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TCR 2016

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In January, the eleventh running of the Hankook

24H of Dubai was the season opener with a record

entry of 100 cars. Reigning 24H Series teams’

champions, Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing from

Lebanon, got the title defence off to the perfect

start by claiming a commanding win in the Touring

Car class with the SEAT León Cup Racer driven by

brothers Ramzi, Nabil and Sami Moutran and Phil

Quaife. The ZEST Racecar Engineering entry and the

NKPP Racing SEAT cars rounded out the top three

and a clean sweep of the podium for SEAT.

The second round of the series took teams and

drivers to the beautiful landscape of Italy’s Tuscany

region for the Hankook 12H of Mugello in March.

Here, PCR Sport celebrated victory in the TCR class

with its SEAT León Cup Racer driven by Harriet

Arruabarrena, Antonio Aristi, Jordi Masdeu and

Iñigo Vigiola.

Then, last weekend, the inaugural Hankook 24H of

Silverstone served both as the third round of the

24H Series and as the season opener of the new

Touring Car Endurance Series (TCES).

TCR cars came close to claiming overall victory, as

the Team Bleekemolen SEAT León Cup Racer

(Sebastiaan Bleekemolen/Melvin de Groot/Pim van

Riet/Dennis de Borst) led for 15 hours before

retiring with an engine failure. Two other SEAT cars

finished on the podium close behind a powerful

BMW M3 V8: the Red

(Rik

Breukers/Ivo Breukers/Bert de Heus) in second and

Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing (Ramzi Moutran/Nabil

Moutran/Sami Moutran/Phil Quaife) in third.

So far, only SEAT cars have represented the TCR

field in the 24H Series and TCES, however Honda

Civic, Opel Astra and Volkswagen Golf Gti are

expected to join for the upcoming rounds.

The start of the 24H Silverstone