World’s best touring car drivers and rising stars on stellar Macau Guia Race entry
The Macau Guia Race will host the best touring car drivers in the world from November 13-16, as the stars of the international stage prepare for battle on the most demanding of circuits.
The jewel in the crown of the international touring car calendar, the Macau Guia Race plays host to the final round of the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour season – while pitting that cast against seasoned professionals and some of the most exciting new talents in tin-top racing.
The thoroughly international field, which comprises ten full-season regular drivers and approximately 14 more entries, boasts five previous winners of the Macau Guia Race.
Frenchman Yann Ehrlacher is the driver to beat at the head of the Kumho FIA TCR World Tour standings as he chases a third FIA touring car title with Lynk & Co Cyan Racing. He is part of a four-strong Lynk & Co 03 FL TCR entry that includes two Macau Guia Race winners, Thed Björk of Sweden and China’s Ma Qing Hua, plus Santiago Urrutia of Uruguay.
Serial race winner Esteban Guerrieri of Argentina heads the chasing pack for GOAT Racing as he seeks a first world title. A winner in Macao in 2018, Guerrieri has this season partnered compatriot Ignacio Montenegro, who will take on the Guia Circuit for the first time.
Dušan Borković, who last year became the first Serbian to win the Macau Guia Race, has the chance to defend that victory in a third GOAT Racing-run Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR.
Macao was the scene of Hungarian Norbert Michelisz’s coronation last year following a tense final race of the season, and the defending champion is part of an unchanged BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse line-up alongside Spaniard Mikel Azcona and another Argentinian, Néstor Girolami.
Frenchman Aurélien Comte gave CUPRA its first Kumho FIA TCR World Tour victory at Monza in June and will lead the SP Compètition squad that has entered a second CUPRA Leon VZ TCR for a yet-to-be-announced driver.
And the talent does not stop there, as HMO Customer Racing has entered two Hyundai Elantra N TCRs for Australian duo Josh Buchan and Ryan MacMillan. Buchan, the 2023 and 2024 TCR Australia champion, impressed at the most recent Kumho FIA TCR World Tour round at The Bend in South Australia with two top-five finishes.
Korean squad Solite Indigo Racing has also entered a pair of Elantra N TCRs for Park Junesung and Park Junui. They have competed in the TCR Europe series this year, with Junesung winning the season finale and ending the season sixth in the standings.
JSB Compétition will give 19-year-old Frenchman Raphaël Fournier his second taste of Kumho FIA TCR World Tour action, having scored points in two races at round two at Valencia.
The 2022 Macau Guia Race runner-up, Hong Kong driver Lo Sze Ho, will campaign a Hyundai i30 N TCR for Evolve Racing. Lo was also the winner of the 2023 TCR Asia Challenge in Macao.
Experienced outfit Eurasia Motorsport is another team fielding a pair of Elantra N TCRs, for Andy Liang Wenyao and Reignbert Diwa.
A fifth marque will be on the grid too, with RevX Racing fielding an Audi RS 3 LMS TCR Sean Chang Chien Shang, who currently leads the TCR Asia series. Chang’s nearest competitor there, Benny Santoso of Indonesia, is also entered for the Macau Guia Race in a Hyundai Elantra N TCR run by Z.Speed. A Macau Guia Race regular, Z.Speed also plans to run two more Hyundai Elantra N TCRs.
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Macau Grand Prix Organizing Committee