Esteban Guerrieri pleased to keep title fight open despite tough weekend

Esteban Guerrieri had a tough WTCR weekend in Spain with full compensation weight and a ninth place finish in the third race as his best result.

But the Honda driver is still within reach of points leader Yann Ehrlacher.

“Considering the compensation weight we were carrying this weekend and the effect it had on the Civic Type R TCR, we can be pleased with the outcome,” said Guerrieri.

“All we could really try to do was stay clean in the first laps and take positions where possible, so it was great to get very good starts in all three races and finishing in the top 10 in races two and three was a good save from where we were.”

Guerrieri is 26 points behind Ehrlacher ahead of the final race weekend on November 14-15.

“I am a bit further back than I was last year ahead of the final round, but it’s nice to leave this weekend with our goal – of becoming champions – still intact,” said Guerrieri.

Lynk & Co driver Ehrlacher had a tough weekend as well with seventh in the second race as his best result.

“This was not the weekend we hoped for unfortunately. I had an engine issue in the last race that cost us a lot of points. But we can’t do anything about that now, we just need to reload and fully focus on the season finale,” said Ehrlacher.

The WTCR field returns to MotorLand Aragón for the season finale due to delayed construction works at Adria that was originally set to host the race.