2012 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco

January 2023 Race of Morocco Morocco 15 April 2012 Circuito Urbano de Marrakech.svg 3 12 Marrakesh, Morocco Marrakech Street Circuit 4.545 11 11 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet 1:43.901 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet ESP Pepe Oriola 1:44.617 Tuenti Racing FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet CHE Alain Menu 1:45.161 Chevrolet The 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco was the third round of the 2012 World Touring Car Championship season and the third running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held on 15 April 2012 at Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakesh, Morocco. Both races were won by Chevrolet with Alain Menu winning race one and Yvan Muller winning race two. Background After Valencia it was Chevrolet driver Yvan Muller who was leading the championship, 27 points clear of his nearest rival Menu who was three points clear of ROAL Motorsport driver Tom Coronel. Pepe Oriola was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. Having made his WTCC debut at Valencia, Fernando Monje would not return to race at Marrakesh in preparation for his return to the European Touring Car Cup at the Slovakiaring.Hudson Neil Fernando Monje to miss Morocco http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7427 https://archive.today/20130208204222/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7427 dead 8 February 2013 TouringCarTimes 4 August 2012 Gábor Wéber would also miss the event due to financial concerns, leaving Norbert Michelisz as the sole driver for Zengő Motorsport.Hudson Neil Gábor Wéber will also miss Marrakech http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7430 https://archive.today/20130204150530/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7430 dead 4 February 2013 TouringCarTimes 4 August 2012 Report Free Practice Lukoil Racing Team's Gabriele Tarquini was fastest in the first free practice session ahead of the Chevrolets of Yvan Muller and Robert Huff. Team AON's Tom Chilton was a surprise fourth fastest, backing up his performance from Fridays test session. Franz Engstler was the fastest of the BMWs.Abbott Andrew Tarquini sets the pace in FP1 http://www.touring-cars.net/2012/04/tarquini-sets-the-pace-in-fp1 TouringCars.net 5 August 2012 In the second session it was Menu was topped the times, his teammates Muller and Huff were second and third once again. Tarquini was the fastest SEAT in fourth ahead of Oriola and the Ford Focus of Chilton in sixth.Abbott Andrew Menu fastest in second practice http://www.touring-cars.net/2012/04/menu-fastest-in-second-practice TouringCars.net 5 August 2012 Qualifying Menu continued his pace from the second free practice session to take pole position by 0.028s ahead of Huff. Muller and Coronel set benchmark times early on in Q2 but they had to settle for fourth and third respectively. Tiago Monteiro was tenth and looked to take pole position for race two.Menu lands Morocco pole http://www1.skysports.com/other-sports/news/15749/7673875/Menu-lands-Morocco-pole Sky Sports 5 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20150402142344/http://www1.skysports.com/other-sports/news/15749/7673875/Menu-lands-Morocco-pole 2 April 2015 live After Tarquini was removed from qualifying for running an underweight car, James Nash moved up to take pole position for race two.Meissner Johan Tarquini excluded from Marrakech qualifying [updated] http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7443 https://archive.today/20130205050009/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7443 dead 5 February 2013 TouringCarTimes 5 August 2012Meissner Johan James Nash to start on pole position in race two http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7448 https://archive.today/20130204160558/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7448 dead 4 February 2013 TouringCarTimes 5 August 2012 Warm-Up Yvan Muller was fastest in the Sunday morning warm up session with pole sitter Menu in fourth.Meissner Johan Yvan Muller on top in Marrakech warm up http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7445 https://archive.today/20130205020727/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7445 dead 5 February 2013 TouringCarTimes 5 August 2012 Race One The Chevrolet trio of Menu, Huff and Muller led away from the start while behind them, Oriola made a great getaway and got ahead of Coronel for fourth. Local driver Mehdi Bennani and James Nash collided at the first turn, forcing both to retire. There was a brief scare for Alex MacDowall when he missed the braking point at turn 5 in his bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze and collected the BMW of Coronel, both escaped any series damage and continued. The safety car was deployed while the stricken Ford of Nash was recovered with the race resuming on lap three. Isaac Tutumlu crashed his Proteam Racing into the wall at turn 4 and retired. On lap 5, Monteiro retired with gearbox problems in his SUNRED León. Menu led a Chevrolet 1-2-3 with Oriola the Yokohama Trophy winner in fourth. Chilton scored Ford's maiden points in the WTCC with a seventh-place finish.ROUNDS 5 & 6 – MARRAKECH, MOROCCO RACE REPORT http://www.fiawtcc.com/uploads/files/eventdetail/41/2012_marrakech_races.pdf World Touring Car Championship 5 August 2012April 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Race Two Nash led away from pole position while Coronel jumped up from eighth on the grid to third behind Engstler at the first corner. Chilton collected the rear bumper of Monteiro and dropped back down the field. Nash had to defend well from the BMW of Engstler until the German was overtaken by the Chevrolets of Muller and Huff on lap 4. On the following lap the two leading Chevrolets demoted Nash to third, one lap further on Menu also overtook the 2011 British Touring Car Championship Independents' Champion to secure third. Nash succumbed to attacks from Coronel and Stefano D'Aste on lap 9, while his teammate Chilton retired with turbo problems. At the finish, Muller led another Chevrolet 1-2-3 in reverse of the order they finished race one, D'Aste was the winning independent in fourth place and pole sitter Nash eventually finished sixth. After the race, the stewards issued bamboo-engineering driver Pasquale di Sabatino with a 30-second penalty for repeatedly cutting the chicanes, this dropped him from 12th to 15th in the classification. Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 Points 1 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:43.753 1:43.901 5 2 2 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:44.973 1:43.929 4 3 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 1:45.000 1:43.968 3 4 1 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:44.482 1:44.201 2 5 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing SEAT León WTCCY 1:44.919 1:44.498 1 6 11 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 1:45.281 1:44.544 7 23 GBR Tom Chilton Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 1:44.638 1:44.681 8 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 1:45.125 1:44.822 9 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Tuenti Racing SR León 1.6T 1:44.966 1:44.870 10 14 GBR James Nash Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 1:45.137 1:44.982 11 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 1:45.178 1:51.464 12 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCC 1:45.378 DSQ 13 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport BMW 320 TCY 1:45.495 DNQ 14 12 ITA Pasquale di Sabatino bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 1:45.692 DNQ 15 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TCY 1:45.707 DNQ 16 20 CHN Darryl O'Young Special Tuning Racing SEAT León WTCCY 1:45.834 DNQ 17 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 1:45.965 DNQ 18 16 ITA Alberto Cerqui ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TCY 1:46.041 DNQ 19 22 GBR Tom Boardman Special Tuning Racing SEAT León TDiY 1:46.562 DNQ 20 24 ESP Isaac Tutumlu Proteam Racing BMW 320 TCY 1:47.294 DNQ 21 40 BEL Andrea Barlesi SUNRED Engineering SR León 1.6TY 1:47.872 DNQ 4 RUS Aleksei Dudukalo Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCCY 2:49.620 DNQ Bold denotes Pole position for second race. Race 1 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 22.28.931 1 25 2 2 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 +1.074 2 18 3 1 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 +1.554 4 15 4 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing SEAT León WTCCY 12 +2.268 5 12 5 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 12 +5.713 11 10 6 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 12 +8.075 8 8 7 23 GBR Tom Chilton Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 12 +9.290 7 6 8 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 12 +16.069 3 4 9 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport BMW 320 TC Y 12 +17.696 13 2 10 20 CHN Darryl O'Young Special Tuning Racing SEAT León WTCCY 12 +19.284 16 1 11 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCC 12 +26.413 12 12 11 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T Y 12 +38.647 6 13 40 BEL Andrea Barlesi SUNRED Engineering SR León 1.6T Y 12 +44.139 20 14 22 GBR Tom Boardman Special Tuning Racing SEAT León TDiY 12 +48.598 18 15 16 ITA Alberto Cerqui ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC Y 12 +50.097 21 16 4 RUS Aleksei Dudukalo Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCCY 12 +50.377 22 17 12 ITA Pasquale di Sabatino bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T Y 11 +1 Lap 14 NC 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Tuenti Racing SR León 1.6T 7 +5 Laps 9 Ret 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TC Y 6 Engine 17 Ret 24 ESP Isaac Tutumlu Proteam Racing BMW 320 TC Y 2 Collision 19 Ret 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TC Y 2 Collision 15 Ret 14 GBR James Nash Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 0 Collision 10 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Race 2 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 19:36.836 7 25 2 2 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 +0.381 9 18 3 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 +0.970 10 15 4 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 11 +2.153 8 12 5 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 11 +2.641 11 10 6 14 GBR James Nash Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 11 +5.052 1 8 7 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing SEAT León WTCCY 11 +5.589 6 6 8 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 11 +5.610 3 4 9 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Tuenti Racing SR León 1.6T 11 +7.374 2 2 10 20 CHN Darryl O'Young Special Tuning Racing SEAT León WTCCY 11 +12.861 15 1 11 4 RUS Aleksei Dudukalo Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCCY 11 +13.587 21 12 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TC Y 11 +18.629 20 13 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TC Y 11 +29.173 16 14 40 BEL Andrea Barlesi SUNRED Engineering SR León 1.6T Y 11 +31.619 19 15 12 ITA Pasquale di Sabatino bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T Y 11 +44.273 14 16 23 GBR Tom Chilton Team Aon Ford Focus S2000 TC 8 +3 Laps 4 Ret 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport BMW 320 TC Y 5 Suspension 13 Ret 16 ITA Alberto Cerqui ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC Y 2 Driveshaft 17 Ret 11 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T Y 0 Driveshaft 5 Ret 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Lukoil Racing SEAT León WTCC 0 Suspension 12 DNS 22 GBR Tom Boardman Special Tuning Racing SEAT León TDiY 0 Withdrew DNS 24 ESP Isaac Tutumlu Proteam Racing BMW 320 TC Y 0 Collision damage 18 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 FRA Yvan Muller 130 10px 2 CHE Alain Menu 106 10px 1 3 GBR Robert Huff 97 10px 1 4 NLD Tom Coronel 77 10px 1 5 ITA Stefano D'Aste 45 Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Pepe Oriola 51 10px 2 ITA Stefano D'Aste 47 10px 1 3 DEU Franz Engstler 37 10px 1 4 HUN Norbert Michelisz 32 10px 5 GBR Alex MacDowall 19 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 USA Chevrolet 268 10px 2 DEU BMW Customer Racing Teams 161 10px 3 ESP SEAT Racing Technology 144 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings. References External links FIA WTCC Race of Morocco 2012 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Spain 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Slovakia 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco Morocco Race of Morocco Category:FIA WTCC Race of Morocco