By alley - Apr 23, 2016, 7:31 AM ET

WTCC: Tarquini and Bjork top practice

Thed Bjork denied Lada's Gabriele Tarquini a clean sweep of World Touring Car Championship sessions at the Hungaroring with the fastest time in second practice in his Volvo S60 Polestar.

Polestar's Bjork, who was disqualified from both of last weekend's Slovakia Ring races for an air restrictor fault, had an early lap chalked off for exceeding track limits but recorded the fastest run of the weekend so far on the resurfaced circuit midway through the second half-hour session with a 1m47.525s lap.

Tarquini led the way in the opening session following a late improvement in his Vesta, ahead of Fredrik Ekblom and Norbert Michelisz. But despite another late improvement, Tarquini fell 0.074 seconds short of Bjork's time in the second session, although he did prevent a Polestar 1-2 after displacing Ekblom from second.

Tom Chilton was the best-placed of the Citroens in fourth, lapping just 0.009s slower than Ekblom in his Sebastien Loeb Racing C-Elysee, ahead of home crowd favourite Michelisz, who had topped Friday's testing session. Tom Coronel was sixth, while Jose Maria Lopez - who finished the second session seventh quickest - had been on course to challenge Bjork and Tarquini before pitting on his final lap. Tiago Monteiro, Yvan Muller and Mehdi Bennani completed the top 10 in the second session.

While the first session featured a number of time deletions for track limit violations, only Bjork, Nicky Catsburg and Rene Munnich had laps disallowed in the second session.

PRACTICE ONE TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Gabriele Tarquini	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1m47.929s	12
2	Fredrik Ekblom	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	0.108s	13
3	Norbert Michelisz	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.253s	10
4	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.309s	12
5	Nicky Catsburg	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	0.507s	13
6	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	0.648s	9
7	Rob Huff	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.765s	11
8	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	0.805s	11
9	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	0.846s	15
10	Thed Bjork	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	0.904s	11
11	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	0.908s	12
12	Tom Chilton	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	1.011s	11
13	Hugo Valente	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	1.299s	12
14	Rene Munnich	All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.655s	13
15	Gregoire Demoustier	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	2.395s	11
16	Ferenc Ficza	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	2.858s	12
17	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	-	4

PRACTICE TWO TIMES

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Thed Bjork	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	1m47.525s	12
2	Gabriele Tarquini	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	0.074s	13
3	Fredrik Ekblom	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	0.213s	12
4	Tom Chilton	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	0.222s	12
5	Norbert Michelisz	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.348s	13
6	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	0.370s	13
7	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	0.427s	9
8	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.441s	13
9	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	0.464s	11
10	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	0.504s	12
11	Rob Huff	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	0.665s	10
12	Nicky Catsburg	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	0.772s	11
13	Gregoire Demoustier	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	0.887s	12
14	Hugo Valente	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	0.926s	12
15	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	1.369s	6
16	Rene Munnich	All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	2.337s	13
17	Ferenc Ficza	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	2.599s	13