Saturday, 30 October 2010
Farfus tops morning practice
Posted on 19:05 by google
BMW Team RBM’s Augusto Farfus posted the quickest time in morning practice for the World Touring Car Championship races at the Okayama International Circuit
After switching to a six-speed sequential gearbox - as his team-mate Andy Priaulx had done the day before – Farfus’s time of a minute 38.085 seconds was set halfway through the 30-minute session, which was ended early due to red flags.
Amid changing track conditions as the circuit dried out following earlier rain, Robert Dahlgren was first to set the pace with his eventual fastest time of 1:38.605 in a Volvo C30. That was good enough to place him second quickest overall by the end.
Alain Menu was third in the timesheets, recording 1:38.612 in his Chevrolet Cruze.
Rob Huff, quickest the day before, was fourth with 1:38.759 ahead of the fastest SEAT driver rookie, Norbert Michelisz (1:38.761), and Yvan Muller (1:38.816).
Andy Priaulx (1:38.861), Tiago Monteiro (1:38.869), Colin Turkington (1:38.918) and Tom Coronel (1:38.937) rounded out the top 10 with Kristian Poulsen (1:38.981) the fastest ‘Independent’ in 12th.
Morocco’s Mehdi Bennani did not complete a lap, pulling off the circuit on his out-lap before being towed back to the pits with a rear axle problem. His Wiechers-Sport team-mate, Masataka Yanagida, was the cause of the late red flag with a possible engine problem that the team is still investigating: it caused his BMW 320si to spill oil across the circuit.
With most the field failing to improve their times in the second half of the session, the only action was from Fredy Barth who ran wide through the gravel at the final corner but kept his SEAT moving to rejoin.
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