The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Germany was the eighth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Germany. It was held at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben near Oschersleben, Germany on 5 September 2010. Race one was won by Alain Menu of Chevrolet RML and race two was by Andy Priaulx of BMW Team RBM.

Background After the Race of the Czech Republic, Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship by a reduced margin of five points of Gabriele Tarquini. Sergio Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.

Harry Vaulkhard was forced to miss the event and the rest of the season having run out of finances. His replacement was Japanese racer Yukinori Taniguchi, who had previously driven for N. Technology in the 2008 World Touring Car Championship season.

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Free practice Tarquini set the pace in the opening free practice session, leading Chevrolet driver Robert Huff. Jordi Gené was third and Andy Priaulx was the fastest BMW in fourth. The session was red flagged twice, firstly when Stefano D'Aste stuck his Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si into a tyre wall. The red flags were out for the second time at the end of the session when Tiago Monteiro went off at the Hasseroder Curve as rain started to fall, bringing first practice to an early close.

Muller led a Chevrolet 1–2 in the second practice session on a drying track. Menu was second and Monteiro was the fastest SEAT driver. Michel Nykjær survived an off to go sixth fastest as the best Rookie Challenge driver.

Qualifying Augusto Farfus took his second pole position of the season in qualifying, beating Chevrolet's Huff by a tenth of a second. All of the SR-Sport, RML Chevrolet and BMW Team RBM cars made it through to Q2, as well as the Zengő-Dension Team car of Norbert Michelisz. Monteiro damaged his front right wheel at the end of Q1 and was unable to take part in Q2, he therefore lined up tenth.

With rain starting to fall, the remaining cars went out to set a time straight away. Huff, Tarquini and Gené required a second lap to set a competitive time. By the third lap, the rain was heavier and caught out Huff who spun and collided with team mate Menu. Tarquini lost control and hit a wall while Michelisz cut across the grass. The rain induced incidents brought out the red flags with three minutes remaining. The session was not restarted, so Priaulx put his BMW in third in the manufacturer's home race and Menu was fourth. Michelisz was fifth and Tarquini was sixth while Tom Coronel, Muller and Gené completed the top nine ahead of Monteiro.

Warm-Up Chevrolet finished 1–2–3 in the foggy conditions of Sunday morning's warm–up session with Huff leading Menu and Muller. Priaulx stopped out on track while D'Aste damaged the rear of his BMW in a separate incident.

Race One Farfus started from pole position but ran wide at turn one after clashing with Huff who had been tapped by Menu. Farfus dropped down to fourth as Huff took the lead followed by Menu and Coronel. Tarquini was caught up the first corner contact and was forced to retire with damage to his SEAT León 2.0 TDI. Further back, Fredy Barth collided with Jordi Gené while Andrei Romanov and Taniguchi did likewise. Huff was later given a drive–through penalty for his part in the clash with Farfus, he failed to serve his penalty within the required three laps and was black–flagged. Farfus had passed Coronel and was closing in on new race leader Menu but couldn't catch him before the finish, finishing second with Muller finishing third. Coronel was fourth, Monteiro was fifth and Priaulx was sixth having started third. Michelisz finished eight to claim pole position for race two and Kristian Poulsen was independent winner.

Race Two Starting from third on the grid, Priaulx passed pole sitter Michelisz to take the lead of the race at the first corner. Monteiro bumped off both Nykjær and Michelisz and later served a drive–through penalty. Monteiro's penalty promoted Farfus into second and Muller into third. Towards the end of the race, Menu and Michelisz had been running seventh and eighth but were being caught by Huff, Tarquini and Gené. Huff tapped Michelisz wide at turn one and the Zengő driver dropped to eleventh and out of the points behind the advancing trio. Huff went on to catch Menu at the end of the race as the BMW Team RBM pair finished 1–2 on home turf with Muller the final podium finished and Poulsen repeated his Independents' Trophy victory from race one.

