WTCC portimao

[Allyc85]

Thought id stick a post up as there will be a big interest in how Turkington does this weekend. Looks like he started well with 10th ahead of Priaulx in final practise before qualy at 5,30.

Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps
1. Augusto Farfus BMW 1m56.765s 13
2. Tom Coronel SEAT 1m56.925s +0.160 13
3. Michel Nykjaer SEAT 1m56.938s +0.173 13
4. Rob Huff Chevrolet 1m56.979s +0.214 12
5. Tiago Monteiro SEAT 1m57.048s +0.283 13
6. Yvan Muller Chevrolet 1m57.114s +0.349 12
7. Alain Menu Chevrolet 1m57.158s +0.393 11
8. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT 1m57.162s +0.397 15
9. Norbert Michelisz SEAT 1m57.260s +0.495 10
10. Colin Turkington BMW 1m57.326s +0.561 15
11. Andy Priaulx BMW 1m57.343s +0.578 12
12. Harry Vaulkhard Chevrolet 1m57.346s +0.581 10
13. Darryl O'Young Chevrolet 1m57.419s +0.654 11
14. Jordi Gene SEAT 1m57.491s +0.726 12
15. Fredy Barth SEAT 1m57.569s +0.804 12
16. Kristian Poulsen BMW 1m57.746s +0.981 10
17. Mehdi Bennani BMW 1m57.884s +1.119 14
18. Sergio Hernandez BMW 1m57.982s +1.217 9
19. Franz Engstler BMW 1m58.863s +2.098 5
20. Stefano D'Aste BMW 1m59.155s +2.390 15
21. Andrey Romanov BMW 1m59.291s +2.526 14

[Allyc85]

5.40 and eurosport is still showing that world class sport that is beach football, not impressed!

[Allyc85]

Qualy times..

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2
1. Tiago Monteiro SEAT 1:55.931 1:55.372
2. Yvan Muller Chevrolet 1:56.112 1:55.425
3. Augusto Farfus BMW 1:56.200 1:55.675
4. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT 1:56.097 1:55.709
5. Rob Huff Chevrolet 1:56.183 1:55.934
6. Norbert Michelisz SEAT 1:56.479 1:55.991
7. Jordi Gene SEAT 1:56.302 1:56.104
8. Andy Priaulx BMW 1:56.258 1:56.141
9. Alain Menu Chevrolet 1:56.261 1:56.246
10. Colin Turkington BMW 1:56.513 1:56.696
11. Michel Nykjaer SEAT 1:56.517
12. Darryl O'Young Chevrolet 1:56.766
13. Harry Vaulkhard Chevrolet 1:56.828
14. Fredy Barth SEAT 1:56.905
15. Tom Coronel SEAT 1:56.946
16. Sergio Hernandez BMW 1:57.502
17. Kristian Poulsen BMW 1:57.578
18. Franz Engstler BMW 1:57.803
19. Mehdi Bennani BMW 1:57.887
20. Stefano D'Aste BMW 1:58.008
21. Andrey Romanov BMW 2:00.413
Great performance from Turkington considering hes been out of racing for 8 months compared to the others!

[VkmSpouge]

Turkington inside the top 10, I guess it is his first time at Portimao, so a good qualifying performance. Nice to see Harry Vaulkhard doing well.

[Eurotech]

Turkington 1.5 seconds per lap faster than Stefano D'Aste in the same machinery, now that really says a lot...

[Allyc85]

Ive alwyas been a critic of the WTCC but today proved that if you put the cars on a proper circuit then you will get great racing. Loads of close racing and when things seemed to quieten down an incident or pass would set it all off again.

Gutted for Turkington that people had to punt him off in both races. Barths move on him was very crude and stupid while we didnt get a very good view of the second race incident, after which he came back brilliantly to take 2nd in the indies!

brillaint performance from Priaulx in race 2 coming from something like 21st on the grid up to 5th and a ahead of Farfus who started waaay infront of him :D

Race 1 result

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Tiago Monteiro SEAT 21m38.194s
2. Yvan Muller Chevrolet +1.032
3. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT +1.587
4. Augusto Farfus BMW +1.826
5. Alain Menu Chevrolet +8.807
6. Tom Coronel SEAT +11.723
7. Norbert Michelisz SEAT +12.562
8. Fredy Barth SEAT +20.173
9. Sergio Hernandez BMW +23.113
10. Darryl O'Young Chevrolet +23.245
11. Kristian Poulsen BMW +23.642
12. Colin Turkington BMW +25.738
13. Franz Engstler BMW +26.845
14. Stefano D'Aste BMW +27.248
15. Harry Vaulkhard Chevrolet +29.295
16. Andrey Romanov BMW +44.117
17. Michel Nykjaer SEAT +49.343
18. Rob Huff Chevrolet +1 lap

Race 2 Result

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Gabriele Tarquini SEAT 21m49.935s
2. Yvan Muller Chevrolet +1.736
3. Rob Huff Chevrolet +2.587
4. Alain Menu Chevrolet +3.244
5. Andy Priaulx BMW +3.570
6. Augusto Farfus BMW +4.094
7. Tom Coronel SEAT +6.201
8. Tiago Monteiro SEAT +6.513
9. Fredy Barth SEAT +10.207
10. Darryl O'Young Chevrolet +12.751
11. Colin Turkington BMW +13.609
12. Harry Vaulkhard Chevrolet +14.857
13. Mehdi Bennani BMW +18.100
14. Stefano D'Aste BMW +19.125
15. Franz Engstler BMW +21.271
16. Andrey Romanov BMW +35.977
17. Sergio Hernandez BMW +1 lap

[AndySpeed]

Absolutely over the moon with Turkington's result in race two - a brilliant drive considering he was plum last on the opening lap. Hopefully sponsors will be lapping up his excellent drives and he gets right in the thick of things at Brands Hatch.

:up:

[AndyRAC]

Did he have a target on his car? Getting hit in both races, with the first hit being particularly amateur.
He acquitted himself well, and drove well - he can only get better with more seat time.

Anybody else see the empty stands?? Apart from the main pit grandstand.....

[Allyc85]

Thats quite common for Portimao unfortunately, I havnt seen a decent crowd at any race there yet. Such a shame as its by far one of the best modern tracks around.