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Saturday in Zolder Part 3 - Bösiger takes his third win

Saturday in Zolder Part 3 - Bösiger takes his third win

20. September 2014Zolder - The splendid summer weather carried on into the early evening, but polesitter Steffi Halm couldn’t have joyed in it as she tailed the pace truck, a semitrailer tractor belonging to her Lion Racing Team in identical livery to her own MAN race truck, around the formation lap…and back into the pits. In the first curve itself she’d noticed that something wasn’t quite right with her drive axle. Anticipating that she wouldn’t be able to get very far in the race, she decided to pack it in there itself so as not to exacerbate the problem.
That left Rodrigues, who was starting alongside, with an open track ahead of him and the Portuguese initially held his own. But halfway into the first lap Reinert squeezed ahead in the extremely tight paddock chicane, followed by Bösiger and Lacko in short order. Rodrigues had evidently lost steam. At last he was dropped to penultimate position, from where he had to fight his way up again to finish 15th.
Things were happening out at the front as well. Bösiger had taken the lead and was stretching it at will. Behind him Reinert, heading the rest of the pack, was being harried by the “top guns”. The Lusatian’s lucky number, by his own admission, is seven – and hence his starting number 77, – but this time it brought him no luck at all. The MAN pilot surrendered in the seventh lap, being first overtaken by Kiss, who himself had overtaken Lacko, then by the Czech, and then by Albacete and Hahn.
Bösiger drove on unchallenged to glory, and the two remaining podium places – Kiss and Lacko – were also thus decided. Everyone else seemed to have come to terms with their own placings, everybody except Hahn that is. Having dogged his chronic rival Albacete for the entire race, the bantam from Altensteig finally succeeded in going one up in the final lap. Reinert was followed home in seventh by Vršecký, who’d had to start at the rear after dropping out in the earlier race.
Janiec was eighth ahead of Belgian favourite Jean-Pierre Blaise and Frankie Vojtíšek, who’d also had to start from the end of the field. All told, it was these two MAN pilots who delivered the most exciting duel of the race, never mind that the prize was a lowly ninth place!
The tankpool24 team’s hopes of its first point of the season were dashed once again. Like in the earlier race, Kursim finished 11th, within striking distance.
Truck Sport Bernau was Team of the Race, ahead of Buggyra (Vršecký / Lacko) and Reinert Adventure.
Albacete remains at the top of the heap with 279 points, but his lead has all but disappeared — Hahn is closing in with 276 and Kiss is on 270. Lacko (223), Bösiger (187), and Vršecký (182) follow.

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Saturday in Zolder Part 3 - Bösiger takes his third win
Saturday in Zolder Part 3 - Bösiger takes his third win
Saturday in Zolder Part 3 - Bösiger takes his third win