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.

Sunday’s victory is the fourth in Mr. Michelisz’s career, who finished in eighth position at the previous race. The victory, which is his second at Hungaroring, was achieved by the Hungarian driver with an enormous, ten-second lead over the runner-up. Sunday’s race is also the first this year which was not won by a Citroen.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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