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Sunday, 19 June 2011 05:43 |
 World Touring Car Championship results of Race 1 and Race 2 from Brno - Chevrolet WTCC team once again dominated proceedings as Rob Huff and Yvan Muller shared the wins, while Alain Menu collected two third places.
Race 1 - Weather/Track: Sun 18C/Dry 33C
Race 1 results:
| Pos. |
N° |
Class. |
Driver |
Nat. |
Car |
Time |
Laps |
Gap |
Speed |
| 1 |
2 |
|
Robert HUFF |
GBR |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
21'59.507 |
10 |
|
147.41 |
| 2 |
1 |
|
Yvan MULLER |
FRA |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'00.365 |
10 |
0.858 |
147.31 |
| 3 |
8 |
|
Alain MENU |
CHE |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'11.204 |
10 |
11.697 |
146.11 |
| 4 |
15 |
|
Tom CORONEL |
NLD |
BMW 320 TC |
22'12.533 |
10 |
13.026 |
145.96 |
| 5 |
11 |
Y |
Kristian POULSEN |
DNK |
BMW 320 TC |
22'13.279 |
10 |
13.772 |
145.88 |
| 6 |
30 |
|
Robert DAHLGREN |
SWE |
Volvo C30 Drive |
22'13.860 |
10 |
14.353 |
145.82 |
| 7 |
9 |
Y |
Darryl O'YOUNG |
CHN |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'20.795 |
10 |
21.288 |
145.06 |
| 8 |
5 |
Y |
Norbert MICHELISZ |
HUN |
BMW 320 TC |
22'21.091 |
10 |
21.584 |
145.03 |
| 9 |
20 |
Y |
Javier VILLA |
ESP |
BMW 320 TC |
22'22.943 |
10 |
23.436 |
144.83 |
| 10 |
17 |
Y |
Michel NYKJAER |
DNK |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'23.238 |
10 |
23.731 |
144.8 |
| 11 |
25 |
Y |
Mehdi BENNANI |
MAR |
BMW 320 TC |
22'23.653 |
10 |
24.146 |
144.76 |
| 12 |
18 |
|
Tiago MONTEIRO |
PRT |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'27.131 |
10 |
27.624 |
144.38 |
| 13 |
74 |
Y |
Pepe ORIOLA |
ESP |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'29.303 |
10 |
29.796 |
144.15 |
| 14 |
4 |
Y |
Aleksei DUDUKALO |
RUS |
SEAT Leon 2.0 TDI |
22'33.716 |
10 |
34.209 |
143.68 |
| 15 |
10 |
Y |
Yukinori TANIGUCHI |
JPN |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'34.335 |
10 |
34.828 |
143.61 |
| 16 |
12 |
Y |
Franz ENGSTLER |
DEU |
BMW 320 TC |
22'38.545 |
10 |
39.038 |
143.17 |
| 17 |
35 |
Y |
Urs SONDEREGGER |
CHE |
BMW 320 TC |
23'08.400 |
10 |
68.9 |
140.09 |
| Not classified |
|
3 |
|
Gabriele TARQUINI |
ITA |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'29.743 |
6 |
N.C.F. |
86.46 |
|
7 |
Y |
Fredy BARTH |
CHE |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
18'19.307 |
3 |
D.N.F. |
53.08 |
| Fastest laps |
|
2 |
|
Robert HUFF |
|
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
2'10.863 |
3 |
92.35mph |
148.63kph |
|
5 |
Y |
Norbert MICHELISZ |
|
BMW 320 TC |
2'11.797 |
3 |
91.70mph |
147.58kph |
Race 2 - Weather/Track: Bright 19C/Dry 32C
Race 2 results:
| Pos. |
N° |
Class. |
Driver |
Nat. |
Car |
Time |
laps |
Gap |
Speed |
| 1 |
1 |
|
Yvan MULLER |
FRA |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'08.247 |
10 |
|
146.44 |
| 2 |
15 |
|
Tom CORONEL |
NLD |
BMW 320 TC |
22'12.430 |
10 |
4.183 |
145.98 |
| 3 |
8 |
|
Alain MENU |
CHE |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'12.662 |
10 |
4.415 |
145.95 |
| 4 |
2 |
|
Robert HUFF |
GBR |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'13.280 |
10 |
5.033 |
145.88 |
| 5 |
17 |
Y |
Michel NYKJAER |
DNK |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'16.697 |
10 |
8.45 |
145.51 |
| 6 |
3 |
|
Gabriele TARQUINI |
ITA |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'17.365 |
10 |
9.118 |
145.44 |
| 7 |
20 |
Y |
Javier VILLA |
ESP |
BMW 320 TC |
22'17.628 |
10 |
9.381 |
145.41 |
| 8 |
11 |
Y |
Kristian POULSEN |
DNK |
BMW 320 TC |
22'19.630 |
10 |
11.383 |
145.19 |
| 9 |
30 |
|
Robert DAHLGREN |
SWE |
Volvo C30 Drive |
22'19.874 |
10 |
11.627 |
145.16 |
| 10 |
25 |
Y |
Mehdi BENNANI |
MAR |
BMW 320 TC |
22'20.235 |
10 |
11.988 |
145.13 |
| 11 |
5 |
Y |
Norbert MICHELISZ |
HUN |
BMW 320 TC |
22'20.764 |
10 |
12.517 |
145.07 |
| 12 |
74 |
Y |
Pepe ORIOLA |
