2013 FIA WTCC Race of Argentina

FIA WTCC Race of Argentina Argentina 4 August 2013 Termas de Río Hondo.svg 8 12 Termas de Río Hondo, Argentina Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo 4.806 12 11 FRA Yvan Muller RML 1:47.920 FRA Yvan Muller RML ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team GBR Tom Chilton RML FRA Yvan Muller 1:50.524 RML ARG José María López Wiechers-Sport ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda Team ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team FRA Yvan Muller 1:50.248 RML The 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Argentina was the eighth round of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season and the maiden running of the FIA WTCC Race of Argentina. It was held on 4 August 2013 at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. Race one was won by Yvan Muller for RML while race two was won by local driver José María López on his debut weekend in the World Touring Car Championship while driving for Wiechers-Sport. Background Muller was leading the drivers' championship by 122 points over Michel Nykjær who was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. The Honda Civic WTCCs, SEAT León WTCCs and BMW 320 TCs lost all additional ballast when the compensation weights were re-calculated. The Chevrolet Cruzes retained their 40 kg of ballast while the Lada Grantas remained 20 kg below the baseweight.Honda, BMW and Seat lose more weight for Argentinian races http://www.automobilsport.com/fia-wtcc-honda-bmw-seat-lose-weight-argentinian-races---113220.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131203080435/http://www.automobilsport.com/fia-wtcc-honda-bmw-seat-lose-weight-argentinian-races---113220.html usurped December 3, 2013 automobilsport automobilsport.com 1 August 2013 6 July 2013 José María López joined Wiechers-Sport for the round, substituting for regular driver Fredy Barth."PECHITO" LÓPEZ IN HOME RACE http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1238 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 1 August 2013 26 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131204021209/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1238 2013-12-04 dead Following heavy damage sustained in the previous round, Tom Boardman and the Special Tuning Racing team elected to skip the Race of Argentina to repair the car before shipping to the United States.Bailey Richard WTCC: Boardman MIA for Argentina round http://richardsf1.com/2013/07/02/wtcc-boardman-mia-for-argentina-round/ Richard's F1 RichardsF1.com 1 August 2013 2 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010422/http://richardsf1.com/2013/07/02/wtcc-boardman-mia-for-argentina-round/ 2013-12-03 usurped Campos Racing's Hugo Valente came to the event with a 10–place grid penalty for race one after ignoring yellow flags in race one in Portugal.WTCC - Four drivers penalized after Race 1 http://www.nextgen-auto.com/Four-drivers-penalized-after-Race-1,63037.html Nextgen-Auto Nextgen-Auto 4 August 2013 30 June 2013 Report Testing and free practice Muller led an RML 1–2 in Friday's test session, López was eleventh quickest in his first WTCC session.Yvan Muller heads Chevrolet 1-2 in first Argentina test http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/08/02/yvan-muller-heads-chevrolet-1-2-in-first-argentina-test/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 2 August 2013 2 August 2013 Muller and teammate Tom Chilton were first and second once again in free practice one, Tiago Monteiro was third for Honda and fourth placed López was the quickest independent driver. The session had been red flagged early on when a technical failure cut off the timing and video systems.Hudson Neil Yvan Muller leads RML 1-2 Termas de Río Hondo first practice http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/08/03/yvan-muller-leads-rml-1-2-termas-de-rio-hondo-first-practice/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 3 August 2013 3 August 2013 Chilton led a Chevrolet 1–2–3 in free practice two ahead of Muller and bamboo-engineering's Alex MacDowall. The session was red flagged when René Münnich got his Münnich Motorsport SEAT stuck in a gravel trap. His teammate Robert Huff stopped on the track three minutes from the end as a result of a suspected turbocharger failure.PRACTICE 2: MULLER AND CHILTON SWAP PLACES http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1277 https://archive.today/20130803163826/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1277 dead 3 August 2013 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 3 August 2013 3 August 2013 Münnich Motorsport were forced to change the engine in Huff's car after free practice two, earning the reigning champion a penalty which would see him start at the back of the grid for race one.Hudson Neil Rob Huff receives engine change penalty in Argentina http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/08/03/rob-huff-receives-engine-change-penalty-in-argentina/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 3 August 2013 3 August 2013 Monteiro would also be sent to the back of the grid for race one following an engine change. Qualifying Nykjær led the cars out at the start of Q1, Muller then went to the top of the times straight away while MacDowall was the first driver to go off the track. López was running as high as third during the session while for a brief time both Lukoil Lada Sport cars were inside the top twelve before Mikhail Kozlovskiy was bumped down the order by improvements for other drivers, notably James Nash and Marc Basseng. After lengthy repairs, Huff left the pits in time to do one flying lap which was only good enough for 14th, putting him out of qualifying. Valente was the only SEAT driver to get through to Q2 when Basseng was displaced by Nash while López was the only BMW driver to do so. A misunderstanding between the ROAL Motorsport pair of Tom Coronel and Darryl O'Young saw the pair eliminated from qualifying in the first session. After a short break, Q2 began and Muller went to the top of the times once again. A group of cars formed up for a