2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco

FIA WTCC Race of Morocco Morocco 3 May 2009 Circuito Urbano de Marrakech.svg 3 12 Marrakesh, Morocco Marrakech Street Circuit 4.540 12 13 Great Britain Robert Huff Chevrolet 1:49.789 Great Britain Robert Huff Chevrolet Italy Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport Spain Jordi Gené SEAT Sport Great Britain Robert Huff 1:50.833 Chevrolet Italy Nicola Larini Chevrolet France Yvan Muller SEAT Sport Great Britain Robert Huff Chevrolet Switzerland Alain Menu 1:51.017 Chevrolet The 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Morocco) was the third round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held on 3 May 2009 at the Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was the inaugural running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. The two races were won by Chevrolet's Robert Huff and Nicola Larini, the former taking the first win for the Chevrolet Cruze in the World Touring Car Championship. Background After the previous round in Mexico, Yvan Muller was tied at the top of the drivers' standings with SEAT Sport teammate Rickard Rydell. Félix Porteiro had established a 23 point lead over Tom Coronel in the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. This was the first FIA World Championship race to be held in Morocco since the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix. The WTCC saw its first North African driver participate in an event when Mehdi Bennani joined the grid in an Exagon Engineering run SEAT León 2.0 TFSI.Meissner Johan Mehdi Bennani joins Exagon at Marrakech http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3240 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 31 January 2013 17 March 2009 Other changes were made to Scuderia Proteam Motorsport expanded to three cars for Morocco to run a BMW 320si for Vito Postiglione,English Steven Proteam to run third car in Morocco http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74385 Autosport Haymarket Publications 31 January 2013 10 April 2009 and Tom Boardman requested a new car which wouldn't have been ready for the Moroccan event so he elected to skip the round and focus on returning for the Race of France.Meissner Johan Tom Boardman skips Marrakech http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3408 https://archive.today/20130216225547/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3408 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 31 January 2013 30 April 2009 Report Testing and free practice Yvan Muller topped the times as the WTCC cars took to the Marrakech Street Circuit for the first time in Friday's test session. He was closely followed by Chevrolet's Alain Menu and SEAT Sport team mate Rydell.Meissner Johan Muller ahead of Menu at Marrakech http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3412 https://archive.today/20130216222917/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3412 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 31 January 2013 1 May 2009 SEAT Sport stayed on top in free practice one on Saturday morning, forming a SEAT 1–2–3–4–5 with Menu sixth. Coronel in seventh was the fastest independent driver and Jörg Müller in eighth was the fastest factory BMW car, Nicola Larini and Stefano D'Aste rounded out the top ten.English Steven SEAT dominates Marrakech practice http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75003 Autosport Haymarket Publications 31 January 2013 2 May 2009 Yvan Muller topped the afternoon session with SEATs filling the top six places. Menu was sixth ahead of Huff and the fastest BMW was that of independent driver Franz Engstler. Qualifying Chevrolet's Huff beat practice pace setters SEAT in qualifying to claim pole position, the first for the new Cruze car. Gabriele Tarquini started second and Yvan Muller third. Despite setting the second fastest lap, Menu was demoted to 10th because the Stewards disallowed his Q2 qualifying times after his car did not restart following a mandatory visit to the weighing bay. In Q1, SEAT had company at the top of the qualifying timesheet in the form of Chevrolet. While Tiago Monteiro initially made claim to pole with a 1:51.086, Menu (1:50.271), Larini (1:50.723) and Huff (1:50.817) stole the top spots. The end of the session saw Andy Priaulx miss his braking point at turn 1 and clash with Hernández who had come off his line to let Zanardi through. Due to the fact he received external aid to restart, Priaulx was not permitted to take part in Q2 and therefore qualified ninth following Menu's penalty. All of the LADA drivers remained out of Q2. Despite not making Q2, Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani put in a strong performance to qualify 14th overall and second of the Independents. In Q2, the session ended prematurely for Jörg Müller who suffered a rear left puncture after six minutes. He did not post a competitive qualifying time and lined up eighth for Race 1. The pack was tight and at one point during the session just four tenths of a second split the top six. On the last lap Huff charged to the front with a 1:49.789. Tarquini clocked a 1:50.086 on his last lap to secure a front-row place and Muller's best time was 1:50.156. Muller lined up third followed by Jordi Gené, Larini and Monteiro. Engstler qualified as best Independent and BMW driver in seventh, while Menu's qualifying session ended when he hit the wall at turn 2 on his last lap.http://www.fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.3.200952223750.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20101031192400/http://fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.3.200952223750.pdf 2010-10-31 Qualifying Report Warm-Up Yvan Muller topped the warm–up session on Sunday morning with fellow SEAT drivers Gené second, Coronel third, Tarquini fourth and Monteiro fifth. Jörg Müller was the leading BMW while pole sitter Huff was eighth.Casillo Pietro SEAT back on top in the warm up http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3425 https://archive.today/20130216225235/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3425 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 31 January 2013 3 May 2009 Race One Robert Huff converted his pole into a win for Chevrolet, the first for the new Cruze car in its fifth race. Huff led the field from the start to finish with Gabriele Tarquini behind him the whole way to take second. Jordi Gené overtook Yvan Muller on the penultimate lap to secure third. Farfus' team-mate Jörg Müller was the fastest BMW and his eighth place finish meant pole in Race 2. Fellow BMW driver Alessandro Zanardi retired from the race on lap four. The safety car was deployed at the end of the first lap after an incident involving Müller, Alain Menu and Rickard Rydell resulted in Rydell being squeezed into the wall at turn two and incurring race-ending damage to his car. Moroccan driver Mehdi Bennani was best Independent in ninth overall, while Augusto Farfus was challenged hard by Tom Coronel for 12th position, but in the end, Coronel made a mistake at turn 11 on lap 10 and lost the battle.http://www.fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.3.200953195029.