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Sunday in Most Part 3 – The Buggyras win again

Sunday in Most Part 3 – The Buggyras win again

30. August 2015Most - It was sweltering, with not a whiff for relief. Places in the shade or with some breeze were direly being sought for; most in demand among the 90,000-plus crowd were naturally spots in the shade with breeze — something the racers could only dream of. The sun continued to beat down on their cabins even though it was early evening now.
Polesitter Lacko took the lead at the start. Ellen Lohr, starting alongside on the front row of the grid, took a less than ideal line into the first chicane, a 90° bend right swinging into a 90° left, which Vršecký directly behind her took as an invitation to overtake. And so, a few hundred metres after the start, to the wild delight of the fans, two Buggyras were already in the lead.
Körber and Reinert had settled in behind Lohr, with the rest of the field in pursuit.
When the chicane came round again, some of the drivers took a somewhat different line through it than those following had expected, resulting in extremely heavy braking and…collisions, in which Reinert and Körber came off worst.
The track was blocked, and the torrent of race trucks thundered through the gravel before the field sorted itself out again, the trucks now widely spread apart. The two Buggyra pilots were far ahead in the distance, Lohr trailing them at some remove, followed by Hahn and Steffi Halm. Reinert and Körber were by now way, way back.
Kiss caught up with Halm and this time the young Swabian could do nothing to withhold the Hungarian’s surge. A similar story was playing out two positions further up with Ellen Lohr and Hahn, and even Lohr found it impossible to hold back her clearly quicker compatriot.
While Lacko now had a lead of three or four seconds, Hahn and Kiss were slowly and steadily reeling Vršecký in. At the flag the Czech was able to salvage Buggyra’s second one-two of the weekend by only a little over a second from Hahn, who had Kiss right on his tail a further half-second behind.
Lohr had meanwhile picked up drive-through penalty, which dropped her to eighth behind Albacete and Janiec. The second lady in the field, Steffi Halm, was able to preserve her fifth place till the finish.
Reinert and Körber had gradually fought their way back up. Reinert finished ninth, ahead of Rehfeld, whose tankpool24 Mercedes, after the team had conferred with the FIA technical delegate, been allowed to race with a makeshift repair. Its smashed windscreen stabilised with an elastic band on the passenger side, the truck still looked like an eyesore. But Rehfeld drove it into the points once again.
A thankless 11th place was all that was left for Körber - till race control ruled. Albacete had not come in for a drive-through penalty, and so picked up 30s added to his elapsed time. That meant the Spaniard was out of the points, and Janiec, Lohr, Reinert and Rehfeld all moved up a place, allowing Körber to take the final point.
A lengthy discussion followed.
Observers joked that with so many racers called in, the race commissioners’ office looked like a drivers’ briefing was in progress. But in the end there was no change in the results.
Buggyra (Vršecký / Lacko) was the winning team, with Oxxo-Lion (Kiss / Janiec) and Reinert Adventure (Hahn / Reinert) first and second runners-up.
Kiss continues to lead the championship standings with 374 points, followed by Lacko (298), Hahn (275), Vršecký (242), Albacete (219), and Reinert (150).

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Sunday in Most Part 3 – The Buggyras win again
Sunday in Most Part 3 – The Buggyras win again