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Hungaroring, Race 2: Home hero Michelisz strikes Hungary WTCC gold

Michelisz marches to popular home win

By Franck Drui

3 May 2015 - 15:37

Norbert Michelisz underlined his status as a national hero by winning the second MOL Group WTCC Race of Hungary, his first victory in this year’s FIA World Touring Car Championship.

Roared on by a 35,000 crowd, Michelisz led from pole position to bag Honda’s first win in this year’s WTCC and claim Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy honours in the process.

Tom Coronel and Tom Chilton were second and third respectively in their ROAL Motorsport Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1s with Tiago Monteiro fourth for the Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team.

Sébastien Loeb made it through a second corner collision unscathed to finish fifth as the first Citroën home. Team-mate and WTCC leader José María López was sixth in the reverse grid race. Rob Huff was not so fortunate however, retiring his LADA with accident damage on lap one.

Yvan Muller, Hugo Valente, Ma Qing Hua and Grégoire Demoustier completed the top 10.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Car	Time
1	Norbert Michelisz	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	14 laps
2	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	+7.103
3	Tom Chilton	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	+9.315
4	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	+10.176
5	Sebastien Loeb	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	+11.235
6	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	+12.040
7	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	+13.065
8	Hugo Valente	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	+18.639
9	Ma Qing Hua	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	+19.826
10	Grégoire Demoustier	Craft-Bamboo Racing	Chevrolet	+30.021
11	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	+38.660
12	Stefano D’Aste	Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	+42.030
13	Gabriele Tarquini	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	+1m11.284
14	Mikhail Kozlovskiy	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	DNF
15	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	DNF
16	Robert Huff	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	DNF
17	James Thompson	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	DNS