[1] Diego Puyo made his series debut for SUNRED Engineering, after scoring more points than any other driver in the SEAT Leon Eurocup round at Brno.

Testing took place on Friday afternoon, with Augusto Farfus quickest in the half-hour session for BMW Team Germany.

[4] The fifteen-minute Sunday morning warm-up session took part on a wet track, with Rob Huff fastest.

On the last lap, Andy Priaulx, running in fourth, and Jorg Muller, running seventh, slowed to allow BWW teammate Farfus (who had served a drive-through-penalty for the first lap incident with Menu) past them to allow him to finish eighth, securing one championship point and pole position for the second race.

The unusually large gap in time between the two races was to allow for TV broadcaster Eurosport to cover the Tour de France.

Gabriele Tarquini tried to make a late move down the inside of Larini to follow Huff past but the two Italian veterans collided and both ended up in the tyre wall on the exit of the turn.

As the field went on by, Mehdi Bennani ran wide and as he picked his way through the middle of the two stranded cars he rejoined the racing line in the path of fellow SEAT driver Tom Boardman.