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Luca Engstler takes the final pole position of the season at Zhuzhou

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Team Engstler’s Luca Engstler claimed the final TCR China championship pole position of the 2019 season after this morning’s qualifying session at Zhuzhou.

Engstler set the fastest time with 1:57.329 in Q1, followed by Honda Civic Type R FK8 TCR drivers Daniel Lloyd and André Couto.

Engstler then improved his time in the Q2 session to take the pole position with 1:57.062, followed by Lloyd, two-tenths behind, and Martin Xie in third position.

Couto was a distant fourth, 0.932 seconds off the pace, with Zhang Zhen Dong taking the MG 6 TCR to fifth position and Huang Chu Han claiming sixth position behind the wheel of his Audi RS 3 LMS.

The start of Race 1 is scheduled for this afternoon at 16:50 local time, 10:50 CEST.