Results

Qualifying Name Team Car Q1 Q2 1 10 Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 1:36.228 1:38.070 2 7 Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:35.518 1:38.176 3 11 Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 1:36.326 1:38.186 4 8 Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:36.174 1:38.445 5 5 Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.131 1:38.634 6 1 Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.027 1:38.796 7 2 Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.509 1:38.810 8 6 Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 1:36.111 1:38.869 9 4 Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.071 1:39.994 10 3 Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.537 no time set 11 17 Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.654 12 18 Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 1:36.844 13 26 Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:36.881 14 25 Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:37.282 15 15 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:37.309 16 20 Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 1:37.532 17 24 Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:37.579 18 21 Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 1:38.091 19 72 Yukinori Taniguchi bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 1:38.203 20 16 Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 1:39.190 21 33 Fabio Fabiani Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 1:41.877

Race 1 Name Team Car Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 14 22:50.427 4 25 2 10 Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 14 +0.491 1 18 3 6 Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 14 +4.738 7 15 4 3 Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +7.428 9 12 5 11 Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 14 +7.845 3 10 6 2 Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +36.835 6 8 7 17 Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +43.063 10 6 8 5 Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +46.187 15 4 9 24 Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +46.449 17 2 10 25 Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +47.897 13 1 11 18 Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +50.146 11 12 4 Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +50.584 8 13 15 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 14 +1:02.077 14 14 21 Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 14 +1:04.005 18 15 26 Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +1:04.164 12 16 16 Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 14 +1:06.208 20 17 72 Yukinori Taniguchi bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 14 +1:15.550 19 18 7 Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 10 +4 Laps 2 NC 33 Fabio Fabiani Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 6 +8 Laps 21 NC 20 Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 5 +9 Laps 16 Ret 1 Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 0 Race incident 5 Bold denotes Fastest lap.

 — Coronel, Gené, Michelisz, Franz Engstler, Romanov, Nykjær, Barth, Mehdi Bennani, Poulsen, Hernández, D'Aste and Taniguchi all received 30–second post race penalties for breaking the speed limit during the rolling start.

Race 2 Name Team Car Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 11 Andy Priaulx BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 14 22:51.499 3 25 2 10 Augusto Farfus BMW Team RBM BMW 320si 14 +2.729 7 18 3 6 Yvan Muller Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 14 +8.740 6 15 4 17 Michel Nykjær SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +10.304 2 12 5 2 Tom Coronel SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +10.982 5 10 6 24 Kristian Poulsen Poulsen Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +11.989 9 8 7 7 Robert Huff Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 14 +16.691 17 6 8 8 Alain Menu Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Cruze LT 14 +17.243 8 4 9 1 Gabriele Tarquini SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +17.919 20 2 10 4 Jordi Gené SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +19.193 12 1 11 5 Norbert Michelisz Zengő-Dension Team SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +20.295 1 12 20 Darryl O'Young bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 14 +22.964 19 13 25 Sergio Hernández Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +23.582 10 14 72 Yukinori Taniguchi bamboo-engineering Chevrolet LacettiY 14 +35.324 16 15 15 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 14 +38.679 13 16 26 Stefano D'Aste Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +47.949 15 17 16 Andrei Romanov Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 14 +1:02.831 21 18 3 Tiago Monteiro SR-Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 14 +1:04.318 4 19 33 Fabio Fabiani Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 14 +1:28.517 18 20 18 Fredy Barth SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +1 Lap 11 Ret 21 Mehdi Bennani Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 0 Race incident 14 Bold denotes Fastest lap.

 — Romanov was given a 30–second penalty after the race a 10–place suspended grid penalty for the next two events for causing a collision.  — Monteiro was given a 30–second post–race penalty in addition to the driver–through penalty he served on lap six for a collision.

Standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Yvan Muller 229 1 2 Andy Priaulx 218 1 3 Gabriele Tarquini 196 4 Robert Huff 173 5 Alain Menu 145

Yokohama Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Sergio Hernández 111 2 Stefano D'Aste 86 1 3 Darryl O'Young 76 1 4 Colin Turkington 73 5 Franz Engstler 70

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 Chevrolet 508 1 2 BMW 453 1 3 SEAT Customers Technology 447

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings.

References

Results Booklet PDF at MST Systems

External links World Touring Car Championship official website