2014 FIA WTCC Race of Russia

FIA WTCC Race of Russia Russia 8 June 2014 Moscow Raceway FIM.svg 6 12 Volokolamsk, Russia Moscow Raceway 3.931 16 16 ARG José María López Citroën Total WTCC 1:38.651 ARG José María López Citroën Total WTCC ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda Team FRA Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC ARG José María López 1:40.148 Citroën Total WTCC CHN Ma Qing Hua Citroën Total WTCC FRA Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing FRA Hugo Valente 1:40.742 Campos Racing The 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Russia (formally the 2014 FIA WTCC Lukoil Race of Russia) was the sixth round of the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Russia. It was held on June 8, 2014 at the Moscow Raceway in Volokolamsk, Russia. Both races were won by Citroën Total WTCC. José María López won race one and Ma Qing Hua won race two. Ma's victory in race two was the first for a Chinese driver in a FIA World Championship race. Background López continued to lead the drivers' championship after the first five rounds, forty–one points ahead of his teammates and defending champion Yvan Muller. Franz Engstler held the lead of the Yokohama Trophy. Citroën Total WTCC expanded to four cars for the Russian round with Chinese driver Ma Qing Hua joining the team.Citroën expands to four cars for Moscow Raceway http://www.touringcartimes.com/2014/06/01/citroen-expands-to-four-cars-for-moscow-raceway/ TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 4 June 2014 1 June 2014 Campos Racing added a second TC2T SEAT for WTCC débutant Nikita Misiulia.Ravaioli Fabio ENTRY LIST http://d1oo2un3qpiryo.cloudfront.net/uploads/files/eventdetail/165/2014_wtcc_entry_list_06_moscow.pdf World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 4 June 2014 29 May 2014 The compensation weights were changed after the previous round. The Citroën C-Elysée WTCC retained the maximum ballast to keep their weight at 1160 kg lb 0. The Honda Civic WTCCs and Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s both gained 20 kg lb 0 of ballast to increase their weight to 1120 kg lb 0. The Lada Granta 1.6Ts remained at the base weight of 1100 kg lb 0.20 EXTRA KILOS FOR HONDA AND CHEVY http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3245/t/20-EXTRA-KILOS-FOR-HONDA-AND-CHEVY https://archive.today/20140604210115/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3245/t/20-EXTRA-KILOS-FOR-HONDA-AND-CHEVY dead 4 June 2014 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 4 June 2014 29 May 2014 Report Free practice Muller was fastest in the first practice session, Gabriele Tarquini was second for the Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team and Tom Coronel was third in the ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet.PRACTICE 1 – EIGHT CARS COVERED BY SIX TENTHS http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3255 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 7 June 2014 7 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714183807/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3255 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all Muller stayed on top in the second practice session, Tarquini was second once again while Hugo Valente was third quickest in the Campos Racing Chevrolet.PRACTICE 2 – MULLER AND TARQUINI STAY ON TOP http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3259 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 7 June 2014 7 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123458/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3259 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all Qualifying Tarquini set the pace in the first part of qualifying with his teammate Tiago Monteiro second. Coronel just missed out on a place in Q2, ending the session five–hundredths of a second down on Dušan Borković. Robert Huff was the best placed of the Lada drivers in 14th while Gianni Morbidelli was 17th after running wide at turn six and damaging his front splitter. TC2 cars filled the last four positions with Franz Engstler claiming pole position and Misiulia taking the final grid slot. López led the second part of qualifying ahead of Tarquini, Sébastien Loeb, Tom Chilton and Monteiro. Muller failed to get through to the third session after experiencing oversteer in his Citroën C-Elysée WTCC. Valente ended the session tenth to claim pole position for race two with Ma Qing Hua sharing the front row. Honda privateers Norbert Michelisz and Mehdi Bennani would start race two from the second row. López went on to claim pole position in the Q3 shootout, Tarquini and Monteiro finished second and third ahead of Loeb and Chilton.Mills Peter Moscow WTCC: Jose Maria Lopez secures third pole of 2014 http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114321 Autosport Haymarket Publications 7 June 2014 7 June 2014 Race One Tarquini charged up the inside of López at the start but the Citroën driver hung on around the outside to retain the lead. On the first lap Muller began his recovery from a bad qualifying by taking Chilton for fifth place while his teammate Loeb moved up to third at the expense of Monteiro. At the end of the second lap Borković tried a pass up the inside of Valente at the final corner and collided with the rear of his teammate, putting both drivers out of the race on the spot. The race was run under yellow flags in the final sector for the