside the top ten.
James Thompson took the final point for LADA in tenth, after passing ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Coronel for the position at the final corner on the final lap. It marks only the second time that the Russian marque has had two cars inside the top ten in a race.
Coronel went on to finish in 11th ahead of Münnich Motorsport’s Gianni Morbidelli and René Münnich. Mikhail Kozlovskiy was the final TC1 driver in 14th.
For the 12th time in 2014 victory in the TC2 class went to Franz Engstler ahead of Campos Racing’s John Filippi.
There were two retirements from the race, with both being Campos Racing cars. Serb Dušan Borković retired with a left-rear puncture whilst running in 13th, whilst Frenchman Hugo Valente completed only seven laps due to brake problems.
Round 16 takes place at 19:25 BST (20:25 CEST; 15:25 ART).
Top ten result
| POS | NO | CL | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | BEST | GD |
| 1 | 37 | TC1 | José María LÓPEZ |  |
Citroën Total WTCC | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 13 | 12 LAPS | 1:46.456 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | TC1 | Norbert MICHELISZ |  |
Zengő Motorsport | Honda Civic WTCC | 13 | 2.526 | 1:46.626 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | TC1 | Yvan MULLER |  |
Citroën Total WTCC | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 13 | 3.271 | 1:46.652 | 2 |
| 4 | 9 | TC1 | Sébastien LOEB | |
Citroën Total WTCC | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 13 | 7.613 | 1:46.776 | 3 |
| 5 | 18 | TC1 | Tiago MONTEIRO |  |
Castrol Honda WTC Team | Honda Civic WTCC | 13 | 8.871 | 1:47.030 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | TC1 | Tom CHILTON |  |
ROAL Motorsport | Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 | 13 | 9.508 | 1:46.938 | 6 |
| 7 | 12 | TC1 | Rob HUFF | |
LADA Sport Lukoil | LADA Granta 1.6T | 13 | 13.893 | 1:47.495 | 10 |
| 8 | 2 | TC1 | Gabriele TARQUINI |  |
Castrol Honda WTC Team | Honda Civic WTCC | 13 | 14.494 | 1:47.372 | 7 |
| 9 | 25 | TC1 | Mehdi BENNANI |  |
Proteam Racing | Honda Civic WTCC | 13 | 17.929 | 1:47.401 | 8 |
| 10 | 11 | TC1 | James THOMPSON | |
LADA Sport Lukoil | LADA Granta 1.6T | 13 | 25.133 | 1:47.786 | 13 |