Alain Menu took his fifth win of the season at Shanghai, whilst Rob Huff has taken the lead of the Championship after Yvan Muller was taken out on the opening lap, swinging the Championship into Huff’s favour.
Chevrolet’s Rob Huff was fastest in the morning warm-up ahead of title rival and team-mate Yvan Muller, with Colin Turkington completing a Chevrolet top three in the Team Aviva-Cofco car.
Rob Huff drops behind Yvan Muller by two points in the standings after qualifying, and will be separated by a BMW to his two Chevrolet team-mates going into the first race tomorrow at Shanghai.
Tiago Monteiro will line-up 17th on the grid for the Honda Civic Super 2000 TC’s second outing in the WTCC this weekend at Shanghai, but the Portuguese-driver says it’s still early days in the development of the new car.
Liqui Moly Team Engstler’s Alex Liu has been granted permission to start from the back of the grid in the BMW 320si, after failing to qualify within the 107% time at Shanghai.
Alain Menu has taken his third consecutive pole position and his fourth of the season at the Shanghai International Circuit ahead of Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller, whilst Zengõ Motorsport’s Norbert Michelisz will start third.
Colin Turkington was fastest of all in the first free practice session on Saturday morning at the Shanghai International Circuit for Team Aviva-Cofco, a full four-tenths of a second clear of Rob Huff’s works Chevrolet Cruze.
Alex MacDowall was fastest of all in the first testing session at the Shanghai International Circuit in the bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Cruze, leading the works Chevrolet of Rob Huff by 0.042 seconds.
Darryl O’Young heads to Shanghai this weekend as one of very few drivers on the grid who have raced at the circuit, driving for the second race in succession for Bamboo Engineerin in their Cruze Chevrolet 1.6T.
Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi is going to test for BMW in their M3 DTM on the 8th of November at Nürburgring.