next two laps while the stricken Chevrolets were removed from the outside of the final corner. Once the yellow flags cleared Chilton retook fifth place off Muller on the pit straight after Muller ran wide at the last corner. Another driver making up after a poor qualifying was Coronel and by lap six he was hassling Michelisz for eighth place before passing him at the last corner on lap eight. In the TC2 class Misiulia passed John Filippi to move up to third in class, he held this position briefly before going off at the final corner on lap nine and putting his SEAT into the tyre barriers. In the final laps of the race there were two battles developing in the top five; Loeb was pursuing Tarquini for second while Muller was chasing Chilton's fourth place. It was on the final lap that Muller completed the pass at the first corner on Chilton by first trying to go around the outside of the Chevrolet and then switching to the inside. López had built up a lead of 3.1 seconds at the finish line and took victory with Tarquini holding off Loeb for second place.Mills Peter Moscow WTCC: Jose Maria Lopez in control in race one http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114339 Autosport Haymarket Publications 8 June 2014 8 June 2014 Race Two Campos Racing hurried to repair the car of pole sitter Valente during the fifteen minutes of repair time and got the car out three seconds before the pit lane closed. His teammate Borković did not get out in time and started the race from the pitlane. Valente started on pole and Michelisz jumped up ahead of Ma, López failed to get away and was sat on the grid as the rest of the field disappeared around the first corner. There was contact as Muller got turned around the front of Bennani as Loeb and Chilton ran wide to avoid the incident. There was contact between Mikhail Kozlovskiy and James Thompson further back while at the start of the second lap Michelisz was defending from Ma who was looking to take back second place. Race leader Valente was issued with a drive–through penalty for not having his wheel fitted at the five-minute warning before the start of the race; the battle between Michelisz and Ma would now become the battle for the lead. On lap three Loeb lost two places to Coronel and Morbidelli, up ahead Ma and Michelisz continued to battle for the lead with Ma trying a pass on Michelisz on the last corner on lap three and four. Chilton ran wide on lap five and then was tapped from behind by Morbidelli, the two incidents dropped him from fourth to outside the points in eleventh. Lap six saw Muller moving up the order and taking the Hondas of Bennani and Monteiro in one move in the opening part of the lap. Valente went into the pit lane to serve his penalty on lap seven as Ma took the lead of the race from Michelisz. Tarquini went off the circuit and after a brief delay resumed near the back of the field before returning his car to the pits to retire. At the end of lap eight Muller moved up to second with a pass on Michelisz who now had his rear bumper hanging off. On lap 12 the second factory Honda of Monteiro slowed down with technical problems which moved René Münnich up into the final points place. Ma and Muller had built up a gap of six seconds to Michelisz in third who was holding off Bennani, Coronel, Loeb and Chilton. Michelisz lost the back of his car on lap 15 and dropped behind Bennani and Coronel and into the clutches of Loeb at the start of the last lap who was himself under attack from Chilton. Despite slowing down at the finish line Ma secured his first WTCC victory ahead of Muller. Bennani took the final podium place with Coronel fourth and Loeb took fifth from Michelisz with a tap on a rear of the Zengő Motorsport Honda at the last corner.RACE 2 – MA WRITES MOTORSPORT HISTORY http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3277 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 8 June 2014 8 June 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061540/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3277 29 November 2014 Following a collision with Chilton during the race, Monteiro was given a five–place grid penalty for the first race in Belgium.MONTEIRO IS GIVEN GRID PENALTY http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3286 World Touring Car Championship Kigema Sport Organisation 8 June 2014 8 June 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714184159/http://www.fiawtcc.com/news/detail/id/3286 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 Q3 Points 1 37 ARG José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 1:39.560 1:38.832 1:38.651 5 2 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 1:38.754 1:38.872 1:38.877 4 3 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 1:39.426 1:39.423 1:39.166 3 4 9 FRA Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 1:40.118 1:39.111 1:39.580 2 5 3 GBR Tom Chilton ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:39.443 1:39.419 1:39.698 1 6 1 FRA Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 1:39.953 1:39.575 7 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing Honda Civic WTCCTC1 1:40.028 1:39.715 8 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCCTC1 1:39.848 1:40.001 9 33 CHN Ma Qing Hua Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 1:40.280 1:40.092 10 7 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:39.914 1:40.312 11 77 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:40.240 