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EASTERN EUROPE BY ESET
With two victories from the two most
recent events, Milovan Vesni
č
has
reinforced his lead in the standings of
the TCR Eastern Europe powered by
ESET. The Serbian driver and his
CUPRA won Race 2 at Grobnik and
Race 1 at the Slovakiaring and so
Vesni
č
’s leading margin has stretched
to 33 points over Jáchym Galáš. The
latter took his maiden victory in the
series in Grobnik’s Race 1 as did
Dušan Kou
ř
il in the second race at
the Slovakia Ring. The series will
resume at Brno in two weeks’ time, on
September 6th/8th.
GROBNIK – ONE WIN APIECE
FOR GALÁŠ AND VESNI
Č
Bad weather affected the event at
Automotodrom Grobnik in Croatia,
where the first race started and ended
behind the safety car, while the
second was stopped by the red flag.
In Race 1, pole sitter Galáš took the
lead and built a 2.5-second advantage
ahead of Vesni
č
; Petr Cižek cruised in
third place until lap 9, when he was
passed by Dušan Kou
ř
il who was
recovering after starting from the
back of the grid. Kou
ř
il had been
fourth fastest in Qualifying but was
penalised for being underweight. Two
laps before the end, a tyre bursting
halted Vesni
č
’s pursuit of Galáš, while
Jakub Wyszomirski retired after
running over debris from the blown
tyre. When a downpour flooded the
track, the race finished behind the
safety car with Kou
ř
il and Cižek
completing the podium behind Galáš.
Vesni
č
took the lead at the start of
Race 2 from Galáš, who made a
mistake on lap 2 and dropped to
fourth behind Carol Wittke, Maciej
Łaskiewicz and Žarko Knego. In a
couple of laps Galáš retook second
MilovanVesnič
reinforceshis lead
THE SERBIAN DRIVERWON TWICE IN CROATIA AND SLOVAKIA