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Huff leads first Zolder practice

Chevrolet's dominance of the 2011 World Touring Car Championship season-opener at Curitiba has carried through to the first part of this weekend's round at Zolder, with Rob Huff and Yvan Muller setting the pace in this morning's opening practice session

Huff's marker of 1m38.531s put him 0.2 seconds clear of his reigning champion team-mate, leaving third-placed Michel Nykjaer a further half a second in arrears as the quickest of the non-Chevys in his two-litre SUNRED SEAT.

Former champion Gabriele Tarquini (SUNRED SEAT) and Alain Menu (Chevrolet) were just behind the Dane, while Darryl O'Young got Bamboo-Engineering's first weekend with its new Chevrolet Cruze off to an encouraging start by setting the sixth quickest time.

Pos  Driver              Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet          1m38.531s
 2.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet          1m38.796s  + 0.265s
 3.  Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT        1m39.321s  + 0.790s
 4.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT        1m39.482s  + 0.951s
 5.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet          1m39.486s  + 0.955s
 6.  Darryl O'Young      bamboo Chevrolet   1m39.511s  + 0.980s
 7.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT        1m39.524s  + 0.993s
 8.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW           1m39.551s  + 1.020s
 9.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW        1m39.901s  + 1.370s
10.  Marchy Lee          KK BMW             1m39.973s  + 1.442s
11.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW       1m40.001s  + 1.470s
12.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo     1m40.046s  + 1.515s
13.  Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT        1m40.277s  + 1.746s
14.  Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT        1m40.326s  + 1.795s
15.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW        1m40.423s  + 1.892s
16.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo-Dension BMW  1m40.502s  + 1.971s
17.  Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW       1m41.228s  + 2.697s
18.  Yukinori Taniguchi  bamboo Chevrolet   1m41.932s  + 3.401s
19.  Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT        1m42.203s  + 3.672s
20.  Urs Sonderegger     Wiechers BMW       1m43.266s  + 4.735s
21.  Fabio Fabiani       Proteam BMW        1m44.765s  + 6.234s

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