CHEVROLET MAKE A DOUBLE WITH MENU-HUFF
18 May 2008

Alain Menu and Robert Huff dominated the second race in Valencia, giving Chevrolet a brilliant one-two finish. The two men in blue managed to overcome the strong resistance from BMW's Andy Priaulx and Jörg Müller, who came home in third and fourth respectively.

SEAT Sport drivers were involved in the battle for point positions and four of them - led by Gabriele Tarquini - filled the spots between fifth and eighth; this enabled Tarquini to stretch his championship lead to 8 points.

Sergio Hernández, of Proteam Motorsport (right), claimed his first WTCC victory on his home circuit, after a tough fight with Pierre-Yves Corthals.

Priaulx sprinted to the lead at the start (left), beating pole sitter Menu in the run down to the first corner. They were chased by J. Müller, Larini and Y. Muller.

After starting eighth on the reverse grid, Huff began to recover positions and within three laps he got past Tarquini, Gené, Y. Muller and Larini climbing up to fourth.

On lap 3 Menu was able to strike back and overtook Priaulx for the lead and the reigning world champion find himself chased closely by J. Müller.

The fighting became hotter and hotter. Y. Muller, Larini, Gené (right) and Tarquini were bumping into each other at every corner, Monteiro and Thompson had a couple of brutal collisions and the Portuguese man was given a drive-through penalty as a result.

While Menu was creating a gap, Huff overtook J. Müller for third on lap 7. Coming from the back of the field, Farfus jumped ahead of Rydell and Gené to claim seventh position; however he and Y. Muller collided while fighting for the fifth place; this was the end of Farfus' race, while the Frenchman slipped down to eighth.

On lap 9, Huff squeezed past Priaulx and moved up to second. Porteiro provided one last thrill overtaking Thompson (left) for tenth.

The Stewards investigated on four incidents occurred during the first race. They considered as normal race incidents the clashes between Farfus-Rydell and Priaulx-Thompson.

While they judged Tiago Monteiro and Andy Priaulx guilty for causing avoidable collisions with James Thompson and Augusto Farfus respectively.

The Portuguese driver received a 30-second time penalty on the result of today’s first race that demoted him from twelfth to eighteenth; Priaulx was given a drop of ten positions on the grid, suspended for the next two events.

The investigation concerning a collision between Franz Engstler and Olivier Tielemans in the second race ended in a verdict of guilty for the German driver. The Stewards imposed to Engstler a 30-second time penalty, which cost him one position (from fourth to fifth) in the Independents’ Trophy.

[View Results & Standings]

[Race 1: Huff Wins 1 For Chevrolet]

The championship will resume for rounds 7 and 8 in Pau, France, on May 31st and June 1st.