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| Stefano D'Aste: class appearance in the Japanese Suzuka |
Wiechers-BMW driver Stefano D'Aste has landed a small surprise: the Italians presented this Sunday at the World Touring Car Championship in Suzuka, well placed and drove a virtually unchallenged start-to-finish victory. Contrary to the expectations of many observers, he succeeded in converting his pole position into the lead of the 26 lap race to overtake each other, then leave of nobody. For him and his team, it is already the second win of the current season.
Second, however, was Josep "Pepe" Oriola. He also delivered a remarkable performance, thus creating the leap onto the podium. With this result, he made numerous championship points to Norbert Michelisz (Zengö Motorsport BMW) well, the total ends early in the Independents' Trophy. Behind the man in Tuenti-SEAT's Gabriele Tarquini (Lukoil Racing Team) crossed the finish line, which was also a hit at the start of the Spanish.
Chevrolet again the benchmark
The runners ranged closed the work array of Chevrolet Robert Huff finished fourth, the fifth, Alain Menu and Yvan Muller was sixth. The time of the light blue Cruze trio, however, was already come in the first of the two races. This was a considerable extent of the sovereign Swiss Menu decide for themselves - Muller and Huff followed him on foot. Usual dominant Chevrolet, however, occurred on in both rounds. Before the last two weekends of the season are only Muller, Huff and Menu in the race for the world title.
In summa summarum still 110 points to be awarded latter has the worst cards, the former DTM starters are currently already 38 points behind the first place in the table to book. This is evidenced by record WTCC race winner Muller (345), but Huff is entirely with the same number of points (345) par.
The first non-podium finish in race one took Tarquini. Behind him the Bamboo Chevy youngster Alex MacDowall rolled into parc fermé. The top six was completed by Dutchman Tom Coronel in three of ROAL Motorsport.
Solid World Cup debut of the new Honda Civic
Particularly eyeing this weekend was the first appearance of the new Honda streaker. Tiago Monteiro was able immediately to heave in the Civic Points: Twice the Portuguese went to the tenth position, although he sometimes by bad luck, some rivals benefited. At only 2.2 kilometers short connection of the Suzuka International Racing Course, the vehicle came quite along well. The next test for the small Japanese is on 4 November in Shanghai on the plan - the penultimate station WTCC this season.
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