Termas de Río Hondo, Tests : Lopez leads the way at home

Lopez tops tight Argentina test

By Franck Drui

1 August 2014 - 18:15
Termas de Río Hondo, Tests : Lopez (...)

As it was easily predictable, José María López posted the fastest lap in today’s test session, however the Argentine was closely followed by Yvan Muller and Gabriele Tarquini.

López was the first driver to post a significant lap, stopping the clock at 1:45.764 on his first lap out of the pits. He immediately improved it to 1:45.296 on his second lap, while Tarquini moved up to second with a lap of 1:45.654.

As the session progressed, Sébastien Loeb jumped provisionally on top completing a lap in 1:44.641.

However, in the session’s dying moments the Frenchman was dropped to fourth as Muller set a new provisional fastest lap (1:44.270), that was eventually improved by López (1:44.254).

The last improvement was recorded by Tarquini (1:44.343) who placed third, only 0.089 seconds behind the leader.

Tiago Monteiro (1:44.894), Mehdi Bennani (1:45.201), Hugo Valente (1:45.592), Tom Chilton (1:45.949), Rob Huff (1:46.211) and James Thompson (1:46.340) rounded off the top ten.
Franz Engstler set the fastest lap in the TC2T class (1:51.801), beating his new team-mate Camilo Echevarría by seven tenths

Pos. Driver Car Time
1 José Maria LOPEZ Citroen C-Elysee WTCC 1:44.254
2 Yvan MULLER Citroen C-Elysee WTCC 1:44.270
3 Gabriele TARQUINI Honda Civic WTCC 1:44.343
4 Sébastien LOEB Citroen C-Elysee WTCC 1:44.641
5 Tiago MONTEIRO Honda Civic WTCC 1:44.894
6 Mehdi BENNANI Honda Civic WTCC 1:45.201
7 Hugo VALENTE Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:45.592
8 Tom CHILTON Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:45.949
9 Rob HUFF LADA Granta 1.6T 1:46.211
10 James THOMPSON LADA Granta 1.6T 1:46.340
11 Dusan BORKOVIC Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:46.368
12 René MUNNICH Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:46.372
13 Gianni MORBIDELLI Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:46.680
14 Tom CORONEL Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 1:46.998
15 Mikhail KOZLOVSKIY LADA Granta 1.6T 1:47.267
16 Camilo ECHEVARRIA BMW E90 320 TC 1:51.599
17 Franz ENGSTLER BMW E90 320 TC 1:51.801
18 John FILIPPI Seat Leon WTCC 1:52.977
19 Norbert MICHELISZ Honda Civic WTCC -:—.---

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