WTCC: Muller denies Bjork practice sweep

By Sam Tremayne

Saturday, November 2nd 2013, 03:44 GMT

Yvan Muller denied Thed Bjork a clean sweep of World Touring Car Championship practice sessions at Shanghai with a late surge in FP2.

The series' newly-crowned champion beat his Scandinavian counterpart by just over three tenths of a second, in the process setting the fastest time so far this weekend.

Bjork, who once again set his best time in the opening minutes, was able to hold onto second ahead of Chilton.

The Briton had led team-mate Muller out for the latter's flyer, and while the duo reversed roles in the final minutes neither was able to improve.

James Thompson continued his and Lada's strong start to the weekend by sealing fourth, just over half a second down the road from Muller.

Bamboo locked out fifth and sixth through Alex MacDowall and James Nash respectively, while Pepe Oriola just shaded Tiago Monteiro's Honda and Rob Huff's SEAT in the fight for seventh.

Gabriele Tarquini meanwhile stole into 10th at the flag, demoting a BMW trio of Stefano D'Aste, Tom Coronel and Franz Engstler in the process.

Engstler was the session's only spinner, losing his BMW at Turn 11, while Jeronimo Badaraco missed the second half of the session after coming to a halt on the outside of Turn 13.

  Pos  Driver              Team/Car                Time       Gap   1.  Yvan Muller         RML Chevrolet           1m55.508s   2.  Thed Bjork          Polestar Volvo          1m55.848s  +0.340s   3.  Tom Chilton         RML Chevrolet           1m55.910s  +0.402s   4.  James Thompson      Lada                    1m56.069s  +0.561s   5.  Alex MacDowall      Bamboo Chevrolet        1m56.109s  +0.601s   6.  James Nash          Bamboo Chevrolet        1m56.196s  +0.688s   7.  Pepe Oriola         Tuenti Chevrolet        1m56.204s  +0.696s   8.  Tiago Monteiro      Honda                   1m56.261s  +0.753s   9.  Rob Huff            Munnich SEAT            1m56.341s  +0.833s  10.  Gabriele Tarquini   Honda                   1m56.455s  +0.947s  11.  Stefano D'Aste      PB BMW                  1m56.479s  +0.971s  12.  Tom Coronel         ROAL BMW                1m56.527s  +1.019s  13.  Franz Engstler      Engstler BMW            1m56.574s  +1.066s  14.  Rene Munnich        Munnich SEAT            1m56.708s  +1.200s  15.  Rickard Rydell      Nika Chevrolet          1m56.847s  +1.339s  16.  Norbert Michelisz   Zengo Honda             1m56.946s  +1.438s  17.  Tom Boardman        Special Tuning SEAT     1m56.997s  +1.489s  18.  Hugo Valente        Campos SEAT             1m57.017s  +1.509s  19.  Marc Basseng        Munnich SEAT            1m57.036s  +1.528s  20.  Fernando Monje      Campos SEAT             1m57.345s  +1.837s  21.  Freddy Barth        Wiechers BMW            1m57.496s  +1.988s  22.  Darryl O'Young      ROAL BMW                1m57.533s  +2.025s  23.  Charles Ng          Engstler BMW            1m57.926s  +2.418s  24.  Mikhail Kozlovskiy  Lada                    1m57.950s  +2.442s  25.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Wiechers BMW            1m58.616s  +3.108s  26.  Filipe de Souza     China Dragon Chevrolet  1m59.732s  +4.224s  27.  Henry Ho            Engstler BMW            2m00.586s  +5.078s  28.  Kin Veng Ng         China Dragon Chevrolet  2m01.911s  +6.403s  29.  Ka Lok Mak          RPM BMW                 2m02.726s  +7.218s  30.  Jeronimo Badaraco   Son Veng Chevrolet      2m02.774s  +7.266s  31.  Mehdi Bennani       Proteam BMW             -  

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