2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco

2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco
Race details
	Round 2 of 11 in the 2010 World Touring Car Championship at Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco.
Date	2 May, 2010
Location	Marrakech, Morocco
Course	Marrakech Street Circuit ; 4.62 kilometres (2.87 mi)
Race One
Laps
Laps	13
Pole position
Driver
Time
Podium
First
Second
Third
Fastest Lap
Driver
Time
Race Two
Laps
Laps	13
Podium
First
Second
Third
Fastest Lap
Driver
Time

Last updated July 02, 2022

The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco was the second round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held at the Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco on 2 May 2010. The two races were won by Gabriele Tarquini for SR-Sport and Andy Priaulx for BMW Team RBM, but both races were heavily affected by safety car periods.

Background

After the first round in Brazil, Chevrolet driver Yvan Muller was tied at the top of the drivers' standings with SR-Sport's Tarquini. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport's Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.

Swiss team Maurer Motorsport joined the grid for Morocco, running a pair of Chevrolet Lacettis for local drivers Ismaïl Sbaï and Youssaf El Marnissi.^[1]

Report

Testing and free practice

Zengõ-Dension Team driver Norbert Michelisz was fastest in Friday's test session, with SR-Sport driver Tom Coronel second Chevrolet's Robert Huff third. The session was red flagged when Sbaï put his Lacetti into the wall, while Maurer Motorsport teammate El Marnissi stopped with technical problems.^[2] Chevrolet factory driver Alain Menu also crashed during the session on the dusty track, hitting a wall and causing considerable damage to his car.^[3]

Tarquini topped the first practice session on Saturday morning, ahead of BMW driver Priaulx and SR-Sport teammate Tiago Monteiro. Franz Engstler was the fastest independent driver. Wiechers-Sport's local driver Mehdi Bennani crashed at turn four on his first flying lap.^[4]

Tarquini stayed on top in free practice two with Friday pace setter Michelisz second and Chevrolet driver Muller third. Having crashed in the morning session, Bennani was the fastest independent by setting the twelfth fastest time.^[5]

Qualifying

Yvan Muller was the early pacesetter in Q1, before Chevrolet teammate Menu crashed into the wall on the exit of Turn 14, bringing out the red flags. When the session was restarted, SR-Sport driver Tarquini moved to the top of the timesheets, before being demoted by Zengő–Dension Team's Michelisz. However, the Hungarian crashed at Turn 3 after setting his fastest lap, bringing out the red flag again, this time ending the session early. BMW Team RBM drivers Augusto Farfus and Priaulx dropped out of the top ten just before the session was stopped.

Q2 was halted after five minutes due to oil on the track at Turn 2 left by Engstler after the independent BMW driver had hit the wall. After the green flag, Tarquini set a quick time to move into P1. The session was stopped once again when Michel Nykjær crashed at Turn 10. The session did not restart, giving Tarquini pole position ahead of Huff, Jordi Gené, Monteiro, Muller, Nykjær and Coronel. Fredy Barth started eighth, ahead of Engstler and Michelisz.^[6] El Marnissi did not participate in qualifying or the races for personal reasons.

Warm-Up

SR-Sport filled the top three places in Sunday morning warm–up with Coronel setting the fastest time. The highest placed BMW of Farfus was fourth and the quickest Chevrolet of Huff was seventh.^[7]

Race One

It took three attempts at the rolling start for the first race, where all drivers must be lined-up in a two-by-two order before the race director allows the race to start. Once they finally got underway, pole sitter Tarquini led the field through the first chicane. Fellow SEAT driver Nykjær ran wide as he was battling for third position with the SEAT of Gené, resulting in both drivers dropping down the field. The main beneficiary of this was Fredy Barth who moved up from eighth to third in the opening lap. The Swiss driver made a move on second-placed Huff on the second lap, nudging the Chevrolet driver into a slide, which he did well to control and keep his position. Monteiro took advantage to take third from Barth. Further back, Priaulx passed Menu for eighth position and pole position for the second race.

The safety car was deployed halfway through the race after Andrei Romanov crashed his Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320si at Turn 15, and Moroccan local Ismaïl Sbaï appeared to spin his car on his own oil. The marshals struggled to remove the stricken car of Romanov from the circuit and so the safety car remained out for the next ten minutes, until the end of the race, allowing Tarquini to lead Huff and Monteiro to victory. Barth, Tom Coronel, Yvan Muller, Norbert Michelisz, Priaulx, Menu and Augusto Farfus rounded out the top 10.^[8]

Race Two

Pole sitter Priaulx made a good start to Race 2, but drama unfolded behind as fellow front-row starter Michelisz stalled his car. As other cars moved to avoid him, Huff and Barth made contact once again, this time causing Huff to spin into the pit wall. Tarquini also got caught up with the spinning Huff, but got away with minor bodywork damage. Darryl O'Young swerved to avoid Huff's stricken Chevrolet and hit Bamboo Engineering teammate Harry Vaulkhard and then Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver Hernández. Vaulkhard and Hernández joined Huff in retiring, while O'Young was able to retreat to the pits and rejoin the race after repairing the damage. The safety car was called into action and stayed out until lap seven of 13.

