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Saturday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Third win of the season for Vršecký

Saturday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Third win of the season for Vršecký

05. July 2014Spielberg - Dark clouds gathered just as the trucks were getting into their starting formation for the second race, and with the temperature at around 25°C it was already feeling a bit muggy. Many might have hoped for a refreshing shower, but not the truck racers. In the event it remained dry, but that was of little benefit for the drivers on the first row. Soon after the start Reinert fell back to seventh. Polesitter Altenstrasser stayed out in the lead for a while, the other nominally stronger pilots jousting for position behind him. But that cost them valuable time, during which the Austrian Iveco driver opened out a comfortable gap. Bösiger, who’d moved up into second for a brief period at the beginning, was suddenly engulfed by the chasing pack and overcome. The spectators, meanwhile, were growing increasingly expectant of their compatriot Altenstrasser winning the race, or at the very least finishing on the podium. But then, towards the middle of the race, the phalanx led by Vršecký with Albacete, Kiss, Hahn, Bösiger, and Lacko inexorably caught up and Altenstrasser found himself demoted to 11th in next to no time.
The podium places thus decided between Vršecký, Albacete, and Kiss, even Hahn, Bösiger, and Lacko sat tight till the end. Reinert eventually had to let Vojtíšek pass him and content himself with eighth place behind the Czech. Frenchman Anthony Janiec (MAN) and Benedek Major followed at some remove, the last two to finish in the points.
The futile fight for 13th place turned out to be an exciting action on the track. Belgian Jean-Pierre Blaise (MAN) had to fend off a trio of attackers consisting of José Rodrigues (POR) in a Renault and the two amazons in the field, Germans Ellen Lohr and Steffi Halm. At times the trucks went into the corners three abreast and it looked like any one of them would end up in the gravel. In each event, the worst that happened was the loss of the occasional plastic panel, but then they’d line up again in the tear to the next corner.
The only surviving Mercedes pilot was not lucky. At the start André Kursim’s tankpool24 Actros was squeezed off the track and his truck jumped out of gear. The young German could only with great difficulty engage it again, but by then he was already 10 seconds behind the rest. A spectacular drive got him home in 17th place behind Steffi Halm, though judged by lap times alone he should have finished at least 12th, possibly even close enough to take a shot at the Top 10.
Buggyra (Vršecký / Lacko) was the top-scoring team, followed by Truck Sport Bernau and Team Reinert Adventure.

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Saturday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Third win of the season for Vršecký
Saturday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Third win of the season for Vršecký
Saturday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Third win of the season for Vršecký