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Marrakech, FP2: Lopez on top in red flagged final practice session

Catch me if you can time as WTCC champion Lopez tops Free Practice 2

By Franck Drui

18 April 2015 - 12:28

It’s ‘catch me if you can time’ in Marrakech with José María López continuing to set the pace by topping the Eurodatacar WTCC Race of Morocco Free Practice 2 times.

Driving a Citroën C-Elysée WTCC, the reigning world champion was under the lap record he set last season with a time of 1m43.540s. French team-mate Sébastien Loeb was also inside López’s 1m43.704s benchmark in second, 0.106s slower than the Argentine, with Yvan Muller third, Ma Qing Hua fourth and Tiago Monteiro leading the Honda runners in fifth.

Home hero Mehdi Bennani was sixth quickest with Toms Chilton and Coronel seventh and eighth respectively in their ROAL Motorsport Chevrolets. Rob Huff was 11th quickest for LADA but his crash into tyre barriers resulted in the 30-minute session being stopped slightly ahead of schedule.

Free Practice 2 was in preparation for Qualifying from 12h30 local time. Circuit Moulay El Hassan, a 4.545-kilometre street track, hosts rounds three and four of the 2015 FIA World Touring Car Championship on Sunday. Both 14-lap races will be shown live on television around the world.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Time
1	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:43.540
2	Sebastien Loeb	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:43.646
3	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:43.701
4	Ma Qing Hua	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	1:43.825
5	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	1:44.189
6	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	1:44.272
7	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:44.353
8	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:44.399
9	Gabriele Tarquini	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	1:44.465
10	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	1:44.594
11	Robert Huff	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:44.749
12	Norbert Michelisz	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	1:45.069
13	Dusan Borkovic	Proteam Racing	Honda	1:45.145
14	Stefano D’Aste	Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	1:45.626
15	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	1:45.959
16	James Thompson	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:46.642
17	Grégoire Demoustier	Craft-Bamboo Racing	Chevrolet	1:46.746
18	Mikhail Kozlvskiy	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1:46.916