Alain Menu led a Chevrolet one-two-three in the half-hour World Touring Car Championship test at Curitiba on Friday.
The Swiss racer produced a time of 1m22.743s in the final minute to edge out long-time pacesetter Rob Huff by 0.173 seconds.
Reigning world champion Yvan Muller was a close third, 0.027s behind the Briton.
The performance indicated that despite Chevrolet recently announcing its factory withdrawal from the WTCC at the end of the season, the RML-prepared cars are unlikely to suffer any drop-off in form.
Lukoil SEAT driver Gabriele Tarquini was top non-Chevrolet runner in fourth. The Italian, who confirmed his switch to the factory Honda WTCC team for 2013 this week, was over a second adrift of Menu.
The Bamboo Chevrolet Cruzes had an encouraging showing to round out the top six. WTCC rookie Alex MacDowall claimed fifth spot ahead of new team-mate, Swedish series frontrunner and WTCC returnee, Michel Nykjaer.
Dane Nykjaer is substituting for Bamboo’s regular driver Pasquale di Sabatino, who the team reported is recovering from bronchitis and pneumonia.
Tom Coronel took top BMW honours for ROAL Motorsport in seventh, ahead of Salzburging reversed-grid winner Stefano D’Aste.
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/other-news/touring-cars/wtcc/menu-heads-chevy-sweep-at-curitiba
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