The circuit was damp after overnight rain, leading to two laps behind the safety car at the start before the cars set off in two-by-two formation as the safety car came into the pit lane.

BRC Racing Team's Gabriele Covini led the way into La Source in his Hyundai Elantra N TCR, while contact between RC2 Racing Team's Victor Fernández and the PMA Motorsport driver Sandro Pelatti at the rear of the field propelled Pelatti’s CUPRA into the barriers at La Source. He’d later drag the car up to Les Combes before retiring.

Monlau Motorsport's Viktor Andersson quickly made his way up to fourth behind the leading trio of Covini, Pernia, and the Audi of Giacomo Prandelli, but Andersson soon lost positions as he was passed by both Junui Park’s Hyundai and the RC2 Racing Team Honda of Sergio López.

Park was now in the ascendency, passing Prandelli at Les Combes on the following lap, while Covini pulled into the pit lane from the lead at the end of lap two with a technical issue, leaving Pernía to take over the lead ahead of Park and Prandelli.

Park was quickly on the attack, and made his move around the outside of Pernía's Squadra Martino Honda at Les Combes on lap four, after first trying to dive down the inside.

López was next to pass Prandelli, moving up into the final podium position, while Prandelli was now under pressure from Andersson’s CUPRA.

Up front, Park controlled the race to win by 2.8 seconds over Pernía, with López completing the podium in his first TCR race in three years.

Andersson passed  Prandelli for fourth at the final opportunity at the last corner, but later received a five-second penalty for the contact which demoted him to sixt. Prandelli was classified in fourth ahead of his team-mate Rubén Fernández.

Penalties: Viktor Andersson received a five-second time penalty for contact with Giacomo Prandelli at Turn 19 on the final lap, dropping him from fourth to sixth.

Concepción and Park lead the standings of the TCR Europe Cup

After the first of two events, the weekend's race winners Santiago Concepción and Junui Park are in the joint-lead of the TCR Europe Cup drivers' standings on 30 points each after a fantastic pair of victories.

The two drivers were also the winners in the RTI Trophy for up-and-coming drivers, and so also share the lead of that trophy with the same score, just five points ahead of the returning Sergio López, who picked up a podium in his first race weekend.

In the overall standings, Concepción and Park are both five points clear of Honda rivals Felipe Fernández and Leonel Pernía.

The TCR Europe Cup finale is scheduled for September 18-20 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain, which also serves as a warm up for what will be the TCR Europe series season finale at the same venue a month later.

Spa-Francorchamps Race 2 result

1 – Junui Park – Solite Indigo Racing – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – 10 laps

2 – Leonel Pernía – Squadra Martino – Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - +2.763

3 – Sergio López – RC2 Racing Team – Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - +8.271

4 – Giacomo Prandelli – AIKOA Racing – Audi RS 3 LMS - +10.080

5 – Rubén Fernández – AIKOA Racing – Audi RS 3 LMS - +11.575

6 – Viktor Andersson – Monlau Motorsport – CUPRA Leon VZ TCR - +14.285

7 – Victor Fernández – RC2 Racing Team – Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - +38.242

8 – Nicola Baldan – PMA Motorsport – Audi RS 3 LMS - +1 lap

9 – Gabriele Covini – BRC Racing Team – Hyundai Elantra N TCR – DNF

10 – Sandro Pelatti – PMA Motorsport – CUPRA Leon VZ TCR - DNF ...

Drivers' championship standings

1 - Santiago Concepción - AIKOA Racing - Audi RS 3 LMS - 30 points

2 - Junui Park - Solite Indigo Racing - Hyundai Elantra N TCR - 30

3 - Felipe Fernández - RC2 Racing Team - Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - 25

4 - Leonel Pernía - Squadra Martino - Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - 25

5 - Sergio López - RC2 Racing Team - Honda Civic Type R FL5 TCR - 22 ...