2010 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium

FIA WTCC Race of Belgium Belgium 20 June 2010 Zolder.svg 4 11 Heusden-Zolder, Belgium Zolder 4.006 13 13 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport 1:38.265 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet RML GBR Andy Priaulx 1:40.138 BMW Team RBM GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet RML PRT Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport GBR Andy Priaulx 1:40.181 BMW Team RBM The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Monroe Race of Belgium) was the fourth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Belgium. It was held at Circuit Zolder, near Heusden-Zolder, Belgium on 20 June 2010. It saw the return of the Race of Belgium to the championship, after it was last held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in 2005. The first race was won by Gabriele Tarquini for SR-Sport and the second race was won by Andy Priaulx for BMW Team RBM. Background After round three, Yvan Muller was leading the championship on 100 points, 24 ahead of Tarquini and Chevrolet RML teammate Robert Huff. Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. Two Belgian drivers joined the field for the event, with Vincent Radermecker joining the factory Chevrolet RML team,Elizalde Pablo Radermecker gets a Cruze for Zolder http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83719 Autosport Haymarket Publications 4 February 2013 18 May 2010 while Pierre-Yves Corthals returned to the WTCC in an Exagon Engineering run SEAT León 2.0 TFSI.Meissner Johan Pierre-Yves Corthals returns to WTCC at Zolder http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4741 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 February 2013 4 May 2010 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120323232226/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4741 23 March 2012 Report Testing and free practice Augusto Farfus set the fastest time in Friday testing, with his team–mate Priaulx finishing third. Between them was the Chevrolet Cruze of championship leader Muller. Darryl O'Young in the bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Lacetti was fourth fastest and the lead independent driver. Alain Menu and Huff saw reduced running thanks to technical problems. Radermecker was the fastest of the two Belgian drivers in tenth. Corthals was 21st in the sole petrol SEAT entry.English Steven Farfus leads Zolder test day http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84570 Autosport Haymarket Publications 4 February 2013 18 June 2010 Tiago Monteiro was quickest in the drying conditions of free practice one on Saturday morning, with team–mates Tom Coronel and Jordi Gené second and third. Farfus was the top BMW in fourth and seventh placed Menu was the leading Chevrolet.Meissner Johan Monteiro tops damp morning practice http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4915 https://archive.today/20130217002208/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4915 dead 17 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 February 2013 19 June 2010 Gené led the final practice session with Monteiro second, Muller third and Menu in fourth. Harry Vaulkhard was the fastest independent driver in fifth. The session was brought to a close four minutes early when the engine in Tarquini's SEAT blew, bringing out the red flags.Meissner Johan Gené fastest in red-flagged second practice http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4917 https://archive.today/20130216222923/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4917 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 February 2013 19 June 2010 Qualifying Alain Menu was fastest in Q1 for Chevrolet, ahead of SR-Sport's Tiago Monteiro and Gabriele Tarquini. The most notable casualty from the session was Tom Coronel, who was 11th fastest. In the ten-minute Q2 session, eight of the ten competing cars set their first flying laptimes before rain began to fall over the circuit. Tarquini was fastest ahead of teammate Jordi Gené, Chevrolet teammates Menu and Yvan Muller and the SEATs of Norbert Michelisz, Fredy Barth and Monteiro. The BMW Team RBM pairing of Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus did not set times until after the rain arrived, meaning they could only set the ninth and tenth fastest times.http://www.fiawtcc.com/Read_News.asp?idnews=578 FIA WTCR | World Touring Car Cup Warm-Up BMW Team RBM pair Priaulx and Farfus led Sunday morning warm–up.Hudson Neil BMW's lead in Zolder warm-up http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4923 https://archive.today/20130216224614/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=4923 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 February 2013 20 June 2010 Race One At the start of the race, pole sitter Tarquini was passed by SR-Sport teammate Gené. However, the Spaniard's start was put under investigation, as tt appeared that Gené was ahead of Tarquini as the pair crossed the line for the rolling start. Further behind, contact behind O'Young and Michel Nykjær put O'Young in the gravel, but he managed to rejoin the back of the pack. As the leaders remained in order, Kristian Poulsen passed Corthals for the independents lead and 12th place overall. Having dropped back to tenth place early on, Priaulx passed Coronel for eighth place and pole position for the reverse grid second race. Gené meanwhile took the victory ahead of Tarquini, Muller, Menu and Monteiro.English Steven WTCC news: Gene claims first Zolder victory AUTOSPORT.com 20 June 2010 http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84627 20 July 2014 After the second race of the day, Gené was disqualified for a technical infringement, handing the victory to Tarquini.English Steven WTCC news: Gene excluded from Zolder victory AUTOSPORT.com 20 June 2010 http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84648 20 July 2014 Race Two Polesitter Priaulx made a good start to Race Two. Fellow front-row starter Norbert Michelisz made a slow getaway, dropping him to eighth. Coronel also made a slow start from ninth place. Priaulx, Huff, Monteiro, Menu and Muller followed each other around until the end of the race. Farfus attempted to pass Tarquini for sixth around the outside of turn one, but ran wide and dropped back to eighth behind Michelisz. Hernández took the independents victory in ninth position ahead of Coronel.English