By alley - Apr 24, 2016, 1:01 PM ET

WTCC: Lopez leads home Citroen 1-2

Jose Maria Lopez took his third main race World Touring Car Championship win of the season at a soaking Hungaroring, ahead of Citroen team-mate Yvan Muller.

Citroen's victory made amends for a strange tire call in Race 1 to record the team's first 1-2 finish of the season, although that was threatened by Rob Huff, who had split the pair before receiving a contentious drive-through penalty.

Lopez led off the line, with Muller and Race 1 winner Mehdi Bennani storming through the order from their lower top-10 starting positions.

Huff just got the better of Muller through the first two corners and slotted into second, but with Lopez escaping Muller continued to hound Huff, with the Briton succumbing to his rival at Turn 5 just before the deployment of the safety car to recover Gregoire Demoustier's stricken Sebastien Loeb Racing Citroen C-Elysee.

Lopez had built an advantage of more than three seconds before the safety car, but he had no such comfort on the race restart as Muller and Huff – who this time was able to stick with the Citroens – stalked him.

The trio started Lap 10 in close formation, but with Muller refusing a look at his team-mate at Turn 1, Huff decided to make his move and looked up the inside of Muller into Turn 2, only for the Frenchman to move across the front of Huff's Civic.

With Huff already committed to the corner, the pair made contact that was sufficient enough for Muller to edge wide, handing Huff second.

The Briton then closed back up to the rear of Lopez – only to be handed a drive-through penalty as a result of the move, ending his hopes of victory.

Muller looked for a lap or two as though he might be able to challenge Lopez from there, only for the latter to stretch his advantage in the final laps, eventually winning by 2.821 seconds.

Tiago Monteiro finished third for Honda, having rebuffed the advance of Polestar's Thed Bjork who was fourth.

Tom Chilton followed up his second place in race one with a WTCC Trophy win in fifth, while Huff recovered to sixth in a wild final lap.

The Briton had started it in eighth, having just passed Bennani – himself having been hit with a drive-through – and made his way past Tom Coronel and team-mate Norbert Michelisz, who had fought his way into sixth only to suffer a problem with his left-rear wheel on the final lap.

Coronel had two attempts to pass Michelisz - the first sending him into a half spin - and was able to claim eighth ahead of Bennani, with Michelisz dropping to 10th on the run to the line after Hugo Valente was able to out-drag the Hungarian off the final corner.

RESULT

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Gap
1	Jose Maria Lopez	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	17	38m37.180s
2	Yvan Muller	Citroen Total WTCC	Citroen	17	2.821s
3	Tiago Monteiro	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	17	14.981s
4	Thed Bjork	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	17	18.026s
5	Tom Chilton	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	17	19.834s
6	Rob Huff	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	17	24.535s
7	Tom Coronel	ROAL Motorsport	Chevrolet	17	26.979s
8	Mehdi Bennani	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	17	27.898s
9	Hugo Valente	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	17	36.557s
10	Norbert Michelisz	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda	17	36.867s
11	Fredrik Ekblom	Polestar Cyan Racing	Volvo	17	42.681s
12	John Filippi	Campos Racing	Chevrolet	17	50.959s
13	Nicky Catsburg	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	17	58.529s
14	Ferenc Ficza	Zengo Motorsport	Honda	17	1m13.924s
15	Rene Munnich	All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport	Chevrolet	15	2 Laps
-	Gabriele Tarquini	LADA Sport Rosneft	Lada	5	Not started
-	Gregoire Demoustier	Sebastien Loeb Racing	Citroen	2	Not started