Huff leads Chevrolet podium sweep

Huff capitalised on his pole position to cross the line ahead of team-mate Alain Menu, who had started alongside him on the front row, while reigning world champion Yvan Muller produced a neat overtaking move at the hairpin to deny Gabriele Tarquini a place on the podium a few laps before the end.

The race was punctuated by a four-lap stint behind the safety car, which was triggered by two almost simultaneous accidents on lap three. The first was caused by Bamboo-Engineering's Yukinori Taniguchi being knocked out of kilter at Turn 2 and then being collected by the Proteam BMW of Mehdi Bennani while he tried to gather himself back together. The Japanese driver was able to continue, but the damage to Bennani's car brought the Moroccan's race to an end.

Moments later, Tom Coronel lost control while trying to avoid the spinning SEAT of Fredy Barth at the exit of Turn 4 and was clouted by Franz Engstler, ripping the front-right wheel off Coronel's ROAL BMW. All three drivers were forced to retire.

Tiago Monteiro had a relatively straightforward run to fifth behind Tarquini, while Kristian Poulsen managed to pass Norbert Michelisz at the hairpin for sixth; the Hungarian struggling badly after being hit from behind by Coronel at the start.

Also worthy of note was former GP2 racer Javier Villa, who recovered to ninth after starting from the back of the grid due to a turbo problem in qualifying.

Results - 15 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car              Time/Gap
 1.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet           29m18.807s
 2.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet             + 1.244s
 3.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet             + 1.740s
 4.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT           + 3.790s
 5.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT           + 5.102s
 6.  Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW          + 8.987s
 7.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo-Dension BMW    + 10.878s
 8.  Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT          + 12.032s
 9.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW          + 12.845s
10.  Darryl O'Young      Bamboo Chevrolet     + 12.901s
11.  Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT          + 14.656s
12.  Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT          + 17.538s
13.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo       + 18.687s
14.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Bamboo Chevrolet     + 25.864s
15.  Urs Sonderegger     Wiechers BMW         + 42.236s
16.  Fabio Fabiani       Proteam BMW        + 1m07.741s

Retirements:

     Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT             2 laps
     Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW                2 laps
     Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW             2 laps
     Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW            2 laps
     Marchy Lee          KK BMW                  2 laps