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Hungaroring, FP2: Tarquini narrowly beat Muller

Once again Team Aon struggled

By Franck Drui

5 May 2012 - 12:08

Gabriele Tarquini topped the second free practice completing his last lap in 1:55.287, a time that narrowly beat Yvan Muller’s provisional fastest of 1:55.313.

Muller’s team-mate Rob Huff posted the third fastest lap of 1:55.662, just ahead of an impressive Darryl O’Young of Special Tuning Racing who was timed at 1:55.905, proving that SEAT cars have the pace to fight with Chevrolet.

Alain Menu was fifth fastest (1:56.038) followed by Pepe Oriola (1:56.618) and the best of the BMW cars, Tom Coronel’s (1:56.631).

Alex MacDowall drove the bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze to set the eighth best time (1:56.705), just ahead of James Thompson’s LADA Granta that was timed at 1:56.705, which is very promising for the brand new Russian car. Tiago Monteiro completed the top ten.

Once again Team Aon struggled. James Nash and Tom Chilton remained at the bottom of the time sheet in 21st and 22nd positions.

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
1	Gabriele TARQUINI	SEAT Leon WTCC	1:55.287
2	Yvan MULLER	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1:55.313
3	Robert HUFF	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1:55.662
4	Darryl O’YOUNG	SEAT Leon WTCC	1:55.905
5	Alain MENU	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1:56.038
6	Pepe ORIOLA	SEAT Leon WTCC	1:56.618
7	Tom CORONEL	BMW 320 TC	1:56.631
8	Alex MACDOWALL	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1:56.659
9	James THOMPSON	LADA Granta Sport	1:56.705
10	Tiago MONTEIRO	SR Leon 1.6T	1:56.949
11	Aleksei DUDUKALO	SEAT Leon WTCC	1:57.007
12	Norbert MICHELISZ	BMW 320 TC	1:57.072
13	Franz ENGSTLER	BMW 320 TC	1:57.335
14	Tom BOARDMAN	SEAT Leon TDi	1:57.344
15	Pasquale DI SABATINO	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1:57.371
16	Mehdi BENNANI	BMW 320 TC	1:57.437
17	Gabor WEBER	BMW 320 TC	1:57.637
18	Alberto CERQUI	BMW 320 TC	1:57.677
19	Stefano D’ASTE	BMW 320 TC	1:57.726
20	Charles NG	BMW 320 TC	1:57.820
21	James NASH	Ford Focus S2000 TC	1:57.950
22	Tom CHILTON	Ford Focus S2000 TC	1:58.054