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Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race

Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race

14. July 2018Slovakiaring - At the grid formation for Race 1 the temperature had risen above 30°C, and the track was ashimmer at well over 50°.
Polesitter Lacko was slow to react when the lights turned green, but Albacete was off like a shot. Hahn hitched himself to the rear of the MAN, while Halm and Lenz disputed 3rd place followed by a pack led by Lacko.
In the third of the 13 curves, a 180° switchback, Steffi Halm got carried wide, then got a shove, and by the time she collected herself and pressed on, the Iveco pilotess was at the end of the field.
At the front, things had settled with Albacete in the lead, Hahn right on his tail, and Lenz, behind them, waiting and watching.
In the MAN pilot’s mirrors Kiss duelled Lacko, with Kursim and Reinert on their trail. That’s the way they continued for the rest of the eight laps, separated by more or less stable distances.
Eighth place, meanwhile, was very bitterly contested. Vojtíšek led Halm, who appeared to be the faster of the two. Try as she might, weaving in and out, Steffi could find no way past the Czech veteran’s MAN. Things eventually came to a head. Vojtíšek landed in a gravel trap, Brereton stuck his MAN into the resulting gap, possibly touching the Mercedes of Steffen Faas, causing it to crash into Steffi’s Iveco. A few hundred metres on, she pulled off in the badly beaten Schwabentruck with a shredded driver’s-side tyre. Vojtíšek limped back to pit lane in his MAN, and Brereton and Faas inherited the fight for 8th place.
Back to the front, things stayed as they were. Hahn, sensing he wasn’t going to be able to overtake Albacete, backed off. Lenz looked like he was coming home in 3rd, but the young MANler simply ran out of steam. Maybe it was his tyres. On the final lap Lacko and Kiss sprang, overtaking Lenz at one go. The Czech then held his Hungarian rival off to finish 3rd. And Reinert overtook Kursim to take 6th behind Lenz.
Brereton and Faas gave up their battle for 8th, and pole position for Race 2, only at the line, the Englishman finishing ahead by the tip of his nose. Spaniard Recuenco crossed the line in 10th, just ahead of Brit Ray Coleman (MAN).
Before the podium ceremonies, overspeed penalties were announced for Reinert, Kursim, and Faas. While these had no effect on the positions of the first two, Faas’s dropped him to 11th. That handed the Grammer Cup victory to Brereton. Recuenco and Coleman were first and second runners-up.
Truck Sport Bernau (Albacete / Recuenco) topped the team classification, followed by „Die Bullen von Iveco Magirus“ (Hahn / Halm) and Reinert Adventure (Lenz / Reinert).

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Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race
Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race
Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race
Saturday at the Slovakia Ring Part 2 - Albacete wins the first race