2013 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco



























Morocco 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco
Race details

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Round 2 of 12 in the 2013 World Touring Car Championship at Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco.

Date 7 April, 2013
Location
Marrakech, Morocco
Course
Marrakech Street Circuit
4.545 kilometres (2.824 mi)
Race One


















































Laps
13
Pole position
Driver

Italy Gabriele Tarquini

Castrol Honda Team
Time

1:44.358

Podium
First

Denmark Michel Nykjær

NIKA Racing
Second

Italy Gabriele Tarquini

Castrol Honda Team
Third

United Kingdom James Nash

bamboo-engineering
Fastest Lap
Driver

United Kingdom Alex MacDowall

bamboo-engineering
Time

1:46.237

Race Two





































Laps
13
Podium
First

Spain Pepe Oriola

Tuenti Racing Team
Second

France Yvan Muller

RML
Third

United Kingdom Tom Chilton

RML
Fastest Lap
Driver

United Kingdom Tom Chilton

RML
Time

1:45.545


The 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Morocco was the second round of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season and the fourth running of the FIA WTCC Race of Morocco. It was held on 7 April 2013 at the Marrakech Street Circuit in Marrakech, Morocco.


Both races were won by first time victors in the World Touring Car Championship, race one was won by Michel Nykjær of NIKA Racing and race two was won by Pepe Oriola of Tuenti Racing Team who also became the youngest winner of a WTCC race.




Contents






  • 1 Background


  • 2 Report


    • 2.1 Testing and free practice


    • 2.2 Qualifying


    • 2.3 Warm-Up


    • 2.4 Race One


    • 2.5 Race Two




  • 3 Results


    • 3.1 Qualifying


    • 3.2 Race 1


    • 3.3 Race 2




  • 4 Standings after the event


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Background


After the first round at Monza, RML driver Yvan Muller was leading the drivers' championship. James Nash was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.


After the qualifying incident at Monza, Lukoil Lada Sport replaced Aleksei Dudukalo with series rookie Mikhail Kozlovskiy.[1]Jean-Philippe Dayraut and the ANOME team were not on the entry list for Marrakech.[2]



Report



Testing and free practice


A test session had been scheduled for Friday afternoon but was cancelled along with activities for the support races when heavy rain flooded the circuit, the lost half–hour session would not be replaced.[3]


Muller led the dry first free practice session on Saturday morning with team–mate Tom Chilton third, the pair separated by the Honda of Gabriele Tarquini who had set the pace earlier on. Norbert Michelisz was fourth in the independent Honda ahead of James Thompson in the leading Lada. Tom Coronel was sixth as the fastest BMW while Fernando Monje in tenth was the quickest SEAT. There were no improved times in the final minutes of the session due to yellow flags at the final hairpin brought out by Tom Boardman who had stopped on the circuit.[4]


Muller led an RML 1–2 in the second practice session with Alex MacDowall making it three Chevrolets at the top of the times. There was a small fire on Michelisz's car in the pit lane while SEAT drivers Boardman and Robert Huff completed a limited number of laps due to car problems.[5]



Qualifying


Qualifying was delayed by an hour as a result of the cancellation of all Friday running for the support races.[6]


Tarquini took the first pole position for the Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team ahead of the bamboo-engineering Chevrolet of Nash. The first part of qualifying was led by Tarquini, whose teammate Tiago Monteiro brought out the red flags halfway through the session when he hit one of the walls at the second chicane. The ROAL Motorsport drivers collided towards the end of the session, Darryl O'Young had given Tom Coronel a tow to get the Dutch driver through to Q2, Coronel then got his braking wrong at turn ten and ran into the back of O'Young. Thompson collided with one of the walls on the street circuit and damaged his front left corner, although he was through to the second session he would not be able to set a time due to the damage sustained.


