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Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 1 - Pole for Jochen Hahn

Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 1 - Pole for Jochen Hahn

06. July 2014Spielberg - It was rather chilly during warm-up for the second race day of the fourth round of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship in Spielberg, despite a bright sun and only a smattering of cloud. The three top MANs of Norbert Kiss (HUN), Antonio Albacete (ESP), and Jochen Hahn (GER) once again set the pace with laps under 1:06 min.
By qualifying time the clouds had scattered even more, but the temperatures were still below 16°. Of course it was noticeably warmer in the sun, and the track surface too had reached 38°. Maybe that had to do with the fact that the truck racers were out on the track for much longer. Ever since the SuperPole was introduced for the first 10 qualifiers, it’s now established procedure for the top drivers to do just one flying lap and then return to the pits to save their tyres. But the southern loop of the Red Bull Ring isn’t quite 2.5 km long, whereas most other circuits on the FIA ETRC calendar are around 4 km. And so most drivers did five, six, or even eight laps.
At the end it was Kiss again on top with 1:05.493 min, followed by Albacete, Hahn, MAN pilot René Reinert (GER), Czechs David Vršecký and Adam Lacko (both Buggyra Freightliner), Benedek Major (HUN) and Markus Bösiger (SUI), both MAN, local hero Markus Altenstrasser (Iveco), and the Portuguese José Rodrigues (Renault), who managed the leap into the Top 10 only in the dying seconds of the session, on his 12th lap.
In the shootout that followed, Hahn set the fastest time (1:05.321 min) in his very first flying lap. Nobody else was able to better that, though some tried for up to seven laps. Kiss did come close, but was still two-hundredths off. Albacete, Bösiger, Vršecký, Lacko, Major, Reinert, Altenstrasser, and Rodrigues made up the next eight in the starting formation

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Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 1 - Pole for Jochen Hahn
Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 1 - Pole for Jochen Hahn