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Sunday in Le Mans Part 2 – Jochen Hahn’s 100th win is just the next milestone

Sunday in Le Mans Part 2 – Jochen Hahn’s 100th win is just the next milestone

09. October 2016Le Mans - Now there’s no stopping the celebrations at Team Hahn Racing.
In Jarama it was the team title for Jochen and René Reinert; yesterday it was the fourth European championship for Jochen, and today he’s added his 100th win in the FIA ETRC to the bag.
It didn’t look at the start like it would turn out this way. Kiss took off every bit as impressively as he’d put himself on second in the SuperPole. Shortly after the start he had passed polesitter Lacko, and when the taken-aback Czech appeared to drift off the line, Hahn seized the opportunity to slip ahead of the Buggyra as well.
The new champ didn’t quite give the impression that he would, or indeed could, challenge the outgoing champ for the lead – why should he take that risk anyway? Kiss, on the other hand, had to drive flat out – the Hungarian was going to take back 4th place in the standings from Steffi Halm no matter what.
And the going looked good, considering that Halm had been demoted by three places on the start grid as a consequence of a collision with Janiec yesterday, which meant 11th. Five points behind Halm, he was starting from the front row. Should he win this race, Halm would need to finish second to stay level on points, but that didn’t look likely at all.
As it turned out, all the calculating was moot; after only two laps, Mercedes No. 1 was peeling off the track with a blown turbo. Soon after, a water tank worked itself off Lenz’s truck (apparently a consequence of the severe crash yesterday) and suspension damage caused Janiec to shoot straight off the track at the very same spot he’d precipitated yesterday’s crash at.
When Halm moved up on Forman one lap later, 4th place in the championship was firmly in her grasp.
For Hahn, the remaining laps were like a walk in the park, even if that meant Lacko and Reinert could close in again. The MAN pilot later suggested wryly that he’d never wanted to overtake Lacko; he only didn’t want the picture of the championship standings to be disturbed.
Körber couldn’t have cared less about Reinerts’s idea of a pretty picture – he kept creeping up on Reinert, even if none of those attempts quite provided the opportunity he sought to overtake. On the other hand the gap to Steffi Halm behind was so large that there wasn’t any threat from the rear.
Forman took 6th, ahead of Ellen Lohr.
Brereton was 8th, thus securing pole for the final race of the season. The two remaining places in the points went to Czech Frankie Vojtíšek and Portuguese Eduardo Rodrigues.
Reinert Adventure (Hahn / Reinert) seems to have established a permanent claim to the top step of the podium. Buggyra International (Lacko / Forman) was second and WOW! Women On Wheels (Lohr / Halm) third.

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Sunday in Le Mans Part 2 – Jochen Hahn’s 100th win is just the next milestone
Sunday in Le Mans Part 2 – Jochen Hahn’s 100th win is just the next milestone
Sunday in Le Mans Part 2 – Jochen Hahn’s 100th win is just the next milestone