2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico

FIA WTCC Race of Mexico Mexico 22 March 2009 AutodromoMEAPuebla.svg 2 12 Puebla, Mexico Autódromo Miguel E. Abed 3.363 16 16 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany 1:37.981 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK GBR Andy Priaulx 1:38.076 BMW Team UK FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport DEU Jörg Müller 1:38.287 BMW Team Germany The 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico (formally the 2009 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Mexico) was the second round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held on 22 March 2009 at the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed near Puebla, Mexico. It was the fourth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Mexico. The two races were won by SEAT Sport's Rickard Rydell and Yvan Muller. Background After the first round of the year in Brazil, defending champion Yvan Muller was tied on points with SEAT Sport teammate Gabriele Tarquini at the top of the drivers' championship. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport's Félix Porteiro was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy. Report Testing and free practice The test session on Friday saw joint championship leader Yvan Muller go fastest. BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx set the pace early on before SEAT drivers Rickard Rydell and Tarquini went quicker. With a minute before the end of the session, Muller set the fastest time. Porteiro was the fastest independent driver in sixth while none of the Chevrolet drivers got into the top ten with Nicola Larini the fastest of the trio in twelfth.Veltman Rob SEAT just ahead of BMW in Mexico http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3265 https://archive.today/20130216223131/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3265 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 30 January 2013 21 March 2009 Rydell led the opening free practice session on Saturday morning, the first of a SEAT 1–2–3–4. Farfus was the fastest BMW in fifth and Larini was the fastest Chevrolet down in thirteenth. Robert Huff was unable to set a time due to an oil leak on his Chevrolet Cruze.English Steven Rydell sets pace in practice at Puebla http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73824 Autosport Haymarket Publications 30 January 2013 21 March 2009 The second free practice session saw Rydell go quickest once again. The BMWs of Farfus and Jörg Müller were second and third ahead of the SEAT Sport pair of Yvan Muller and Tarquini. The final two factory SEATs were Tiago Monteiro and Jordi Gené were eighth and thirteenth respectively.English Steven Rydell quickest again in Mexico http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73827 Autosport Haymarket Publications 30 January 2013 21 March 2009 Qualifying Augusto Farfus, Andy Priaulx and BMW pushed to the limit and interrupted SEAT’s domination that lasted since the test session in Curitiba. Farfus won pole position, posting the fastest time of the session with a lap of 1:37.981, the first driver to break the 1:38 wall so far. He beat Priaulx by only 0.045 seconds, while Gabriele Tarquini saved SEAT’s honour claiming third position with a one-tenth gap. BMW and SEAT cars equally shared the ten positions giving access to Q2. Although they sat in the pits until halfway through the session, all five SEAT Sport drivers managed to make the top-ten, with Gabriele Tarquini in second with a gap of 0.065 seconds after having clocked a provisional fastest lap at 1:38.047. Félix Porteiro topped the Independents again and also managed to advance to Q2 setting the 10th fastest lap at 1:38.972. Chevrolet and LADA drivers remained all out of Q2; Nicola Larini missed the top-ten by 18 thousandths of a second, while Jaap van Lagen’s session ended prematurely because of an engine leak. In Q2, Yvan Muller was the first to post a quick lap at 1:37.924, but the reigning world champion was immediately ousted by Farfus with the time of 1:37.682. Jordi Gené, Félix Porteiro, Sergio Hernández and Andy Priaulx were the last to join the session. In the dying seconds Priaulx managed to jump into second with a lap of 1:37.727, a time which resisted to Tarquini’s last attempt that was worth third place (1:37.793). Porteiro completed a lap of 1:38.525 that gave him a brilliant eighth position on the grid for Race 1.http://www.fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.2.20093226381.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20101101041242/http://fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.2.20093226381.pdf 2010-11-01 Qualifying Report Warm-Up Pole sitter Farfus topped the times in Sunday morning's warm–up session, ahead of Priaulx and Rydell.Veltman Rob BMW in front again during warm up http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3276 https://archive.today/20130216222854/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3276 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 30 January 2013 22 March 2009 Race One Rickard Rydell forced his way through the BMW front row to claim SEAT’s third consecutive victory in three rounds. Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx put a lot of pressure on the Swedish driver and eventually settled in second and third respectively, the first podium results for BMW in the season so far. While SEAT and BMW men were fighting for the top positions, Nicola Larini managed to defend his eighth place, scoring the first point for the new Chevrolet Cruze. Félix Porteiro won the Independents’ class once again, recovering from the 14th position where he had fallen after being involved in a collision at the start.http://www.fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.2.20093232255.