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Marrakech, FP1: Champion López out in front in WTCC Free Practice 1

Sébastien Loeb in second

By Franck Drui

18 April 2015 - 10:27

José María López is still the fastest FIA World Touring Car Championship driver in Marrakech after he went quickest during Free Practice 1 for Eurodatacar WTCC Race of Morocco.

The reigning world champion lapped the 4.545-kilometre Circuit Moulay El Hassan in a time of 1m44.057s with Citroën Racing team-mate Sébastien Loeb 0.168s adrift in second.

Home hero Mehdi Bennani was the leading Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy contender in third with Yvan Muller fourth and Gabriele Tarquini the fastest of the Honda racers in fifth. Ma Qing Hua was sixth, Tom Chilton seventh, Tiago Monteiro eighth, Norbert Michelisz ninth and Rob Huff the top LADA runner in 10th.

Free Practice 2 is scheduled to start at 10h15 local time.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Time
1	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:44.057
2	Sebastien Loeb	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:44.225
3	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	1:44.318
4	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:44.420
5	Gabriele Tarquini	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	1:44.585
6	Ma Qing Hua	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:44.674
7	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:44.835
8	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	1:44.889
9	Norbert Michelisz	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	1:44.898
10	Robert Huff	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:44.930
11	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:45.235
12	Dusan Borkovic	Proteam Racing	Honda	1:45.269
13	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	1:45.304
14	Stefano D’Aste	Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:45.958
15	James Thompson	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:46.612
16	Grégoire Demoustier	Craft-Bamboo Racing	Chevrolet	1:46.830
17	Mikhail Kozlvskiy	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:46.956
18	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	1:47.531