The 2015 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco (formally the 2015 Eurodatacar Race of Morocco) was the second round of the 2015 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held on 19 April 2015 at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakech, Morocco.
Both races were won by Citroën Total WTCC, José María López won race one and Yvan Muller won race two. Both drivers achieved their second win at the circuit, setting a new record.
Background
After the first round López led the drivers' championship by five points over teammate Sébastien Loeb. Norbert Michelisz led the Yokohama Trophy standings by three points over local driver Mehdi Bennani.
Lada Sport Rosneft expanded to three cars as Mikhail Kozlovskiy started his season following the late build of his car. Rickard Rydell and Nika International missed the round after Rydell was taken ill in the week before.
Yvan Muller took a five-place grid drop for race one after a collision with Bennani at the previous round. John Filippi also lost five places on the grid for race one after a collision with James Thompson in Argentina. Grégoire Demoustier dropped to the back of the grid for race one after blowing an engine in testing prior to the event. Thompson and teammate Robert Huff both moved to the back of the grid for engine changes after the last round. RML Group released an engine update to their customer teams, ROAL Motorsport's Tom Chilton and Campos Racing's Hugo Valente both took this upgrade and dropped to the back of the grid for race one.
Report
Testing and free practice
López was quickest in the test session on Friday as Citroën filled the top three positions with Muller second and privateer Bennani third.
It was a Citroën 1–2–3–4 in free practice one with López leading Loeb, Bennani and Muller.
López stayed on top in free practice two as Citroën cars filled the top four places once again. The session came to a premature end when Huff crashed his Lada Vesta WTCC into the tyre barriers just before the completion of the half-hour session.
Qualifying
Ma Qing Hua was the quickest driver in the first part of qualifying. None of the Ladas made it through to the second session with Huff in thirteenth their best placed driver.
López was quickest in the second session with Valente second. Ma and Bennani also made it through to the third session along with Chilton. Tom Coronel had slowed in the final moments of the session after his air jack accidentally deployed which briefly brought out the yellow flags and shook up the order slightly. Norbert Michelisz was the best placed Honda driver, narrowly missing out on a Q3 place by four hundredths of a second. Muller ended up tenth to provisionally take pole for race two.
Chilton elected not to go out for the Q3 Superpole session due to a gearbox problem and his impending grid penalty. Bennani was therefore the first car to go out followed by Ma. Valente went out third but braked too late for the first corner and crashed into the tyre wall. López was the last driver to go out and he went to the top of the times with his last lap, to take pole position.
After qualifying, Michelisz's Honda was found to be underweight and was dropped three places on the grid.
Race One
Hours before the start of the first race, Dušan Borković announced he was withdrawing from the rest of the weekend having struggled to fit inside the Honda Civic WTCC and due to the lower specification of the Proteam Racing car compared to the other Hondas.