2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal
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![]() Round 7 of 12 in the 2009 World Touring Car Championship at Circuito da Boavista in Porto, Portugal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 5 July, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Porto, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course | Circuito da Boavista 4.770 kilometres (2.964 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal was the seventh round of the
Background
The second race of the day was the 100th
Report
Testing and Free Practice
Testing took place on Friday afternoon, with
Qualifying
Qualifying took place on the Saturday afternoon.
Warm Up
The fifteen-minute Sunday morning warm-up session took part on a wet track, with Rob Huff fastest.[5]
Race One
Race 1 started on a drying track at 11:34 local time. The red flag was brought out and the race was suspended at the end of the first lap for two separate incidents on the opening lap. As the leaders made their way away from the grid, the BMW of Sergio Hernández and the Lada of Jaap van Lagen, who started 17th and 18th respectively tangled after the rolling start, pitching Hernandez in the concrete barrier. Hernandez was subsequently taken to hospital for checks on his ankle. Later on in the lap, Farfus collided with Alain Menu, spinning Menu into the wall. Nicola Larini tagged Tiago Monteiro as they tried to avoid the incident. The track became blocked as Mehdi Bennani ran into Menu's stationary Chevrolet Cruze.
After the restart Tarquini led Huff and Yvan Muller to victory. On the last lap, Andy Priaulx, running in fourth, and Jorg Muller, running seventh, slowed to allow BWW teammate Farfus (who had served a drive-through-penalty for the first lap incident with Menu) past them to allow him to finish eighth, securing one championship point and pole position for the second race.
Stefano D'Aste was the leading independent, finishing in tenth place. Tarquini recorded the fastest lap of the race.[6]
Race Two
Race 2 started at 16:50 local time. The unusually large gap in time between the two races was to allow for TV broadcaster Eurosport to cover the Tour de France. On the third lap Rob Huff passed teammate Nicola Larini for sixth. Gabriele Tarquini tried to make a late move down the inside of Larini to follow Huff past but the two Italian veterans collided and both ended up in the tyre wall on the exit of the turn. As the field went on by, Mehdi Bennani ran wide and as he picked his way through the middle of the two stranded cars he rejoined the racing line in the path of fellow SEAT driver Tom Boardman. The safety car was deployed.
Farfus was still leading when the race was red-flagged following a crash involving Alain Menu and Franz Engstler on lap 10, which left Menu's car stranded in the middle of the narrow track. Farfus completed the two laps after the stoppage to win the 100th WTCC race ahead of four SEATs.
Stefano D'Aste was once again the independents’ winner and Farfus took the fastest lap.[7]
Results
Qualifying
Race 1
Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Car | C | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 2 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 12 | 1:04:11.274 | 1 | 10 | |
2 | 11 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 12 | +2.934 | 2 | 8 | |
3 | 1 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 12 | +7.848 | 3 | 6 | |
4 | 5 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 12 | +8.472 | 6 | 5 | |
5 | 14 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 12 | +15.790 | 8 | 4 | |
6 | 4 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 12 | +16.192 | 10 | 3 | |
7 | 3 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 12 | +16.640 | 9 | 2 | |
8 | 8 | ![]() |
BMW Team Germany | BMW 320si
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12 | +16.975 | 7 | 1 | |
9 | 6 | ![]() |
BMW Team UK | BMW 320si
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12 | +17.791 | 4 | ||
10 | 27 | ![]() |
Wiechers-Sport | BMW 320si
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Y | 12 | +18.216 | 14 | |
11 | 7 | ![]() |
BMW Team Germany | BMW 320si
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12 | +19.149 | 12 | ||
12 | 9 | Alessandro Zanardi
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BMW Team Italy-Spain | BMW 320si
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12 | +19.442 | 11 | ||
13 | 21 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 12 | +33.010 | 13 | |
14 | 23 | ![]() |
Scuderia Proteam Motorsport | BMW 320si
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Y | 12 | +42.995 | 15 | |
15 | 22 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 12 | +54.702 | 21 | |
16 | 35 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 12 | +54.931 | 23 | |
17 | 26 | ![]() |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si
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Y | 12 | +55.277 | 20 | |
18 | 36 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | Lada Priora | 12 | +55.742 | 24 | ||
19 | 19 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | LADA 110 2.0 | 12 | +1:11.955 | 22 | ||
20 | 25 | ![]() |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si
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Y | 11 | +1 Lap | 19 | |
Ret | 12 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 4 | Race incident | 5 | ||
Ret | 18 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | LADA 110 2.0 | 2 | Race incident | 18 | ||
Ret | 10 | ![]() |
BMW Team Italy-Spain | BMW 320si
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0 | Race incident | 17 | ||
DSQ | 30 | ![]() |
Exagon Engineering | SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 0 | Disqualified | 16 |
- Bold denotes Fastest lap.
Race 2
Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Car | C | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 8 | ![]() |
BMW Team Germany | BMW 320si
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13 | 47:48.304 | 1 | 10 | |
2 | 1 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 13 | +2.295 | 6 | 8 | |
3 | 3 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 13 | +2.810 | 2 | 6 | |
4 | 4 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 13 | +3.385 | 3 | 5 | |
5 | 5 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 13 | +3.970 | 5 | 4 | |
6 | 11 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 13 | +4.219 | 7 | 3 | |
7 | 6 | ![]() |
BMW Team UK | BMW 320si
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13 | +4.583 | 9 | 2 | |
8 | 7 | ![]() |
BMW Team Germany | BMW 320si
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13 | +5.064 | 11 | 1 | |
9 | 27 | ![]() |
Wiechers-Sport | BMW 320si
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Y | 13 | +6.428 | 10 | |
10 | 9 | Alessandro Zanardi
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BMW Team Italy-Spain | BMW 320si
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13 | +7.584 | 12 | ||
11 | 25 | ![]() |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si
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Y | 13 | +9.201 | 18 | |
12 | 21 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 13 | +13.290 | 13 | |
13 | 23 | ![]() |
Scuderia Proteam Motorsport | BMW 320si
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Y | 13 | +15.272 | 14 | |
14 | 35 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 13 | +17.706 | 15 | |
15 | 36 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | Lada Priora | 13 | +22.964 | 17 | ||
16 | 26 | ![]() |
Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si
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Y | 13 | +53.730 | 16 | |
17 | 19 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | LADA 110 2.0 | 12 | +1 Lap | 23 | ||
18 | 12 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 9 | +4 Laps | 20 | ||
Ret | 14 | ![]() |
Chevrolet | Chevrolet Cruze LT | 5 | +23.139 | 4 | ||
Ret | 2 | ![]() |
SEAT Sport
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SEAT León 2.0 TDI | 2 | +5.426 | 8 | ||
Ret | 30 | ![]() |
Exagon Engineering | SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 2 | +43.550 | 21 | |
Ret | 22 | ![]() |
SUNRED Engineering
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SEAT León 2.0 TFSI | Y | 2 | +34.859 | 22 | |
DNS | 18 | ![]() |
LADA Sport | LADA 110 2.0 | 0 | Did not start | – | ||
DNS | 10 | ![]() |
BMW Team Italy-Spain | BMW 320si
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0 | Did not start | 19 |
- Bold denotes Fastest lap.
Standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of drivers' standings.
References
- Haymarket Publishing. Archivedfrom the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- Haymarket Publishing. Archivedfrom the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- Haymarket Publishing. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- Haymarket Publishing. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- ^ Meissner, Johan (5 July 2009). "Chevrolet masters a wet warm up". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- Haymarket Publishing. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- Haymarket Publishing. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
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