Tarquini spent most of Q2 at the top of timing pages, Chilton looked set to take pole position when he came across the slow moving Campos Racing car of Fernando Monje who had just left the pits. Chilton and the train of cars behind him were forced to abandon their flying laps. The grid order was therefore decided by times set earlier in the session, Tarquini was ahead of five Chevrolets with Nash second, Muller and Michel Nykjær on row two with Chilton and MacDowall on row three. The ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport cars of Huff and Marc Basseng were on row four, Pepe Oriola was ninth and Monje in tenth would start on pole position for race two. Coronel and Thompson didn't set times in Q2.[7]



Warm-Up


Chilton led the warm–up session on Sunday morning. The red flags came out twice, firstly when Nykjær clipped the kerbs at the second chicane and stopped in the middle of the track. The second stoppage brought warm–up to an early end when Boardman appeared to suffer a brake failure, clipping the front of MacDowall's Chevrolet and colliding head–on with the barriers at the final chicane.[8]


Boardman was later ruled out of the races as a result of the damage sustained in the warm–up crash.[9]



Race One


Tarquini led away from pole position while Nykjær moved into second place ahead of Nash. Huff had moved up to fifth place behind Muller and eventually managed to pass the RML driver, the pair then spent the next couple of places fighting over the position. Muller eventually got ahead at the final hairpin and Huff lost more places. Chilton pulled into the pit lane on lap six due to overheating resulting for damage. Nykjær and Nash were disputing second place behind Tarquini, Nykjær was then able to pass Tarquini moments before the yellow flags came out after Monteiro crashed into one of the barriers and the safety car was deployed. Nash ignored the yellow flags and passed Tarquini for second place, he then tried to hand the position back on the main straight behind the safety car but it wasn't until the following lap when the pair swapped positions. The race resumed with two laps to go, the main battle was for the final podium spot with Muller chasing Nash. Muller made a number of attempts to take the place but Nash successfully defended the place to take his first podium finish. Up ahead Nykjær claimed his first overall victory in the WTCC ahead of Tarquini.[10]



Race Two


Monje was on pole but was passed on the opening lap by Oriola. Monje was involved a collision with the Lada of Thompson although both cars were removed under yellow flags. Towards the end of the first lap, Huff made contact with Monje and broke his right front suspension. Monje was then out on lap two when he collided with the Lada of Thompson. The safety car came out on lap nine when Tarquini lost control of his car over the kerbs at one of the chicanes and collided with MacDowall, putting both out of the race. The race resumed on the final lap with Oriola holding off Muller and Chilton to claim his first WTCC victory and become the youngest winner and the championship's history, Nash in fourth was the independents' winner.[11]


After the race, Monje was given a five–place grid penalty at the next race in Slovakia for his collision with Thompson.[12]



Results



Qualifying












































































































































































































































































Pos.

No.
Name
Team
Car

C
Q1
Q2
Points
1
3

Italy Gabriele Tarquini

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

1:44.910
1:44.358

5
2
14

United Kingdom James Nash

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
1:45.677
1:44.406

4
3
12

France Yvan Muller

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

1:45.185
1:44.504

3
4
17

Denmark Michel Nykjær

NIKA Racing

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
1:45.656
1:44.745

2
5
23

United Kingdom Tom Chilton

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

1:45.471
1:44.863

1
6
9

United Kingdom Alex MacDowall

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
1:45.446
1:45.060

7
1

United Kingdom Robert Huff

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

1:46.125
1:45.228

8
38

Germany Marc Basseng

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

1:45.794
1:45.552

9
74

Spain Pepe Oriola

Tuenti Racing Team

SEAT León WTCC

1:45.617
1:46.341

10
19

Spain Fernando Monje

Campos Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
1:46.194
1:55.405

11
10

United Kingdom James Thompson

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

1:45.992
no time set

12
15

Netherlands Tom Coronel

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

1:46.091
no time set

13
55

Hong Kong Darryl O'Young

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:46.327


14
18

Portugal Tiago Monteiro

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

1:46.396


15
73

Switzerland Fredy Barth

Wiechers-Sport

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:46.412


16
6

Germany Franz Engstler

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:46.494


17
5

Hungary Norbert Michelisz

Zengő Motorsport

Honda Civic WTCC

1:46.629


18
25

Morocco Mehdi Bennani

Proteam Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:46.660


19
22

United Kingdom Tom Boardman

Special Tuning Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
1:46.713


20
7

Hong Kong Charles Ng

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:47.140


21
26

Italy Stefano D'Aste

PB Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
1:47.390


22
8

Russia Mikhail Kozlovskiy

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

1:47.598


23
37

Germany René Münnich

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

Y
1:49.222




  • Bold denotes Pole position for second race.


Race 1




































































































































































































































































































Pos.

