Muller leads Chevy trio in practice
Yvan Muller led a Chevrolet 1-2-3 in the opening practice session for the World Touring Car Championship round at Brno
After sitting out the first half of the session, reigning champion Muller jumped to the top of the timesheets with just six minutes of free practice to run. His fastest lap of 2m11.039s was just over a tenth of a second quicker than team-mate Alain Menu, who finished the session third.
Current points leader Rob Huff, whose best lap of 2m11.525s took him to the top of the timesheets early on, rounded out the Chevrolet trio in third.
Norbert Michelisz (Zengo Dension BMW) continued his strong Hungaroring form by finishing 0.2s behind the Chevrolet trio in fourth. Polestar Racing's Robert Dahlgren opened the debut weekend for his new 1.6 turbo engine with a strong run to fifth in the Volvo while Tom Coronel was next up for ROAL Motorsport in sixth.
A difficult practice session for Gabriele Tarquini meant his SUNRED SEAT spend the majority of the free practice in the pits. The Italian eventually got up to speed, and finished the session eighth just behind fellow SEAT runner Michel Nykjaer. Kristian Poulsen and Pepe Oriola rounded out the top 10.
Neither Tiago Monteiro nor Fredy Barth had much to cheer about however, after multiple problems and extensive time in pitlane resulted in them lapping well off the pace and prop up the timesheets as a result.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Yvan Muller Chevrolet 2m11.039s 2. Alain Menu Chevrolet 2m11.185s + 0.146s 3. Rob Huff Chevrolet 2m11.525s + 0.486s 4. Norbert Michelisz Zengo Dension BMW 2m11.723s + 0.684s 5. Robert Dahlgren Polestar Volvo 2m12.257s + 1.218s 6. Tom Coronel ROAL BMW 2m12.409s + 1.370s 7. Michel Nykjaer SUNRED SEAT 2m12.451s + 1.412s 8. Darryl O'Young Bamboo Chevrolet 2m12.483s + 1.444s 9. Gabriele Tarquini SUNRED SEAT 2m12.742s + 1.703s 10. Kristian Poulsen Engstler BMW 2m13.016s + 1.977s 11. Pepe Oriola SUNRED SEAT 2m13.292s + 2.253s 12. Javier Villa Proteam BMW 2m13.510s + 2.471s 13. Mehdi Bennani Proteam BMW 2m13.587s + 2.548s 14. Franz Engstler Engstler BMW 2m13.647s + 2.608s 15. Yukinori Taniguchi Bamboo Chevrolet 2m14.450s + 3.411s 16. Aleksei Dudukalo SUNRED SEAT 2m14.735s + 3.696s 17. Urs Sonderegger Wiechers BMW 2m18.302s + 7.263s 18. Fredy Barth SUNRED SEAT 2m18.443s + 7.404s 19. Tiago Monteiro SUNRED SEAT 4m55.229s + 2m44.190s
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