final flying lap at the end of the session with both Muller and Chilton improving their times; Muller stayed on top while Chilton was second despite an off at the final corner. Pepe Oriola was the other driver to go off on the final tour. López had caught up with the back of the train of cars which was driving slowly around the circuit before going off on a final fast lap but he still finished tenth to secure pole position for race two.Abbott Andrew Muller dominates Argentina qualifying http://www.touringcars.net/2013/08/muller-dominates-argentina-qualifying Touring-Cars.net Andrew Abbott 4 August 2013 3 August 2013 After qualifying, Muller, Chilton, Nash, MacDowall, Tarquini, Monteiro and Oriola were called to the stewards to explain the slow train of cars at the end of Q2 but no further action was taken.INQUIRY ENDS IN NO FURTHER ACTION http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1294 https://archive.today/20130804105021/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1294 dead 4 August 2013 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 4 August 2013 4 August 2013 Kozlovskiy was lost all his lap times for a breach of parc fermé regulations when a laptop was connected to his car.Hudson Neil Mikhail Kozlovsky penalised for parc fermé breach http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/08/04/mikhail-kozlovsky-penalised-for-parc-ferme-breach/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 August 2013 3 August 2013 Warm-Up López was quickest in the warm–up session on Sunday morning, edging out the Chevrolet of MacDowall. Huff was third while Kozlovskiy was fourth for Lada.LOCAL HERO LÓPEZ IS FASTEST IN WARM-UP http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1303 https://archive.today/20130804132032/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1303 dead 4 August 2013 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 4 August 2013 4 August 2013 Race One Muller was on pole position for the first race, the first attempt at the rolling start was aborted when second placed Chilton failed to drive through the grid boxes. The race was started when the cars came around again, Chilton ran wide at the first corner and lost places to Nykjær and Oriola. On lap five Chilton reclaimed second place ahead of Oriola. Michelisz lost his front splitter following collisions with Nykjær and Nash which caused the three of them to slow down allowing Tarquini to move past the group into fourth place. López was also able to catch up with them having run in a distant 8th place and he picked them off one–by–one to finish 5th. Oriola passed Chilton at the end of the race to split with RML cars, Muller won by a comfortable margin of 4.9 seconds ahead of Oriola. López in fifth was the Yokohama Trophy winner in his first WTCC race while Huff and Monteiro came through from the back of the grid to score points in 8th and 10th respectively.Hudson Neil Yvan Muller wins race one in Argentina ahead of Oriola http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/08/04/yvan-muller-wins-race-one-in-argentina-ahead-of-oriola/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 August 2013 4 August 2013 Race Two López started on pole position for the second race and maintained his first place at the start, at the end of the first lap he had built up a lead of 1.8 seconds ahead of Monteiro. Nykjær separated the Hondas as Tarquini was running fourth, by the end of the second lap Muller had closed in on the trio fighting for second place. Tarquini tried a move on Nykjær at turn thirteen, he ran wide and Nykjær did likewise trying to defend which allowed Muller and Nash through while Tarquini was now battling with Oriola and Michelisz for 6th place. On lap three Nykjær tried to dive up the inside of Nash at turn seven but the pair collided and allowed Tarquini through while MacDowall and Chilton collided further back. Monteiro was running second ahead of Muller on lap five and the pair were closing in on López when Muller ran into the back of him in the braking area for turn five, putting Monteiro off the road and dropping the Honda driver down to ninth once he had recovered to the track. On the same lap Huff was disputing sixth place with Michelisz; there was light contact between the pair before Huff dropped back slightly into Thompson who then bumped the SEAT and broke its front left suspension causing Huff to go off into the gravel. On lap seven Muller was issued with a drive–through penalty for his collision with Monteiro which was served immediately. O'Young and Valente came together on lap nine, they had been contesting eighth place until Valente tapped the back of the ROAL BMW and O'Young spun off the circuit. Thompson had been running behind them but one lap later he slowed down with technical problems. At the end of lap eleven López passed the checkered flag to take his first overall WTCC victory and the first WTCC victory for an Argentine driver, Tarquini and Oriola completed the podium.RACE 2 – LÓPEZ MAKES HISTORY http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1312 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 4 August 2013 4 August 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130819192112/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/1312 2013-08-19 dead Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 Points 1 12 FRA Yvan Muller RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:49.158 1:47.920 5 2 23 GBR Tom Chilton RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:49.690 1:48.423 4 3 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCC 1:49.247 1:48.855 3 4 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 1:49.545 1:48.919 2 5 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:49.762 1:48.979 1 6 9 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 1:50.132 1:49.039 7 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 1:49.517 1:49.177 8 14 GBR James Nash bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 1:49.938 1:49.236 9 17 DNK Michel Nykjær NIKA Racing Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 1:49.252 1:49.406 10 72 ARG José María López Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 1:49.819 1:49.674 11 20 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 1:50.212 1:50.130 12 10 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1:49.953 1:50.353 13 38 DEU Marc Basseng ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 1:50.272 14 1 GBR Robert Huff ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 1:50.314 15 19 ESP Fernando Monje Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 1:50.583 16 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 1:50.744 17 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste PB Racing BMW 320 TCY 1:50.788 18 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 1:51.328 19 55 HKG Darryl O'Young ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TCY 1:51.345 20 37 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCCY 1:51.368 21 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TCY 1:51.862 22 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 1:51.866 107% time: 1:56.799 EX1 1 8 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta Excluded Bold denotes Pole position for second race. 1 1 Kozlovskiy had all of his times from qualifying deleted after a breach of parc fermé regulations after Q1. Race 1 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 12 FRA Yvan Muller RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 22:56.896 1 25 2 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 +4.924 5 18 3 23 GBR Tom Chilton RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 12 +7.813 2 15 4 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 12 +7.989 4 12 5 72 ARG José María López Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 12 +8.846 9 10 6 17 DNK Michel Nykjær NIKA Racing Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 12 +10.214 8 8 7 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCC 12 +12.833 3 6 8 1 GBR Robert Huff ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 12 +13.960 23 4 9 14 GBR James Nash bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 12 +14.636 7 2 10 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 12 +14.870 22 1 11 9 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 12 +15.743 6 12 38 DEU Marc Basseng ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 12 +16.619 11 13 20 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 12 +17.333 20 14 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste PB Racing BMW 320 TCY 12 +19.858 14 15 55 HKG Darryl O'Young ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TCY 12 +20.247 16 16 19 ESP Fernando Monje Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 12 +23.563 12 17 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 12 +23.782 15 18 37 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCCY 12 +30.675 17 19 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 12 +33.536 19 20 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TCY 12 +36.459 18 Ret 10 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 8 Mechanical 10 NC 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 7 +5 Laps 13 Ret 8 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 2 Suspension 21 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Race 2 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 72 ARG José María López Wiechers-Sport BMW 320 TCY 11 20:28.525 1 25 2 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 11 +3.619 7 18 3 74 ESP Pepe Oriola Tuenti Racing Team Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 +3.989 6 15 4 17 DNK Michel Nykjær NIKA Racing Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 11 +4.945 2 12 5 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCC 11 +7.135 8 10 6 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCC 11 +7.517 4 8 7 14 GBR James Nash bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 11 +13.866 3 6 8 20 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 11 +16.422 11 4 9 15 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC 11 +16.767 16 2 10 26 ITA Stefano D'Aste PB Racing BMW 320 TCY 11 +18.320 17 1 11 9 GBR Alex MacDowall bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze 1.6TY 11 +19.073 5 12 23 GBR Tom Chilton RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 +19.634 9 13 12 FRA Yvan Muller RML Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 11 +20.232 10 14 19 ESP Fernando Monje Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCY 11 +23.092 15 15 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 11 +23.515 21 16 8 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 11 +26.544 23 17 37 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCCY 11 +27.050 22 18 55 HKG Darryl O'Young ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TCY 11 +36.055 19 19 7 HKG Charles Ng Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCY 11 +36.476 18 20 10 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 10 +1 Lap 12 21 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing BMW 320 TCY 8 +3 Laps 20 Ret 38 DEU Marc Basseng ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 7 Race incident 13 Ret 1 GBR Robert Huff ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport SEAT León WTCC 4 Race incident 14 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Standings after the event Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 FRA Yvan Muller 312 10px 2 DNK Michel Nykjær 180 10px 2 3 ITA Gabriele Tarquini 166 10px 1 4 GBR James Nash 146 10px 1 5 GBR Robert Huff 139 Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 DNK Michel Nykjær 129 10px 2 GBR James Nash 120 10px 3 GBR Alex MacDowall 88 10px 4 MAR Mehdi Bennani 60 10px 5 ITA Stefano D'Aste 58 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 JPN Honda 661 10px 2 RUS Lada 398 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings. References External links World Touring Car Championship official website FIA WTCC Race of Argentina 2013 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal 2013 FIA WTCC Race of the United States none 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Argentina Argentina Race of Argentina