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20101031190117/http://fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.3.200953195029.pdf 2010-10-31 Race Report Race Two The second race saw Nicola Larini celebrate his first ever WTCC win. Yvan Muller took second place ahead of Race 1 winner Robert Huff. Jörg Müller led until lap eight when he went wide at turn 15 allowing Larini, Muller and Huff through. The BMW Team Germany driver eventually finished fourth ahead of Tarquini, Farfus and Monteiro. Franz Engstler took the final point in eighth as well as the Independent win. Andy Priaulx was in contention for points until lap 11 where he missed the braking point at turn 7 – he retired to the pits on the next lap. Mehdi Bennani also went straight at the same point on lap 11 but continued to finish 10th and third independent. The safety car was deployed for two laps at the start after Hernández's car was stranded in an unsafe place. Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 1 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:50.817 1:49.789 2 2 Italy Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:51.033 1:50.086 3 1 FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:50.924 1:50.156 4 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:51.294 1:50.266 5 14 Italy Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:50.723 1:50.372 6 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:51.086 1:50.770 7 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:51.750 1:51.643 8 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1:51.593 2:35.400 9 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 1:51.508 no time set 10 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:50.271 excluded 11 9 Italy Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1:51.753 12 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:51.806 13 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1:51.945 14 30 MAR Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:52.008 15 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:52.148 16 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:52.271 17 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:52.401 18 28 Croatia Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:52.504 19 10 Spain Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1:52.622 20 27 Italy Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 1:52.733 21 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:53.001 22 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:53.510 23 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:53.636 24 31 Italy Vito Postiglione Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:53.711 25 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:54.046 Race 1 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 12 24:04.240 1 10 2 2 Italy Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +1.729 2 8 3 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +5.583 4 6 4 1 FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +7.044 3 5 5 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +7.410 6 4 6 14 Italy Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 12 +8.577 5 3 7 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 12 +9.043 10 2 8 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 12 +9.839 8 1 9 30 MAR Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +10.398 14 10 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 12 +11.011 9 11 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 12 +12.857 7 12 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 12 +17.033 13 13 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 12 +27.755 15 14 10 ESP Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 12 +28.287 19 15 28 HRV Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +31.487 18 16 27 Italy Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 12 +34.793 20 17 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 12 +34.929 22 18 31 Italy Vito Postiglione Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 12 +42.413 24 19 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 12 +43.944 23 20 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 12 +55.021 21 21 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +1:01.896 16 22 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 11 +1 Lap 25 Ret 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 4 Race incident 17 Ret 9 Italy Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 3 Radiator 11 Ret 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 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 14 Italy Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 27:29.960 3 10 2 1 FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +1.399 5 8 3 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +1.778 8 6 4 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 13 +2.728 1 5 5 2 Italy Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +3.068 7 4 6 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 13 +3.991 12 3 7 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +6.779 11 2 8 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 13 +11.084 21 1 9 30 MAR Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 13 +15.644 9 10 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +31.913 13 11 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 13 +33.688 17 12 28 HRV Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 13 +39.038 15 13 27 Italy Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 12 +1 Lap 16 14 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 12 +1 Lap 20 15 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 11 +2 Laps 10 16 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 10 +3 Laps 2 17 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 9 +4 Laps 22 Ret 31 Italy Vito Postiglione Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 5 Race incident 18 Ret 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 0 Race incident 24 Ret 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 0 Race incident 19 Ret 10 ESP Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 0 Race incident 14 Ret 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 Electrical 6 DNS 9 Italy Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 0 Did not start 25 DNS 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 Did not start 23 DSQ 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 Disqualified 4 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Standings after the event Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 FRA Yvan Muller 43 10px 2 2 Italy Gabriele Tarquini 31 10px 1 3 SWE Rickard Rydell 30 10px 1 4 ESP Jordi Gené 24 10px 2 5 BRA Augusto Farfus 23 Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Félix Porteiro 64 10px 1 2 DEU Franz Engstler 51 10px 1 3 NLD Tom Coronel 42 10px 4 Italy Stefano D'Aste 25 10px 5 MAR Mehdi Bennani 17 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 ESP SEAT 93 10px 2 DEU BMW 64 10px 3 United States Chevrolet 51 10px 4 RUS Lada 24 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings. References External links Results Booklet PDF at MST Systems FIA WTCC Race of Morocco 2009 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico 2009 FIA WTCC Race of France none 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco FIA WTCC Race of Morocco Morocco Category:FIA WTCC Race of Morocco