Steven WTCC news: Priaulx takes third win of 2010 AUTOSPORT.com 20 June 2010 http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84636 20 July 2014 Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 1 1 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.999 1:38.265 2 4 ESP Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:39.061 1:38.430 3 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:38.840 1:38.494 4 6 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:39.037 1:38.584 5 7 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:39.187 1:38.779 6 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:39.072 1:39.072 7 18 CHE Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:39.151 1:39.173 8 3 PRT Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.875 1:39.255 9 11 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 1:39.030 1:42.856 10 10 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 1:39.112 1:52.493 11 2 NLD Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:39.456 12 17 DNK Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:39.472 13 27 BEL Pierre-Yves Corthals Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:39.610 14 20 HKG Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 1:39.824 15 24 DNK Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:39.863 16 35 BEL Vincent Radermecker Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:40.003 17 15 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:40.058 18 25 ESP Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:40.278 19 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:40.287 20 19 GBR Harry Vaulkhard bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 1:40.395 21 21 MAR Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 1:40.738 22 16 RUS Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:42.934 Race 1 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 21:54.209 1 25 2 6 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +2.629 4 18 3 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +3.056 3 15 4 3 PRT Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +3.559 8 12 5 7 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +3.866 5 10 6 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +4.192 6 8 7 11 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 13 +4.827 9 6 8 2 NLD Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +9.295 11 4 9 10 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 13 +9.453 10 2 10 18 CHE Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +9.655 7 1 11 24 DNK Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +13.373 15 12 27 BEL Pierre-Yves Corthals SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TSFIY 13 +15.400 13 13 25 ESP Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +17.611 18 14 21 MAR Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 13 +18.240 21 15 19 GBR Harry Vaulkhard bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 13 +19.423 20 16 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +20.491 19 17 35 BEL Vincent Radermecker Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +20.877 16 18 17 DNK Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +26.489 12 19 16 RUS Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +54.042 22 20 20 HKG Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 12 +1 Lap 14 Ret 15 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 8 Gearbox 17 DSQ 4 ESP Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 Disqualified 2 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Race 2 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 11 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 13 21:52.091 1 25 2 7 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +1.049 3 18 3 3 PRT Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +1.754 4 15 4 8 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +2.298 5 12 5 6 FRA Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +4.784 6 10 6 1 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +5.788 7 8 7 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +6.283 2 6 8 10 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 13 +6.663 10 4 9 25 ESP Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +13.491 14 2 10 2 NLD Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +14.810 9 1 11 24 DNK Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +15.063 12 12 20 HKG Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 13 +18.227 21 13 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +18.876 17 14 35 BEL Vincent Radermecker Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +20.678 18 15 27 BEL Pierre-Yves Corthals SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TSFIY 13 +23.936 13 16 15 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +24.353 22 17 16 RUS Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +55.610 20 18 18 CHE Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +57.511 11 19 21 MAR Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 12 +1 Lap 15 Ret 17 DNK Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 7 Race incident 19 Ret 19 GBR Harry Vaulkhard bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 2 Race incident 16 Ret 4 ESP Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 Turbo 8 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Standings after the event Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 FRA Yvan Muller 128 10px 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini 109 10px 1 3 GBR Andy Priaulx 105 10px 1 4 GBR Robert Huff 104 10px 2 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro 68 Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Sergio Hernández 60 10px 2 ITA Stefano D'Aste 44 10px 3 MAR Mehdi Bennani 41 10px 4 DEU Franz Engstler 37 10px 5 GBR Harry Vaulkhard 36 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 USA Chevrolet 256 10px 2 ESP SEAT Customers Technology 239 10px 3 DEU BMW 209 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings. References Results Booklet PDF at MST Systems External links World Touring Car Championship official website FIA WTCC Race of Belgium 2010 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal 2005 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium 2011 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium Belgium FIA WTCC Race of Belgium Category:Circuit Zolder Category:Sports competitions in Limburg (Belgium) Category:FIA WTCC Race of Belgium