Menu keeps Chevrolet on top in the second WTCC practice session at Monza

Gabriele Tarquini's new 1.6 turbo engine in his Lukoil Racing SEAT continued to show promise. The Italian repeated his second position from the opening practice session on Saturday morning, but was 0.6s adrift of Menu's effort.

Menu's Chevrolet team-mate and free practice one pacesetter Rob Huff took third spot, just 0.005 seconds shy of Tarquini's leading Leon.

Spaniard Pepe Oriola banked a late lap in his SUNRED SEAT to jump into fifth as the chequered flag was shown.

World champion Yvan Muller (Chevrolet) was fifth, ahead of Tarquini's Lunkoil team-mate Aleksei Dudukalo.

The majority of the fastest laps were recorded early in the session, although Oriola and WTCC debutant Alex MacDowall, who ended the morning seventh fastest in his bamboo-engineering Cruze, succeeded in making late improvements.

The oil that caused dramas in the first free practice session did not appear to create any further issues, although reigning Italian Superstars champion Alberto Cerqui had an early moment bouncing across the gravel at the Ascari chicane in his ROAL Motorsport BMW 320 TC.

Free Practice 2 - Results:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car           Time       Gap
 1.  Alain Menu           Chevrolet         1m58.645s
 2.  Gabriele Tarquini    SUNRED SEAT       1m59.207s  + 0.562s
 3.  Rob Huff             Chevrolet         1m59.212s  + 0.567s
 4.  Pepe Oriola          SUNRED SEAT       1m59.303s  + 0.658s
 5.  Yvan Muller          Chevrolet         1m59.311s  + 0.666s
 6.  Aleksei Dudukalo     SUNRED SEAT       1m59.675s  + 1.030s
 7.  Alex MacDowall       Bamboo Chevrolet  1m59.769s  + 1.124s
 8.  Alberto Cerqui       ROAL BMW          1m59.789s  + 1.144s
 9.  Norbert Michelisz    Zengo BMW         1m59.850s  + 1.205s
10.  Tom Coronel          ROAL BMW          1m59.882s  + 1.237s
11.  James Nash           Arena Ford        1m59.921s  + 1.276s
12.  Gabor Weber          Zengo BMW         2m00.029s  + 1.384s
13.  Rickard Rydell       Chevrolet Sweden  2m00.072s  + 1.427s
14.  Tiago Monteiro       SUNRED SEAT       2m00.297s  + 1.652s
15.  Franz Engstler       Engstler BMW      2m00.430s  + 1.785s
16.  Stefano D'Aste       Wiechers BMW      2m00.459s  + 1.814s
17.  Darryl O'Young       Bamboo Chevrolet  2m00.762s  + 2.117s
18.  Pasquale Di Sabatino Bamboo Chevrolet  2m00.808s  + 2.163s
19.  Tom Chilton          Arena Ford        2m00.969s  + 2.324s
20.  Charles Ng           Engstler BMW      2m01.259s  + 2.614s
21.  Mehdi Bennani        Proteam BMW       2m01.333s  + 2.688s
22.  Isaac Tutumlu        Proteam BMW       2m01.654s  + 3.009s
23.  Andrea Barlesi       SUNRED SEAT       2m02.690s  + 4.045s