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SCANDINAVIA
Mattias Andersson and Tobias Brink
took one race victory apiece in TCR
Scandinavia’s fifth race meeting at
Karlskoga.
In Race 1, Andersson made a terrific
start from second on the grid and beat
Robert Dahlgren to T1, with Tomas
Engström, who’d started from P4, being
passed by both Mikaela Åhlin-
Kottulinsky and Brink. Much of the
race was then fairly processional, but
on Lap 15, Engström made contact with
Brink whose Audi ran wide and this
allowed both Engström and Andreas
Wernersson to pass for fifth and sixth
places respectively. Engström’s joy was
short-lived, however, as he locked his
brakes after contact with Wernersson
who moved up into fifth. Andersson
took the victory from Dahlgren and
Andreas Ahlberg; Åhlin-Kottulinsky
finished fourth ahead of Wernersson,
but the latter was handed a ten-second
penalty for the contact with Engström
and dropped to ninth.
Brink took a lights-to-flag victory in
Race 2. He made a brisk getaway and
led the field into T1; behind him
Andersson made contact with Engström
who in turn hit Dahlgren. Andersson
was able to continue, but both
Engström and Dahlgren were forced to
retire. Ahlberg passed Åhlin-
Kottulinsky to lie in second place
behind Brink; the trio ran together for
the remainder of the seventeen-lap
race, but the positions remained
unchanged. Behind the podium places,
THE SERIES LEADER RETIRES FROM RACE 2 AFTER AN INCIDENT
Dahlgren’spursuers
closethegap