WTCR Zandvoort: Munnich Honda duo Guerrieri/Ehrlacher top practice

Fresh from his first win of the season at last weekend's Nurburgring Nordschleife round, Guerrieri set the fastest time of either of the sessions - which represent Saturday's only WTCR activity at Zandvoort - with a 1m44.300s lap in FP2.

Ehrlacher jumped up to second late on in the session in his similar Honda Civic, lapping just over a tenth of a second slower than his team-mate.

That result marked a reversal of the pair's FP1 result - with Ehrlacher, the nephew of four-time World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller, pipping Guerrieri by 0.032 seconds on that occasion.

Aurelien Comte put in two eye catching performances in his DG Sport Peugeot 308TCR, finishing the two half-hour practices fourth and third respectively.

The Frenchman was beaten to the third fastest time in FP1 by three-time British Touring Car champion Gordon Shedden, who only completed six laps but ended up 0.119s away from Ehrlacher's pace-setting time.

Shedden was 10th in the second session, with his WRT team-mate Jean-Karl Vernay fourth - heading an Audi RS3 LMS 4-5-6 in the FP2 order from Nordschleife podium finisher Frederic Vervisch and his Comtoyou team-mate Nathanael Berthon.

Rob Huff was seventh in the second session, having finished FP1 fifth in his Sebastien Loeb Racing Volkswagen Golf GTi.

Gabriele Tarquini was the leading Hyundai runner in FP2 in 16th, with BRC Racing team-mate Norbert Michelisz two places further back and YMR pair Thed Bjork and Muller 19th and 22nd respectively.

The i30 N took a significant hit in the latest round of Balance of Performance changes released on Thursday by TCR's technical department, and Bjork's 11th place in FP1 was the only instance where a Hyundai got within a second of the pace in either session.

Wilcard entrant Prince Bernhard van Oranje-Nassau - co-owner of the Zandvoort circuit - was 23rd in FP1 in his Audi RS3 LMS run by Bas Koeten Racing, 1.794s off the pace.

He was 26th in FP2, one place ahead of WTCR regular Tom Coronel in his Boutsen Ginion Honda Civic.

FP1 times

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Yann Ehrlacher	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	1m44.967s	12
2	Esteban Guerrieri	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	0.032s	11
3	Gordon Shedden	WRT	Audi	0.119s	6
4	Aurelien Comte	DG Sport Competition	Peugeot	0.302s	11
5	Rob Huff	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Volkswagen	0.389s	11
6	Frederic Vervisch	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	0.446s	11
7	Jean-Karl Vernay	WRT	Audi	0.523s	12
8	Mat'o Homola	DG Sport Competition	Peugeot	0.629s	12
9	James Thompson	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	0.669s	13
10	Pepe Oriola	Campos Racing	Cupra	0.735s	13
11	Thed Bjork	YMR	Hyundai	0.832s	13
12	Benjamin Lessennes	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Honda	0.946s	12
13	Nathanael Berthon	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	1.119s	12
14	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Volkswagen	1.124s	13
15	Denis Dupont	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	1.185s	12
16	Norbert Michelisz	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai	1.239s	14
17	Yvan Muller	YMR	Hyundai	1.333s	13
18	Aurelien Panis	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	1.422s	13
19	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai	1.494s	12
20	Norbert Nagy	Zengo Motorsport	Cupra	1.626s	12
21	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Cupra	1.743s	14
22	Tom Coronel	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Honda	1.787s	12
23	Bernhard van Oranje	Bas Koeten Racing	Audi	1.794s	14
24	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Team Mulsanne	Alfa Romeo	1.811s	12
25	Michael Verhagen	Bas Koeten Racing	Audi	2.139s	13
26	Zsolt Szabo	Zengo Motorsport	Cupra	2.449s	14

FP2 times

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Esteban Guerrieri	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	1m44.300s	13
2	Yann Ehrlacher	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	0.108s	12
3	Aurelien Comte	DG Sport Competition	Peugeot	0.287s	13
4	Jean-Karl Vernay	WRT	Audi	0.418s	14
5	Frederic Vervisch	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	0.419s	13
6	Nathanael Berthon	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	0.440s	12
7	Rob Huff	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Volkswagen	0.460s	12
8	Benjamin Lessennes	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Honda	0.591s	13
9	Aurelien Panis	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	0.607s	12
10	Gordon Shedden	WRT	Audi	0.646s	11
11	Mat'o Homola	DG Sport Competition	Peugeot	0.831s	14
12	James Thompson	Munnich Motorsport	Honda	0.838s	13
13	Pepe Oriola	Campos Racing	Cupra	0.878s	14
14	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Volkswagen	1.005s	14
15	Denis Dupont	Comtoyou Racing	Audi	1.073s	12
16	Gabriele Tarquini	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai	1.354s	12
17	Zsolt Szabo	Zengo Motorsport	Cupra	1.413s	14
18	Norbert Michelisz	BRC Racing Team	Hyundai	1.459s	13
19	Thed Bjork	YMR	Hyundai	1.558s	12
20	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Cupra	1.795s	10
21	Fabrizio Giovanardi	Team Mulsanne	Alfa Romeo	1.804s	12
22	Yvan Muller	YMR	Hyundai	1.806s	12
23	Gianni Morbidelli	Team Mulsanne	Alfa Romeo	1.850s	12
24	Michael Verhagen	Bas Koeten Racing	Audi	2.158s	15
25	Norbert Nagy	Zengo Motorsport	Cupra	2.208s	14
26	Bernhard van Oranje	Bas Koeten Racing	Audi	2.408s	14
27	Tom Coronel	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Honda	2.885s	12