Sunday in Jarama Part 3 – Bösiger bounces back for fourth win of the season

05. October 2014Jarama - At the start the wager was on just how long it would take the more powerful pursuers to snatch the lead from the notoriously difficult-to-overtake Anthony Janiec. The Frenchman showed just how broad he can make his back when he wants to. But nobody reckoned with the possibility of his driving back into the pits at the end of the formation lap with gearbox gremlins, leaving Bösiger with a clear track ahead of him. The Swiss MAN pilot made a clean getaway to launch into the lead, and proceeded to stretch it from 2 seconds at the end of the first lap to a whopping 15 seconds – an aeon in truck racing – at the finish. There was no question of anybody coming close. It took some doing for Lacko to defend his second place against Hahn, who himself had Albacete clinging to his rear throughout. The Czech, however, didn’t allow himself to make a mistake and Hahn had to settle for third place, leaving Albacete out in the cold.
Reinert and Vršecký were neck and neck at the end of the first lap, but then the German MAN pilot started to drop back, evidently because of a tyre problem, before giving up completely. Vršecký was loyally accompanied by his compatriot Vojtíšek for a long while before the Czech MAN driver was finally overcome by Kiss on the penultimate lap. The Hungarian had spun in the first lap and fallen to the rear, only to scythe back up a depleted field – only 17 of the 23 trucks that started were still running – with a drive that can only be described as heroic, in the bargain laying hold of all five points for sixth place. Lohr followed Vojtíšek home in eighth, ahead of MAN pilot Javier Mariezcurrena (ESP) and Teodosio.
With its win in the team classification Truck Sport Bernau has built out its lead in the overall standings. Buggyra was second on the podium and Reinert Adventure third.
Kiss now leads the drivers’ standings with 348 points, with Albacete on 342 and Hahn on 341, and Lacko (278), Vršecký (220), and Bösiger (213) further down the ranks.
For many of the exuberant Spanish fans in Jarama, and there were 30,000 of them, the high point of the weekend was, as in years past, their hero Antonio Albacete’s march around the circuit, and the ritual of his flinging his helmet into the crowds.

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