ESP |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'28.213 |
10 |
19.966 |
144.27 |
| 13 |
18 |
|
Tiago MONTEIRO |
PRT |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
22'29.456 |
10 |
21.209 |
144.13 |
| 14 |
4 |
Y |
Aleksei DUDUKALO |
RUS |
SEAT Leon 2.0 TDI |
22'30.499 |
10 |
22.252 |
144.02 |
| 15 |
10 |
Y |
Yukinori TANIGUCHI |
JPN |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
22'33.056 |
10 |
24.809 |
143.75 |
| 16 |
7 |
Y |
Fredy BARTH |
CHE |
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
16'34.212 |
7 |
3 laps |
136.94 |
| Not classified |
|
9 |
Y |
Darryl O'YOUNG |
CHN |
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
17'22.721 |
5 |
D.N.F. |
93.26 |
|
12 |
Y |
Franz ENGSTLER |
DEU |
BMW 320 TC |
2'47.561 |
1 |
D.N.F. |
116.08 |
|
35 |
Y |
Urs SONDEREGGER |
CHE |
BMW 320 TC |
|
0 |
D.N.F. |
N/A |
| Fastest laps |
|
1 |
|
Yvan MULLER |
|
Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
2'11.640 |
3 |
91.81mph |
147.75kph |
|
17 |
Y |
Michel NYKJAER |
|
Sunred SR Leon 1.6T |
2'11.866 |
3 |
91.65mph |
147.5kph |
 (WTCC Media) -Huff and Muller share wins in Brno
The championship has not reached the half of the season, and yet the fight for the world title seems already limited to a private affair among the three Chevrolet drivers.
Rob Huff and Yvan Muller shared victories in Brno, while Alain Menu collected two third places, proving that today's races will be up to the drivers' nerves and capability of imposing their authority on the track.
Which Huff did the best way for him when he checkmated Muller in three moves at the start of today's Race 1, however the reigning champion proved he is not willing to abdicate and recovered from eighth on the grid to victory in Race 2 closing the gap between them to only 25 points, or a race win.
At the present moment Menu looks one step behind his team-mates, not only in terms of points (53 points from Huff). The Swiss racer is paying his standstills in the first races at Monza and Budapest.
Behind the Chevrolet cars the rest of the field is steadily improving. Tom Coronel fought tooth and nail to claim another podium result for BMW, while Michel Nykjær and Robert Dahlgren gave SUNRED and Volvo their best results so far with the new 1.6 litre turbo engines.
The championship will resume at Porto, Portugal, on July 3rd for rounds 11 and 12.
Rob HUFF:
“I knew I had to try and overtake Yvan straight at the start. When I was on the outside of the first corner I could not see what he was doing because of a blind spot in the car.
"But he was fair enough to give me enough space, and I thank him for that. We had made some changes to the car after yesterday and I was a bit faster than him, which was enough to keep a safe margin and win the race.
Yvan MULLER:
“Winning the second race straightened things out for me today. I would go home very disappointed should I had not won this race, because my car was definitely the fastest for the whole weekend. I just had to ude it at its best to take a victory. It was not and easy win anyway, because I started eighth on the grid and I had to fight my way up to the front, overtaking Menu, Tarquini, Nykjær and Coronel.”
ANOTHER PENALTY FOR MICHELISZ
Norbert Michelisz is having a black series. After the drive-through in Budapest for causing the pile-up at the start of the second race and yesterday’s exclusion from the qualifying due to underweight, the Hungarian youngster was given another drive-through for pushing Darryl O’Young off today’s Race 2.
This resulted in 30 seconds added to his elapsed time, meaning he was demoted from 11th to 15th. The Stewards also imposed him a drop of 10 grid positions that remains suspended for the next three events.
Another investigation concerned the collision between Gabriele Tarquini and Kristian Poulsen, also in the second race, ended up in a reprimand for the Italian driver.
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