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Norbert Michelisz sets the pace in first Hungaroring practice

Norbert Michelisz set the pace in first practice for his home round of the TCR International Series at the Hungaroring, where the Honda driver is also making his début in the championship.

Michelisz, who is driving for his own M1RA team, posted a time of 1 minute 54.133 seconds to lap the Hungaroring over seventh tenths faster than the second quickest car of Craft-Bamboo Racing’s Pepe Oriola.

The factory WTCC driver had improved his best lap three times during the half-hour session, asserting his dominance in his first TCR event of the season.

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Third quickest was Comtoyou Racing’s Frédéric Vervisch in his Audi, with the Belgian having also picked up a penalty ahead of this weekend’s first race for having an engine change in his car ahead of the event, meaning he will start from the back of the grid for race one no matter where he qualifies on Saturday.

Another Hungarian was fourth fastest, this time being the second M1RA Honda of Attila Tassi, some 1.5 seconds behind his team-mate and team boss.

Mat’o Homola was the leading Opel racer in fifth, ahead of WestCoast Racing’s Gianni Morbidelli in sixth, who was the quickest of the Volkswagen drivers.

The two Leopard Racing VWs of Rob Huff and Jean-Karl Vernay failed to post representative times in the session as they focussed on giving their cars a shakedown after rebuilds following last week’s crashes in Salzburg.

Craft-Bamboo Racing’s James Nash was seventh, whilst the top ten was rounded out by the second WestCoast car of Giacomo Altoè, GE-Force’s Dušan Borković and the third M1RA car of Roberto Colciago.

Championship leader Stefano Comini could only manage 14th after the Audi driver picked up a puncture.

There were dramas for rookie Mark Jedlóczky who lost a wheel on his Unicorse Alfa Romeo, although he managed to avoid hitting the barriers, whilst four of the Zengő Motorsport cars did not take part in the session, including the newly-delivered KIA for Ferenc Ficza.

Second free practice takes place on Saturday at 12:15 CEST.

Session results

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 59 Norbert MICHELISZ M1RA Honda Civic Type-R TCR 12 1:54.133 0.000
2 74 Pepe ORIOLA Lukoil Craft-Bamboo Racing SEAT León TCR 12 1:54.864 0.731
3 6 Frédéric VERVISCH Comtoyou Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR 13 1:55.171 1.038
4 9 Attila TASSI M1RA Honda Civic Type-R TCR 12 1:55.670 1.537
5 70 Mat’o HOMOLA DG Sport Compétition Opel Astra TCR 12 1:55.771 1.638
6 10 Gianni MORBIDELLI West Coast Racing Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR 11 1:55.840 1.707
7 54 James NASH Lukoil Craft-Bamboo Racing SEAT León TCR 15 1:56.035 1.902
8 21 Giacomo ALTOÈ West Coast Racing Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR 14 1:56.097 1.964
9 62 Dušan BORKOVIĆ GE-Force Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR 12 1:56.173 2.040
10 5 Roberto COLCIAGO M1RA Honda Civic Type-R TCR 13 1:56.174 2.041
11 18 Duncan ENDE Icarus Motorsports SEAT León TCR 14 1:56.334 2.201
12 17 Daniel LLOYD Lukoil Craft-Bamboo Racing SEAT León TCR 14 1:56.503 2.370
13 16 Davit KAJAIA GE-Force Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR 13 1:56.573 2.440
14 1 Stefano COMINI Comtoyou Racing Audi RS3 LMS TCR 10 1:56.736 2.603
15 34 Stian PAULSEN Stian Paulsen Racing SEAT León TCR 13 1:56.813 2.680
16 11 Jens Reno MØLLER Reno Racing Honda Civic Type-R TCR 13 1:56.820 2.687
17 20 Mark JEDLÓCZKY Unicorse Team Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR 11 1:56.912 2.779
18 31 Milovan VESNIĆ ASK Vesnić Audi RS3 LMS TCR 14 1:57.109 2.976
19 66 Grégoire DEMOUSTIER DG Sport Compétition Opel Astra TCR 12 1:58.061 3.928
20 26 Istvan BERNULA Botka Rally Team KIA Cee’d TCR 14 1:58.688 4.555
21 3 Rob HUFF Leopard Racing Team WRT Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR 11 1:59.489 5.356
22 2 Jean-Karl VERNAY Leopard Racing Team WRT Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR 3 2:01.601 7.468
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