Yvan Muller quickest in Puebla test

The Frenchman's best lap of the 30-minute test session, a 1:39.020, was 1.8 seconds faster than his SEAT team-mate Jordi Gene's pole position time at the circuit in 2008.

Following SEAT's domination of the opening event of the season at Curitiba in Brazil two weeks ago, the BMWs have at least started this weekend in touch with Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus setting the second and third best times of today's session.

The remaining four SEATs followed, broken up by Felix Porteiro's independent BMW in sixth place. Tom Coronel completed the top 10 in his independent SEAT just behind Alex Zanardi's BMW.

Chevrolet's trio of drivers filled 12th to 14th places in the new Cruze, ahead of Jorg Muller in the final works entry in 15th.

There will be two more free practice sessions tomorrow, ahead of the afternoon's qualifying session.

Pos Driver                 Car                Time    
 1. Yvan Muller            SEAT           1:39.020
 2. Andy Priaulx           BMW            1:39.233
 3. Augusto Farfus         BMW            1:39.289
 4. Rickard Rydell         SEAT           1:39.363
 5. Gabriele Tarquini      SEAT           1:39.670
 6. Felix Porteiro         BMW            1:39.770
 7. Jordi Gene             SEAT           1:39.791
 8. Tiago Monteiro         SEAT           1:39.918
 9. Alex Zanardi           BMW            1:40.210
10. Tom Coronel            SEAT           1:40.341
11. Sergio Hernandez       BMW            1:40.399
12. Nicola Larini          Chevrolet      1:40.515
13. Rob Huff               Chevrolet      1:40.696
14. Alain Menu             Chevrolet      1:40.863
15. Jorg Muller            BMW            1:40.877
16. Frank Engstler         BMW            1:40.969
17. Kristian Poulsen       BMW            1:41.078
18. Marin Colak            SEAT           1:41.203
19. Stefano D'Aste         BMW            1:41.354
20. George Tanev           BMW            1:41.818
21. Viktor Shapovalov      Lada           1:42.858
22. Jaap van Lagen         Lada           1:42.958
23. Kirill Ladygin         Lada           1:43.364
24. Tom Boardman           SEAT           1:43.373