Rain cancels Saturday action at Asia Touring Car Championship

While it was widely expected, unfortunately rain has forced FEMCA to cancel Saturday’s action at the Asia Touring Car Championship at the new Hongyu GDC facility in Foshan, China.  Having altered yesterday’s scheduled to try and get 2 rounds of qualifying completed, unfortunately a light rain shower at the end of seeding delayed the program and it was only possible to get 1 round of qualifying done under the lights.  With four rounds of qualifying having been scheduled for today, the organisers are now working on a revised timetable for tomorrow.  With Sunday’s weather looking good, the plan is to get 2 more rounds of qualifying in before moving to finals.  In Q1, it was the Infinity of Naoto Matsukura who was fastest from Axon’s Akio Sobue while in Stock Xray’s Shin Sawada, a podium finisher in Modified at these Championships last year when it was held indoors, TQ’d the round from team-mates Jan Ratheisky and Adam Izsay.  With the pits at the very impressive multi track Hongyu GDC buzzing with 181 racers making this the biggest & most international FEMCA Touring Car race yet, it is great to see FEMCA’s newly introduced Junior Class with controlled chassis & electric excelling with 31 budding future World Champions taking part.