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Muller wins interrupted race two

Yvan Muller bagged his first World Touring Car Championship victory of the season in a rain-hit second race at the Hungaroring

The Frenchman climbed from eighth on the grid to fourth in the lap-and-a-half that ran before the race was red-flagged because of a heavy rainstorm. With all of the field on slick tyres, the race director had no choice but to stop the race.

When the race restarted in damp, but drying, conditions, the wet-shod Frenchman climbed to second on the first lap after passing Tom Coronel's ROAL BMW and seeing his Chevrolet team-mate Alain Menu crash heavily on the run out of Turn 4 after dropping a wheel on the grass.

On the next lap, Muller effortlessly went up the inside of Gabriele Tarquini's turbodiesel SEAT at the final corner to take a lead that he would never lose.

Rob Huff made it a Chevrolet one-two with a superb drive from 12th on the grid. He climbed to fifth place during the first part of the race and at the restart followed Muller up the order, passing Tarquini at the final corner with four laps to go to take second.

Tarquini held on to take third place ahead of Coronel, with Tiago Monteiro finishing fifth after a long battle with the 1.6-litre turbo-engined SEAT of Michel Nykjaer, who dropped out of the race late on with a front-right puncture.

Monteiro had to hold off the charging Franz Engstler, who started on slick tyres, taking fifth by just 0.075s.

Javier Villa took seventh ahead of Darryl O'Young, with Robert Dahlgren ninth after being hit with a drive-through penalty for pushing Pepe Oriola's SEAT into the wall on the first lap after the restart. The final point went to Fredy Barth.

Home hero Norbert Michelisz, who finished second in race one, suffered a disastrous race. The BMW driver was too optimistic at the first start, braking late while trying to take third place, locking up and clattering into surprise race leader Kristian Poulsen at the first corner.

Michelisz restarted in a hastily patched up car, finishing a lapped 15th but at least salvaging fastest lap after starting on slicks.

Results - 14 laps (inc red flag):

Pos  Driver              Team/Car             Time/Gap
 1.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet          59m02.507s
 2.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet            + 3.631s
 3.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT         + 10.106s
 4.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW            + 11.699s
 5.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT         + 22.995s
 6.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW        + 23.070s
 7.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW         + 26.322s
 8.  Darryl O'Young      Bamboo Chevrolet    + 31.267s
 9.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo      + 36.832s
10.  Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT         + 37.247s
11.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Bamboo Chevrolet    + 43.609s
12.  Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT       + 1m34.238s
13.  Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT           + 1 lap
14.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW           + 1 lap
15.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo BMW             + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Fabio Fabiani       Proteam BMW            5 laps
     Alain Menu          Chevrolet              4 laps
     Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT            4 laps
     Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW           3 laps

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