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Saturday in Zolder Part 3 – Victory for Lacko in the closing lap

Saturday in Zolder Part 3 – Victory for Lacko in the closing lap

19. September 2015Zolder - There was a heavy shower over Zolder between the two races, and the supporting programme was interrupted for 15 minutes. The sun was back as the race trucks rolled onto the grid, but the asphalt was still extremely slippery. At the beginning of the race the lap times were close to those from yesterday’s practice in the wet. The fact that even the best times were 10 seconds or more slower than in the first race, and achieved in the two last laps, showed just how treacherous the track conditions really were.
Polesitter Lenz came off worse in the duel with Hahn, but not long after the young German was left reeling. Probably a heavy collision with Kiss, resulting in damage to a spring, a disappointed Lenz suggested after the race. Whatever the case, Lenz suddenly found himself at the rear of the field, from where the MAN racer fought his way back up to eighth, only to collide with his MAN colleague Jérémy Robineau (FRA) on the finish straight, spinning the Frenchman around and collecting a drive-through penalty.
Lenz was once again out of the points in 12th, but that didn’t deter him from setting the sixth-quickest time at the finish.
At the front Hahn meanwhile had simply upped and vanished. He appeared to be cruising cleanly to victory, should nothing untoward come to pass. But something soon did. The tyres on Hahn’s MAN seemed to be deteriorating badly as the race wore on and the track dried out. While the others were lapping quicker and quicker, the bantam from Altensteig was struggling to run a level pace at around mid-race. In the final lap he did manage to pick up a bit, but not enough to prevent Lacko, who’d worked his way up from fourth, from moving ahead to victory.
Kiss collected third, ahead of Vršecký, who seems to have a permanent claim on fourth, and Albacete. Reinert followed at some remove, with Lohr in tow. Janiec, Kleinnagelvoort, and Rehfeld were the last three finishers in the points.
The Mercedes pilot in particular would have preferred the track had remained wet for longer. Rehfeld had started at the rear-end of the field after his failure to finish the earlier race and fought his way up to ninth in the second lap before the drying track played up his Mercedes’ power disadvantage. At the end, though, the tankpool24 team wasn’t complaining about the single point he’d won.
Buggyra (Vršecký / Lacko) was the winning team for the second time in a row, ahead of Reinert Adventure (Hahn / Reinert) and Oxxo-Lion (Kiss / Janiec).
Kiss continues to dominate the championship standings with 473 points, followed by Lacko (356), Hahn (341), Vršecký (309), Albacete (265), and Reinert 174.

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Saturday in Zolder Part 3 – Victory for Lacko in the closing lap
Saturday in Zolder Part 3 – Victory for Lacko in the closing lap
Saturday in Zolder Part 3 – Victory for Lacko in the closing lap