After the restart, Menu attempted to pass Farfus around the outside of Turn 4, but the pair tangled and both veered into the wall on the outside. Farfus limped back to retire in the pits, but the safety car was deployed again to remove the stranded Chevrolet of Menu and clear up the debris from the accident.

The safety car returned to the pits with just one lap of racing to go, with Priaulx fighting hard to keep Muller behind him, resulting in Priaulx brushing the wall at Turn 4. He held on though to win from Muller, Coronel, Monteiro, Barth and Tarquini. Local hero Bennani dropped from seventh to ninth on the final lap, finishing behind Nykjær and Gené. Michelisz recovered from his stall at the start to finish tenth.^[9]

Results

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Q1	Q2
1	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:46.626	1:45.830
2	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		1:46.662	1:46.364
3	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:46.675	1:46.375
4	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:47.601	1:46.696
5	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		1:46.891	1:46.705
6	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:46.942	1:46.751
7	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:47.139	1:47.044
8	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:46.899	1:48.027
9	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	1:47.541	1:48.994
10	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		1:46.437	no time set
11	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		1:47.616
12	11	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		1:47.752
13	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		1:47.761
14	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	1:48.252
15	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	1:48.556
16	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	1:48.854
17	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	1:49.028
18	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	1:49.313
19	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	1:51.014
20	30	Ismaïl Sbaï	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	1:53.195
21	31	Youssaf El Marnissi	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	no time set

Race 1

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	32:12.815	1	25
2	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		13	+1.117	2	18
3	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+1.792	4	15
4	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+2.436	8	12
5	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+3.513	7	10
6	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		13	+5.615	5	8
7	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+7.900	10	6
8	11	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		13	+8.892	12	4
9	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		13	+10.113	13	2
10	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		13	+11.959	11	1
11	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+12.876	6
12	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	13	+14.380	9
13	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+15.160	3
14	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	13	+16.347	14
15	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	13	+16.835	15
16	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	13	+18.057	16
17	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	13	+19.737	17
Ret	30	Ismaïl Sbaï	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	8	Race incident	18
Ret	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	6	Race incident	20
Ret	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	2	Driveshaft	19
DNS	31	Youssaf El Marnissi	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	0	Did not start	–

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Race 2

Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Car	C	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	11	Andy Priaulx	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		13	36:15.763	1	25
2	6	Yvan Muller	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		13	+0.837	3	18
3	2	Tom Coronel	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+1.228	4	15
4	3	Tiago Monteiro	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+1.464	6	12
5	18	Fredy Barth	SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+1.949	5	10
6	1	Gabriele Tarquini	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+2.395	8	8
7	17	Michel Nykjær	SUNRED Engineering	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+4.555	11	6
8	4	Jordi Gené	SR-Sport	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+5.365	13	4
9	21	Mehdi Bennani	Wiechers-Sport	BMW 320si	Y	13	+5.916	15	2
10	5	Norbert Michelisz	Zengő-Dension Team	SEAT León 2.0 TDI		13	+6.109	2	1
11	26	Stefano D'Aste	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	13	+8.511	20
12	15	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	13	+8.940	12
13	20	Darryl O'Young	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	11	+2 Laps	17
Ret	10	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW 320si		6	Race incident	10
Ret	8	Alain Menu	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		6	Race incident	8
Ret	25	Sergio Hernández	Scuderia Proteam Motorsport	BMW 320si	Y	0	Race incident	14
Ret	19	Harry Vaulkhard	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	0	Race incident	16
Ret	7	Robert Huff	Chevrolet RML	Chevrolet Cruze LT		0	Race incident	7
DNS	16	Andrei Romanov	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	Y	0	Did not start	19
DNS	30	Ismaïl Sbaï	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	0	Did not start	18
DNS	31	Youssaf El Marnissi	Maurer Motorsport	Chevrolet Lacetti	Y	0	Did not start	–

Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Gabriele Tarquini	70
1	2	Yvan Muller	63
1	3	Robert Huff	46
3	4	Andy Priaulx	39
3	5	Tiago Monteiro	33

Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
1	1	Franz Engstler	34
1	2	Sergio Hernández	31
1	3	Mehdi Bennani	27
2	4	Stefano D'Aste	18
	5	Darryl O'Young	18

Manufacturers' Championship standings

	Pos	Manufacturer	Points
1	1	SEAT Customers Technology	133
1	2	Chevrolet	118
	3	BMW	93

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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2010 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco

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