The 12 round and 24 race calendar of the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship came to its final stop. The season finale was held as an event within the Macau Grand Prix race week, as it has been since the championship's first season. The 60th Macau Grand Prix was expanded to two weeks this year but the Guia Race that was run as the final round of WTCC was still the main event only next to the F3 Grand Prix race.

The calendar included three street track events this year, Circuit Moulay El Hassan, Marrakech in Morocco, Circuito da Boavista, Porto in Portugal and Circuit da Guia ? Guia Circuit in Macau. But it is safe to say the most challenging and exciting track among them would be the 6,117 meter Guia Circuit. It consists of two completely different sections, the high speed ocean section and the narrow and tight mountain section. As overtaking in the mountain section is almost impossible, the drivers try to get a better position at the Lisboa corner which is the beginning of the mountain section and, as a result, a multi car pileups happen very often here. While the drivers sit higher in touring cars than they do in single seater race cars, their sights are still limited by the walls and guard rails on both sides of the track. And there are only a few escape zones along with it, the slightest mistake during the battles can easily lead to an instant retirement.

Yvan Muller who had already clinched the drivers' championship title this year was in good form from the test session on Thursday. He was the third fastest in the session but the gap with the fastest driver, Robert Huff, was only 0.224 seconds. In the practice sessions on Friday, the Frenchman was at the top of the time sheet in the first session and then the second fastest in the second. He kept up the momentum in the qualifying session and took the pole position for Race 1 by clocking the fastest time both in Q1 and Q2.

After taking a day off, Huff was the fastest in the warm up session on Sunday morning but eight drivers also set their times that were within a second form the Briton's best time. Unfortunately, Gabriele Tarquini, who had secured the third grid for Race 1, didn't show up in this session because of a engine problem on his Honda Civic.

As the Italian's car wasn't ready in time for the starting procedures, Race 1 got underway with the vacated third grid. The field began the rolling lap with Muller at the head of it. The RML Chevrolet driver was followed by Tiago Monteiro in a Honda Civic and Huff in a SEAT Leon.

Muller made a solid start and went through Lisboa as the race leader. He was clearly faster than the rest of the field and led Monteiro by 1.793 seconds already at the end of the opening lap. The gap grew lap after lap and the 2013 champion built a 3.007 second cushion against the Honda driver when they completed Lap 5. Muller appeared to be unbeatable.

There was some drama behind the leaders. James Thompson ,who started the race from ninth grid, had a problem with the turbo pipes on his Lada Granta during the first lap and dropped out from the race. On Lap 2, Tom Chilton in another RML Chevrolet spun and crashed into the barrier just before Maternity Bend. Then, on the next lap, Pepe Oriola spun at Solitude Esses.

As it turned out, Muller was never threatened by Monteiro until the checkered flag fell and won the first race of the day as he had done last year. The Portuguese managed to keep the second place by fending off Huff's fierce attack.

The Yokohama Trophy class winner was Alex MacDowall who finished the race in fifth overall. The championship leader, James Nash, came in sixth overall and earned enough points to wrap up the title battle.

Yukinori Taniguchi in the Nika Racing run Chevrolet Cruze beat Michael Soong to win the Eurosport Asia Trophy class and also clinched the Asia Trophy title. The Japanese drove a BMW at Suzuka but moved to Campos Racing to drive a SEAT Leon in Shanghai. Then he switched to Nika Racing for the Macau round but he was able to adapt well to the three different cars in as many rounds and scored respectable results.

The formation lap for Race 2 began at 12:20. The pole position for the very last race of the 2013 WTCC season was given to Tom Coronel in the Roal Motorsport run BMW 320 TC. Thompson and Nash sat on the second and third grids, while the first race absentee, Tarquini, was going to join the race from the pit lane, as the team finished the engine replacing work just before the start.

Predictably, Coronel, driving a rear wheel drive BMW, had a very good getaway in the standing start for Race 2 and was leading the field when they went through the Lisboa corner. However, Norbert Michelisz, starting from the sixth grid, hit the guard rails on the outside at Reservoir Bends. His Honda Civic was bounced back to near the center of the rack where the close-packed midfield group was rushing into and the result was obvious. Because as many as nine cars, including Michelisz's, were involved in this accident, the race control had no choice but to stop the race by the red flag within a minute after the start.

After clearing the halted cars and debris, the race restarted, led by the Safety Car this time. When the racing resumed, Coronel led the field again and he was followed by Thompson and Chilton. As they entered the mountain section, Muller hit the barrier at St.Francisco Hill and damaged the front end of his Cruze. But he was lucky enough to rejoin the race and there was no need for the Safety Car or the red flag.

There was more drama on Lap 5. Chilton suddenly slowed down in the mountain section and he was pulling off the car to the edge of the track. But then Eurido De Jesus crashed into the Chilton's car from behind and the heavily damaged De Jesus's Honda Accord blocked the track. Because of this accident, the Safety Car came out but the leading cars reached the spot before the Safety Car caught them. Seeing the waving yellow flags, the drivers at the head of the field went through the site of accident slowly and safely. But some of the back markers didn't slow down enough and hit the cars in front of them!

Because of the second pileup, the race had to be red flagged once again. After the second restart on Lap 7, which was similarly led by the Safety Car for a lap, Huff managed to move up to second by overtaking Thompson. Soon after that, Oriola tried to squeeze his car into the inside of Thompson at Maternity Bend and pushed the Briton's Lada Granta into the guard rails. As the car was badly damaged, the Lada driver was force to retire on the spot.

At the front, Huff began to put pressure on Coronel and the gap between them was virtually zero when they entered Lap 9. Then the reigning champion placed his car on the inside at Mandarin Oriental Bend and got better acceleration than the Dutchman did on the way down to Lisboa. While making slight contact with resisting Coronel, Huff went through Lisboa ahead of him and kept the position for the remaining laps to the checkered flag. For the Briton who had announced he would be joining the Lada factory team next season, this was the best way to say good-by to the Munnich Motorsport team for which he had driven for a year.

The Yokohama Trophy class was won by Nash, while Henry Ho who drove a Team Engstler run BMW 320iS took the Eurosport Asia Trophy class victory.

The Macau Grand Prix has traditionally been held at Guia Circuit. It is a temporary street race track that is built only for the race week by closing public roads. The track layout wasn't modified at all since last year but the surfaces are partly repaired from place to place. As they are public roads in normal days, however, the work is no more than a normal road repairing and very different from the resurfacing at the permanent race circuits. Actually, in some places, only one way of double lane roads were reworked. Generally, the grip level of new surfaces appeared to be better than the old ones. But the Lisboa corner might become rather trickier because there was no rework in the area since last year's meeting.

The three major race categories during the Grand Prix week, i.e. F3, WTCC and GT Asia, rely on the control tires supplied by Yokohama Tire. This year, the Japanese company provided 3,200 tires in total - 900 each for F3 and WTCC, 800 for GT Asia and 600 for other supporting races, including Macau Road Sport Challenge.

Every single category fascinated the spectators at the track and TV viewers with exciting racing. Without a doubt, Yokohama Tire contributed the success of the Grand Prix as a reliable tire supplier, as there was no tire-related problem throughout the weekend.