Enrico Bettera of Pit Lane Competizioni and Salvatore Tavano of SEAT Motorsport Italia shared race wins in TCR Italy’s fifth event at Imola.
Tavano took the most out of the weekend as he finished third in Race 1 and won Race 2, extending his leading margin in the championship to 40.5 points over Luigi Ferrara who has slipped to third, 8.5 points behind Tavano’s teammate Matteo Greco.
Ferrara lost a dominant win in Race 1, as he was hit by a penalty for not respecting the safety car procedure. As a consequence, Bettera - who set pole position and chased Ferrara throughout the race - inherited the victory, while Massimiliano Mugelli and Tavano completed the podium. Luca Rangoni claimed a brilliant fourth position in his maiden appearance with the Top Run-built Subaru WRX STI.
In Race 2, Tavano made a brilliant start from sixth on the reverse grid and overtook Greco during the opening lap to lead for the whole race, resisting the pressure of Rangoni who finished a surprising second ahead of Greco.
Ferrara had another black race; he pitted with a flat tyre during a great recovery, managed finish ninth, but was penalised again for an infringement during a safety car period and dropped out of the points.
Two other potential rivals for Tavano, Nicola Baldan and Eric Scalvini, eliminated each other in an absurd incident during Qualifying. While zigzagging to warm up the tyres, Scalvini hit Baldan and sent his car rolling over. The reigning champion was hospitalized with a broken collarbone and Scalvini was excluded for causing the incident. 
The TCR Italy championship will resume after the summer break at Vallelunga on September 14/16.

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The ADAC TCR Germany fourth race meeting, this weekend at the Nürburgring, marks the debut of the Hyundai i30 N cars run by the Liqui Moly Team Engstler. Hyundai becomes the eighth brand represented in the series.
The two i30 N cars driven by Luca Engstler and Théo Coicaud have completed their first test last week on the Eifel circuit.
Though he has not scored a race win so far, Engstler is well in contention for the title, as he currently lies third in the standings, 26 points behind Harald Proczyk (HP Racing Opel Astra) and four behind Niels Langeveld (Racing One Audi RS3 LMS).
Last year's races at the Nürburgring were won by Josh Files - who eventually claimed his second TCR Germany title - and Antti Buri.
While Files has switched to TCR Europe, Buri (LMS Racing Audi) is currently classified fourth in the championship, 52 points off the leader and is eager to reduce the gap. 

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The TCR UK resumes this week at Oulton Park for rounds 9 and 10, three weeks after Oliver Taylor became the first driver able to beat Daniel Lloyd.
Taylor drove his Pyro Motorsport Honda Civic to finish second behind Lloyd's Volkswagen Golf GTI in Race 1 at Castle Combe, but then inherited the victory when Lloyd was penalised and demoted to second for unfair driving. In fact he had stoled the lead from Taylor - who had led for the whole race - by pushing him wide on the final lap. Lloyd was also given a 15-point penalty. The WestCoast Racing driver took his revenge in Race 2, scoring his seventh victory of the season and retained an 82-point leading margin over Taylor in the standings.
However, Taylor's victory showed that he is not unbeatable.
At Oulton Park the series welcomes Tim Docker who will be driving a Volkswagen Golf GTI run by Maximum Motorsport. The team will expand to three cars, adding Docker's Golf to Carl Swift's and Stewart Lines' Cupra cars. Lines claimed Maximum Motorsport's best result so far in the season with a third place in Castle Combe's Race 2.
The latest addition to the grid was Ash Sutton, the reigning BTCC champion, who will replace Finlay Crocker in the Honda Civic FK7 run by Verizon Connect Racing. Increased business commitments looked as though they would force Crocker to miss the event, but the Scot offered Sutton the opportunity to drive the car this weekend.

Photos: TCR UK-Matt Sayle

Two weeks after the thrilling final at Lime Rock Park, the IMSA Continental Tire Sportscar Challenge heads for Road America at Elkhart Lake that will host the seventh round of the series.
The Compass Racing teams of Tom Long-Britt Casey jr. and Rodrigo Sales-Kuno Wittmer will continue their fight for the inaugural title in the TCR class at the wheel of their Audi RS3 LMS cars. Long and Casey are leading the standings with only one point over Sales and Wittmer, 191 to 190.
The teams placed in third and fourth will be chasing their first win: Carpentier-O'Rourke of eEuroparts.com Racing (163 pts) and Block-Kleinubing in the third Compass Racing car (159 pts).
The JDC-Miller Motorsport's pair of Stephen Simpson and Michael Johnson will try to repeat their Lime Rock victory, when they inflicted a first defeat to Compass Racing.

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