Chevrolet wins again before Hungarian crowd

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Chevrolet collected two more victories in Budapest. This means the team has won an impressive seven out of the eight races held so far.

Alain Menu and Yvan Muller took first places in the races – the first of the season for Menu, the 2010 champion.

But Rob Huff was probably the happiest of the Chevrolet team as he took fourth and second place respectively – allowing him to salvage his place on the leadership scoreboard, shaken by a disappointing qualifier.

A massive crowd gathered at the first ever Hungarian WTCC race, with the majority cheering enthusiastically for national, Norbert Michelisz, who finished the race in a respectable seventh place. Official figures put the crowd at 75,000 over the weekend.

More than 60,000 spectators held their breath on the Sunday as the heavy rain resulted in the second race being red flagged. After the engineers changed to rain tyres - to cope with the deluge and changes to the surface of the racetrack - the cars restarted the race behind TRW’s Safety Car.

So, with Huff leading the championship with 150 points and a clear 31 points ahead of Yvan Muller and 46 points ahead of Alain Menu – with eight races still remaining of the 2011 WTTC, the victors name is still in the lap of the Gods, but it’s certainly looking promising for TRW’s favourite team – Chevrolet.

The track

Name:	Hungaroring
Location:	Magyorod, near Budapest, Hungary
Time zone:	GMT+1
Length:	4.381 km (2.722m)
Turns:	16
Fact:	Home to the Hungarian Grand prix since 1986

The team: Chevrolet

The Cruze cars were launched in 2009, earning six race wins during their first race season and driving the Chevrolet team to win both the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ titles in 2010
The three Chevrolet Cruze factory cars are built and run by Ray Mallock’s RML, one of the most experienced and successful teams in Touring Car Racing
Trio of drivers: Yvan Muller joined the team in 2010 and won the championship; Alain Menu is a Touring Car legend with two BTCC titles and 12 race wins in WTCC and Rob Huff, the youngest, is considered the favourite for the 2011 title thanks to finishing third in the Drivers’ League in 2008 and 2010.