Rob Huff continued his dominance of the World Touring Car Championship’s official pre-season test at Monza, topping Wednesday afternoon’s session with a time six tenths faster than Tom Coronel.
Huff’s afternoon lap was just over a tenth slower than he had been in the morning session, but it was enough to keep him comfortably clear at the top of the timesheets for the fourth time in a row.
It bodes an ominous sign for his WTCC rivals, as the official test was just the second time the Brit had got behind the wheel of his new Münnich Motorsport Citroën C-Elysée after an earlier test in Spain in February.
ROAL Motorsport’s Tom Coronel was second, whilst the Sébastien Loeb Racing Citroën of Tom Chilton was third fastest, seven tenths off the pace.
Tiago Monteiro put Honda closer to the pace than they had been throughout the two-day test, with his Civic ending the session in fourth, 0.909 seconds behind Huff.
Norbert Michelisz was just a fraction slower than his Honda team-mate in fifth, a further 0.082 seconds back.
The second Sébastien Loeb Racing car of Mehdi Bennani was sixth, just over a second off the pace, whilst Honda’s Ryo Michigami was seventh.
Neither of Polestar Cyan Racing’s Néstor Girolami nor Yvan Muller were running transponders in their Volvo S60 cars once again, so their times could not be reported.
Session results
| POS | NO | CL | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | 12 | T | Rob HUFF |  |
LADA Sport RosneftALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 29 | 1:52.600 | 0.000 |
| 2 | 9 | T | Tom CORONEL |  |
ROAL Motorsport | Chevrolet RML Cruze TC1 | 28 | 1:53.225 | 0.625 |
| 3 | 3 | T | Tom CHILTON | |
Sébastien Loeb Racing | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 52 | 1:53.340 | 0.740 |
| 4 | 18 | Tiago MONTEIRO |  |
Honda Racing Team JAS | Honda Civic WTCC | 25 | 1:53.509 | 0.909 | |
| 5 | 5 | Norbert MICHELISZ |  |
Honda Racing Team JAS | Honda Civic WTCC | 16 | 1:53.591 | 0.991 | |
| 6 | 25 | T | Mehdi BENNANI |  |
Sébastien Loeb Racing | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 41 | 1:53.789 | 1.189 |
| 7 | 34 | Ryo MICHIGAMI |  |
Honda Racing Team JAS | Honda Civic WTCC | 48 | 1:54.522 | 1.922 | |
| 8 | 62 | Thed BJÖRK |  |
Polestar Cyan Racing | Volvo S60 WTCC | 32 | 1:54.800 | 2.200 | |
| 9 | 27 | T | John FILIPPI |  |
Sébastien Loeb Racing | Citroën C-Elysée WTCC | 40 | 1:54.805 | 2.205 |
| 10 | 61 | Néstor GIROLAMI |  |
Polestar Cyan Racing | Volvo S60 WTCC | 0 | No time | N/A | |
| 11 | 63 | Yvan MULLER | |
Polestar Cyan Racing | Volvo S60 WTCC | 0 | No time | N/A |