The Czech round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship was the changeover point from the middle to final phase of the series. The venue, Automotordrom Brno, has traditionally been a happy hunting grounds for BMW since the ETCC (European Touring Car Championship) era and the German manufacturer actually won six out of eight races since the inception of WTCC.

However, on Saturday, the fastest driver in the qualifying session was Rob Huff in a Chevrolet Cruze and Gabriele Tarquini, who was in second in the championship standings, followed in his SEAT Leon TDi. Colin Turkington was the leading BMW driver of the day but only third fastest. Due to a regulation change after the previous round, he was now considered as a driver of a manufacturer's car and not eligible for YOKOHAMA Independent Trophy.

Races on Sunday were favored by a bright blue sky. The track layout of Brno is a challenging combination of high speed and technical sections and, especially, front-wheel drive cars can have a hard time as their front tires would be burdened with heavier loads.

At the rolling start for Race 1, the pole sitting Chevrolet driver kept his position and went through Turn 1 to lead the race. But, at Turn 5 on the opening lap, a four car pileup happened and the Safety Car was required while the marshals were clearing up the halted cars.

Huff and Tarquini maintained their leading positions at the restart, the Briton's Chevrolet first and the Italian's SEAT in second. Behind them, however, another incident took place, triggered by Norbert Michelisz's overtaking attempt, as the Hungarian's SEAT lost control during his move and hit the cars of Yvan Muller and Turkington. The championship leader's Chevrolet had a heavy damage on its suspension and was forced to retire.

Turkington was able to continue with a damaged front bumper but Michelisz ended his race in a gravel bed and was penalized later for his dangerous maneuver.

Huff wasn't affected by these incidents at all and never threatened his lead position, although Tarquini pushed him a little in the second half of the race. This was the Briton's first victory of the season and the second one in Brno since he scored his maiden WTCC win here in 2006. Tarquini finished in second, followed by a Huff's teammate, Alan Menu. This meant that the podium for Race 1 was dominated by the drivers of front-wheel drive cars, which was a proof of ADVAN racing tires' superb performance even under the tough conditions for such kind of cars as previously mentioned.

In the YOKOHAMA Independent Trophy class, Darryl O'Young in a Chevrolet Lacetti finished first but he was given a 30 second time penalty after the race for causing a collision during Race 1. Consequently, the win was handed to Kristian Poulsen in a BMW 320si. This was his second victory of the season since Race 1 in Zolder.

The reversed grids for Race 2 which were decided by the result of first race became quite an interesting one. Two rookie independent drivers sat on the front row, O'Young on the pole position and Michel Mykjaer in a SEAT in second. And the rising star Turkington was assigned to the third grid.

At the standing start for Race 2, Turkington and Andy Priaulx who was on the fourth grid made very good starts when the red signals went out. The BMW pair leaped into the leading positions by negotiating a narrow space between the two cars on the front row before entering into Turn 1.

On Lap 2, Priaulx made a move at Turn 3 and overtook the early leader at the next corner. After that, Turkington was momentarily passed by Tarquini, who had come up from the seventh grid start, at Turn 1 on the fourth lap. But the Italian ran wide on the exit of the corner and had to settle for the fourth place instead of the second which he tried to get, as Alan Menu took advantage of his mistake.

Meanwhile, Priaulx comfortably built a two second gap with Turkington when the race reached the midway point and neither the pursuing BMW driver nor now third placed Menu were able to cut the gap.

On the other hand, the battle for fifth was getting hotter. The winner of Race 1, Huff, was in fifth and August Farfus was pushing him hard from behind. The Brazilian made an unsuccessful attempt to overtake the Chevrolet driver on Lap 8 and then tried it again on the final lap. Farfus ran down the pit straight side-by-side with Huff and took the inside for the first right hander, Turn 1. The BMW driver once managed to get ahead of his opponent but Huff didn't give up easily. The Briton now kept the inside line for the next left hander and regained the fifth place where he remained until the finish.

The championship leader, Muller, finished in lowly 12th after starting from 19th grid, as he retired in Race 1, which meant the Frenchman didn't get any point from the two races of the day. This could be a heaven-sent opportunity for Tarquini who was in second in the point standings. However, while running in fourth in Race 2, his Leon TDi's fuel injection system failed on Lap 9 and he had to park the car on the track. As a result, the Italian also got no point from the second race of the day and Muller narrowly kept his leading position in the championship.

Eventually, Priaulx won the second race and Turkington made it BMW's 1-2 by finishing in second. This was the second victory at Brno for the man from Guernsey since 2004, the year he won the ETCC title, and, therefore, the first one in WTCC. On top of this, this was the 50th win for the German manufacturer, beginning from the victory by Dirk Muller in the season opener of 2005, the inaugural year of WTCC.

YOKOHAMA Independent Trophy was won by O'Young who lost the first place finish in Race 1 by a penalty. While he was taken away his illusory double, but the man from Hong Kong clearly showed his ability to win races.