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Sunday in Most Part 1 – Hahn makes it nine poles out of 10

Sunday in Most Part 1 – Hahn makes it nine poles out of 10

01. September 2019Most - The sun’s been smiling down on Autodrom Most since early morning. Track temperatures during warm-up were as good as you could get, and some of the pilots set times (on worn tyres) that they couldn’t quite touch with fresh rubber in qualifying. The condition of the track surface also plays an important role, and it’s no wonder that, on heated asphalt, the racers in qualifying do no more than a single lap if they are certain of a place in the Super Pole. That’s because they have to get through both races as well on the same set of tyres.
Local hero Adam Lacko, not normally known to work himself up in the warm-up, set a 2:01.784 in his Buggyra, getting as close as two thousandths of Antonio Albacete’s time in yesterday’s session. The Spanish MAN pilot was second-fastest by a fraction.
Qualifying began with a nasty surprise for Sascha Lenz. Fourth-fastest in the warm-up, the young German pilot suffered a cracked brake disc on his MAN – on the same right front wheel on which a blown tyre cost him P3 on the penultimate lap of Race 1.
Jochen Hahn set the standard with a 2:01.764 – two hundredths quicker than Lacko in the earlier session. The Czech came in three tenths slower, just above Albacete. The others to make the cut were Iveco pilot André Kursim (GER), Hungarian Norbert Kiss (Mercedes), Steffi Halm (Iveco), French champ Anthony Janiec (MAN), Iveco pilot René Reinert (GER), and Jamie Anderson (GBR) and Luis Recuenco (ESP), both MAN.
Hahn’s current dominance was even more plainly evident on his first Super Pole lap, which went down as 2:01.330, the fastest of the weekend by some. Lacko, second-quickest, was more than half a second slower. So confident was Hahn of his pole that he drove back into pit lane to conserve his tyres, leaving his rivals scrambling to counter. But try as they might, not one was able to improve his or her position.
Albacete, Halm, Kiss, Kursim, Reinert, Janiec, Anderson, and Recuenco were next in order.