WTCC – Sébastien Loeb best time in Barcelona

On the occasion of the official day of pre-season testing of WTCC on the Catalan route of Barcelona, ​​the Citroën C-Elysée TC1 showed themselves once again in spirit. Best time of the morning session in 1'49″972, Sébastien Loeb signed the best performance of the day in Spain. The time of the nine-time world rally champion was not beaten during the runs during the afternoon, the Moroccan Medhi Bennani, entered this season in a Sébastien Loeb Racing C-Elysée being the fastest in 1'50 ″948.

The field for this day was rather small, since apart from Loeb for Citroën Racing and Bennani, we only counted the two official Honda Civics from the Portuguese Tiago Monteiro and the Italian Gabriele Tarquini and that of the Hungarian Norbert Michelisz (Zengo Motorsport), as well as the Chevrolet Cruze TC1 of racing fields entrusted to the French pair Hugo Valente? John Filippi and the sister car of the Stefano d'Aste's Munich Motorsport, whose time was not included in the official timing. The Lada Vesta TC1 recently took their side the track at Magny-Cours in Nièvre.

Combined ranking WTCC tests:

1. Sébastien Loeb (Citroën C-Elysée WTCC) 1’49″972s
2. Mehdi Bennani (Citroën C-Elysée WTCC) 1’50″847s
3. Gabriele Tarquini (Honda Civic WTCC) 1’51″063s
4. Hugo Valente (Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1) 1’51″216s
5. Tiago Monteiro (Honda Civic WTCC) 1’51″319s
6. John Filippi (Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1) 1’51″723s
7. Norbert Mischelisz (Honda Civic WTCC) 1’52″045s