WTCC - Menu Takes Third Pole In A Row : Coronel in the second run of the very front ~ THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD BLOG

Alain Menu is the man of the moment: In Shanghai, he took the pole for the first race ahead of Yvan Muller and a sensational Norbert Michelisz.

Once again Alain Menu took pole position, albeit a narrow margin

Of course, it was no great surprise that Chevrolet once again occupied the front row: Alain Menu took his third consecutive pole position and drove in 1:54.383 on the 4.6 km with slightly shortened version of the Shanghai International Circuit, the fastest time. His team-mate Yvan Muller, he suggested this to whole 26 thousandths of a second, a Frenchman came to 1:54.409. The surprise was but Norbert Michelisz who drove his privately entered BMW 320 TC to the third position.

"It could not have been better for me to run, it's good to stehren again on pole," enthused Menu, the same full-bodied announced to the surprise of his teammates to want to engage themselves even in the title chase. Currently, the Swiss 37 points behind Yvan Muller. This was not only a fact, and fully focused on his main rival Huff: "Second on the grid is better than fourth," he philosophized in Hnblick to the start position of the Englishman. Michelisz was ecstatic: "As a result we did not expect really We actually looked at a spot between P5 and P10!."

One disappointment suffered, currently second Rob Huff, who was only on the fourth position. However, he may in the second race, which is run in reverse starting order on the first ten places to start two places ahead of his worst opponent Muller. In his comeback and first appearance in the Chevrolet Colin Turkington managed a respectable fifth and besting his fellow Alex MacDowall equal only three places behind. In between binned yet Stefano D'Aste and Pepe Oriola.

On the ninth and tenth follow Gabriele Tarquini and Tom Coronel. The Dutchman now the second race thanks to the reverse grid will take on the top ten grid positions from pole position in attack. Tiago Monteiro missed with the Honda Civic, the Q2 and will start from 17th Position. Not fare much better, Ford: James Nash starts in Focus S2000TC best of 15th place, while Tom Chilton experienced a terrible qualifying and only 22 was.

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