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Shanghai WTCC: Tiago Monteiro leads all-Honda podium

Tiago Monteiro claimed his first victory for Honda as the Japanese marque scored its second World Touring Car Championship podium sweep of 2013 in the Shanghai finale

Monteiro's factory team-mate Gabriele Tarquini was second, while Suzuka race winner Norbert Michelisz resisted early pressure to clinch third for the Zengo squad.

Rob Huff meanwhile held off former team-mate and 2013 champion Yvan Muller to clinch fourth by little more than a quarter of a second.

Monteiro had started the reverse-grid second race from pole and preserved that advantage away from the line, with Tarquini, Michelisz and Huff settling into his wake.

The two factory Civics steadily eased away from the field, with Michelisz instead heading up a six-car train that included Huff, James Nash, Muller, Pepe Oriola and Tom Coronel.

Muller eventually worked his way past Nash with an excellent move around the outside of Turn 1 at mid-distance, but was unable to climb higher than fifth due to Huff's stubborn defence, particularly on the final lap.

After losing out to Muller, Nash came under heavy pressure from Oriola and Coronel.

Coronel was able to pass the Briton after a determined move around the outside of Turn 14 - which gifted him the inside line for the final turn - but Nash retook the position instantly down the straight and then held on to secure sixth and extend his lead in the Independents' standings.

Oriola followed Nash past Coronel and held on to beat the Dutchman, with just over half a second covering the trio at the chequered flag.

Stefano D'Aste took a relatively quiet ninth ahead of race one winner Tom Chilton, who lost ground at the start and then struggled to break free of a BMW pack that included Freddy Barth and Darryl O'Young.

The latter pair were wiped out on lap seven however when Barth lost the rear of his Wiechers machine at Turn 14 and collided with O'Young, with the incident also catching out Alex MacDowall.

As a consequence Tom Boardman was able to sneak through into 11th, just ahead of Hugo Valente and the recovering MacDowall.

Results - 10 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car                  Time/Gap
 1.  Tiago Monteiro      Honda                   19m26.090s
 2.  Gabriele Tarquini   Honda                      +1.178s
 3.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo Honda                +4.143s
 4.  Rob Huff            Munnich SEAT               +5.470s
 5.  Yvan Muller         RML Chevrolet              +5.739s
 6.  James Nash          Bamboo Chevrolet           +7.423s
 7.  Pepe Oriola         Tuenti Chevrolet           +7.987s
 8.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW                   +8.042s
 9.  Stefano D'Aste      PB BMW                    +11.407s
10.  Tom Chilton         RML Chevrolet             +13.608s
11.  Tom Boardman        Special Tuning SEAT       +16.659s
12.  Hugo Valente        Campos SEAT               +18.253s
13.  Alex MacDowall      Bamboo Chevrolet          +18.497s
14.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW               +19.087s
15.  Thed Bjork          Polestar Volvo            +19.934s
16.  Charles Ng          Engstler BMW              +22.543s
17.  James Thompson      Lada                      +25.335s
18.  Marc Basseng        Munnich SEAT              +27.609s
19.  Fernando Monje      Campos SEAT               +30.126s
20.  Mikhail Kozlovskiy  Lada                      +31.520s
21.  Fredy Barth         Wiechers BMW              +31.885s
22.  Rene Munnich        Munnich SEAT              +33.211s
23.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Campos SEAT               +38.017s
24.  Filipe de Souza     China Dragon Chevrolet    +53.947s
25.  Henry Ho            Engstler BMW              +54.519s
26.  Kin Veng Ng         China Dragon Chevrolet  +1m25.975s
27.  Ka Lok Mak          RPM BMW                 +1m43.366s
28.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW               +2 laps
29.  Rickard Rydell      Nika Chevrolet             +3 laps
30.  Darryl O'Young      ROAL BMW                   +3 laps

Retirements: Jeronimo Badaraco Son Veng Chevrolet 1 lap

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