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Huff tops first practice at Macau

Rob Huff kept up his challenge to finish second in the World Touring Car Championship with the quickest time in Friday's opening practice session

The Chevrolet driver, who had been fastest in testing on Thursday, moved to the top of the timesheet with three minutes of practice remaining to edge out BMW's Andy Priaulx by 0.262 seconds.

"The car is feeling good," said Huff. "We made a few changes to the car overnight, but the track conditions are improving so much that it is hard to feel the difference they have made.

"In fact, I feel there is more to come from the track itself rather than the car, so I am very pleased at the moment."

Priaulx, who is also chasing the runners-up spot in the drivers' title chase behind Yvan Muller, escaped a brush with the barriers at Dona Maria Bend to set the second quickest time.

Portugal's Tiago Monteiro was third quickest in the SEAT, ahead of the fellow SEAT driver Norbert Michelisz from Hungary.

Chevrolet's Muller, who secured the drivers' crown ahead of this weekend's race in Macau, ended the session fifth overall ahead of team-mate Alain Menu and last year's champion Gabriele Tarquini - who ran down the escape road at Lisboa near the end of the session but was able to rejoin without trouble.

The only notable incident during the 30-minute session was caused by Fredy Barth in a SEAT, who spun on the exit of Mandarin Bend and hit the barriers on the right hand side of the track. He was able to get his car back to the pits though.


Pos Driver                 Car             Time       Gap    Laps
 1. Rob Huff               Chevrolet       2m32.272s            8
 2. Andy Priaulx           BMW             2m32.534s  +0.262   10
 3. Tiago Monteiro         SEAT            2m32.961s  +0.689   10
 4. Norbert Michelisz      SEAT            2m33.086s  +0.814    9
 5. Yvan Muller            Chevrolet       2m33.123s  +0.851    9
 6. Alain Menu             Chevrolet       2m33.353s  +1.081    8
 7. Gabriele Tarquini      SEAT            2m33.647s  +1.375    6
 8. Tom Coronel            SEAT            2m33.676s  +1.404    7
 9. Darryl O'Young         Chevrolet       2m34.028s  +1.756   10
10. Colin Turkington       BMW             2m34.455s  +2.183    9
11. Franz Engstler         BMW             2m34.488s  +2.216    9
12. Kristian Poulsen       BMW             2m34.843s  +2.571    9
13. Andre Couto            SEAT            2m34.916s  +2.644    9
14. Augusto Farfus         BMW             2m34.993s  +2.721    9
15. Fredy Barth            SEAT            2m35.379s  +3.107    9
16. Sergio Hernandez       BMW             2m35.489s  +3.217    8
17. Michel Nykjaer         SEAT            2m35.548s  +3.276   10
18. Mehdi Bennani          BMW             2m37.432s  +5.160   11
19. Nobuteru Taniguchi     BMW             2m37.460s  +5.188   10
20. Cesar Campanico        BMW             2m37.873s  +5.601   10
21. Kevin Chen             BMW             2m37.885s  +5.613    9
22. Yukinori Taniguchi     Chevrolet       2m39.386s  +7.114   11
23. Henry Ho               BMW             2m40.053s  +7.781    9
24. Jo Merszei             BMW             2m41.625s  +9.353    9
25. Masaki Kano            BMW             2m43.477s  +11.205   9
26. Philip Ma              Honda           2m43.803s  +11.531   9
27. Andrey Romanov         BMW             2m57.964s  +25.692   3

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