The two races were won by Yvan Muller of Chevrolet RML and Andy Priaulx of BMW Team RBM.

[2] British Touring Car Championship regular Tom Boardman returned to the WTCC in a SUNRED Engineering run SEAT León TFSI.

[3] Volvo Olsbergs Green Racing joined the grid for the first of two events with their Scandinavian Touring Car Cup driver Robert Dahlgren.

[4] Robert Huff topped the opening practice session of his home event on Saturday morning, the Chevrolet driver beating the BMW pairing of Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus.

Colin Turkington was seventh in his eBay Motors run BMW, Boardman was thirteenth in his SUNRED SEAT and Harry Vaulkhard was the slowest of the local drivers, 22nd in his bamboo-engineering Chevrolet Lacetti.

The session was interrupted when Michel Nykjær beached his car in the gravel trap at Paddock Hill bend.

At the same time, Priaulx and teammate Farfus moved up to ninth and tenth past Fredy Barth, before passing eighth placed Norbert Michelisz.

Nearer the front, Menu was defending hard from Turkington, allowing Muller and Huff to escape ahead.

On lap three, Priaulx passed Farfus for the lead at Druids, with Menu attempting to follow him past the Brazilian.