| Round details | |||
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| Round 4 of 11 in the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season at Zolder in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. | |||
| Date | June 20, 2010 | ||
| Location | Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | ||
| Course | Zolder 4.006 km |
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| Race One | |||
| Laps | 13 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Gabriele Tarquini | SR-Sport | |
| Time | 1:38.265 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Gabriele Tarquini | SR-Sport | |
| Second | Yvan Muller | Chevrolet | |
| Third | Alain Menu | Chevrolet | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver | Andy Priaulx | BMW Team RBM | |
| Time | 1:40.138 | ||
| Race Two | |||
| Laps | 13 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Andy Priaulx | BMW Team RBM | |
| Second | Rob Huff | Chevrolet | |
| Third | Tiago Monteiro | SR-Sport | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver | Andy Priaulx | BMW Team RBM | |
| Time | 1:40.181 | ||
The 2010 FIA WTCC Monroe Race of Belgium was the fourth round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season. It was held at Circuit Zolder, near Heusden-Zolder, Belgium on June 20, 2010. The race saw the return of the Race of Belgium to the championship, after it was held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the 2005 season.
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Alain Menu was fastest in Q1 for Chevrolet, ahead of SR-Sport's Tiago Monteiro and Gabriele Tarquini. The most notable casualty from the session was Tom Coronel, who was 11th fastest.
In the ten minute Q2 session, eight of the ten competing cars set their first flying laptimes before rain began to fall over the circuit. Tarquini was fastest ahead of teammate Jordi Gené, Chevrolet teammates Menu and Yvan Muller and the SEATs of Norbert Michelisz, Fredy Barth and Monteiro. The BMW Team RBM pairing of Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus did not set times until after the rain arrived, meaning they could only set the ninth and tenth fastest times.[1]
At the start of Race One, polesitter Gabriele Tarquini was passed by SR-Sport teammate Jordi Gené. However, the Spaniard's start was put under investigation, as tt appeared that Gené was ahead of Tarquini as the pair crossed the line for the rolling start. Further behind, contact behind Darryl O'Young and Michel Nykjær put O'Young in the gravel, but he managed to rejoin the back of the pack. As the leaders remained in order, Kristian Poulsen passed Pierre-Yves Corthals for the Independents lead and 12th place overall. Having dropped back to tenth place early on, Andy Priaulx passed Tom Coronel for eighth place and pole position for the reverse grid second race. Gené meanwhile took the victory ahead of Tarquini, Yvan Muller, Alain Menu and Tiago Monteiro.[2]
After the second race of the day, Gené was disqualified for a technical infringement, handing the victory to Tarquini.[3]
Polesitter Priaulx made a good start to Race Two. Fellow front-row starter Norbert Michelisz made a slow getaway, dropping him to eighth. Coronel also made a slow start from ninth place. Priaulx, Rob Huff, Monteiro, Menu and Muller followed each other around until the end of the race. Augusto Farfus attempted to pass Tarquini for sixth around the outside of Turn 1, but ran wide and dropped back to eighth behind Michelisz. Sergio Hernández took the Independents victory in ninth position ahead of Coronel.[4]
| World Touring Car Championship | ||
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| Previous race: 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Italy |
2010 World Touring Car Championship season | Next race: 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Portugal |
| Previous race: 2005 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium |
FIA WTCC Race of Belgium | Next race: 2011 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium |