Huff completes Monza double

Huff passed the SUNRED SEAT of polesitter Tiago Monteiro on the run into the first corner, but quickly found himself under pressure from Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller.

That pressure never abated, and indeed nearly ended in a similar disaster to the clash that took out Alain Menu earlier in the day when Muller tagged Huff's rear as the pair were braking for the Parabolica with a couple of laps remaining. Huff's car got momentarily out of shape, but he was able to gather it up and continue unharmed.

Muller was shown a bad sportsmanship flag immediately afterwards, but he kept up the pressure on his team-mate right to the flag. Just 0.2 seconds separated the pair at the finish.

Engstler BMW driver Kristian Poulsen triumphed in what had been a four-way battle for third until Tom Coronel (ROAL) dropped out of the pack on the final lap with a delaminating right-rear tyre. Monteiro was right behind Poulsen for fourth, with Menu coming from the back of the field to finish fifth.

Results - 9 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car              Time/Gap
 1.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet           18m10.032s
 2.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet             + 0.242s
 3.  Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW          + 3.559s
 4.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT           + 6.211s
 5.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet             + 8.896s
 6.  Darryl O'Young      Bamboo Chevrolet     + 10.089s
 7.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo-Dension BMW    + 10.780s
 8.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW          + 11.054s
 9.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW         + 11.056s
10.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT          + 12.800s
11.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Bamboo Chevrolet     + 19.420s
12.  Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT          + 21.519s
13.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo       + 23.532s
14.  Marchy Lee          KK BMW               + 27.912s
15.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW             + 28.095s
16.  Ibrahim Okyay       Otomotiv BMW         + 48.069s
17.  Urs Sonderegger     Wiechers BMW         + 52.972s
18.  Fabio Fabiani       Proteam BMW        + 1m27.890s

Retirements:

     Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT             7 laps
     Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW             7 laps
     Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT              1 lap
     Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT             0 laps