Audi - Victory on home turf 08.08.2022: Nathanaël Berthon managed his first victory of the year in front of a home crowd on the seventh race weekend of the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup. The Audi Sport driver had missed the pole position for the first sprint on the Anneau du Rhin by on

Nathanaël Berthon managed his first victory of the year in front of a home crowd on the seventh race weekend of the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup.


The Audi Sport driver had missed the pole position for the first sprint on the Anneau du Rhin by only 26 thousandths of a second. In the race, the Frenchman in the Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport Audi RS 3 LMS managed a perfect start in which he overtook front runner Nestor Girolami in a Honda.


In the course of the 22 race laps in Alsace Berthon remained permanently in the lead. The 33-year-old professional withstood the pressure of the Argentinean, who in the end finished just 0.299 seconds behind.



After two previous victories by Gilles Magnus in Spain and in Italy, this was already the third WTCR season victory for the Audi RS 3 LMS. Jean-Michel Baert’s Belgian team subsequently clinched another trophy. In the second sprint, privateer Mehdi Bennani was the best Audi driver.


Only Cupra driver Rob Huff was faster at the start than the privateer from Morocco, who in the end finished 0.896 seconds behind in second position, his personal best of the season.



Best Audi driver in the standings remains Gilles Magnus in fourth ahead of Nathanaël Berthon, while Comtoyou Team Audi Sport is third out of eight teams in the team standings. In addition to that, Bennani is second in the Trophy classification for privateers.




Eva-Maria Becker - photo FIA WTCR