Mehdi Bennani won the main race at the Hungaroring

Pilot Sebastien Loeb Racing’s Mehdi Bennani celebrated the victory in the main race of the WTCC stage of season 2017 at the Hungaroring.

The winner of the pole position, Rob Huff took a bad start, behind Bennani himself and two pilots Volvo Nika Katsburga and Nestor Girolami.

And in the internal radius of the second turn of Huff took a bold maneuver against the Katsburg: between the pilots was a contact, and Nick coasting Nick touched Girolami, who was on an external trajectory. This led to the breakage of the suspension on the Volvo is Argentine, and the perpetrator of the collision, the stewards acknowledged Huff and ordered him to drive through the pit lane as punishment.

After the marshals evacuated the car Girolami, the race resumed. In the fifth rotation, Huff overtook Bennani and at the end of this round went to the travel on the pit lane. The penalty threw Rob in 15th place.

Meanwhile, Bennani was under severe pressure Katsburga, but the Dutchman never managed to get Copper. At the finish of the Moroccan brought the opponents 0.6 seconds, and the podium was complemented by another racer Sebastien Loeb Racing Tom Chilton.

The British, checkered flag saw two Honda pilot Norbert Michelis and Tiago Monteiro, and the sixth was Esteban, Gurrieri.

Thed björk finished the race seventh, and eighth place was satisfied with the representative RC Motorsport Yann Erlacher, acting on the Lada Vesta. WTCC veteran Tom Coronel was ninth, and the points zone was rounded out Huff.

In the standings Monteiro is now ahead of closest pursuer Katsburga on 38 points.

The next stage of the season-2017 will be held in two weeks at the legendary track nürburgring Nordschleife.

POS.	Pilot	Team	Time/RET.
1.	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	33.21,822
2.	Nick Katsburg	Cyan Polestar Racing	+0,654
3.	Tom Chilton	Sebastien Loeb Racing	+3,553
4.	Norbert Michelis	Honda Racing Team JAS	+7,309
5.	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	+9,532
6.	Esteban, Guerrieri	Campos Racing	+10,875
7.	Ted Björk	Cyan Polestar Racing	+11,865
8.	Yann Erlacher	RC Motorsport	+14,547
9.	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	+20,783
10.	Rob Huff	All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport	+21,212
11.	John Philip	Sebastien Loeb Racing	+28,110
12.	Kevin Gleason	RC Motorsport	+31,760
13.	Rio Michigami	Honda Racing Team JAS	+36,852
14.	Aurelien Panis	Zengo Motorsport	+51,021
Not classified:
	Daniel Nagy	Zengo Motorsport	11 laps
	Nestor Girolami	Cyan Polestar Racing	0 laps

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