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Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3

Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3

03. September 2017Most - The weather was most agreeable, and an overwhelming outpouring of fans necessitated an extension of the grid walk. Polesitter Lacko wasn’t letting anyone get the better of him, and was into the lead as soon as the lights turned green. Hahn, Albacete, Halm, and Kiss all made it safe out of the first chicane. Behind them everything came to a halt in a massive cloud of dust. Several race trucks had slammed into each other, and Smith’s MAN was spun around. The radiator on Körber’s Iveco sprang a leak as a result of an impact and emptied itself out in next to no time. Smith’s truck too was damaged in the crash-induced spin, the right-hand door hanging from the cab like a broken wing. Both drivers were immediate retirements.
The tohubohu tossed the entire field into disarray. Vojtíšek suddenly found himself in pursuit of the leading quintet, who’d by now disappeared out of sight.
They, meanwhile, had soon settled into their relative positions led majestically by Lacko, his train consisting of Hahn followed, in intervals of a second each, by Albacete and the other two. Kiss was periodically right up on Halm’s rear crash guard, but Reinert Racing’s woman-behind-the-wheel stayed focused to follow the Spaniard across the line in 4th.
Instead of creeping up on Kiss, Vojtíšek had his hands full keeping himself from being steamrollered from behind. Lenz, who’d dropped out of the Top 10 following that first-lap crash, was now at full steam. The first truck he dispatched was the Scania of Dutchman Erwin Kleinnagelvoort. Now in 9th, the young MAN pilot had wily Vršecký ahead of him – a whole different kettle of fish. But Lenz was determined to have the Buggyra veteran’s 8th place, which was worth pole position on the grid for the concluding race of the weekend. The Czech, for his part, was being held up by Portuguese José Rodrigues (MAN), a driver with a reputation of being difficult to overtake, and he in turn had Vojtíšek ahead of him.
Now the Czech has been around forever in the sport – he even drove the first truck race in Most, – and he’s got a blocking manoeuvre for every attack in his bag of tricks. And so this trio lapped nose-to-tail like a caravan till, at mid-race, Vršecký and Rodrigues attempted yet another assault on Vojtíšek but instead tripped each other up. Lenz wasted no time leapfrogging both. A little later even Vojtíšek proved helpless to prevent the determined German’s inexorable advance. Having shaken himself free of the toils of the two MANs and the Buggyra, Lenz now proceeded to put sky between himself and his pursuers.
Rodrigues eventually lost his 9th place to Brit Shane Brereton in his MAN.
Vršecký s best efforts to get past compatriot Vojtíšek were of no avail, but at least with 8th place he’d achieved his immediate objective, i.e. a pole position start for the following race.
But then the stewards interjected with a 10 second penalty for Vojtíšek for overspeeding, which dropped him to 10th in the final classification. Vršecký, Brereton, and Rodrigues were all promoted a spot and the Englishman, now 8th, would be the man to start Race 4 from pole. He also won the Promoter’s Cup ahead of Rodrigues and Vojtíšek.
Buggyra Racing 1969 (Vršecký / Lacko) was the victorious team, with Reinert Adventure (Halm / Lenz) and „Die Bullen von Iveco Magirus“ (Hahn / Körber) first and second runners-up.

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Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3
Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3
Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3
Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3
Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3
Sunday in Most Part 2 - Lacko wins Race 3