Since it had entered the European leg, the 2011 World Touring Car Championship has had events almost every other week. The venue of the championship's ninth and tenth races was Automotodrom Brno in Czech Republic. The circuit has been one of the regular fixtures of WTCC since 2006, the year ADVAN was appointed as the championship's sole tire supplier.

The Chevrolet has been dominant so far this year and the top three slots in the drivers' championship point standings are taken up by the Chevrolet drivers at the moment. If the American manufacturer was able to conquer this track and still be faster than its opponents, it would mean they were almost invincible regardless of the characteristics of the race tracks. So much attention was focused on how they would perform here.

Though it was overcast at Brno on Sunday, the weather was quite comfortable with the air temperature staying at 19 degree centigrade during the two races.

Heading to the rolling start for Race 1, the 19 car field was led by two Chevrolet Cruzes in the now-familiar bright blue livery and they came out of the final corner in double file. When the red signals blacked out, Robert Huff who was on the second grid placed his car on the outside line, while the pole sitter, Yvan Muller, kept inside to approach the first corner. After going through Turn 1 and 2 which are a long right-hander and a gentle left-hander respectively, however, Huff held the inside line for the third left-hand corner following to a short straightaway and managed to get ahead of his teammate.

The top two quickly pulled away from the rest and it was obvious that the race was a duel between them from the early stage. In the second half of the ten lap race, by the end of Lap 6, Muller in second already had a huge seven second gap with Tom Coronel running in third.

Thus, Huff and Muller were never bothered by anyone until the checkered flag fell and the Briton scored his fifth victory of 2011, followed by his French teammate.

But the fight for the third place became more intense in the closing stage of the race. At the beginning of Lap 8, another Chevrolet driver, Alan Menu, used a tow from Coronel on the pit straight and managed to overtake the Dutch on their approach to Turn 1 by taking the inside line. Menu kept his position for the remaining three laps to finish in third and rounded off the third all Chevrolet podium of the season, repeating the same feat they achieved in Belgium and Brazil.

The battle for the YOKOHAMA Trophy was even hotter. The fastest qualifier among the Trophy contenders, Kristian Poulsen, fought for the third place with Menu and Coronel in the closing stage. After Menu moved up to third, the Dane pushed Coronel in the same BMW 320 TC very hard and, though he had to settle in fifth overall, he duly secured the class victory.

The second place for the class was fought between Darryl O'Young, Norbert Michelisz, Javier Villa, Michel Nykjaer and Mehdi Mennani. Among them, Michelisz had to start the race from the back end of the grids because his car was found to be lighter than the specified minimum weight at the scrutineering after the qualifying session but he bounced back surprisingly well. On the penultimate lap, he snapped at O'Young's heels and actually came in parallel to him at the last corner of Lap 9 but the Hong Kong resident managed to fend it off and secured the second place.

After a longer than usual interval, as a supporting race was held in between the WTCC's two races, the second race of the day was ready to start. Since the top ten qualifiers in Q1 were placed in reversed order on the grids for Race 2, Nykjaer sat on the pole position, followed by Franz Engstler and Coronel. This meant the top three grids were filled with BMWs which, in theory, are supposed to be good at a standing start.

As the only rear wheel drive model in the current WTCC field, BMW 320 TC has an advantage at the starting format of Race 2 because the weight transfer toward the car's rear end helps it to put the power down through its rear wheels. All the cars sat on their grids and stood still, and then the red lights went off. Coronel made the best getaway among the top three and overtook the two cars on the front row, passing through between them, well before reaching to Turn 1.

Behind them, O'Young starting from the fifth grid made a poor start and threw away his chance. In contrast to the customer Chevrolet driver, the factory counterparts displayed the perfect examples. Particularly, Menu and Muller, who started from the sixth and eighth grids respectively, swiftly moved up to third and fourth after passing Gabriele Tarquini in between Turn 2 and 3. Soon after that, the teammates swapped their positions.

But Muller made a slight mistake and slacked up a little when he attempted to overtake Nykjaer on Lap 2. This forced Menu to brake unexpectedly and allowed Tarquini to place himself between the two Chevrolets. However, the SEAT's new petrol engine on which Tarquini relied didn't seem to match the Chevrolet's yet and the Italian had to give way to the Swiss again by the end of Lap 3.

On Lap 4, Muller made a second attempt to pass the Dane at Turn 3 and finally got ahead of him and shook off the latter's desperate stand. Then at Turn 13 of the same lap, Menu also attacked on Nykjaer and moved up to third.

Muller quickly reduced the gap with the race leader and caught him at the first corner of Lap 5. Then, after a close battle throughout Turn 2, the Frenchman snatched off the lead position from Coronel by holding the inside of the corner. Muller immediately began to pull away from the BMW driver with the blistering pace and, after that, he was comfortably leading the race.

On the same lap that the lead change happened, Huff overtook Nykjaer and joined into the battle for the second with Coronel and Menu. Determined not to repeat his defeat to Muller, the Dutchman desperately responded to the attacks from Chevrolet pair to keep the second place.

At Turn 3 on the penultimate lap, Menu aggressively dove into the inside of Coronel, but by skillfully placing his car on their way to Turn 5, the latter managed to defend his position. When he was entering the final lap, Coronel's crew used their pit board to give him a message to cheer on!

Eventually, Muller cruised to the finish after taking up the lead and scored his second victory of the season, after getting the first one at the previous Hungarian round. Coronel kept the second place until the flag and got on the podium for the first time since the Brazilian round. The third place went to Menu.

The YOKOHAMA Trophy was won by Nykjaer who finished in fifth overall which was the best result so far achieved by a SEAT Leon with the new petrol-powered turbo engine.