Farfus leads BMW 1-2 in Germany

He started third, following his sixth-place finish in the day's earlier race, but quickly picked off the two cars ahead of him. He moved inside Stefano D'Aste at Turn 1 at the beginning of lap two and then took the lead from Franz Engstler in the same place three laps later.

Farfus was never threatened as fellow works BMW driver Andy Priaulx moved into second behind him just a lap later, having made his second outstanding start of the day. The race one winner was up from eighth to fifth on the first lap and quickly swept by Nicola Larini, D'Aste and Engstler.

Farfus was all set to take the championship lead from Gabriele Tarquini, until a drive-through penalty for D'Aste and a broken BMW for Engstler cleared the way for Tarquini to move up to third.

Jorg Muller and Sergio Hernandez fought their through behind to make it four BMWs in the the top five.

Nicola Larini completed the top six in the first of the Chevrolets, just ahead of Yvan Muller who salvaged a couple of points with a charge through the pack from 21st to seventh.

Tom Coronel benefitted from the misfortunes of D'Aste and Engstler to take the independent class victory in eighth, with the Chevrolets of Rob Huff and Alain Menu rounding out the top 10.

Pos Driver                  Car              Time/Gap
 1. Augusto Farfus          BMW            22m58.530s
 2. Andy Priaulx            BMW                +0.644
 3. Gabriele Tarquini       SEAT               +5.177
 4. Jorg Muller             BMW                +7.976
 5. Sergio Hernandez        BMW                +8.661
 6. Nicola Larini           Chevrolet         +13.596
 7. Yvan Muller             SEAT              +18.835
 8. Tom Coronel             SEAT              +19.170
 9. Rob Huff                Chevrolet         +25.377
10. Alain Menu              Chevrolet         +26.383
11. Rickard Rydell          SEAT              +26.787
12. Tiago Monteiro          SEAT              +29.148
13. Tom Boardman            SEAT              +29.413
14. Philip Geipel           BMW               +29.957
15. Felix Porteiro          BMW               +33.380
16. Stefano D'Aste          BMW               +33.518
17. Jean-Marie Clairet      SEAT              +33.609
18. Michel Nykjaer          Chevrolet         +35.008
19. Jason Watt              SEAT              +35.321
20. Jaap van Lagen          Lada              +36.193
21. Marin Colak             SEAT              +40.624
22. Kristian Poulsen        BMW               +55.944
23. Kirill Ladygin          Lada              +2 laps
24. Viktor Shapovalov       Lada              +4 laps

Retirements

    Franz Engstler          BMW                8 laps
    Jordi Gene              SEAT               3 laps
    Alex Zanardi            BMW                3 laps