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Farfus wins second Pau race

Augusto Farfus bounced back from his roll in yesterday's qualifying session with a lights-to-flag win in the second race of Pau's round of the World Touring Car Championship

The Schnitzer Motorsport mechanics had worked all night to get his car ready for the races, and after battling his way from 13th on the grid to finish seventh in race one, Farfus gained a front row slot for the reverse grid.

At the start, both he and the RBM BMW 320si of Andy Priaulx jumped ahead of pole-sitter Jordi Gene's SEAT.

Although Priaulx tracked Farfus to the flag, ending up second by under half a second, he never had a realistic chance to pass the Brazilian.

Farfus's win moves him up to second in the championship, which is now lead by Priaulx after second Schnitzer driver Jorg Muller failed to score because of a damper problem in practice that left him well down the grid.

Tiago Monteiro claimed his second podium of the day with third, narrowly holding off the lead Chevrolet of Rob Huff.

Gene eventually finished fifth after losing position when he clashed with BMW driver Felix Porteiro at Lycee.

SEAT teammate Yvan Muller leading home James Thompson's Alfa Romeo and race one winner Alain Menu's Chevy to round out the points.

Pierre-Yves Corthals was the best of the independent runners in 13th overall after class leaders Stefano d'Aste and Sergio Hernandez clashed at the Virage de la Gare early in the race.

The incident, which brought out the safety car, also removed fellow indies Miguel Freitas and Emmet O'Brien from the race.

Classified:

Pos   Driver                 Car          Time
 1.   Augusto Farfus         BMW          31:54.553
 2.   Andy Priaulx           BMW          +   0.462
 3.   Tiago Monteiro         SEAT         +   5.185
 4.   Robert Huff            Chevrolet    +   5.625
 5.   Jordi Gene             SEAT         +  13.018
 6.   Yvan Muller            SEAT         +  14.476
 7.   James Thompson         Alfa Romeo   +  20.861
 8.   Alain Menu             Chevrolet    +  21.160
 9.   Alessandro Zanardi     BMW          +  22.447
10.   Jorg Muller            BMW          +  22.643
11.   Nicola Larini          Chevrolet    +  25.130
12.   Gabriele Tarquini      SEAT         +  25.577
13.   Pierre-Yves Corthals   SEAT         +  30.457
14.   Anthony Beltoise       SEAT         +  37.311
15.   Maurizio Ceresoli      SEAT         +1:00.427
16.   Olivier Tielemans      Alfa Romeo   +   1 lap
17.   Luca Rangoni           BMW          +  2 laps

Not classified:

      Driver                 Make          Laps
      Michel Jourdain Jr     SEAT           14
      Tom Coronel            SEAT           13
      Felix Porteiro         BMW            10
      Stefano D'Aste         BMW             2
      Sergio Hernandez       BMW             2
      Miguel Freitas         Alfa Romeo      2
      Emmet O'Brien          SEAT            2

Fastest lap: Farfus, 1:24.190 on lap 9

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