Yann Ehrlacher leads Lynk & Co 1-2 in Valencia finale

Yann Ehrlacher headed home team-mate Santiago Urrutia to a Lynk & Co Cyan Racing 1-2 in the third and final FIA TCR World Tour race of the race weekend at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia.

The intra-team fight between the two continued from Race 1 as pole-sitter Ehrlacher defended the inside at the start from team-mate Urrutia, with Hyundai’s Néstor Girolami right behind in third place.

Urrutia overtook Ehrlacher for the lead on the second lap, only for the Frenchman to get back past a lap later.

GOAT Racing Honda driver Esteban Guerrieri held fourth place under pressure from Hyundai driver Norbert Michelisz and ALM Motorsport’s Ruben Volt.

Further back, Honda driver Ignacio Montenegro overtook Cyan Racing’s Thed Björk for ninth place on lap six. The Argentinian would also get past Azcona for seventh two laps later.

But Butti was hit with a five-second penalty for jumping the start, dropping him down to 15th place in the end.

Eric Gené (Cupra), who started from the back of the grid due to a steering issue, retired to the pits at the end of lap eleven with further technical issues.

Ehrlacher won as the chequered flag dropped with a comfortable margin to Urrutia while Girolami completed the podium, four seconds adrift.

Guerrieri finished fourth, followed by Michelisz and Volt, with Ma Qing Hua in seventh place. Montenegro crossed the line next, with Azcona and Björk completing the top ten.

Ehrlacher’s win has brought the Cyan Racing driver to the top of the standings on 152 points, six more than Urrutia and seven more than Guerrieri.

The next round of the FIA TCR World Tour takes place at Monza in Italy next weekend.