2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy

2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy
Race details
	Round 3 of 11 in the 2010 World Touring Car Championship at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy.
Date	23 May, 2010
Location	Monza, Italy
Course	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza ; 5.793 kilometres (3.600 mi)
Race One
Laps
Laps	9
Pole position
Driver
Time
Podium
First
Second
Third
Fastest Lap
Driver
Time
Race Two
Laps
Laps	9
Podium
First
Second
Third
Fastest Lap
Driver
Time

Last updated December 21, 2024

The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC Yokohama Race of Italy) was the third round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Italy. It was held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, in Monza, Italy on 23 May 2010. The two races were won by Andy Priaulx for BMW Team RBM and Yvan Muller for Chevrolet RML.

Background

After the second round of the season in Morocco, defending champion Gabriele Tarquini was leading the drivers' standings by seven points over Yvan Muller. Franz Engstler was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.

Kristian Poulsen returned to the championship with his self–run Poulsen Motorsport team.^[1] He last raced with Liqui Moly Team Engstler at the 2009 Guia Race of Macau. Meanwhile Scuderia Proteam Motorsport added a third BMW 320si to their team for Italian driver Fabio Fabiani.^[1] Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden joined the grid for the Italian round, running a Chevrolet Cruze LT for TC 2000 Championship driver Leonel Pernía who became the first Argentine to race in the World Touring Car Championship.^[2]

Report

Testing and free practice

BMW Team RBM driver Augusto Farfus was the fastest driver in Friday's test session, beating the Chevrolet of Muller and the SEAT of Tom Coronel. Championship leader Tarquini was fourth and Pernía was thirteenth on his first run in a Super 2000 car. Priaulx suffered a brake disk failure at the end of the pit straight and nearly collided with Alain Menu while Fredy Barth, Sergio Hernández and Mehdi Bennani all saw reduced running due to technical issues.^[3]

Tarquini topped the times in the first practice session on Saturday morning, two–tenths of a second ahead of Priaulx. Jordi Gené was third and Robert Huff was the fastest Chevrolet in fourth. Andrei Romanov required an engine change and as a result incurred a ten–place grid penalty for race one.^[4]

Chevrolet were fastest in the final practice session with Huff beating the BMW of Priaulx by less than a tenth of a second. Morning pace setter Tarquini was third while Huff's teammates Menu and Muller were fourth and fifth respectively.^[5]

Qualifying

Tarquini was fastest in Q1 for SR-Sport, ahead of the Chevrolet pairing of Huff and Muller. In Q2 the diesel-powered SEATs followed each other round the circuit to use teamwork and slipstreaming to get good times. However, Tarquini ran wide at the second Lesmo with Barth also following him into the dirt. This ruined their laptimes, resulting in the BMWs and Chevrolets locking out the first two rows of the grid, with Augusto Farfus on pole position ahead of Huff, Priaulx, Menu and Muller. Gené was the first SEAT in 6th, with Tarquini in 7th.^[6]

Warm-Up

Priaulx topped the Sunday morning warm–up session with pole sitter and teammate Farfus fourth. Pernía and Hernández had problems meaning they couldn't set competitive lap times.^[7]

Race One

Huff moved past polesitter Farfus at the start of Race One. Tarquini, meanwhile, moved from seventh to second in the run to the first chicane. Behind, many drivers cut across the grass at the chicane, while Kristian Poulsen and Darryl O'Young collided, both limping back to the pits to retire. Tarquini passed Huff at the start of the second lap and the pair began to stretch the gap back to third-placed Priaulx. However, on the final lap, Tarquini suffered a front-left puncture on the run down to the Ascari chicane. As Huff moved out to pass him, he also suffered a front-left puncture. The pair limped down the following straight, with Priaulx and the following pack closing them down. However, the leading pair could not be passed initially, with yellow flags out at the beginning of the Parabolica after Leonel Pernía had slid into the gravel on the previous lap. Once the green flags were shown, Priaulx and Farfus passed the slowing Tarquini and then Huff, to take a dramatic one-two finish for BMW. Behind, Michel Nykjær had also suffered a puncture. Huff limped past the line to finish third, ahead of Muller, Coronel and Barth. Tarquini and Nykjær finished seventh and eighth, ahead of Tiago Monteiro and Bennani.^[8] Bennani however was given a 30-second penalty after the race for cutting the first chicane on the opening lap, handing tenth place and a first Independents' Trophy victory to Harry Vaulkhard.^[9]

