Aleksei Dudukalo became the final SEAT driver to switch to the new 1.6 turbo engine in his Lukoil-SUNRED car.

[1] Regular Scandinavian Touring Car Championship driver Colin Turkington joined Wiechers-Sport in place of Stefano D'Aste who was not available for the British round.

[3] Muller topped the Friday test session with Robert Dahlgren's Volvo second and Alain Menu third in his Chevrolet.

[5] The track continued to dry out as free practice two took place in the afternoon, Huff was quickest once again with Gabriele Tarquini second and Muller third.

Turkington only emerged from his garage towards the end of the session before setting the nineteenth best time while Fabiani was unable to take part due to differential problems.

2009 champion Tarquini failed to get through to Q2 and lined up eleventh for both races while Michelisz and Dahlgren would start near the back of the field after setting poor times.

Darryl O'Young for bamboo-engineering, Engstler, Coronel, Villa and Nykjær rounded out the top ten.

[7] Dahlgren was quickest in Sunday morning's warm–up session ahead of Tarquini, Turkington and pole sitter Muller.

Dahlgren and Michelisz had been on the move up through the field from the back of the grid but their progress was halted when they caught up with the train of cars.

Turkington had climbed back up to ninth place before the end of the race having forced Fredy Barth and Mehdi Bennani off the road to do so, O'Young completed the top ten.

Muller claimed the win ahead of Huff and Engstler who scored his first podium result and was also the independent victor again.