Thed Björk leads Yann Ehrlacher in Cyan Racing 1-2

Thed Björk moved up to second overall in the FIA TCR World Tour drivers’ championship, after leading Yann Ehrlacher home in a Cyan Racing 1-2 in the final race at the Inje Speedium circuit in South Korea.

Björk started the race from pole position thanks to being the highest scorer in the weekend prior to the race, and the Swede benefitted from having points leader Ehrlacher alongside.

At the start, Björk had a good getaway from the line and led Ehrlacher into Turn 1, with the duo thereafter remaining comfortable at the front throughout the race.

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Björk scored his third win of the season by 1.5 seconds from Ehrlacher, and in doing so has moved up to second in the standings, 32 points behind Ehrlacher.

GOAT Racing’s Esteban Guerrieri moved past HMO Customer Racings’ Josh Buchan at the start after the latter was slow away from the line, but the Honda driver had no answer to the pace of the leading blue cars and had to settle for a podium in third.

BRC Racing’s Mikel Azcona, who won the reverse-grid second race, was fourth, the Spaniard slotting into the place at the opening sequence of corners after Buchan had to catch a slide and Cyan Racing’s Santiago Urrutia went wide.

Urrutia was fifth, despite picking up cosmetic damage in a rub with Azcona on the first lap, ahead of Buchan in sixth.

SP Compétition’s Aurélien Comte spent much of the race running in eighth, but on lap 14 the CUPRA driver dived inside Cyan’s Ma Qing Hua and took seventh, leaving Ma to settle for eighth.

The top ten was completed by BRC Racing’s Norbert Michelisz and GOAT Racing’s Ignacio Montenegro, the two having swapped positions at the start.

Solite Indigo Racing’s Junesung Park scored the South Korean team’s best result of the weekend with 11^th, ahead of HMO Customer Racing’s Ryan MacMillan in 12^th, although GOAT Racing’s Dušan Borković had initially crossed the line in the position but was later penalised by five seconds for contact on the final lap.

Thus Evolve Racing’s Lo Sze Ho claimed 13^th, ahead of Borković in 14^th and BRC’s Néstor Girolami in 15^th.

Diego Moran once again won the TCR Asia sub-race with 17^th.

The TCR World Tour and TCR Asia continues at Zhuzhou in China in two weeks’ time.

Race result

POS	NO	CL	NAT	DRIVER	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	BEST	GD
1	111			Thed BJÖRK	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR	19	32:51.344	1:42.160	1
2	168			Yann EHRLACHER	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR	19	1.525	1:42.346	2
3	186			Esteban GUERRIERI	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR	19	2.073	1:42.257	4
4	196			Mikel AZCONA	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	17.760	1:42.495	6
5	112			Santiago URRUTIA	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR	19	18.200	1:42.532	5
6	30			Josh BUCHAN	HMO Customer Racing	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	18.564	1:42.464	3
7	107			Aurélien COMTE	SP Compétition	CUPRA Leon VZ TCR	19	19.347	1:43.570	11
8	155			MA Qing Hua	Lynk & Co Cyan Racing	Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR	19	30.563	1:42.672	7
9	105			Norbert MICHELISZ	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	32.655	1:43.000	10
10	123			Ignacio MONTENEGRO	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR	19	32.952	1:43.302	9
11	97			Junesung PARK	Solite Indigo Racing	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	35.612	1:43.202	21
12	5			Ryan MACMILLAN	HMO Customer Racing	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	35.730	1:43.623	13
13	281			LO Sze Ho	Evolve Racing	Hyundai i30 N TCR	19	40.474	1:43.727	16
14	62			Dušan BORKOVIĆ	GOAT Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR	19	40.570	1:43.622	8
15	129			Néstor GIROLAMI	BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	40.882	1:43.145	12
16	87			Junui PARK	Solite Indigo Racing	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	41.641	1:44.266	22
17	23			Diego MORAN	DM23 Ecuador Racing	Honda Civic Type-R FL5 TCR	19	42.940	1:43.310	14
18	3			CHOI Jeongweon	KMSA Motorsport N	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	53.986	1:44.720	15
19	288			Sean CHANG Chien Shang	RevX Racing	Audi RS3 LMS TCR II	19	54.299	1:44.751	17
20	56			Benny SANTOSO	Z Speed Motorsport	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	1:02.863	1:44.489	18
21	381			Reinghbert G. DIWA	Eurasia Motorsport	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	19	1:11.744	1:45.704	19
22	69			Andy LIANG Wenyao	Eurasia Motorsport	Hyundai Elantra N TCR	18	+ 1 LAP	1:47.012	20