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Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Lacko wins final race

Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Lacko wins final race

06. July 2014Spielberg - The start of the final race of the weekend was delayed while a portion of safety barrier damaged in a support race was repaired. Polesitter Reinert was able to defend his pole position, while Major, who’d started alongside the German MAN pilot, let Lacko, Kiss, and Bösiger overtake him. Reinert was able to hold onto his lead for only six laps, however, before Lacko overtook him in the curve leading off the main circuit into the southern loop. It was touch and go because a Renault had been abandoned a short way ahead and the first yellow flag was being waved right in the corner.
A few laps later even Kiss and Bösiger broke Reinert’s resistance. But though Kiss attempted a number of attacks on Lacko thereafter, the Czech held on adroitly to win by three-tenths at the flag, Bösiger following them closely across the line in third. Reinert finished an invidious fourth.
Major meanwhile had fallen back to fifth and then, in the final third of the race, allowed even Vršecký, Hahn, and Albacete to pass him. The Spaniard had a fight on his hands to reclaim the seventh place he’d lost after a skirmish at the aforementioned curve forced him onto the grass and then into the gravel. Anthony Janiec (FRA) and Steffi Halm (GER), both MAN, finished as the last two in the points.
Things weren’t going well for Gerd Körber. Technical problems had forced him to sit out qualifying, which meant he’d have to start the day’s first race at the tail-end of the 20-strong field. An epic catch-up landed him a respectable ninth-place finish, from which position he also started the final race and would have forged his way up the field with the same élan…if it weren’t for a chassis part bent out of position in a collision that progressively gouged his inner right tyre to shreds. For several laps Körber managed to keep his smoking Iveco in the top 10, before he was forced to throw in the towel halfway through the race.
André Kursim went into the race with no less motivation, given that he’d scented the points in the earlier race. But then, while he was in 12th, his tankpool24 Mercedes suddenly lost power and the German youngster had to crawl back into the pits.
Kiss now leads the overall standings with 178 points from Albacete (169), who is followed by Hahn (163), Lacko (125), Bösiger (121), and Vršecký (112).
Buggyra was the top-scoring team in the final race at the Red Bull Ring, followed by OXXO Racing and Truck Sport Bernau.

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Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Lacko wins final race
Sunday at the Red Bull Ring Part 3 - Lacko wins final race