Yvan Muller stretches World Touring Car lead with race two win in China

The Frenchman made a good start from fourth on the grid to gain a place on the run to the first corner, and then capitalised on a skirmish between Gabriele Tarquini and Rob Huff ahead of him to pass the latter for second. He accounted for Tarquini shortly afterwards and was untroubled from that point on, cruising away to win by more than 10 seconds.

Muller's points advantage over Chevrolet team-mate and main rival Huff now stands at 20 with one round remaining; the Briton having endured a difficult afternoon right from the moment that he was beaten off the line by Tarquini.

Huff tried to get past the Italian immediately, but some robust defending by the SUNRED SEAT racer resulted in Huff taking a long trip across the grass and rejoining in third with a rattling undertray.

He appeared to have Tarquini covered for speed, as did the queue of cars that rapidly assembled behind him, but none of them could find a way past. The podium places remained unchanged, although race one podium finisher Colin Turkington (Wiechers BMW) was able to take fourth from Tom Coronel (ROAL BMW) at the start of the final lap.

Race one winner Alain Menu finished fifth for Chevrolet, officially putting the Swiss veteran out of the title chase, with Kristian Poulsen rounding out the top six in his Engstler BMW.

The only major incident took place on lap one when Zengo-Dension BMW driver Norbert Michelisz was tapped into a spin in the middle of the pack, triggering a pile-up that accounted for Tiago Monteiro (SUNRED SEAT) and Javier Villa (Proteam BMW).

Results - 25 laps:

Pos  Driver             Team/Car            Time/Gap
 1.  Yvan Muller        Chevrolet         28m19.599s
 2.  Gabriele Tarquini  SUNRED SEAT        + 10.518s
 3.  Rob Huff           Chevrolet          + 11.385s
 4.  Colin Turkington   Wiechers BMW       + 11.812s
 5.  Tom Coronel        ROAL BMW           + 12.140s
 6.  Alain Menu         Chevrolet          + 12.896s
 7.  Kristian Poulsen   Engstler BMW       + 13.336s
 8.  Franz Engstler     Engstler BMW       + 13.612s
 9.  Robert Dahlgren    Polestar Volvo     + 22.279s
10.  Charles Ng         KK BMW             + 24.172s
11.  Mehdi Bennani      Proteam BMW        + 33.725s
12.  Fredy Barth        SUNRED SEAT        + 36.977s
13.  Pepe Oriola        SUNRED SEAT        + 43.090s
14.  Michel Nykjaer     SUNRED SEAT        + 46.761s
15.  Fabio Fabiani      Engstler BMW         + 1 lap
16.  Philip Ma          Proteam BMW          + 1 lap
17.  Aleksei Dudukalo   SUNRED SEAT         + 2 laps

Retirements:

     Darryl O'Young     Bamboo Chevrolet      2 laps
     Tiago Monteiro     SUNRED SEAT            1 lap
     Norbert Michelisz  Zengo BMW              1 lap
     Javier Villa       Proteam BMW           0 laps