Farfus leads final practice

The Brazilian, on his first appearance for the Schnitzer BMW team after switching from Alfa Romeo, pipped defending champion Andy Priaulx by 0.114 seconds, although Farfus's fastest time of 1:26.177 is over a second off the anticipated pole time.

Jorg Muller completed a BMW clean sweep of the top three positions, with Alain Menu shading the BMW of Alex Zanardi to make Chevrolet best of the rest. Zanardi's ROAL team-mate Felix Porteiro was fifth fastest ahead of James Thompson and leading independent Sergio Hernandez (Proteam Motorsport BMW).

Gabriele Tarquni was the best of the SEATs in ninth overall ahead of the Chevrolets of Rob Huff and Nicola Larini.

Second practice times:

Pos  Driver                Make               Time
 1.  Augusto Farfus        BMW 320si          1:26.177
 2.  Andy Priaulx          BMW 320si          1:26.291
 3.  Jorg Muller           BMW 320si          1:26.442
 4.  Alain Menu            Chevrolet Lacetti  1:26.679
 5.  Alessandro Zanardi    BMW 320si          1:26.740
 6.  Felix Porteiro        BMW 320si          1:26.796
 7.  James Thompson        Alfa Romeo 156     1:26.848
 8.  Sergio Hernandez      BMW 320si          1:26.902
 9.  Gabriele Tarquini     SEAT Leon          1:26.938
10.  Nicola Larini         Chevrolet Lacetti  1:26.943
11.  Robert Huff           Chevrolet Lacetti  1:26.981
12.  Luca Rangoni          BMW 320si          1:26.989
13.  Tom Coronel           SEAT Leon          1:27.013
14.  Pierre-Yves Corthals  SEAT Leon          1:27.056
15.  Yvan Muller           SEAT Leon          1:27.066
16.  Jordi Gene            SEAT Leon          1:27.133
17.  Michel Jourdain       SEAT Leon          1:27.260
18.  Emmet O'Brien         SEAT Leon          1:27.779
19.  Stefano D'Aste        BMW 320si          1:28.007
20.  Olivier Tielemans     Alfa Romeo 156     1:28.044