Huff holds off Muller challenge

Date published : 15 May 2011 - 20:01:10

World Touring Car Championship leader Robert Huff completed a double race victory at Monza by beating his Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller into second place in both races.

The first race saw a three-way battle between the Chevrolet drivers as Huff, Muller and Alain Menu battled right from the start in an attempt to take maximum points from the first race.

Huff was also run close by Frenchman Muller in the second race, eventually beating his team-mate over the line by just over two-tenths of a second.

Menu was the victim of the wheel-to-wheel racing in the opening race as he and Muller came together, with the Swiss driver spinning out and hitting the barrier, leaving Huff and Muller clear in first and second place respectively.

SEAT's Tiago Monteiro benefited from the retirement to take the final podium position although he had to fend off Norbert Michelisz, Tom Coronel and Kristian Poulsen to do so.

With Menu starting at the back of the grid for the second race, it left his two fellow Chevrolet drivers to fight from beginning to end and their battle saw Muller catch Huff's rear bumper on lap six, but both managed to carry on.

The fight for third was just as exciting and Monteiro, Michelisz and Poulsen were all again involved with the latter managing to pull away in the late stages to secure a podium finish for BMW.