Marrakech - Free 2: Muller chases the Seat cars
Tarquini still in the lead
Gabriele Tarquini remained at the top of the timesheets after the second practice session of the day in Morocco. His time of 1:46.143 in the final minutes demoted rookie Norbert Michelisz to second.
Tarquini was quick from the off and continued to improve his time throughout the 30-minute session. Hungarian Michelisz then headed the field but ended 0.844-seconds adrift of the reigning champion with a time of 1:46.987.
Chevrolet’s Yvan Muller (1:47.507) was third followed by BMW Team RBM’s Andy Priaulx (1:47.533) and Tom Coronel (1:47.642) in his SEAT León TDI.
SR-Sports’ Jordi Gené (1:47.642) improved from the morning session to finish sixth ahead of Augusto Farfus (1:47.673) and Rob Huff (47.675).
Michel Nykjær (1:47.735) also made improvements in his SEAT León TDI to move up to ninth with Chevrolet’s Alain Menu (1:47.763) completing the top ten.
Wiechers-Sport’s Mehdi Bennani made up for a disappointing start to the day by ending the second practice session as fastest Independent, 12th overall, in front of his home crowd.
WTCR
- The race of Marrakech is cancelled, replaced by Salzburg
- Malaysia, Race 3: Kristoffersson takes victory as Michelisz claims title
- Malaysia, Race 2: Guerrieri wins to set-up final-round title decider with Michelisz
- Malaysia, Race 1: Michelisz triumph to extend points lead
- New tracks plus weight rule tweak as WTCR revs up for next three seasons