[1] Hong Kong racer Philip Ma joined Proteam as Fabiani's replacement for the final two rounds.

The red flags came out towards the end of the session as Javier Villa had beached his Proteam BMW in the gravel at turn four.

[3] Chevrolet driver Robert Huff was quickest in the first free practice session on Saturday morning, overtaking early pacesetter Tom Coronel at the top of the times at the midway point.

This was unfortunate for those drivers which were running a wet set–up, Polestar Racing's Dahlgren finished the first element of qualifying 13th.

Huff finished the first session in tenth place to secure the pole position for race two where he would share the front row with Tarquini.

SUNRED got four cars through to Q2 after a poor showing in testing and practice, Tarquini was their best placed driver in fifth while Tiago Monteiro, Pepe Oriola and Barth where eighth, ninth and tenth.

[6] Proteam Racing's Mehdi Bennani set the pace in Sunday morning's warm–up session while pole–sitter Menu was fifth.

Tarquini was now leading a train of cars stuck behind the SEAT, in the middle of the group Turkington took fifth place from Menu.

By lap twenty the group of cars stuck behind Tarquini extended all the way down to Franz Engstler in eighth place.