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Saturday in Spielberg Part 2 – Kiss, Lacko, Hahn

Saturday in Spielberg Part 2 – Kiss, Lacko, Hahn

16. May 2015Spielberg - The conditions at the start of the first race were actually rather propitious — scattered clouds, the mercurial thermometer registering 18°, and above all, an absence of rain. Polesitter Kiss stormed into the lead with Lacko on his tail, followed closely by Vršecký and Hahn in a drag of their own. By the time Hahn was able to pull ahead of his Czech rival the leading duo had forged ahead. Kiss, meanwhile, was bashing on to an unchallenged victory. At times it looked like Hahn could snatch second, but Lacko simply wouldn’t let him. At the finish the Czech had managed to pull out a two-second gap. Vršecký was fourth again, ahead of Albacete.
There were determined battles further down the field — for several laps Körber, Reinert, and Lohr were locked in a dogfight for sixth place, with Smith and Frenchman Anthony Janiec (MAN) waiting to pounce should any of the threesome ahead of them be bounced off the track.
None of the Germans was willing to do them that favour, but Ellen Lohr was given a 30-second penalty, dropping her to 11th and handing Smith eighth place behind Körber and Reinert in his first FIA race. That, of course, means pole for Saturday’s second race.
Altenstrasser fought his way to 10th behind Janiec, the Austrian having traded bitter blows with German tankpool24 pilot Roland Rehfeld earlier on. That run-in resulted in the German spinning out of the points, and he had to be content with 13th place behind his teammate André Kursim.
Portuguese Eduardo Rodrigues was 14th, ahead of Sascha Lenz. Race control evidently had the young German MAN driver under special scrutiny, thrice calling him in for drive-through penalties, which naturally put him way out of contention for the points.
Buggyra (Vršecký / Lacko) was the top team, followed by Team Oxxo-Lion (Kiss / Janiec) and Reinert Adventure (Hahn / Reinert).

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Saturday in Spielberg Part 2 – Kiss, Lacko, Hahn
Saturday in Spielberg Part 2 – Kiss, Lacko, Hahn