WTCC Shanghai 2011

RACE 1 -- MENU BEATS TURKINGTON
Alain Menu beat Colin Turkington by a small gap at the end of an exciting race. Rob Huff claimed third place ahead of Yvan Muller and reduced his gap from the championship leader to ten points.
Turkington enlivened the whole race, chasing Huff for second place, overtaking him and then putting the pressure on Menu in the latest ten laps. The Irishman gave the Wiechers-Sport team their best result ever in WTCC.
Menu resorted to the whole of his long racing experience to drive back the assaults of the BMW drivers and managed not to make the lesser mistake or open the least of a gap, securing his fifth victory of the season.
Tom Coronel and Kristian Poulsen finished in fifth and sixth after Norbert Michelisz dropped down in the late stages of the race.

RACE 2 -- MULLER WINS WITH A BIT OF LUCK
Yvan Muller claimed an eighth and crucial victory in the season that significantly increased his leading margin in the championship standings to twenty points ahead of his Chevrolet team-mate Rob Huff.
The reigning world champion benefitted from a contact between Huff and Gabriele Tarquini on the first lap to move to second behind the Italian. Three more laps and Muller was leading and capable of creating a big gap.
Tarquini completed a great defensive race, salvaging a second position that was completely unexpected, considering the brake problems he had had in the first race and the fact that this was not the best track for the SUNRED León cars.
Once again Colin Turkington was among the top players, winning the Yokohama Trophy, narrowly missing the podium and offering a great show to the Chinese fans.
A brilliant Charles Ng scored his first WTCC point by finishing tenth after having started from the last spot of the grid.

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• Alain Menu
• Colin Turkington
• Yvan Muller
• Robert Huff
• Chevrolet
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