TCR World Tour: Michelisz and Ma winners at Misano as Geely claims maiden worldwide victory
BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse’s Norbert Michelisz and Geely Cyan Racing’s Ma Qing Hua had been the victors on the opening occasion of the 2026 FIA TCR World Tour on the Misano World Circuit in Italy final weekend.
Ma’s victory in Race 2 was a major achievement because it marked the primary win for the Geely model in worldwide competitors.
It was Michelisz’s Hyundai team-mate Mikel Azcona who had secured pole place in a good qualifying session on Saturday morning, slightly below a tenth forward of Michelisz, with reigning champion Yann Ehrlacher placing the brand new Geely Preface TCR third on the grid for its first race.
Azcona led at the beginning, however by a crew settlement he quickly handed over the result in Michelisz who had the faster tempo and went on to win, whereas Azcona defended to maintain again the three Geely Prefaces of Ehrlacher, Santiago Urrutia, and Thed Björk all the way in which to the end.
The reversed grid second race offered extra thrills, with Jenson Brickley beginning on pole place in his ALM Motorsport Honda. The British driver placed on a valiant defence on the head of the pack for six laps, earlier than he was ultimately handed by the sooner Geely of Ma Qing Hua, with the Chinese language driver then going to win the race comfortably, and choose up a win for the Chinese language producer on its debut weekend.
Brickley was quickly shuffled down the order, with Azcona coming by from ninth to complete second forward of Björk, whereas Race 1 winner Michelisz suffered accident harm at the beginning of the race and retired.
With pole and two second locations, Azcona heads to the following spherical at Valencia on June 12-14 with a 17-point lead within the standings over Ehrlacher.
