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WTCC - Sonoma United States - Race 2 – Huff claims a crucial victory

Muller remained scoreless following a drive through penalty that was imposed by the Stewards after he had pushed Franz Engstler into a spin while stealing the lead from him.

Despite Muller's penalty, Huff had not an easy life in the second half of the race, as Norbert Michelisz and Gabriele Tarquini were chasing him closely. Eventually the classified second and third and the young Hungarian encored his Race 1 victory in the Yokohama Trophy. 

Key moments
Start - D'Aste takes the lead from Bennani, Engstler and Michelisz
Lap 1 - Muller overtakes Monteiro for fifth at Turn 2; Huff overtakes Monteiro for sixth at Turn 6
Lap 1 - D'Aste spins off from the lead; Bennani is the new leader
Lap 1 - Menu and Huff overtake Michelisz moving up to third and fourth
Lap 1 - Tarquini overtakes MacDowall for seventh
Lap 2 - Coronel and Menu overtake Cerqui, who drops to 11^th; Monje crashes at Turn 5
Lap 3 - Tarquini overtakes Monteiro for sixth
Lap 4 - Bennani spins off from the lead; Engstler is the new leader
Lap 5 - Muller hits Engstler at Turn 6; Engstler spins and Muller takes the lead
Lap 6 - the safety car takes the track while the marshals tow  Bennani's car to a safe position
Lap 8 - the race resumes
Lap 8 - Coronel overtakes Boardman for eighth; Menu overtakes Monteiro for fifth
Lap 9 - Muller is given a drive through for the incident with Engstler; Huff leads
Lap 10 - Michelisz chases Huff for the lead
Lap 11 - Oriola and Ng make contact while fighting for 11^th position
Lap 15 - Mg is given a black flag for not respecting a black-and-orange flag

Withdrawals
M. Bennani: race incident; F. Monje: race incident

Standings:

Drivers' Championship

• 1. Yvan MULLER 315 pt.
• 2. Rob HUFF 315 pt.
• 3. Alain MENU 267 pt.
• 4. Gabriele TARQUINI 193 pt.
• 5. Tom CORONEL 164 pt.
• 6. Norbert MICHELISZ 152 pt.
• 7. Pepe ORIOLA 107 pt.
• 8. Stefano D'ASTE 88 pt.
• 9. Tiago MONTEIRO 63 pt.
• 10. Alex MACDOWALL 52 pt.

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Manufacturers' Championship

• 1. Chevrolet 761 pt.
• 2. BMW Customer Racing Teams 486 pt.
• 3. SEAT Customer Technology 472 pt.

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Yokohama Drivers' Trophy

• 1. Norbert MICHELISZ 134 pt.
• 2. Pepe ORIOLA 109 pt.
• 3. Stefano D'ASTE 85 pt.

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Yokohama Teams' Trophy

• 1. ROAL Motorsport 136 pt.
• 2. Tuenti Racing Team 123 pt.
• 3. Lukoil Racing Team 116 pt.

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