Both races were won by Citroën Total WTCC during the team's first weekend in the World Touring Car Championship.

New technical regulations were brought in for the start of the 2014 season, the existing Super 2000 cars were given bigger wings, tyres and more power in order to improve the racing.

Yvan Muller set the pace in testing on the Friday before the race, José María López and Sébastien Loeb made it a Citroën 1–2–3.

Hugo Valente was fourth and the quickest Chevrolet driver ahead of Tiago Monteiro in fifth and Robert Huff's Lada sixth.

The session was red flagged following a collision at the second chicane between the Honda of Gabriele Tarquini and the Chevrolet of Gianni Morbidelli.

[4] The damage sustained in the accident forced Tarquini to sit out the rest of the weekend while Morbidelli would be unable to take part in qualifying.

Loeb topped the second part of qualifying ahead of López and Muller, Borković and Chilton were fourth and fifth and thus progressed through to the Q3 pole shootout.

At the end of the first lap Münnich was issued with a drive-through penalty for jumping the start and he went into the pits for the first time during the race.

The three Citroën cars held position for the remainder of the race, López leading Loeb and Muller to the finish line.

Coronel was turned across the front of Bennani's car and bounced back across the track when he hit the wall, Muller was also caught up in the incident and stopped on the circuit.

On lap 14 Monteiro suffered a problem on his right-front wheel causing him to drop down the order and moving Bennani up to fourth.