Marrakech - Free 2: Muller chases the Seat cars

Tarquini still in the lead

By Franck Drui

1 May 2010 - 15:30
Marrakech - Free 2: Muller chases (…)

Gabriele Tarquini remained at the top of the timesheets after the second practice session of the day in Morocco. His time of 1:46.143 in the final minutes demoted rookie Norbert Michelisz to second.

Tarquini was quick from the off and continued to improve his time throughout the 30-minute session. Hungarian Michelisz then headed the field but ended 0.844-seconds adrift of the reigning champion with a time of 1:46.987.

Chevrolet’s Yvan Muller (1:47.507) was third followed by BMW Team RBM’s Andy Priaulx (1:47.533) and Tom Coronel (1:47.642) in his SEAT León TDI.

SR-Sports’ Jordi Gené (1:47.642) improved from the morning session to finish sixth ahead of Augusto Farfus (1:47.673) and Rob Huff (47.675).

Michel Nykjær (1:47.735) also made improvements in his SEAT León TDI to move up to ninth with Chevrolet’s Alain Menu (1:47.763) completing the top ten.

Wiechers-Sport’s Mehdi Bennani made up for a disappointing start to the day by ending the second practice session as fastest Independent, 12th overall, in front of his home crowd.

Pos. Driver Car Time Gap
01 G. Tarquini Seat Leon TDI 1m46.143s
02 N. Michelisz Seat Leon TDI 1m46.987s + 0.844
03 Y. Muller Chevrolet Cruze 1m47.507s + 1.364
04 A. Priaulx BMW 320si 1m47.533s + 1.390
05 T. Coronel Seat Leon TDI 1m47.642s + 1.499
06 J. Gene Seat Leon TDI 1m47.650s + 1.507
07 A. Farfus BMW 320si 1m47.673s + 1.530
08 R. Huff Chevrolet Cruze 1m47.675s + 1.532
09 M. Nykjaer Seat Leon TDI 1m47.735s + 1.592
10 A. Menu Chevrolet Cruze 1m47.763s + 1.620
11 T. Monteiro Seat Leon TDI 1m48.104s + 1.961
12 M. Bennani BMW 320si 1m48.525s + 2.382
13 F. Barth Seat Leon TDI 1m48.564s + 2.421
14 F. Engstler BMW 320si 1m48.603s + 2.460
15 S. D’Aste BMW 320si 1m48.700s + 2.557
16 D. O’Young Chevrolet Lacetti 1m49.799s + 3.656
17 H. Vaulkhard Chevrolet Lacetti 1m49.975s + 3.832
18 S. Hernandez BMW 320si 1m50.143s + 4.000
19 A. Romanov BMW 320si 1m51.157s + 5.014
20 I. Sbai Chevrolet Lacetti 1m53.127s + 6.984

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