Honda has won the FIA World Touring Car Championship’s Manufacturers Against the Clock (MAC3) for the fifth occasion in 2016 in Argentina.
Around two laps of the Termas de Río Hondo circuit from a standing start, Norbert Michelisz, Rob Huff and Tiago Monteiro set a time of 3m32.872s which Citroën would prove unable to beat.
In a formation headed by home hero José María López, Citroën was faster than Honda by one tenth of a second after one lap. However, Tom Chilton and Yvan Muller then struggled to keep up with López around the second lap, and Muller was clocked across the line 0.677s slower than the Honda time.
After a difficult qualifying session, LADA struggled again for pace in Argentina and finished up 3.308 seconds off the pace in third.