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May
19th

WTCC: Rob Huff leads another Chevrolet 1-2-3 in Austria (+results, photos)

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Rob Huff led an all-Chevrolet top three in qualifying of the Austrian World Touring Car Championship round, held at the Salzburgring.
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Thanks to a last minute effort, the Brit signed his first pole of the 2012 season, with a time of 1min26.791s. His teammates Yvan Muller and Alain Menu followed him in second and third places respectively.

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Gabriele Tarquini (SEAT) was the best of the rest, in fourth.

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Come race time tomorrow, Ford driver Tom Chilton will drop five positions on the grid because of the incident he caused by loosing his Focus at the entrance of the Nockstein hairpin.

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And by virtu of the reversed grid, Aleksei Dudukalo will start on pole for race two.

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Starting grid - Sunday Race One (WTCC, Salzburgring)
From ItaliaRacing.net

First row

Robert Huff - Chevrolet Cruze - RML - 1min26.791s
Yvan Muller - Chevrolet Cruze - RML - 1min26.933s


Second row

Alain Menu - Chevrolet Cruze - RML - 1min26.961s

Gabriele Tarquini - Seat Leon WTCC - Sunred - 1min27.490s


Third row
Alex Macdowall - Chevrolet Cruze - Bamboo - 1min27.573s
Tiago Monteiro - Seat Leon 1.6 T - Tuenti - 1min27.808s


Fourth row

Stefano D'Aste - BMW 320 TC - Wiechers - 1min27.927s
Pepe Oriola - Seat Leon WTCC - Tuenti - 1min28.122s


Fifth row
Tom Coronel - BMW 320 TC - Roal - 1min28.124s
Aleksei Dudukalo - Seat Leon WTCC - Tuenti - 1min28.317s


Sixth row
Darryl O'Young - Seat Leon WTCC - STR - 1min28.342s
Mehdi Bennani - BMW 320 TC - Proteam - 1min28.373s


Seventh row
James Nash - Ford Focus S2000 - Arena - 1min28.421s
Alberto Cerqui - BMW 320 TC - Roal - 1min28.424s


Eighth row

Norbert Michelisz - BMW 320 TC - Zengo - 1min28.582s
Pasquale di Sabatino - Chevrolet Cruze - Bamboo - 1min28.852


Ninth row
Franz Engstler - BMW 320 TC - Engstler - 1min28.913s

Charles Ng - BMW 320 TC - Engstler - 1min29.137s


10th row

Tom Boardman - Seat Leon TDI - STR - 1min30.057s

Gabor Weber - BMW 320 TC - Zengo - 1min30.116s


11th row
Tom Chilton - Ford Focus S2000 - Arena - 1min29.271s *

*Five-place grid penalty


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