Teddy Clairet drove in what he called one of the races of his life in 30+ degree heat at Misano to take his second win of the season. The win moves him ahead of brother and team-mate Jimmy Clairet into the lead of the drivers’ standings heading into the summer break.

Clairet started from pole position courtesy of the reversed grid, and had a great launch into Turn 1 ahead of Felipe Fernández, while Marco Butti had a slow launch from third on the grid in his MM Motorsport Honda and dropped to fourth behind the CUPRA of Eric Gené.

Gené picked off Fernández’s Honda at Turn 13 for second, and began to close down on race leader Clairet. Butti regained third place with a move on Fernández at the start of lap two, while Santiago Concepción moved up to fifth ahead of Junesung Park, though he then went wide at the exit of Turn 6 and rejoined just ahead of Park and Jenson Brickley's CUPRA, with all three narrowly avoiding contact.

Filippo Barberi was then the first retirement of the race, going off into the gravel trap with a short safety car called.

At the restart, Clairet managed to fight off a challenge from Gené, who nearly took the lead at the final corner, but the Spanish racer soon found himself under pressure from Butti’s Honda, which allowed Clairet some relief and he was able to break away.

Brickley was able to take fifth from Concepción after a daring move at the Turn 14 hairpin. Concepción tried to come back at him, he lost ground and then dropped to tenth on the penultimate lap after he was passed by Jacopo Cimenes’ rival Honda.

Clairet went on to win the race by just under a second ahead of Gené, with Butti completing the podium. Points leader Jimmy Clairet stopped with a repeat of the fuel pressure issue he experienced in Race 1, with Misano being his first zero-scoring weekend of the year.

Teddy Clairet’s victory therefore moves him 14 points clear of brother Jimmy in the standings, while Eric Gené is up to third, just four points behind Jimmy, with a race win’s worth of points now covering the top five heading into the series’ two-month summer break.

The TCR Europe series resumes at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on September 5-7.