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Saturday in Most Part 1 - Pole for Hahn

Saturday in Most Part 1 - Pole for Hahn

31. August 2019Most - In the early morning itself, all signs were that this first race day of Round 5 of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship would be a hot summer day. The track was at its ideal temperature during the warm-up, and Spaniard Antonio Albacete went out and set a sizzling 2:01.782 top time – on worn tyres.
But more important was what was to come later, in qualifying and the Super Pole. The pace-setters there were the two drivers who’d dominated free practice yesterday, defending champ Jochen Hahn (Iveco) and Czech ace Adam Lacko (Buggyra Freightliner). The German did a 2:01.589, Lacko took a little under three tenths more. Right below them were Germans Sascha Lenz (MAN) and Steffi Halm (Iveco), and then Albacete.
The other five to make it into the Super Pole were Iveco pilot André Kursim (GER), Frenchman Anthony Janiec (MAN), Norbert Kiss (HUN) in the tankpool24 Mercedes, and MAN pilots José Rodrigues (POR) and Luis Recuenco (ESP).
Following a sedate lead-in, Hahn surprisingly ceded two tenths to Lacko, right behind him, in Sector 1. Pole position suddenly began to look like a lost cause to the Hahn camp, but the Iveco pilot proceeded to give all his 1,200 horses free rein and thundered across the finish line a satisfying 77 thousandths faster. That wasn’t the end of the story, though. After a cooling-off lap, all 10 drivers set off determinedly on what proved to be a wild goose chase – none could improve his (or her) time.
Behind Hahn and Lacko on the grid are Steffi Halm, Kursim, Albacete, Lenz, Kiss, José Rodrigues, Janiec, and Recuenco.
Albacete’s lowly position proves just how much the smallest inconsistency can influence one’s lap times – remember that the Spaniard’s warm-up time was good for P2 on the grid alongside Hahn.