The Alfa Romeo Racing Team's Augusto Farfus emerged once again as the fastest driver on the second FIA WTCC official test day in Monza.

Alfa Romeo’s Brazilian youngster improved by seven tenths of a second his previous day's quickest time, and set the fastest lap of the day in 1:58.783. He was the only driver to go under the one minute and fifty nine second mark.

Second fastest time went to his team mate Gabriele Tarquini, demonstrating that the ultra-successful Alfa Romeo 156 is once again this year going to be at the forefront of the chase for title honours.

Dirk Müller set the third fastest time, just head of team mate Jorg, this pair the best of the BMW cars. Behind then came the other two factory Alfas of James Thompson and Fabrizio Giovanardi, meaning all four were in the top six combined day one and two positions.

Roberto Colciago’s JAS Motorsport Honda Civic, 8th fastest, and Jordi Gené’s SEAT Toledo Cupra, 10th fastest, were the only cars to break the Alfa Romeo-BMW lock-out in the the top ten.

Most of the drivers improved consistently over the two days, and Stefano D’Aste emerged as the best of the Independents, setting an excellent 13th fastest time in his Proteam Motorsport BMW 320i. Gianluca De Lorenzi remained the fastest of the Italian Championship’s competitors, despite missing the second half of the final day due to a crash at the Ascari. Attributed to a brake failure, his BMW crashed into the barriers, but the driver escaped with only a sore neck.

FIA WTCC Monza Test - Combined Times Day 1 & 2

1st Farfus, Alfa – 1:58.783, 2nd Tarquini, Alfa – 1:59.094, 3rd D. Müller, BMW – 1:59.335, 4th J. Müller, BMW – 1:59.525, 5th Thompson, Alfa – 1:59.681, 6th Giovanardi, Alfa – 1:59.707, 7th García, BMW – 1:59.807, 8th Colciago, Honda – 1:59.841, 9th Priaulx, BMW – 2:00.100, 10th Gené, SEAT – 2:00.163, 11th Rydell, SEAT – 2:00.166, 12th Zanardi, BMW – 2:00.178, 13th D’Aste, BMW – 2:00.193, 14th Terting, SEAT – 2:00.463