No.
Name
Team
Car

C
Laps
Time/Retired
Grid
Points
1
17

Denmark Michel Nykjær

NIKA Racing

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
13
28:51.561
4

25
2
3

Italy Gabriele Tarquini

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

13
+0.566
1

18
3
14

United Kingdom James Nash

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
13
+1.612
2

15
4
12

France Yvan Muller

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

13
+2.224
3

12
5
1

United Kingdom Robert Huff

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

13
+2.248
7

10
6
9

United Kingdom Alex MacDowall

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
13
+2.476
6

8
7
38

Germany Marc Basseng

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

13
+3.201
8

6
8
74

Spain Pepe Oriola

Tuenti Racing Team

SEAT León WTCC

13
+3.565
9

4
9
15

Netherlands Tom Coronel

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

13
+5.270
12

2
10
10

United Kingdom James Thompson

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

13
+5.881
11

1
11
19

Spain Fernando Monje

Campos Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
13
+7.078
10

12
55

Hong Kong Darryl O'Young

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+7.879
13

13
73

Switzerland Fredy Barth

Wiechers-Sport

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+8.485
15

14
7

Hong Kong Charles Ng

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+9.298
19

15
37

Germany René Münnich

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

Y
13
+14.192
22

16
8

Russia Mikhail Kozlovskiy

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

13
+15.333
21

17
6

Germany Franz Engstler

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+33.246
16

18
25

Morocco Mehdi Bennani

Proteam Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
12
+1 Lap
18

Ret
18

Portugal Tiago Monteiro

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

5
Race incident
14

Ret
5

Hungary Norbert Michelisz

Zengő Motorsport

Honda Civic WTCC

5
Race incident
17

Ret
23

United Kingdom Tom Chilton

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

5
Overheating
5

Ret
26

Italy Stefano D'Aste

PB Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
1
Race incident
20

DNS
22

United Kingdom Tom Boardman

Special Tuning Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
0
Did not start
23



  • Bold denotes Fastest lap.


Race 2




































































































































































































































































































Pos.

No.
Name
Team
Car

C
Laps
Time/Retired
Grid
Points
1
74

Spain Pepe Oriola

Tuenti Racing Team

SEAT León WTCC

13
28:08.751
2

25
2
12

France Yvan Muller

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

13
+0.430
8

18
3
23

United Kingdom Tom Chilton

RML

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

13
+0.677
6

15
4
14

United Kingdom James Nash

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
13
+0.948
9

12
5
38

Germany Marc Basseng

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

13
+1.808
3

10
6
15

Netherlands Tom Coronel

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

13
+2.028
12

8
7
17

Denmark Michel Nykjær

NIKA Racing

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
13
+2.326
7

6
8
6

Germany Franz Engstler

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+4.377
16

4
9
55

Hong Kong Darryl O'Young

ROAL Motorsport

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+4.889
13

2
10
7

Hong Kong Charles Ng

Liqui Moly Team Engstler

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+6.273
18

1
11
25

Morocco Mehdi Bennani

Proteam Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+6.349
17

12
73

Switzerland Fredy Barth

Wiechers-Sport

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+6.385
15

13
8

Russia Mikhail Kozlovskiy

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

13
+7.037
19

14
26

Italy Stefano D'Aste

PB Racing

BMW 320 TC

Y
13
+7.698
22

15
5

Hungary Norbert Michelisz

Zengő Motorsport

Honda Civic WTCC

9
Fuel leak
21

Ret
3

Italy Gabriele Tarquini

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

7
Race incident
10

Ret
9

United Kingdom Alex MacDowall

bamboo-engineering

Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T

Y
7
Race incident
5

Ret
37

Germany René Münnich

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

Y
3
Puncture
20

Ret
1

United Kingdom Robert Huff

ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport

SEAT León WTCC

1
Race incident
4

Ret
10

United Kingdom James Thompson

Lukoil Lada Sport

Lada Granta

1
Race incident
11

Ret
19

Spain Fernando Monje

Campos Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
1
Race incident
1

DNS
18

Portugal Tiago Monteiro

Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team

Honda Civic WTCC

0
Did not start
14

DNS
22

United Kingdom Tom Boardman

Special Tuning Racing

SEAT León WTCC

Y
0
Did not start




  • Bold denotes Fastest lap.


Standings after the event











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


References





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