Yvan Muller edges disguised Alain Menu in second World Touring Car session at Algarve

Swiss racer Menu edged out Muller for first place shortly after the mid-way mark of the half hour session, recording a lap 0.071 seconds ahead of the triple world champion. The Frenchman left it until his last run to offer a response, but Muller's fastest time of 1m55.590s remained over a second slower than Lukoil Racing's Gabriele Tarquini's benchmark time from free practice one.

Lukoil's Slovakia Ring polesitter Aleksei Dudukalo held third for much of the session before being bumped down to fourth by Salzburgring victor Rob Huff. The Briton intended to work on long race runs ahead of the session, but had the pace to make it three factory RML Chevrolets in the top three.

Russian Dudukalo finished a tenth ahead of fifth placed team-mate Tarquini. Franz Engstler took the honour of top BMW runner, the German set an early lap of 1m56.301s which secured sixth spot.

Bamboo Engineering's Pasquale di Sabatino was a late improver to leap up the order to ninth, behind local hope Tiago Monteiro (Tuenti Racing).

After contending with power steering gremlins but finishing 10th in practice one, James Thompson's Lada Granta ended the final practice session in 19th.

BMW runners Alberto Cerqui (ROAL) and Gabor Weber (Zengo) suffered quick spins but both were able to resume action.

Pos  Driver                Team/Car             Time       Gap
 1.  Yvan Muller           Chevrolet            1m55.590s
 2.  Alain Menu            Chevrolet            1m55.910s  + 0.320s
 3.  Rob Huff              Chevrolet            1m56.067s  + 0.477s
 4.  Aleksei Dudukalo      Lukoil SEAT          1m56.135s  + 0.545s
 5.  Gabriele Tarquini     Lukoil SEAT          1m56.239s  + 0.649s
 6.  Franz Engstler        Engstler BMW         1m56.301s  + 0.711s
 7.  Norbert Michelisz     Zengo BMW            1m56.406s  + 0.816s
 8.  Tiago Monteiro        Tuenti SEAT          1m56.491s  + 0.901s
 9.  Pasquale di Sabatino  bamboo Chevrolet     1m56.624s  + 1.034s
10.  Stefano D'Aste        Wiechers BMW         1m56.651s  + 1.061s
11.  Darryl O'Young        Special Tuning SEAT  1m56.674s  + 1.084s
12.  Tom Coronel           ROAL BMW             1m56.743s  + 1.153s
13.  Alex MacDowall        bamboo Chevrolet     1m56.791s  + 1.201s
14.  Pepe Oriola           Tuenti SEAT          1m56.821s  + 1.231s
15.  Gabor Weber           Zengo BMW            1m56.854s  + 1.264s
16.  Tom Boardman          Special Tuning SEAT  1m56.898s  + 1.308s
17.  Mehdi Bennani         Proteam BMW          1m56.907s  + 1.317s
18.  Alberto Cerqui        ROAL BMW             1m56.934s  + 1.344s
19.  James Thompson        Lada                 1m57.031s  + 1.441s
20.  Charles Ng            Engstler BMW         1m57.834s  + 2.244s
21.  Tom Chilton           Arena Ford           1m58.002s  + 2.412s
22.  James Nash            Arena Ford           1m58.155s  + 2.565s