1:40.368 12 98 SRB Dušan Borković Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:40.288 no time set 13 4 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:40.327 14 12 GBR Robert Huff Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 1:40.639 15 14 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 1:40.653 16 11 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 1:40.655 17 10 ITA Gianni Morbidelli ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1:42.091 18 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 1:44.011 19 8 ITA Pasquale Di Sabatino Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 1:44.229 20 27 FRA John Filippi Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 1:46.467 21 50 RUS Nikita Misiulia Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 1:46.498 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 37 ARG José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 27:05.120 1 25 2 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +3.170 2 18 3 9 FRA Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 +3.425 4 15 4 1 FRA Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 +5.902 6 12 5 3 GBR Tom Chilton ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +6.816 5 10 6 33 CHN Ma Qing Hua Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 +7.505 9 8 7 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +13.099 3 6 8 4 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +15.061 13 4 9 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +24.766 8 2 10 12 GBR Robert Huff Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 16 +27.754 14 1 11 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +28.067 7 12 10 ITA Gianni Morbidelli ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +28.579 17 13 77 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +29.323 11 14 11 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 16 +35.188 16 15 14 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 16 +38.472 15 16 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 16 +1:12.432 18 17 8 ITA Pasquale Di Sabatino Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 16 +1:24.023 19 18 27 FRA John Filippi Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 16 +1:37.942 20 Ret 50 RUS Nikita Misiulia Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 7 Race incident 21 Ret 7 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1 Race incident 10 Ret 98 SRB Dušan Borković Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 1 Race incident 12 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Race 2 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 33 CHN Ma Qing Hua Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 27:11.310 2 25 2 1 FRA Yvan Muller Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 +1.261 5 18 3 25 MAR Mehdi Bennani Proteam Racing Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +12.252 4 15 4 4 NLD Tom Coronel ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +12.424 13 12 5 9 FRA Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 16 +14.725 7 10 6 3 GBR Tom Chilton ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +14.890 6 8 7 5 HUN Norbert Michelisz Zengő Motorsport Honda Civic WTCCTC1 16 +15.118 3 6 8 10 ITA Gianni Morbidelli ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +19.894 17 4 9 7 FRA Hugo Valente Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +20.157 1 2 10 77 DEU René Münnich ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +20.984 11 1 11 98 SRB Dušan Borković Campos Racing Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1TC1 16 +26.813 121 1 12 11 GBR James Thompson Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 16 +31.686 16 13 6 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 16 +1:03.478 18 14 8 ITA Pasquale Di Sabatino Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TCTC2T 16 +1:15.843 19 15 27 FRA John Filippi Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 16 +1:27.553 20 16 50 RUS Nikita Misiulia Campos Racing SEAT León WTCCTC2T 16 +1:35.889 21 Ret 18 PRT Tiago Monteiro Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 11 Electrical 8 Ret 12 GBR Robert Huff Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 10 Technical 14 Ret 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team Honda Civic WTCCTC1 7 Steering 9 Ret 14 RUS Mikhail Kozlovskiy Lukoil Lada Sport Lada Granta 1.6TTC1 0 Race incident 15 Ret 37 ARG José María López Citroën Total WTCC Citroën C-Elysée WTCCTC1 0 Gearbox 10 Bold denotes Fastest lap. 1 1 — Borković started from the pit lane. Standings after the event Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 ARG José María López 209 10px 2 FRA Yvan Muller 168 10px 3 FRA Sébastien Loeb 161 10px 4 PRT Tiago Monteiro 105 10px 5 ITA Gabriele Tarquini 96 Yokohama Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 DEU Franz Engstler 121 10px 2 ITA Pasquale Di Sabatino 85 10px 3 FRA John Filippi 64 10px 4 CZE Petr Fulín 10 10px 5 JPN Yukinori Taniguchi 10 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 FRA Citroën 502 10px 2 JPN Honda 333 10px 3 RUS Lada 165 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 Russia 2014 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Austria 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Russia 2015 FIA WTCC Race of Russia Russia FIA WTCC Race of Russia Category:2014 in Russian sport Category:June 2014 sports events in Europe Category:June 2014 in Russia