WTCR is back! After a very long summer break, the World Touring Car Cup is back in action at the Autodromo de Most, an unprecedented circuit in the championship and unknown to a large part of the drivers that make up the championship grid. With four appointments to go, all on new circuits for the WTCR, each race is especially important in the fight for a title that has no less than a dozen contenders. Among them, Mikel Azcona, even if the Navarrese competes in the final round of the TCR Europe in Barcelona in parallel with this event during the weekend.
The Most racetrack it is one of four circuits to make their WTCR debut in the second half of the year. The track is 4,212 meters long and it is located just over 70 kilometers from Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. It is a circuit with a long main straight leading to a chicane, clear point of overtaking and at the same time of habitual conflict in the exits. The rest of the path is drawn from an almost infinite sequence of medium and high speed curves linked through small straight sections. The track has 21 curves.
With 240 points at stake Over four weekends in which up to eight races will be held, anything can happen in the fight for the WTCR title. With everything, Yann Ehrlacher is the rival to beat, both because of his status as champion and because of his position as the current leader of the tournament.. The Frenchman from Lynk & Co has 103 points on his locker, two more than his partner Santiago Urrutia. However, the list of pursuers of the pair of the Asian team is very long and is headed by Jean-Karl Vernay, Gilles Magnus or Frédéric Vervisch.
Within the platoon of pilots who aspire to the title is the Spanish Mikel Azcona. The CUPRA rider occupies eighth position overall with 72 points after achieving a double podium in Hungary. Nevertheless, Azcona will have a remarkable challenge this weekend as it will compete simultaneously in the final round of the TCR Europe in Barcelona and in the WTCR event in Most. The objective of conquering his second winding of the continental tournament on the Spanish track and remaining immersed in the battle for the WTCR title, something that it will force you to travel several times between both circuits throughout the weekend.
The WTCR grid remains unchanged for this restart of activity at Most, although there is a ‘new’ member. It’s about the local pilot Petr Fulin. The Czech will compete as a ‘wild card’ at the controls of a CUPRA León Competition managed by his own team in what will be his third appearance in the World Touring Car Cup through this participation model. Although he will race with extra ballast, his knowledge of the track can play in his favor against a grid in which only Luca Engstler has previous experience in Most.
Schedules of the WTCR 2021 at Autodromo de Most