Muller wins race two at Brno

Having topped every session ahead of both races this weekend, Muller lost out to team-mate Rob Huff in race one, so was delighted to take the race two chequered flag over four seconds ahead of his nearest rivals. The win is the Muller's second of the season following his victorious second race at Hungaroring.

"I feel better!" the reigning WTCC champion told AUTOSPORT. "I would have been very disappointed to go home without victory here after our performance this weekend. I have scored more points than anybody else so, yeah, I'm very pleased with the weekend."

Muller made a terrific start from eighth on the grid to be running third at the start of lap two, having squeezed past Chevrolet team-mate Alain Menu on the run down to turn five.

Up ahead, Tom Coronel made a similarly good start from the outside of the front row in his ROAL Motorsport BMW to lead polesitter Michel Nykjaer into the first corner. Coronel soon had his mirrors full of the Chevrolet, however, when Muller dived past Nykjaer's SEAT at Turn 8. The race winner eventually denied Coronel his second WTCC victory at the same corner two laps later.

Coronel then took up a terrific scrap for second place with Menu and championship leader Huff. After surviving contact with Menu, the Dutchman produced a typically fighting drive to hold the two Cruzes at bay to finish second. A happy Menu collected his second podium finish of the weekend in third place.

Huff ended a solid weekend in fourth place, while Nykjaer finished just four tenths of a second further back in fifth.

SUNRED's Gabriele Tarquini - who ran as high as fourth early on - came home sixth on his first weekend running SEAT's new 1.6-litre turbo engine. The 2009 champion battled hard over the position with Kristian Poulsen in the latter stages before contact between the two sent Poulsen into the gravel trap at Turn 5. The Engstler driver recovered to finish eighth, just behind the similar BMW of Proteam's Javier Villa.

Robert Dahlgren (Polestar Volvo) improved on his 10th row starting position to finish ninth, while Proteam Racing's Mehdi Bennani scored a point with a solid drive to 10th.

Results - 10 laps:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car             Time/Gap
 1.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet          22m08.247s
 2.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW             + 4.183s
 3.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet            + 4.415s
 4.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet            + 5.033s
 5.  Michel Nykjaer      SUNRED SEAT          + 8.450s
 6.  Gabriele Tarquini   SUNRED SEAT          + 9.118s
 7.  Javier Villa        Proteam BMW          + 9.381s
 8.  Kristian Poulsen    Engstler BMW        + 11.383s
 9.  Robert Dahlgren     Polestar Volvo      + 11.627s
10.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW         + 11.988s
11.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo Dension BMW   + 12.517s
12.  Pepe Oriola         SUNRED SEAT         + 19.966s
13.  Tiago Monteiro      SUNRED SEAT         + 21.209s
14.  Aleksei Dudukalo    SUNRED SEAT         + 22.252s
15.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Bamboo Chevrolet    + 24.809s

Retirements:

     Fredy Barth         SUNRED SEAT            7 laps
     Darryl O'Young      Bamboo Chevrolet       5 laps
     Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW           1 laps
     Urs Sonderegger     Wiechers BMW           0 laps