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Gallery: New cars on the block in Macau

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With 35 cars entered for this weekend’s Macau Grand Prix, there are some extra cars and paint jobs on display for the Guia Race 2.0T. We’ll quickly run them down.

Above is Alex Hui’s Teamwork Motorsport Citroën C-Elysée. Hui and team-mate Sunny Wong are running under the Suncity Group Racing banner in their China Touring Car Championship specification racers, with just five cars in this class against the other 30 TCR-spec cars.

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This is the Elegant Racing SEAT León Cup Racer of Lou Hon Kei, one of just two Macanese drivers entered for the event. Behind him is former CTCC champion Jiang Tengyi in Linky Racing’s Audi A3, one of the other five CTCC-spec cars.

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Josh Files makes his TCR International Series return in a potential-race winning entry by Target Competition. The Italian team won the Guia Race, and the drivers’ and teams’ titles here last season, and Files comes to Macau having won the 2016 TCR Germany drivers’ title. Files is one of just two British drivers entered for the event, the other being championship leader James Nash.

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Mr Tecpro himself, Rafaël Galiana, will be back with Target Competition at Macau, this time behind the wheel of a SEAT León Cup Racer. Galiana’s Macau debut lasted just one practice session last year before the car was irreparably damaged. Galiana made his TCR return in Thailand with WestCoast Racing as a one-off for the team, before rejoining Target for the last two rounds in one of their Hondas.

ART (no, not that ART, this is the Asia Racing Team) are back after a year away from TCR with their SEAT León Cup Racer for Edgar Lau, who makes his debut.

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Back another shot after a power steering issue cruelly robbed him of a potential first win at Macau in 2014, Tiago Monteiro is back at the Guia Race, courtesy of a wild card entry due to his performances in TCR Benelux. The car will be run as a collaboration between both WestCoast Racing and JAS Motorsport, the same way his WTCC team-mate Rob Huff’s entry was handled last year.

Monteiro has already thrown down the gauntlet after setting the fastest lap in the first free practice session on Thursday. Monteiro is running #81, as his usual number #18 is unavailable after it was used by Ildar Rakhmatullin during the Sochi race weekend.