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Shanghai, FP1: Huff tops the morning session

A foggy Chinese morning

By Franck Drui

5 November 2011 - 03:05
Shanghai, FP1: Huff tops the morning (…)

Rob Huff set the fastest lap in today’s first practice in a foggy Chinese morning. The 30-minute session did not provide much action as the drivers seemed focusing on the set up rather than on record laps. Which was also proved by the fact that none of them spun or visited the gravel traps.

Robert Dahlgren woke up the field clocking a provisional fastest time of 1:06.173 on his first lap out of the pits, but Tom Coronel offered a quick reply with a lap of 1:05.998 that he immediately improved to 1:05.964.

However, a few seconds afterwards, Huff stopped the watch at 1:05.750 that eventually remained the session’s fastest lap though there were still 23 minutes to go.

Only Yvan Muller was able to re-shuffle the top positions with a lap of 1:06.115 that placed him in third between Coronel and Dahlgren.

Colin Turkington (1:06.196) and Kristian Poulsen (1:06.284) topped the Yokohama Trophy ranking fifth and sixth in the overall classification respectively.

Alain Menu, the fastest in yesterday’s test, set only the seventh best time of 1:06.310. Javier Villa, Franz Engstler and Mehdi Bennani rounded up the top-ten, while all the SUNRED cars were struggling and dropped to the second part of the time sheet, with Gabriele Tarquini the best of the pack in 14th (1:07.022).

Philip Ma was shown the black flag after only ten minutes, for repeatedly trespassing the limits of the track.

Pos. Driver Car Time Gap
01 R. Huff Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:05.750
02 T. Coronel BMW 320 TC 1:05.964 +0.214s
03 Y. Muller Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:06.115 +0.365s
04 R. Dahlgren Volvo C30 1:06.173 +0.423s
05 C. Turkington BMW 320 TC 1:06.196 +0.446s
06 K. Poulsen BMW 320 TC 1:06.284 +0.534s
07 A. Menu Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:06.310 +0.560s
08 J. Villa BMW 320 TC 1:06.570 +0.820s
09 F. Engstler BMW 320 TC 1:06.631 +0.881s
10 M. Bennani BMW 320 TC 1:06.775 +1.025s
11 D. O’Young Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:06.815 +1.065s
12 G. Tarquini SR Leon 1.6T 1:07.022 +1.272s
13 N. Michelisz BMW 320 TC 1:07.029 +1.279s
14 M. Nykjaer SR Leon 1.6T 1:07.136 +1.386s
15 C. Ng BMW 320 TC 1:07.161 +1.411s
16 T. Monteiro SR Leon 1.6T 1:07.377 +1.627s
17 Y. Taniguchi Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T 1:07.448 +1.698s
18 F. Barth SR Leon 1.6T 1:07.589 +1.839s
19 P. Oriola SR Leon 1.6T 1:07.802 +2.052s
20 A. Dudukalo SR Leon 1.6T 1:08.483 +2.733s
21 F. Fabiani BMW 320 si 1:09.404 +3.654s
22 P. Ma BMW 320 si 1:09.988 +4.238s

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