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Norbert Michelisz takes Honda's first WTCC win of 2015 in Hungary

Privateer Norbert Michelisz claimed the first Honda World Touring Car Championship race victory of 2015 with a lights-to-flag victory in front of his home crowd at the Hungaroring

Privateer Norbert Michelisz claimed the first Honda World Touring Car Championship race victory of 2015 with a lights-to-flag victory in front of his home crowd at the Hungaroring.

Michelisz parlayed his reverse-grid pole position into a seemingly effortless lead at the race start as his rivals squabbled behind.

Independent entries completed the podium as ROAL Chevrolet team-mates Tom Coronel and Tom Chilton finished second and third.

In spite of not having the latest aero and engine package, Coronel passed Chilton cleanly at Turn 1 and held on tenaciously for the duration.

Behind, Rob Huff was swallowed up in the Citroen tide from fourth on the grid, and then became collateral damage as Sebastien Loeb swerved across the track, forcing Ma Qing Hua and Yvan Muller into evasive action and tapping Jose Maria Lopez into a tankslapper.

Huff's right-rear wheel was partially torn off and he cruised back to the pits to retire.

Tiago Monteiro was the first of the works Honda drivers home, finishing 0.861s behind Chilton in fourth place.

Loeb, Lopez and Muller were next through, followed by race-one podium finisher Hugo Valente and Ma.

Craft-Bamboo's Gregoire Demoustier completed the top 10 of what became a processional outing after the first-lap fracas.

RESULTS - 14 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Car Gap
1 Norbert Michelisz Zengo Motorsport Honda 26m00.367s
2 Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet 7.103s
3 Tom Chilton ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet 9.315s
4 Tiago Monteiro Honda Racing Team JAS Honda 10.176s
5 Sebastien Loeb Citroen Total WTCC Citroen 11.235s
6 Jose Maria Lopez Citroen Total WTCC Citroen 12.040s
7 Yvan Muller Citroen Total WTCC Citroen 13.065s
8 Hugo Valente Campos Racing Chevrolet 18.639s
9 Ma Qinghua Citroen Total WTCC Citroen 19.826s
10 Gregoire Demoustier Craft-Bamboo Racing Chevrolet 30.021s
11 John Filippi Campos Racing Chevrolet 38.660s
12 Stefano D'Aste All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport Chevrolet 42.030s
13 Gabriele Tarquini Honda Racing Team JAS Honda 1m11.284s
- Mikhail Kozlovskiy LADA Sport Rosneft Lada Retirement
- Mehdi Bennani Sebastien Loeb Racing Citroen Retirement
- Rob Huff LADA Sport Rosneft Lada Retirement

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:

Pos Driver Points
1 Jose Maria Lopez 129
2 Sebastien Loeb 96
3 Yvan Muller 86
4 Tiago Monteiro 58
5 Ma Qinghua 53
6 Norbert Michelisz 47
7 Tom Chilton 42
8 Gabriele Tarquini 38
9 Hugo Valente 27
10 Mehdi Bennani 26
11 Tom Coronel 19
12 Stefano D'Aste 12
13 James Thompson 6
14 John Filippi 4
15 Rob Huff 3
15 Rickard Rydell 3
17 Gregoire Demoustier 2

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