{"id":1647,"date":"2017-05-03T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:16:31","slug":"zele-misses-tcr-spa-race-for-carrera-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Zele misses TCR Spa race for Carrera Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17757316_1265092506877923_7120681585086740984_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1638 alignleft\" alt=\"17757316_1265092506877923_7120681585086740984_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17757316_1265092506877923_7120681585086740984_n-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17757316_1265092506877923_7120681585086740984_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/17757316_1265092506877923_7120681585086740984_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Zele Racing will not participate in the TCR International Series&#8216; next race in Belgium, due to a time conflict with the season opening race in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><\/em>The Austrians enjoyed a great start into their maiden TCR International Series season, dominating pre-season testing and Free Practice at the first event in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Driver Ferenc Ficza qualified on P3 and earned the first podium for the outfit coming as runner-up in Race 1. On round 2 in Bahrain, Ficza won pole position for race 2 and collected P6 in a rollercoaster ride decision.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18301306_10209103754770275_1469100838563450492_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"18301306_10209103754770275_1469100838563450492_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/18301306_10209103754770275_1469100838563450492_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/em>However, Zele Racing will have to sit out round 3 at the notorious Spa-Francorchamps circuit, because it is run on the same weekend as the opener of their Porsche Carrera Cup Germany programme on Hockenheimring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;It&#8217;s a pity, but we cannot be in two places at the same time,&#8220; team boss Michael Zele said.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Zele has confirmed that the team will return to the TCR grid for rounds 4 in Monza, Italy, and round 5, in Salzburgring, their home race.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>2017 TCR International Series Calendar<\/b><\/p>\n<p>May 27\/28\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Autodromo di Monza, Italy<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">June 10\/11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salzburgring, Austria<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">July 1\/2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hungaroring, Hungary<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">July 8\/9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Germany<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">September 2\/3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chang International Circuit, Thailand<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">October 7\/8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zhejiang International Circuit, China<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">November 26\/27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yas Marina Circuit, UAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zele Racing will not participate in the TCR International Series&#8216; next race in Belgium, due to a time conflict with the season opening race in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1647\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}