Muller leads Chevy trio in practice

After sitting out the first half of the session, reigning champion Muller jumped to the top of the timesheets with just six minutes of free practice to run. His fastest lap of 2m11.039s was just over a tenth of a second quicker than team-mate Alain Menu, who finished the session third.

Current points leader Rob Huff, whose best lap of 2m11.525s took him to the top of the timesheets early on, rounded out the Chevrolet trio in third.

Norbert Michelisz (Zengo Dension BMW) continued his strong Hungaroring form by finishing 0.2s behind the Chevrolet trio in fourth. Polestar Racing's Robert Dahlgren opened the debut weekend for his new 1.6 turbo engine with a strong run to fifth in the Volvo while Tom Coronel was next up for ROAL Motorsport in sixth.

A difficult practice session for Gabriele Tarquini meant his SUNRED SEAT spend the majority of the free practice in the pits. The Italian eventually got up to speed, and finished the session eighth just behind fellow SEAT runner Michel Nykjaer. Kristian Poulsen and Pepe Oriola rounded out the top 10.

Neither Tiago Monteiro nor Fredy Barth had much to cheer about however, after multiple problems and extensive time in pitlane resulted in them lapping well off the pace and prop up the timesheets as a result.

Pos  Driver              Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet          2m11.039s
 2.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet          2m11.185s  + 0.146s
 3.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet          2m11.525s  + 0.486s
 4.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo Dension BMW  2m11.723s  + 0.684s
 5.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo     2m12.257s  + 1.218s
 6.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW           2m12.409s  + 1.370s
 7.  Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT        2m12.451s  + 1.412s
 8.  Darryl O'Young      Bamboo Chevrolet   2m12.483s  + 1.444s
 9.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT        2m12.742s  + 1.703s
10.  Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW       2m13.016s  + 1.977s
11.  Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT        2m13.292s  + 2.253s
12.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW        2m13.510s  + 2.471s
13.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW        2m13.587s  + 2.548s
14.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW       2m13.647s  + 2.608s
15.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Bamboo Chevrolet   2m14.450s  + 3.411s
16.  Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT        2m14.735s  + 3.696s
17.  Urs Sonderegger     Wiechers BMW       2m18.302s  + 7.263s
18.  Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT        2m18.443s  + 7.404s
19.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT        4m55.229s  + 2m44.190s