Björk and Muller top wet Practice at Marrakech

The 2018 WTCR got underway with a wet Practice session at Marrakech.
YMRT’s teammates Thed Björk and Yvan Muller topped the timesheet with laps of 1:32.821 and 1:32.862 respectively, at the wheel of their Hyundai i30 N TCR cars.
Björk has emerged as the fastest halfway though the session, posting a sequence of provisional fastest laps – 1:33.209, 1:33.004, 1:32.825 – before improving by a further four thousandths of a second. Muller set the second fastest lap just before the end of the practice.
Rob Huff (SLR Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR) 1:32.891, Pepe Oriola (Campos Racing Cupra TCR) 1:33.079 and Jean-Karl Vernay (WRT Audi RS3 LMS) 1:33.232 rounded off the top five and they were followed by the BRC Hyundai cars of Norbert Michelisz (1:33.315) and Gabriele Tarquini (1:33.340).
The first of the Honda Civic TCR cars, the Münnich Motorsport’s of Yann Ehrlacher ranked eighth (1:33.399) ahead of Fabrizio Giovanardi (Mulsanne Racing Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR) 1:33.729 and Erlacher’s teammates Esteban Guerrieri (1:33.779) and James Thompson (1:33.797).
All in all there were cars of six different brands covered by less than one second in the top-eleven positions. The best of the DG Sport Compétition’s Peugeot 308 TCR cars was Aurélien Comte’s, in 20^th position.
There were a number of spins on the wet track, but the only incident occurred in the dying moments, when Zsolt Dávid Szabó crashed his Zengő Motorsport Cupra.
The second Practice will start at 11:00am local time. 

Picture: WTCR/DPPI