Huff completes Monza double
Date published : 15 May 2011 - 13:46:53
Rob Huff completed a clean sweep of pole and two victories in this weekend's World Touring Car Championship round at Monza with a hard-fought win in this afternoon's reversed-grid race.Huff passed the SUNRED SEAT of polesitter Tiago Monteiro on the run into the first corner, but quickly found himself under pressure from Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller.That pressure never abated, and indeed nearly ended in a similar disaster to the clash that took out Alain Menu earlier in the day when Muller tagged Huff's rear as the pair were braking for the Parabolica with a couple of laps remaining. Huff's car got momentarily out of shape, but he was able to gather it up and continue unharmed.Muller was shown a bad sportsmanship flag immediately afterwards, but he kept up the pressure on his team-mate right to the flag. Just 0.2 seconds separated the pair at the finish.Engstler BMW driver Kristian Poulsen triumphed in what had been a four-way battle for third until Tom Coronel (ROAL) dropped out of the pack on the final lap with a delaminating right-rear tyre. Monteiro was right behind Poulsen for fourth, with Menu coming from the back of the field to finish fifth.Results - 9 laps:Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Rob Huff Chevrolet 18m10.032s 2. Yvan Muller Chevrolet + 0.242s 3. Kristian Poulsen Engstler BMW + 3.559s 4. Tiago Monteiro SUNRED SEAT + 6.211s 5. Alain Menu Chevrolet + 8.896s 6. Darryl O'Young Bamboo Chevrolet + 10.089s 7. Norbert Michelisz Zengo-Dension BMW + 10.780s 8. Javier Villa Proteam BMW + 11.054s 9. Franz Engstler Engstler BMW + 11.056s10. Gabriele Tarquini SUNRED SEAT + 12.800s11. Yukinori Taniguchi Bamboo Chevrolet + 19.420s12. Pepe Oriola SUNRED SEAT + 21.519s13. Robert Dahlgren Polestar Volvo + 23.532s14. Marchy Lee KK BMW + 27.912s15. Tom Coronel ROAL BMW + 28.095s16. Ibrahim Okyay Otomotiv BMW + 48.069s17. Urs Sonderegger Wiechers BMW + 52.972s18. Fabio Fabiani Proteam BMW + 1m27.890sRetirements: Fredy Barth SUNRED SEAT 7 laps Mehdi Bennani Proteam BMW 7 laps Aleksei Dudukalo SUNRED SEAT 1 lap Michel Nykjaer SUNRED SEAT 0 laps
