The 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal was the seventh round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season and the third FIA WTCC Race of Portugal. It was held on 5 July 2009 at the temporary Circuito da Boavista street course in Porto, Portugal. The first race was won by Gabriele Tarquini for SEAT Sport and the second race was won by Augusto Farfus for BMW Team Germany.

Background The second race of the day was the 100th World Touring Car Championship race since its reintroduction at Monza in 2005. It also saw the debut of the new Lada Priora, with former race-winner James Thompson behind the wheel for LADA Sport. Diego Puyo made his series debut for SUNRED Engineering, after scoring more points than any other driver in the SEAT Leon Eurocup round at Brno.

Report

Testing and Free Practice Testing took place on Friday afternoon, with Augusto Farfus quickest in the half-hour session for BMW Team Germany. The first free practice session took place on the Saturday morning, with Farfus quickest again. Chevrolet's Rob Huff was quickest in the second practice session shortly after midday.

Qualifying Qualifying took place on the Saturday afternoon. SEAT Sport's Yvan Muller was quickest in Qualifying 1, after which the fastest ten drivers go through to Qualifying 2. Gabriele Tarquini took pole position for SEAT Sport, with Huff second and Yvan Muller third. Tom Coronel was the fastest independent in Qualifying, starting from 12th.

Warm Up The fifteen-minute Sunday morning warm-up session took part on a wet track, with Rob Huff fastest.

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.

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.

Results

Qualifying Name Team Car Q1 Q2 1 2 Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2:09.471 2:09.308 2 11 Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 2:09.601 2:09.395 3 1 Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2:09.361 2:09.493 4 6 Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 2:09.676 2:09.563 5 12 Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 2:09.856 2:09.670 6 5 Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2:09.892 2:09.679 7 8 Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 2:09.928 2:09.786 8 14 Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 2:09.797 2:09.859 9 3 Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2:09.967 2:10.089 10 4 Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2:09.910 2:10.448 11 9 Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 2:10.430 12 7 Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 2:10.576 13 21 Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2:11.330 14 27 Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 2:11.505 15 23 Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 2:11.887 16 30 Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2:11.964 17 10 Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 2:12.007 18 18 Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 2:12.058 19 25 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 2:12.146 20 26 Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 2:13.271 21 22 Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2:13.696 22 19 Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 2:13.831 23 35 Diego Puyo SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2:13.976

Race 1 Name Team Car Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 2 Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 1:04:11.274 1 10 2 11 Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 12 +2.934 2 8 3 1 Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +7.848 3 6 4 5 Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +8.472 6 5 5 14 Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 12 +15.790 8 4 6 4 Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +16.192 10 3 7 3 Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 12 +16.640 9 2 8 8 Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 12 +16.975 7 1 9 6 Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 12 +17.791 4 10 27 Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 12 +18.216 14 11 7 Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 12 +19.149 12 12 9 Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 12 +19.442 11 13 21 Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +33.010 13 14 23 Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 12 +42.995 15 15 22 Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +54.702 21 16 35 Diego Puyo SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 12 +54.931 23 17 26 Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 12 +55.277 20 18 36 James Thompson LADA Sport Lada Priora 12 +55.742 24 19 19 Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 12 +1:11.955 22 20 25 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 11 +1 Lap 19 Ret 12 Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 4 Race incident 5 Ret 18 Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 2 Race incident 18 Ret 10 Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 0 Race incident 17 DSQ 30 Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 0 Disqualified 16 Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Race 2 Name Team Car Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 8 Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 13 47:48.304 1 10 2 1 Yvan Muller SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +2.295 6 8 3 3 Rickard Rydell SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +2.810 2 6 4 4 Jordi Gené SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +3.385 3 5 5 5 Tiago Monteiro SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 13 +3.970 5 4 6 11 Robert Huff Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 13 +4.219 7 3 7 6 Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK BMW 320si 13 +4.583 9 2 8 7 Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany BMW 320si 13 +5.064 11 1 9 27 Stefano D'Aste Wiechers-Sport BMW 320siY 13 +6.428 10 10 9 Alessandro Zanardi BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 13 +7.584 12 11 25 Franz Engstler Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +9.201 18 12 21 Tom Coronel SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 13 +13.290 13 13 23 Félix Porteiro Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320siY 13 +15.272 14 14 35 Diego Puyo SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 13 +17.706 15 15 36 James Thompson LADA Sport Lada Priora 13 +22.964 17 16 26 Kristian Poulsen Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320siY 13 +53.730 16 17 19 Kirill Ladygin LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 12 +1 Lap 23 18 12 Alain Menu Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 9 +4 Laps 20 Ret 14 Nicola Larini Chevrolet Chevrolet Cruze LT 5 +23.139 4 Ret 2 Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport SEAT León 2.0 TDI 2 +5.426 8 Ret 30 Mehdi Bennani Exagon Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2 +43.550 21 Ret 22 Tom Boardman SUNRED Engineering SEAT León 2.0 TFSIY 2 +34.859 22 DNS 18 Jaap van Lagen LADA Sport LADA 110 2.0 0 Did not start – DNS 10 Sergio Hernández BMW Team Italy-Spain BMW 320si 0 Did not start 19 Bold denotes Fastest lap.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Driver Points 1 Yvan Muller 80 2 Gabriele Tarquini 66 3 Augusto Farfus 65 1 4 Rickard Rydell 46 2 5 Robert Huff 43

Independents' Trophy standings Pos Driver Points 1 Félix Porteiro 135 2 Tom Coronel 113 3 Franz Engstler 100 4 Stefano D'Aste 72 5 Tom Boardman 38

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points 1 SEAT 191 2 BMW 174 3 Chevrolet 121 4 Lada 53

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

References

External links Results Booklet PDF at MST Systems