Race Two

Nykjær made a good start from pole position in Race Two, while Muller moved up from fifth to second before the first chicane. Tarquini regained second from Muller and briefly took the lead of the race from Nykjær. Tarquini was then awarded a drive-through penalty for creeping forward on the grid before the lights had gone out. Bennani was also given a penalty having made a much more obvious jump start. Before Tarquini could serve his penalty though, he was re-passed by Nykjær at the first chicane. The Dane led the race until the last lap when he suffered a puncture, pulling off the track and retiring at the second chicane. This handed Muller the victory, ahead of Coronel, Huff, Farfus and Priaulx. Having served his drive-through penalty, Tarquini returned to the pits to retire on the following lap.^[8]

Results

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Q1	Q2
1	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		2:01.126	2:00.672
2	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		2:00.775	2:00.697
3	11	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		2:00.941	2:00.807
4	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		2:01.091	2:00.899
5	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		2:00.834	2:01.078
6	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:01.629	2:01.400
7	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:00.690	2:01.544
8	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:01.006	2:01.731
9	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:01.581	2:01.926
10	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:00.862	2:01.927
11	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:01.765
12	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	2:02.186
13	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		2:02.235
14	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	2:02.384
15	34	Leonel Pernía	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden	Chevrolet Cruze LT		2:02.441
16	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	2:02.829
17	24	Kristian Poulsen	Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	2:02.834
18	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	2:02.983
19	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	2:03.276
20	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	2:04.260
21	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	2:04.327
22	33	Fabio Fabiani	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	2:08.144

Race 1

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		9	18:32.008	3	25
2	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		9	+0.248	1	18
3	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	+1.653	2	15
4	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	+1.820	5	12
5	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+2.271	12	10
6	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+2.308	9	8
7	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+2.375	7	6
8	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+2.726	10	4
9	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+3.243	15	2
10	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	9	+9.032	13	1
11	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+10.000	19
12	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+11.575	20
13	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	9	+30.320	22
14	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+33.972	16
15	33	Fabio Fabiani	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+59.155	21
16	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		8	+1 Lap	6
17	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		8	+1 Lap	4
18	34	Leonel Pernía	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden	Chevrolet Cruze LT		7	+2 Laps	14
19	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		7	+2 Laps	8
Ret	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	3	Engine	18
Ret	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	1	Race incident	11
Ret	24	Kristian Poulsen	Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	1	Race incident	17

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Race 2

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	18:29.805	5	25
2	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+0.512	4	18
3	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	+0.822	6	15
4	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		9	+1.001	7	12
5	11	Andy Priaulx'	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		9	+1.742	8	10
6	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+3.495	16	8
7	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+4.197	9	6
8	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+4.580	18	4
9	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	+5.099	17	2
10	34	Leonel Pernía	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden	Chevrolet Cruze LT		9	+9.918	20	1
11	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+11.856	12
12	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	9	+13.499	19
13	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	9	+14.368	11
14	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		9	+14.506	3
15	24	Kristian Poulsen	Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+14.836	21
16	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+15.266	13
17	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+33.557	10
18	33	Fabio Fabiani	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	9	+49.454	15
19	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		8	+1 Lap	1
20	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		6	+3 Laps	2
Ret	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	2	Oil pressure	14
DNS	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	0	Did not start	22

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Yvan Muller	100
1	2	Gabriele Tarquini	76
	3	Robert Huff	76
	4	Andy Priaulx	74
3	5	Tom Coronel	57

Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Sergio Hernández	41
2	2	Stefano D'Aste	36
	3	Mehdi Bennani	35
3	4	Franz Engstler	34
1	5	Harry Vaulkhard	32

Manufacturers' Championship standings

	Pos	Manufacturer	Points
1	1	Chevrolet	193
1	2	SEAT Customers Technology	177
	3	BMW	158

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings.

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References

Results Booklet PDF at MST Systems

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↑ Hudson, Neil (22 May 2010). "Huff leads second practice session". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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↑ "WTCC - Fia World Touring Car Championship". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2010-05-23. Bennani loses Independent victory

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2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy

Contents

Background

Report

Testing and free practice

Qualifying

Warm-Up

Race One

Race Two

Results

Qualifying

Race 1

Race 2

Standings after the event

Related Research Articles

References

External links