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20101031160105/http://fiawtcc.com/2009/uploadedFiles/PDF/RP.2.20093232255.pdf 2010-10-31 Race Report Race Two The second race was another SEAT vs BMW fight. The reigning world champion Yvan Muller claimed his second victory of the season as he managed to keep at bay the former world champion Andy Priaulx. Jordi Gené took the lead at the start, but then, in a breathtaking succession of overtaking manoeuvres, Jörg Müller, Tarquini, Yvan Muller, Priaulx, Rydell and Farfus overturned the order completely. Müller and Tarquini however, had to leave the company after they clashed on lap 6 and slipped down. All the three Chevrolet cars completed the race, with Larini’s in tenth position, and so did the LADA cars, with Jaap van Lagen’s in 17th. Porteiro claimed a fourth consecutive win in the Independents’ trophy. Results Qualifying Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Q1 Q2 1 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1:37.981 1:37.682 2 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 1:38.230 1:37.727 3 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.047 1:37.793 4 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.411 1:37.874 5 1 FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.386 1:37.924 6 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.698 1:38.213 7 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 1:38.375 1:38.287 8 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:38.872 1:38.525 9 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:38.250 1:38.749 10 10 ESP Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1:38.434 1:38.952 11 14 ITA Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:38.890 12 9 ITA Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 1:39.174 13 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:39.294 14 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:39.400 15 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:39.551 16 27 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 1:39.745 17 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:40.296 18 28 HRV Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:40.346 19 22 GBR Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 1:40.436 20 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:40.795 21 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:41.249 22 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:41.611 23 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 1:42.089 EX1 1 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY Excluded 1 1 — Kristian Poulsen had his qualifying times deleted after failing to stop at the weighing point after the session.Veltman Rob Tanev penalty revised, Poulsen penalised http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3275 https://archive.today/20130216230548/http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=3275 dead 16 February 2013 TouringCarTimes Mediaempire Stockholm AB 30 January 2013 22 March 2009 Race 1 Pos. Position No. Car number Name Team Car C Class Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 26:40.728 4 10 2 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 16 +1.508 1 8 3 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 16 +1.986 2 6 4 1 FRA Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +4.620 5 5 5 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 16 +5.717 7 4 6 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +9.473 3 3 7 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +19.399 9 2 8 14 ITA Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 16 +22.794 11 1 9 10 ESP Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 16 +24.725 10 10 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 16 +25.990 8 11 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +28.400 6 12 27 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 16 +30.289 16 13 9 ITA Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 16 +33.765 12 14 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 16 +33.952 17 15 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 16 +34.302 15 16 22 GBR Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 16 +45.954 19 17 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 16 +46.557 23 18 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 16 +57.945 22 19 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 13 +3 Laps 21 Ret 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 11 Suspension 14 NC 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 6 +10 Laps 13 Ret 28 HRV Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 0 Race incident 18 Ret 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 0 Mechanical 20 Ret 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 0 Race incident 24 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 SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 26:41.014 5 10 2 6 GBR Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 16 +0.459 6 8 3 3 SWE Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +1.240 8 6 4 8 BRA Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 16 +1.973 7 5 5 10 ESP Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 16 +5.819 9 4 6 9 ITA Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 16 +6.281 13 3 7 4 ESP Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +11.755 2 2 8 2 ITA Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 16 +12.189 3 1 9 23 ESP Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 16 +15.513 10 10 14 ITA Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 16 +16.593 1 11 25 DEU Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 16 +21.037 14 12 12 CHE Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 16 +22.795 21 13 7 DEU Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 16 +22.987 4 14 11 GBR Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 16 +23.644 20 15 21 NLD Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 16 +24.218 15 16 27 ITA Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 16 +25.331 12 17 18 NLD Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 16 +39.330 17 18 24 BGR George Tanev Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 16 +39.790 23 19 20 RUS Viktor Shapovalov LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 16 +44.302 19 20 19 RUS Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 16 +48.976 18 21 22 GBR Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 14 +2 Laps 16 22 28 HRV Marin Čolak Čolak Racing Team Ingra SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +4 Laps 22 Ret 26 DNK Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 7 Race incident 24 Ret 5 PRT Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 Race incident 11 Bold denotes Fastest lap. Standings after the event Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 FRA Yvan Muller 30 10px 2 2 SWE Rickard Rydell 30 10px 2 3 BRA Augusto Farfus 20 10px 2 4 ITA Gabriele Tarquini 19 10px 2 5 ESP Jordi Gené 18 Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 10px 1 ESP Félix Porteiro 53 10px 2 NLD Tom Coronel 30 10px 3 DEU Franz Engstler 25 10px 3 4 ITA Stefano D'Aste 18 10px 1 5 GBR Tom Boardman 17 Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 10px 1 ESP SEAT 67 10px 2 DEU BMW 49 10px 1 3 USA Chevrolet 10 10px 1 4 RUS Lada 9 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 Mexico 2009 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco 2008 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico no race FIA WTCC Race of Mexico Mexico