2013 FIA WTCC Race of Austria
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| Date | 19 May, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Salzburg, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salzburgring 4.241 kilometres (2.635 mi) |
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| Laps | 12 | ||
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver |
 Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Time | 1:25.756 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First |
 Michel Nykjær
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NIKA Racing | |
| Second |
 James Nash
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bamboo-engineering | |
| Third |
Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver |
Alex MacDowall
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bamboo-engineering | |
| Time | 1:26.925 | ||
| Laps | 12 | ||
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| First |
James Nash
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bamboo-engineering | |
| Second |
Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Third |
 Norbert Michelisz
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Zengő Motorsport | |
| Fastest Lap | |||
| Driver |
Yvan Muller
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RML | |
| Time | 1:26.875 | ||
The 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Austria was the fifth round of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship season and the second running of the FIA WTCC Race of Austria. It was held on 19 May 2013 at the Salzburgring in Salzburg, Austria.
Both races were won from pole position with Michel Nykjær taking victory in the first race for NIKA Racing and James Nash won race two, the first victory in the World Touring Car Championship for both himself and the bamboo-engineering team. This was the first time in WTCC history that both races in a weekend were won by drivers eligible for the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.
The round is best remembered for a qualifying incident where all twelve cars in the second part of qualifying drove slowly around the lap before what was supposed to be their final flying lap. The cars drove slowly around the lap in order to ensure themselves a slipstream for the next lap but all of them missed the checkered flag. A total of fourteen drivers were penalised after the session which drastically reshuffled the grid.
Coming into the Austrian round Yvan Muller was leading the world drivers' championship and Nash was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy.
The Honda Civic WTCCs gained 10 kg of ballast when the compensation weights were revised, pulling them on the maximum ballast of 1,190 kg equal to the Chevrolet Cruze 1.6Ts. The SEAT León WTCCs gained 10 kg to take their weight up to 1,160 kg and the BMW 320 TCs returned to their base weight of 1,150 kg.
Special Tuning Racing elected to miss the Austrian and Russian rounds in order to fix their car which had been plagued with issues since the Race of Morocco.
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